HDV on youtube examples
by Cinemilitia
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Aug 8, 2007 at 3:56:42 pm
I posted a question about a week ago about how to get best quality on youtube. I recently shot a short commercial for the Heinz Ketchup Contest on an HDV-200 w/p2 cards. I had alot of issues trying to get the best quality on youtube. For some reason I could only get higher quality when i mistakenly uploaded a version of the 30 seconds commercial that had a blacked timeline through 2 minutes. Does anyone know if youtube gives higher quality to videos that are lengthier? I tried everything and it doesn't make any sense. The first link below is the version that is entered into the contest (low quality, 30 seconds) and the second link is the one that was longer (2:10) but somehow retained higher quality under the same export settings, which makes no sense to me. If anyone cares to see my 2nd entry, it is the third link, with eqaully low quiality. I know this is an ongoing debate about quality on youtube but does anyone know anymore about whether or not youtube will move into the HD realm?
Re: HDV on youtube examples by walter biscardi on Aug 8, 2007 at 4:09:44 pm
The big thing I was told was make the file size as close to 100MB as possible before you upload. That seemed to help our entry.
Of course, all of this will change as soon as YouTube switches over to H.264. We'll have to see if they continue to compress the crap out of our projects or if they will simply leave them alone if they are uploaded natively in H.264.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
http://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.
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Re: HDV on youtube examples by David Roth Weiss on Aug 8, 2007 at 6:32:03 pm
The compression on YouTube actually isn't all that bad, its the fact that, by default, the YouTube player blows up the video to about two times its native size. Check it out...
There are two buttons on the lower bottom right hand side of the YouTube player, if you click on the one on the left it will play the video at the native size at which YouTube compresses it. Check it out, you will see that your video actually looks pretty decent. The problem is, most people watching will watch the default at 2x the size, which always looks pretty bad.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
