I have FCP 5. What is the best format for YouTube? YouTube recommends mpeg4 (Divx, Wvid, or SVQ3 rather than h.264) but I only see an Mpeg4 output in Compressor and it does not have any options. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
Re: FCP to YouTube by walter biscardi on May 20, 2008 at 6:42:03 pm
YouTube is going to apply very heavy compression and convert anything you upload to it to the format of its choice.
We made a very very high quality H.264 quicktime for upload to YouTube and just let it compress the heck out of it. Doesn't matter what you do, even if you keep it to the 100MB size, YouTube will mash it up.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: FCP to YouTube by Chris Poisson on May 20, 2008 at 7:55:06 pm
What Walter says is correct, but I would add that the better the quality you send them does make a little difference in how bad they muck it up. I too send H264 at pretty high data rates, and they do allow up to 100 megs which is nice.
