Comments on: How To Encode Your Videos For YouTube’s New High Quality Option

By: VideoPro

VideoPro — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:15:43 +0000

@Kyky, when encoding for YouTube, I would recommend AAC at 256kbps. If you do not have access to AAC codec, then MP3 will work. In your projects, you should use either WAV or uncompressed audio to preserve the quality for different output formats.

By: Kyky

Kyky — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:47:29 +0000

Hey, I’m trying to get as good audio quality for Youtube (using Flash CS3 and Samplitude vs8) as my original vinyl recording is, and Flash CS3 Bible says it’s better to use mp3 rather than wav, if I understood right. Is that really so? Is there any books or articles about it, step by step tutorials, as insomnia makes this all so slow.

By: ExtremeVision

ExtremeVision — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:19:07 +0000

Hi, i shot a video and edit in premiere cs3 my original footage is 16X9 widescreen 720X480 24p. I have been trying for months to get the best quality video in normail mode for youtube, and it’s just very bad, but i did get the hd part it works good, i just want it to look good at least in normal mode, please help?

By: VideoPro

VideoPro — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:36:50 +0000

@MindJuiCeS - Way worse than the original YouTube or Source video? What application did you use to encode? Please post details about your source video’s resolution, codec and data rate. You can use MediaInfo (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en) on your Source file and the file you encoded and post the results here or send to my email (webvideotechniques@gmail.com)

By: MindJuiCeS

MindJuiCeS — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:53:33 +0000

I used all the settings as posted, and when I watch the video after its done encoding, the video quality looks way worse than the original, and the audio is out of sync. What am I doing wrong?

By: VideoPro

VideoPro — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:35:13 +0000

@Mokona - Yes, set your output file to 25fps and also set the “keyframe every” setting to 25 as well. This will ensure a keyframe will be created at least every 1 second, although you do not have to set this to be equal to your keyframe. You could set it at any number you wish. The lower number you enter, the higher the quality at the expense of larger filesize. Since the video will be reencoded by YouTube, there is no reason not to set this to your FPS rate or less. For very fast motion, you could even set to 10 or 15.

Usually, when I am encoding a file to be displayed on the web (not to be reencoded like YouTube) I will start with setting the “keyframe every” to 2 times the FPS. For a 30fps video, I would set to 60 and then reduce as needed.

By: Mokona

Mokona — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:15:49 +0000

For the 30 frames keyframe, that would be for every 25 frame for me since I live in Europe right (working with PAL @ 25 frame).

Thanks for the response

By: VideoPro

VideoPro — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:47:39 +0000

@Mokona - Is your project SD or HD? In AE or Premiere, you can probably get away with just exporting directly to the file you will upload to YouTube at 640×480 or 640×360 (16:9). I would recommend very similar settings as are in the tutorial. For example, when you export from AE, add your comp to the render queue and select QuickTime as your output format, then click on the settings button and choose the H.264 codec, set keyframe every to 30 frames, limit data rate to 3000kbps and slide the quality slider to best.

For Vimeo, since they allow up to 1280×720…depending on the length of your video and the speed of the motion, you may need to up your data rate to 5000 - 7000kbps. If your video is only SD, then use the guidelines for YouTube. Here is a good link for Vimeo compression tips: http://www.vimeo.com/help/compression

By: Mokona

Mokona — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:06:17 +0000

What should the settings be when I export from for instance AE og premiere?
And what settings should I use if I’m exporting to vimeo (in SUPER)?

Thanks.