When I wrote my first YouTube post 4 months ago entitled “How to Encode Your Videos for YouTube’s New High Quality Option” , I would never have thought YouTube would make the move to HD resolution so quickly. They went from a maximum resolution of 480×270 directly to 1280×720! I’m sure this change has caught [...]
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UPDATE 12/6/2008
If you are producing HD (16:9) videos for YouTube, you should refer to my latest post on how to encode for YouTube HD format located at:
http://webvideotechniques.com/123/bigger-and-better-encoding-for-youtube-hd
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Now that YouTube have started offering higher quality videos, the old settings for encoding your videos should be tossed out the window. This tutorial will walk you through the [...]
Keep these tips handy for the next time you encode video.
Deinterlace your source video
Choose a frame size where the width and height are evenly divisible by 16
Maintain the aspect ratio of your source video
Crop any empty space (like letter boxing) and crop/scale to remove edge jaggies around your video
Select bitrates that are appropriate for your [...]
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