YouTube video upload setting for best quality and speed

[gotoluc]

Hi everyone,

I decided to start this new topic in order to help new or existing YouTube users to prepare their video to get a high quality once up on YouTube but also keeping the upload time to a minimum (small file size) so not to waste time uploading and bandwidth.

I have many videos that I have uploaded over the past 2 years on YouTube and would like to share with others or learn from others how to keep video quality up but keeping the smallest file size as possible since uploading speeds are usually much less then download speeds from most ISP and some even have monthly bandwidth limitations.

The way I have been preparing my videos for YouTube is making sure the video are no more then 10 minutes long as this is a YouTube requirement. I transfer the video from my camera to the computer in its original file format (in my case DV format) and edit if needed but I try not to edit since this is very time consuming, so try to do your complete video on the camera so no editing is needed. Once the video file is on the computer I use a video encoding program called Super. Here is a link to Download: http://www.freewarefiles.com/Super-Build_program_14610.html See picture below for the setting I have been successfully using for the past 2 years and getting a good quality video with a very small file size. PLEASE NOTE! IF YOU ARE IN A COUNTRY THAT THE ELECTRICAL GRID IS 220VAC/50HZ THEN SELECT 25 FRAMES/SEC FOR CORRECT PAL/SECAM VIDEO FRAME RATE.

YouTube has apparently recently improved their codec for better quality.

To see if we now can get better quality videos I did a test of uploading an Uncompressed DV video file to see how much more quality YouTube's new codec will be compared to the method I have been using.

Here are the results of my YouTube test:

Uncompressed DV video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdN180qE8qc

Compressed to my below setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkpKO_LPyYs

Hopefully we can see a difference in video quality since it took 1 hour and 17 minutes to upload the uncompressed video @ 357mb file size compared to taking 3 minutes of upload time for the compressed video which is amazingly only 14mb which is 343mb less in video file size and not to mention the saving on upload bandwidth which can be costly if you have limits.

POSTING REQUIREMENT please don't post your personal opinions here. This topic is for YouTube video quality only. If you post recommendations or information to help, then you must have a YouTube account with video test example as I have done here. I don't want this topic to turn in infinite discussion. If you have something to share then show your results in a visual comparative method.

Thank you for your understanding and sharing.

Luc 

[FatBird]

You are RIGHT Luc.  SUPER GOOD quality video.

Thank you for sharing that YouTube and the best settings to use.

Thanks again,

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[gotoluc]

You are RIGHT Luc.  SUPER GOOD quality video.

Thank you for sharing that YouTube and the best settings to use.

Thanks again,

Thanks FatBird for looking at this topic and posting your positive comment.

I have now completed the first post so please have another look at both the videos and tell me if you can see a difference in the two that's worth spending over an hour more (see post for details) in uploading to get that little extra quality.

Thanks for sharing.

Luc

[FatBird]

I think that BOTH videos look Super Great.  I can even read the markings on that Super Cap and DMM.  LOL


Thank you for sharing your work.

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[gotoluc]

I think that BOTH videos look Super Great.  I can even read the markings on that Super Cap and DMM.  LOL


Thank you for sharing your work.

Thanks FatBird for your judgment

I can barely see the difference also. You have to have the videos on full screen to see it. It's just not worth making video files any larger and spending so much more in bandwidth and uploading time for next to no difference

Luc