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Weekend Extra: Encoding for YouTube
Did you just buy a $1,000 camera, upload your first video to YouTube, and find it looking like you used your cell phone to shoot the movie? Well, worry no more...this episode of Weekend Extra will help you get the best quality for your video before uploading it to YouTube.
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yes first comment
2nd...gud info. wanted more from weekend extra tho
Didn'y find this episode very good... I expected something that had to do about filming a video not something that had about uploading a video to youtube.
Well, you expected wrong.
How hard do you want Steve Nelson to work when there's turkey to be eaten!
loved the music.! MAC rlz
well, sorry for that but I don't even know what you guy's do in thanksgiving(did I spell that correctly?) I am from Cyprus so I don't what does thanksgiving mean. But I still expected something more helpful for making videos.
YES SOMEONE WHO REALIZES MY TRUTH!! MAC ARE SO MUCH BETTER FOR EVERYTHING THAN WINDOWS. OK GRANTED IF U WANNA POLAY GAMES ALL DAY BY ALL MEANS GET A WINDOWS BUT FILMING, MUSIC , CREATING STUFF AND THE WORKS GET A MAC!! I HAVE A G5 MAC AND IT RULZ4S! ALSO YOU DONT EVEN NEED A MOUSE BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST COMMAND WITH UR VOICE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!! "SAVE DOCUMENT" OR "OPEN MY BROWSER" OR QUIT APPLICATION" OR " OPEN _________ APPLICATION" MACS R SOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS!!!! BUT, THEY DO COST MORE......
Fuck Macintosh.
Fuck you
i need 2 get a youtube account so i can upload my vids
haha its already 2:00 east coast im barely waking up
As can be stated due to the number of subscribers that are on this site, Internet Video is becoming more and more popular. Just like having bad audio, having bad video quality will hurt you if you seriously want to break into the industry.
Image spending all this time on your Director of Photography reel, and then when you put online to show producers and what not and send them the link in e-mail, they look at it and go, ew, what shity quality. Alot of clients won't know that it's the upload quality and blame it on you for shooting it bad, which is hopefully not the case.
So, I think this is a very very important Weekend Extra that is very informative. Of course, there are other ways to upload your video, you can try using www.vimeo.com which lets you load higher than 100mb.
Nice ep, Steve.
stfu... i'm not grabbin' a Mac cos i liek makin' movies...
MAC ARE SO MUCH BETTER FOR EVERYTHING THAN WINDOWS. OK GRANTED IF U WANNA POLAY GAMES ALL DAY BY ALL MEANS GET A WINDOWS BUT FILMING, MUSIC , CREATING STUFF AND THE WORKS GET A MAC!! I HAVE A G5 MAC AND IT RULZ4S! ALSO YOU DONT EVEN NEED A MOUSE BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST COMMAND WITH UR VOICE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!! "SAVE DOCUMENT" OR "OPEN MY BROWSER" OR QUIT APPLICATION" OR " OPEN _________ APPLICATION" MACS R SOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS!!!! BUT, THEY DO COST MORE......
We're not forcing you to. I used a PC exclusively for 7 years, just switched to a Mac and I must say, it's a better machine for editing. (granted it's much more expensive than my PC was)
you should be penalized for annoying spam
i feel so depressed....
ya, microsoft sucks, i'm usung one right now :(
I found this one of the most useful weekend extras, I hate how the quality comes out on my videos this will really help anybody know how to do it with vegas?
I dont know much about Vegas, but if you export a full quality version...and download that software from Windows...you can make a .wmv thats the highest possible quality for under 100 megs.
U can compresse like this in Vegas just aswell as in Final cut. Just youtube it...
I can't believe why menny ppl don't think vegas is a good program (i'm not blaming u steve). It has pretty much the same FX and possibilities as Final cut. When my mum buys a new camera, i'll borrow it and i'll show you woot me means..
dud
it's pretty useful
indy mogul is starting to suck.
Dude, you have no room to talk.
I liked the last weekend extra theme song better- the one that was first used in the "sound 2 part special"
i thot it was really helpful, all my youtube videos had shitty quality. now i can fix it
FANTASTIC WORK!!!!!
Boo to anyone that put this episode down. Sure, maybe it wasn't their usual funny stuff but it was certainly very helpful to those of us that likes to share files on youtube.
That being said, I do have a question for the dearly charming and witty Guru Steve. I have noticed that I have trouble uploading certain formats of videos. I usually create my videos in wmv to only get stuck having to change half of them to avi due to Youtube being fussy. Do you have any recommendations for programs that will let you change file types while maintaining the quality of video?
Hmmm, that's strange...when I used PC, .WMV was my choice for uploading to YouTube. How exactly is the YT uploader getting fussy?
Turning your file into an Mpeg4 is the surest way to get good quality videos on YouTube. QuickTime Pro ($29.99) will create .mp4's is you export .avi from your editing program.
Maybe someone in the forums knows a free Windows mpeg encoding program.
you can also try MPEG StreamClip. It lets you convert to mpg's and avi's and all that type of stuff.
I'll privately contact you Steve and let you take a peak. Perhaps you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. All I know is more often than not, if I try to upload a video in wmv format, I get the "Failed (unable to convert video file)" error.
Heres what little info I got from the youtube site.
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55744
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55745
Just as a quick note: I wouldn't worry any more about the 100mb file size limit, Google/Youtube are uping the size limit to 1GB. Awesome!
http://www.betanews.com/article/YouTube_Increases_Upload_Limits_Provides_Batch_Uploader/1194627266
Looks like they already increased the limit. To take advantage of this you need to find where it says 'Upload files larger than 100MB or upload many files at once!' on the right hand side of the uploads page and click the button there. You'll have to download an uploading program, but hey for higher quality stuff it's worth it right?
Ironically, the new uploader only works on Windows right now.
this is the kind of stuff that makes me want a mac
and the fact that it is like 3billion times better
YES SOMEONE WHO REALIZES MY TRUTH!! MAC ARE SO MUCH BETTER FOR EVERYTHING THAN WINDOWS. OK GRANTED IF U WANNA POLAY GAMES ALL DAY BY ALL MEANS GET A WINDOWS BUT FILMING, MUSIC , CREATING STUFF AND THE WORKS GET A MAC!! I HAVE A G5 MAC AND IT RULZ4S! ALSO YOU DONT EVEN NEED A MOUSE BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST COMMAND WITH UR VOICE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!! "SAVE DOCUMENT" OR "OPEN MY BROWSER" OR QUIT APPLICATION" OR " OPEN _________ APPLICATION" MACS R SOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS!!!! BUT, THEY DO COST MORE......
I definately think that was helpful, given all of the bad quality videos out there. And the mac thing id good to know, but I'm not really sure how many people will go buy a mac computer because of that...
Nice jazz music and great tip....man i need a mac :(
YES SOMEONE WHO REALIZES MY TRUTH!! MAC ARE SO MUCH BETTER FOR EVERYTHING THAN WINDOWS. OK GRANTED IF U WANNA POLAY GAMES ALL DAY BY ALL MEANS GET A WINDOWS BUT FILMING, MUSIC , CREATING STUFF AND THE WORKS GET A MAC!! I HAVE A G5 MAC AND IT RULZ4S! ALSO YOU DONT EVEN NEED A MOUSE BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST COMMAND WITH UR VOICE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!! "SAVE DOCUMENT" OR "OPEN MY BROWSER" OR QUIT APPLICATION" OR " OPEN _________ APPLICATION" MACS R SOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS!!!! BUT, THEY DO COST MORE......
THX
i got a pc and h8 all macs though so yeah
you are a fukkin lowlife cunt coz macs r so uch better! windows are good for games and , um games, and macs are 4 everything else! easier 2 use, better software and generally better. the only thing better than mac is Linux. et a life man! macs would kill windows in everything. nerly all films use macs, virtually all games are made with macs( even though u cant play them on mac :( ) ALL music editing and tv editing is done on mac.... if u dont believe me reserch it and prove me wrong bitch! anyaways gd episode! nice to see that u fink macs r cool! oh and for modelling products they use macs as well. sorry but in the long haul macs turn out no.1
Thanks for giving exporting tips in imovie!
I usually have alot of trouble saving it right for youtube because its the CD setting which is so bad, and then full quality, which sometimes can be in the gigabyte range!
:D
Ive been trying to search on how to de-interlace a Mpeg-2 video for ages (on a windows Pc)... And then steve just comes out of nowhere and says that a Mac can do it at a touch of a button. I feel robbed. But as to my main question, anyone know of a program that can de-interlace videos at a touch of a button, like Final Cut?
Thanks
-LD
I came across this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/deinterlace
Let me know how it goes!
I think if you use Compressor (comes with FCP) You can do faster and more complex exports than from FCP straight, You should export your file as a quicktime movie no selfcontained. which its pretty quick, then open that file in compressor.
PC bashing eh? I have had no trouble at all doing any kind of video project on my Windows XP computer. The big boys in Hollywood use Avid (It runs on a PC). Anyway, the best inexpensive program I've used for video editing and more (for example, de-interlacing exported video) is Adobe Premiere Elements. It's only $100 and I've been able to do some pretty complex tricks with it. Macs are cool, but I don't have the money to invest in a whole new video production rig. Please don't alienate us PC users by saying we should get a Mac.
The AVID was built for Mac's then PC's got so popular...ooooh, big deal....that it was released for PC's, but majority of AVID users use Mac's.
PERIOD. THE END.
Um, I thought mpeg4 was the worst setting for youtube... The best is WMV, and FLV. Because youtube converts your video into FLV format already... They did a test on quality, and FLV was first, then WMV, and last mpeg...
I don't know who "they" is but youtube recommends
We recommend the following settings:
MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format
640x480 resolution (* most updated recommendation)
MP3 audio
30 frames per second
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55745
My only problem about going to a mac is that they are way more expensive then pc's. Otherwise I wouldn't mind going to mac. My brother uses them in the color graphic and printing industry and the work on a mac can't be touched from what I've seen. Keep up the info and great work guys.
Indy Mogul rules!
The Phone Experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSck4RRHySA
Sorry, had to comment. First: If your using a mac, go jump out a window.
Second: Windows programs can export as quicktime as well, ya know.
Third:YouTube now accepts files up to a gig, as long as you use their special uploader program.
This comment will kill most professionals in the film industry :(
Some good info there. I was always confused on how exactly to make youtube videos work.
Good to know!, Thanks Steve!
hey that stuf was realy helpful but i got magix and i cant seem to figure out the more complicated stuf do u think u can help ??????
i know this isnt related to this episode but while i was searching the web for puppet related business i found this
webpage and on one of the posts they showed a bunch of techniques on making gore effects and some of them (especcially the fake hand) came out really REALLY good
heres the link
http://jdamato.blogspot.com/
Hey, I made a video for a contest a while back. Tell me what you guys think:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=svkQknrgckI
I'd just like to add that if you make a new sequence in FCP and drag your main sequence into it, you can apply your filters only once and it will affect your whole video. This would be useful for optimizing the color for something like Youtube or De-Interlacing the entirety of your video. Also, most QT codecs allow you to export a de-interlaced video just by checking a box.
And as others have said, if you render out "full quality" video from an editor on a PC, if you use Quicktime Pro ($30) you can do everything that was demonstrated in the video just by opening the final file and hitting "Export" under "File." If you don't want to shell out 2 grand + for a Mac, this might be a better option.
This is great advice, my videos always turn out alright, but now I know exactly how to make them perfect. Cool beans.
Sad, but WORSE IM video ever :(
I expected some REALLY USEFUL technical details, maybe some info on flv format, or some real tricks of advanced features of XviD codec, because sometimes setting proper options for 2-pass encoding makes video look a WAY better, while keeping it even smaller, than just encoded with your nasty 1500 kbps.
Useless stuff.
Sounds like you'd like a part 2 to this!
Hey, totally new to live action film making... The windows one you suggested: How do i use that exactly?
i have a pc for games ONLY!!! I'm using a macbook right now! Go Macs!!!!
pretty good
please help me can u tell me where i can find dramatic sound effects.
where are the fake hearts!?
Nah, I think it's probably YouTube bowing in the presence of greatness. Steve's got nice rapper hands, by the way.
cool. I like how you kept saying to switch to mac! Hilarious!!! I was a PC person for the longest time, and I just got a 20" iMac for movie production. yes.
INDY MOGUL U GUYS ROCK
Buy a new computer? Im not made of money!!! Besides, you can do the same thing on Windows using Adobe Premiere 8.0!! Just get it on BearShare for frickin' nothing!!!
Why do you keep knocking on Windows? Personally, I hate Macs because they are for people who don't know how to use a normal computer. (I build my own computers from scratch) I have Sony Vegas 5 and Adobe After Effects with Magic Bullet 2.0 for color correction and have a DVX100B camera.
I used to build pc's and mess with soldering irons - then I thought "screw this" and bought a Mac. Still use a pc for spreadsheets though.
Okay, Indy mogul, I love you and all, but I think you are being a bit unfair. I own a PC. I don't want to, but I do. I'm saving up for a macbook, but at the moment it looks like it's not going to happen. The thing is, is that macs cost 1000-2000 dollars. It's really hard for us 13 year-olds to get one! I think you should at least try to include some info for us stuck with a PC.
Did you just said switch to Mac?
OMG......... poor micosoft....
you say go for high bitrate, does that apply to even 1 minute video ? what if your source video's bitrate is only 3K and you are changing it to 8K, is that gonna get anything better ? Can someone explain step by step guide from quick for mpeg4 (good settings for youtube)
i want to buy a mac but i dont have the money =(