Weekend Extra: Encoding for YouTube

He mentions deinterlacing...but on vegas i have multiple options.. does the method of deinterlacing matter?

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OK, all this Mac Vs PC talk is getting to me. Sure I don't like Mac and would rather us my PC, but being prejudiced and verbally violent towards people who use ether system is silly. I use what I can afford\prefer, and lastly there isn't that much difference between the systems anyway... Good vid guys, even though I'm a tad late on this one :D.

You are so awesome. Thank you for making things so clear.

i want to buy a mac but i dont have the money =(

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)

Did you just said switch to Mac? OMG......... poor micosoft....

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.

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.

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!!!

INDY MOGUL U GUYS ROCK

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.

Nah, I think it's probably YouTube bowing in the presence of greatness. Steve's got nice rapper hands, by the way.

where are the fake hearts!?

please help me can u tell me where i can find dramatic sound effects.

pretty good

i have a pc for games ONLY!!! I'm using a macbook right now! Go Macs!!!!

Hey, totally new to live action film making... The windows one you suggested: How do i use that exactly?

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.

This is great advice, my videos always turn out alright, but now I know exactly how to make them perfect. Cool beans.

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.

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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 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 ??????

Good to know!, Thanks Steve!

Some good info there. I was always confused on how exactly to make youtube videos work.

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.

The Phone Experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSck4RRHySA

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!

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...

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.

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.

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

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

i got a pc and h8 all macs though so yeah

THX

Nice jazz music and great tip....man i need a mac :(

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...

this is the kind of stuff that makes me want a mac and the fact that it is like 3billion times better

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

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?

i thot it was really helpful, all my youtube videos had shitty quality. now i can fix it

I liked the last weekend extra theme song better- the one that was first used in the "sound 2 part special"

indy mogul is starting to suck.

dud it's pretty useful

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?

stfu... i'm not grabbin' a Mac cos i liek makin' movies...

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.

i need 2 get a youtube account so i can upload my vids

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.

2nd...gud info. wanted more from weekend extra tho

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