Codec for YouTube

Can someone tell me what would be a good codec or output format for placing a video on YouTube. I used H.264 at High setting, and the quality is poor, plus the video is a little jerky. I see other videos on YouTube which run so smoothly. What am I doing wrong?

The Ken Stone tutorial is now a bit out of date as YouTube has changed it's default frame size.
I did post on here some weeks back asking if anyone knew what it was. I believe it is 640 x 360 now.
All the other info on there is great for making fantastic looking vids.
Check this silliness from me as an example.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/13/astro-systems-introduces-56-inch-4k-x-2k-lcd- monitor/

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Best codec for YouTube?

Hey guys! I'm currently looking for a good codec/format to convert my raw video files into that is friendly to YouTube and maintains a good balance between compression and quality. I've tried WMV, MOV, and recently H.264 with varying levels of success (the MOV and H.264 have an odd washed-out look to them). Any suggestions? I've spent far too many hours rendering different formats. Thanks, all!

Some people have reported issues with 50 or 60p footage on youtube.
Can you downconvert it into a 30p timeline and set the YT preset to 30 fps.
You could also try wmvHD720, dont look at the file size. You can go up to 2 gig or try the Advanced video-upload.

Codec for YouTube problem

I'm having a terrible time trying to upload my movie on YouTube with decent quality. The video seems fuzzy, and on some spots even soft-focused and ghosted. I've tried different codec's, including H.264, Motion Jpeg A, Photo Jpeg, PNG. Nothing seems to work. I should note that the Quicktime movie looks fine, but when I upload it online, it looks real crappy. Click on the link below to see what I mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ruCwsE-vls
I should also note that I posted another movie which I shot with the same camera, and edited on the same final cut, and it looks fine. Click below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEt4rkjn0c
But the new one looks awful. Has anyone had this problem, and what's the solution?

The problem seems to have turned up around the same time that YouTube went 16:9.
I have some older letterboxed movies on YT and they look great.
My 16:9 test, made from the same file as one of those movies looked terrible.
Complain to YouTube. It's not something that you, QuickTime or FCP is doing wrong.

Best Codec for Digital Hi8 SD Widescreen render to Youtube

I shoot material on a Digital Hi8 camcorder in widescreen mode and can't seem to find a reasonable codec to render to for Youtube uploads that fill the screen.
When I render at a 720x480 resolution and upload to Youtube I get letter and pillar boxing in the resulting Youtube. Many of my videos are over 10 or 15 minutes long and even though I have the ability to upload over 15 minute videos to my account, Elements will often give me a warning and not allow me to upload anything over 10 minutes long using the direct to Youtube "share" function.
I've tried various .mpg and .wmv settings and have basically settled on 1280x720 as the rendered video resolution, but not only does this take a long time to render and upload as they become huge files at this resolution, but it also seems to be a waste and potential image degradation issue as it's blowing up the original video, but this is the only resolution it seems that fills up the Youtube window once uploaded.
I also tend to try to up my audio codec too since a lot of my videos are music related and like to keep the audio quality up too.
Any suggestions??

Yes, Digital8 I guess would be the more accurate and correct term for the format... I do set my project settings for DV SD Widscreen which I assume is 720x480 and confirmed with the details of clips I import when I check them in Explorer.
But when I render out to Windows Media (I've had problems rendering out as Quicktime before - fluttering of video, sync problems) so I've relied on mpg or windows media for the time being - when I render out as 720x480 and then upload to youtube, I get letterboxing and pillarboxing. Only when I expand the video to 1280x720 do I end up with a fully filled youtube viewing window. (And even then I am still getting a little black above and below the video)
I can also improve the audio quality this way going with a windows 9.2 lossless codec which I like. Downside with all this is huge file sizes, long renders, and long upload times.
I will try these settings that you provided, but won't 640x480 give me 4x3 squished video since my sources is 16x9?? Thanks for the help guys and community!
From the Share tab, choose Computer and then QuickTime/MOV. Choose the DV preset and then click the Advanced button.
From the settings window, do the following:
Video Tab
*Video Codec: H.264
*Quality: 100
*Frame Wdith: 640
*Frame Height: 480
*Frame Rate: 29.97
*Field Type: Progressive
*Pixel Aspect Ratio: square
*Set Bitrate: checked
*Bitrate: 8000 kbps
Audio Tab
*Audio Code: AAC
*Output Channels: Stereo
*Frequency: 44kHz

How do I get the codec for .mov files recorded on an ipad, so I can edit them in premiere El. 12?

I have .mov files recorded from an ipad with these specs:
AAC, Mono, 44.100 KHZ
H.264 320x568 (yes the ipad was used vertically, not horizontally)
29.96 fps
I want to edit them in premiere 12, but get this error message:
This type of file is not supported or the required codec is not installed.
What are my options? Thanks!

linn749
Thanks for the reply.
As for orientation, there is a rotation feature in Premiere Elements 12....at the Timeline level, you can right click the clip and select Rotate 90 Left or Rotate 90 Right. So that may help.
This is what you may want to try and see what this looks like
1. Open Premiere Elements 12 to its Expert workspace
2. Go to File Menu/New/Project and Change Settings
3. In the Change Settings dialog, change the project preset to NTSC DV Widescreen.
4. Before you exit that area, in the last dialog that you see (new project dialog), make sure you have a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on this Project".
5. Back in the Expert workspace, use Add Media/Files and Folders/ to bring your video into Project Assets from where you will drag it to Video Track 1. We can talk about edits if necessary.
6. Publish+Share/Disc/DVD disc with preset set for NTSC_Widescreen_Dolby DVD.
7. Place your DVD 4.7 GB/120 min disc in the burner, in the burn dialog, have a check mark next to "Fit Content to Available Space". Hit Burn.
If you decide to take the Timeline to YouTube instead,
Publish+Share/Social Websites/YouTube, using Presets = Flash Video for YouTube (Widescreen)
Hit Next and follow the instructions.
(Upload to YouTube from within Premiere Elements 12 has limits of 2 GB and 15 minutes. Anything exceeding that, you need to export to file saved to the computer hard drive and then upload that file to YouTube at the YouTube web site where you might be able to get extended limits.
Please let us know if you are OK with the above information.
Thanks.
ATR
Add On...If you want to "decorate" the black borders in the Timeline content, drag the video to Video Track 2 and put a colored background on Video Track 1 directly below the Video Track 2 content.

Hi all ,anyone knows some usefual Codecs for H.264 live video/audio

I'm headache about the JMF codecs ,they are too few ,and seems inefficiency, anyone knows pure java codecs for H.264 or MPEG4 ?And I think it's better a open source one ,do my thanks , guys!

Here are some basics....
FMLE creates RTMP protocol streams that PCs and Macs watch with Flash players. iOS devices don't understand RTMP (Flash), only HLS delivery of 10 second chuncks of downloaded video playback. Both systems understand H.264 video, but iOS wants to see AAC audio not MP3.
You didn't state how you are live streaming, meaning what bandwidth delivery service you are using. Live streaming only via RTMP won't get you to successful iPad and iPhone HTTP Live Stream. On-demand delivery to iOS devices normally requires .mp4 video files to be hosted, which Macs and PCs also understand via RTMP delivery. But unless your delivery service can convert .f4v or .flv files to .mp4 on the fly there is no easy way to to get to iOS via the direct file output of FMLE as of today. Sometimes we upload live encoded project files to our www.Wistia.com account for PC, Mac and iOS delivery. This is a YouTube / Vimeo paid type hosting service for on-demand only.
Some commercial CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) today allow an inbound live RTMP into their system using FMLE. Then they re-mux that RTMP stream into HLS delivery for iOS. Some work well using the native MP3 audio codec (Internap), but most require FMLE to have the AAC audio codec installed from Main Concept for $200. Or people use Wirecast from Telestream which is $500 per license to be able to run two instances on that one license.
In my 15 years of being a big commercial webcaster here in Silcion Valley, I have yet to find the perfect simple and easy and affordable RTMP to HLS live and on-demand delivery system. We currently do it different ways with multiple providers depending on the job. More offerings are coming out now and we try them all as they come down the pike.
Harvey Louie
Event Compression Group

HT4681 What is the best most compact export to use for Youtube?

What is the best, most compact export codec / frame size to use for Youtube?

louisfromseven hills wrote:
What is the best, most compact export codec / frame size to use for Youtube?
YouTube says ....
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en&topic=1728573&guide=172858 5&page=guide.cs

Best setting for Canon VIXIA HF R21 for YouTube

I am looking for the best or most optimal setting for shooting video with my Canon VIXIA HF R21 camera.
I am using a MacBook Pro laptop and Adobe Premiere Elements 10.
My goal is to produce the best quality videos for a "YouTube" channel. The videos will be for a teenage car show shot outdoors and narrated.
The current DEFAULT settings are:
Recording Mode = SP, 1440x1080
Bitrate = 7Mbps
Codec = MPEG4-AVC/H.264
Frame Rate = 60i
Digital Image stabilization = standard
Here are possible "alternative selections" - please let me know if any of these settings are better than the Default settings for YouTube.
Change Recording Mode to
1. MXP = 1920x1080 @ 24Mbps
2. FXP = 1920x1080 @ 17Mbps
3. XP+ = 1440x1080 @ 12 Mbps
Change Frame Rate to
1. PF30
Digital image stabilization
1. Dynamic
2. Standard
3. Off
I will use Adobe Premiere Elemebnts 10 to upload the final edited video - what setting are the best upload compression settings if I want to upload for the ebst quality?

BillFlorida, I'm not sure what you're not getting here. Have you tried any of the things we've suggested?
There are two settings you need to worry about. One is your PROJECT setting. That must match your original footage, as I've indicated. If it doesn't, you're going to get poor performance and video quality.
The second setting is your OUTPUT setting. That's the only setting YouTube is interested in. If you use the output settings I linked you to above -- working from a project that's been set up properly -- you will get excellent YouTube results.
Try it. You'll see.
You'll also see, if you experiment a bit, that there's virtually no difference in the quality of FXP and MXP -- especially if you're going to display your video online. The important thing is that your PROJECT settings match that 1920x1080 AVCHD footage and that you use the YouTube output settings recommended in the FAQs.
Try it. You will see.

Tweaking compression for YouTube

I am trying to make the best possible files for uploading to YouTube. I am working with HDV Quicktimes exported from FCP and compressing using the AIC codec and a frame size of 640x360, as YouTube requires for 16:9. The longest file is 10:30 and comes in at 1.14 gig, just over the YouTube limit. I can't find a way to change the codec to reduce the file size. Is there any way to adjust quality with this codec?
Changing the frame size from 1440x1080 to 640x360 would have largely done the trick, I would have thought. But it doesn't seem to make much difference. In fact, I exported 2 versions out of FCP, one at the original frame size and one at 640x360 and both files are the same size! Can't for the life of me figure out why that is.
If anyone has any tips about compressing for YouTube channels, please let me know. Ideally we would upload files just under a gig so that YouTube's compression doesn't completely kill the quality.
Thanks.

I followed everything kenstone said. Still having problems. Here's the new link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cBrDO9wqY4
The video is playing choppily, and now I'm even losing synch. What's going on?

Best PE7.0 export settings for Youtube HD, Vimeo or Smugmug?

Hi all,
I'm really new to video editing and I can't find any recommendations on the best Premiere Elements 7 export settings for Youtube HD, Vimeo or Smugmug. It seems like most of them want you to upload in 1280x720.
My original source is 1920x1080 30p AVCHD from a Canon HF100. Obviously, I would like to keep it at the same frame rate. There doesn't appear to be a preset in PE7 (or a way at all) to output 1280x720 30 into an MPEG container with H.264 encoding. When I go into the advanced properties of a preset like "H.264 1920x1080i 30" or "MPEG2 1920x1080i 30" and choose 1280x720, I no longer have an option for 29.97 fps - the only options are 23.976 or 24 fps. It seems bad to change this, right?
I see the preset for "HD 720p 30" which appears to be MPEG encoding of the video stream instead of H.264. This seemed to work OK, but I wasn't sure about it, because when I choose it I see in the description a line that says TV Standard: NTSC. A number of web sites indicate that H.264 is preferred, but I don't really understand why.
I also found a way to do H.264 in a Quicktime container. This seemed a little suboptimal because you can't do variable bitrate. When I unselected the "select bitrate" checkbox, it seemed like a quality of 50 yielded a .mov file with a bit rate of 2.87Mb/s, and a quality of 100 yielded a .mov file with a bit rate of 26Mb/s. It is confusing to me how the quality setting affects the bitrate on the quicktime containers.
I'm leaning towards using the "HD 720p 30" preset and working with the bit rate choices, but am open to comments. What do others think?
And on a related question - assuming we choose the "HD 720p 30" preset as a starting point, given the 1GB file restriction at Youtube, it seems to make sense to choose a bitrate that allows both good quality and reasonable file size. I don't know much about whether VBR 1 pass, 2 pass or CBR would be best for this kind of online HD video. Google is a little unhelpful here: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=132461
This page (http://webvideotechniques.com/123/bigger-and-better-encoding-for-youtube-hd) seems to indicate aiming for a bitrate of 8Mbps with a minimum of 4Mbps, including 2 pass VBR.
So, basically, I'm confused and a little overwhelmed. I think I have solutions that work, but it's hard to tell. What does the greater community think? Thanks.

Thanks very much E Mann, that was a very helpful thread. I think it actually would apply for youtube as well. For other users, here's a direct link to the settings for Premiere Elements:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-with-adobe-premiere-in-720p/
Roughly, the answer is:
Quicktime container
Video codec: H.264
Quality: 80 (I used 100 and it just takes longer to encode)
Frame Rate: 29.97 (I guess if you are shooting in 24p, this might be different)
Bitrate: 5000 (I might try 8000)
Audio codec: AAC
Output channels: Stereo
Frequency: 48kHz
Now, my own personal changes to this recipe are:
Quality: 100 - takes longer to encode, no file size difference
Bitrate: 8000
Frequency: 44kHz (recommended by youtube)
One final note is that for Vimeo it appears you may have to try encoding in 29.97 or 23.97 and test to see which you like better. Apparently Vimeo caps fps at 24.
The nice thing about this is that you can get a quality video directly out of Premiere Elements and you don't have to pipe it through another program.

Best codec for dvd release

I'm finishing two extras for a dvd re-release of a film I made in 1980, and am very new to codecs and HD, would like to know the best quality transfer/conversion and/or codec for putting into a DVD release format with a digi-beta master.

Thanks for all the suggestions; to clairify, I wrote, directed and produced Ghostkeeper, am editing the extras which I want included on the DVD, so distrib said go ahead but he's not paying for it. So I'm doing 2 extras (actor & DP) on my own. I've had FCP3 (DV) for years and finally upgraded some time ago to, still not all that familiar with HD needs and requirements.
Distrib will make the dvds, he made a digi-beta copy from a 35mm film print and said all he needs is a QT file, but he's not really tech-savvy, thus my enquires. I will definitely be speaking with whomever is actually making the DVD's, they'll be re-released in a week or two.
I'm editing on FCP Studio 3 and downloaded two different files; the movie itself from a dvd straight from the digi-beta copy and the extras interview ftg comes from a Canon 5D with separate sound recording, thus having to sync it (got someone better than me to do that). I made the mistake of conflicting codecs, but still managed to stumble my way through.
Movie was released in 1980 via theater and VHS and was lost in obscurity until a cult following began. You can see my first cut on youtube at:

How to compress a quicktime movie for youtube

how do you compress a quicktime movie for youtube?
dimensions: 1920 x 1080
codecs: apple prores 422, linear pcm
Color profiles: hd (1-1-1)
duration: 4:05
total bit rate: 98,422
i tried just directly uploading and it said upload time was 680 minutes....
..also when i play it on quicktime it is choppy. why is that?

Setting from the horses mouth (so to speak)
File format and editing tips for Apple users

Best codec for export from FCE?

Heya, I'm sort of a newbie, so please be patient with me
I'm trying to export a video from FCE using QT conversion. I'm going to be putting it on Youtube. What is the best codec for export? I've always heard that H.264 is the 'best', but my videos have always been pale and washed out. I tried exporting using MPEG-4 video, and it's not washed out. Is H.264 better and I should just deal with the paleness, or does it not matter too much?
Thanks

All the Web video sites re-compress your videos. So it's generally best to upload high quality files – typically determined by bit rate.
My suggestion would be to export as a Quick Time movie at current settings. (Guessing that you edited an AIC sequence,)
If you don;t have MPEG Streamclip, do a search and download it. In Streamclip, open the file you exported from FCE. Export to Quick Time. For Compression, choose H.264 from the drop down menu. Don't change Frame Size. If your movie is interlaced, check De-interlace. Check the Limit Data Rate box and type in 12,000 if the size of your movie is1080; 6,000 if your movie is 720; 3,000 if your movie is 480.
Use the YT uploader and you should be good to go.
Russ

Compressing for YouTube

Hello All, Does it matter which format and Codec I choose for sending a video to YouTube since most people will be watching it from there, or should I take into consideration people who may want to download. I recently sent a video to YouTube and some people are experiencing the video stopping during playback, so i need to figure out what I can do to make it play back smoothly and continuously.
Thank You
Cris

Chris:
An H264 file at standard defintion sizes and a bitrate of about 3 Mbps should work very, very well as a source for YouTube.
Yes, you could produce the largest file they let you upload, but it's also true that pristine quality is really not their main concern for encoding, so you could spend your life uploading gigantic files and get modest improvements in quality.
If quality is your main concern, I'd take a look at Vimeo.
Since YouTube is so popular, you may prefer the trade-off. In any case, uploading an H264 file with specs similar to those I described above should work fine. Using 2 pass VBR encoding in AME standalone can help in getting the most out of the bitrate.

Panasonic HDC-HS20 - Settings for YouTube

Hi! I have Final Cut Express, version 401B2. My computer is an iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo. Today I bought a Panasonic HDC-HS20 video camera. But I'm confused. What settings should I have in "easy setup" and when I export the video? The goal is to of course have the best quality possible. All videos I make are for YouTube.
So my questions are:
1. What settings should I have in "easy set up"? What format, rate and use?
2. What settings should I use when I export the video? What codec etc?

Yes I have PAL. First I need to choose the format.I can choose PAL, NTSC, HD, Apple Intermediate Codec and Panasonic DV/DVC PRO. I can also choose "all rates". But I'm guessing I should choose HD as the format.
If I choose 25 fps I can choose : AVCHD APPLE INTERMEDIATE CODEC 1920x1080i50.
If I choose 29,97 I can chose: AVCHD APPLE INTERMEDIATE CODEC 1920x1080i60
There are some more options under USE but it's either one of these two. the camera has the AVCHD technology and I think it is AVCHD APPLE INTERMEDIATE CODEC 1920x1080i50, not i60. I can also choose "all rates" which lets me choose any of the options.
I have in the camera chosen something called HA1920 which is the maxium picture quailty. So I'll try AVCHD APPLE INTERMEDIATE CODEC 1920x1080i50 as you said
Format: HD
RATE:25 fps
USE: AVCHD APPLE INTERMEDIATE CODEC 1920x1080i50
I'll try this and get back to you
Thanks for the help! I really do appreciate it very much!

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