Horrible export quality in FCP for web

We just exported our video in final cut pro for the web, on the highest settings and are very disappointed.
Is there anyway to get a better quality for youtube?
This is how it looks now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmUbJvc7TuQ
we would like to keep the high quality how do we do this? We are using a sony hdv 1080i

Michael Trauffer wrote:
You still haven't answered David S.'s questions.
One can only assume capture/sequence settings are for sony hdv 1080i as mentioned in OP. Given that information...
piff aroni wrote:
I followed the directions at
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/you_tube_reduxgary.html
and this is what it produced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NdMzokWuhI
still horrible quality
piff,
You have "_watch in high quality_" link on your YouTube video page. There's a lot of sudden movement and color change in your video which could affect quality upon encode. YouTube is free and you get what you pay for. In all honesty it is not going to get any better than what you presently have uploaded on YouTube. If you want a high(er) quality video on the web encode respectively and host independently.
hth

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