Manually save and upload a video to Youtube

Question

Hello,
I'm wanting to know the proper settings (as far as frame size etc...) for MANUALLY saving a video file that I plan on uploading to YouTube later?
So I'm looking for the proper settings at the beginning when I start my project and then when I'm saving it.....which should I choose?  It's a video for a client so I want it to look great and I want it to fill the 'whole' YouTube video screen; with no pillars on sides or top.  This is a very short video, but I will be making several of them, they are only about 2 mins long, just fyi.
I was able to save one using the AVCHD and I think the very first option; which is like 1440 x 1080 and this did work but isn't this a huge file size or overkill?  I have a few photos in there that are 1000px x 750px and these look great; but somewhere I think I saw that YouTube videos should be 640 x 480??
Can I go ahead and keep using this setting? It did fill the complete YouTube screen...
THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Answer 1

Amy
Thanks for the reply. I am having Internet speed problems for my high speed DSL so I fully appreciate the smaller size downloads uploads.
Here is the plan...I am going to assume that your video from the iPad is 1080p (1920 x 1080 @ 29.97 progressive frames per second).
1. Set the project preset manually to
NTSC
DSLR
1080p
DSLR 1080p30 @29.97
The details of setting the project preset manually can be found toward the bottom of the following
ATR Premiere Elements Troubleshooting: PE11: Accuracy of Automatic Project Preset (New Project Dialog) Setting
2. Then import your source media into the project. The source media being
a. the iPad's 1080p video
b. your graphics sized to 1920 x 1080 pixels
One of the perks of the project preset selected has been that the images in the export seem to be sharper than other.
3. Now for the export....possibilities....
a. If the estimated upload to YouTube is less than 2 GB/15 minutes, you could try
Publish+Share
Social Websites
YouTube
with the preset = High Definition Video for YouTube - 1920 x 1080.
or
b. If you are going to export to a file saved to the computer hard drive and then upload from there to YouTube
at the YouTube web site, you could try
Publish+Share
Computer
AVCHD
with the preset = MP4 - H.264 1920 x 1080p30
Note the estimated file size and duration at the bottom of the export area just before you hit Save.....if too large
a file size, you can click on the Advanced Button/Video Tab and lower the bitrate to lower the file size (but just
to a point where you are not lessening the quality)
or
c. The Windows Media exports typically give the smaller file size - so maybe
Publish+Share
Computer
Windows Media
with preset = 720 x 480 16x9 29.97
then you are going to customize that preset so that it is 1920 x 1080p30
See Advanced Button/Video Tab...., focusing on the Video Tab fields....
You will probably find a chain in the box to the right of Frame Width and Frame Height and will need
to remove it in order to type in the 1920 and the 1080. It disappears and reappears by clicking on the box.
The Bitrate in Kbps (kilobits per second) is set by me to 3500, but that can be adjusted either way
if the file size is too large or too small or you want to try for better quality while you are maintaining a decent
file size.
We will be looking forward to your results.
ATR