Premiere CS4 vs Full HD YouTube (BEST quality) settings?

Windows Vista Premium (32-bit)
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 (Version 4.2)
Hello. I have a problem. I've been using this settings to save my work for youtube:
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6816/settingsr.png
Now, here is a quality that I get with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2teDL4MPS_8
I've been playing around with the settings and somehow today I saved this file:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMBixEnweWQ
I have no idea what I've changed, but the quality difference is significant!!!
I know the text is a little tiny bit smaller in the better quality one and it was move a couple of pixels, but that's not the point. I am 100% sure it has to do something with the settings.
Here are properties for both files:
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9373/propertiesz.png
It is kind off strange because a "Good Quality.mp4" files has a better quality over "Bad Quality.mp4" yet it has a smaller Size as well as Data rate and Total bitrate (highlighted in red)
I've even tried doing this hoping it would increase the quality. Maybe it did, but not significantly. Not nearly as good as the "Good Quality.mp4"
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/4366/settings2.png
Here is a GSpot screen shot as well:
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7506/gspot.png
What could be an issue? Can you guys help me work my settings in Adobe Premiere CS4? It is one of those situations where I don't care about files size... I want to quality and I wanted it the finest.
Thanks... All help is greatly appreciated...

Hi,
I'm back...made dinner and took a break...
I hope you bear with me on this as I really would like to see you get good results...and there's no reason why a title couldnt be loaded up to youtube with good results..
First off, a rule of thumb about video editing is this...
1) project settings match the source footage.
That's something it took me a while to learn but I finally did ( from people helping me here in fact ).
Another sorta general rule is that what you export would be about the same as your project settings ( same frame rate, same type of video (interleaved or progressive), same aspect ratio ( 4:3 or 16:9 ) and so on.  The biggest difference in exporting is the type of delivery format ( mpeg 2 for DVD or mpeg 4 for web and that sort of thing...which means the codec you choose for export will be related to the final product usage.
Also, and this happens a lot....you can downsize the video to a smaller size...like go from HD to SD for a DVD instead of Blue Ray.  Orrrrr, downsize video to play on a hand held device ( ipod ) etc.
Sooo, basically what you first do generally is create a project that matches your source footage.  In the case of DV NTSC it would look something like this:
720x480, 29.97 fps ( which is how 30fps interleaved works because of a timing mark in the frame - when to start the next field scan --so its not exactly 30fps ) --- aspect ratio 4:3, interleaved, bottom field first , and so on.
As you can see from the general "specs" most of the important and outstanding things about the video in that format of describing it, most people will talk about their video source specs the same sorta way.
Like, 1920x1080 24p ( means HD progressive 24 FPS - the "P" after 24 means progressive )
The best results for export usually follow the source and project specs very closely.  You CAN make an interleaved video progressive, but you have to half the size ( frame dimensions ) to do that and make it look good, because when you go to progressive you lose one field....lose half the resolution..
So lets say I start a project that is DV NTSC like you did...and made a title...
That is going to be 720x480 29.97 fps interleaved ( or progressive ) 4:3 aspect ratio OR 16:9.  If interleaved it will be bottom field first, if progressive it will be NO FIELDS.  The pixel aspect ratio is weird and depends on whether it is 4:3 or 16:9 and if I remember right neither one is square pixel.  Sooo, this gives you the general idea what the project settings can be.
You could tell us exactly what your project settings are ( since theres no source video no need to worry about that for now ...can deal with that when you do get some video ....for now we can just get it exported well for the title )
Your project settings will tell us what would be BEST for exporting for YouTube...but I would bet that if you match DV NTSC with the YouTube preset to export DV NTSC as Ann mentioned earlier you would get GREAT results !
The problem so far has been trying to UPSCALE to HD from SD.  That's why it has been geting blurry.
Now, just so you know....you can make a brand new project that is in fact HD ...and do a title and then export THAT to youtube also...as HD, without losing any quality also....but you need to set the project settings for HD first.
I hope this helps a little and sorry my head was spinning around earlier ...please don't hesitate to ask more questions...OK ?
ps... because you are only dealing with a title ( which is a bit different than actual video ) you may in fact get decent results upscaling to HD from SD...but you really shouldn't get used to doing that ...as you can just as easily create the HD project, make the title and use the YouTube preset Ann gave you...and it will be beautiful !

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