Uploading to youtube quality issues

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I hope someone can help me with what is a frustrating problem..and maybe one of the experts can point out where I'm going wrong!
I've created a full HD 13 second animation in after effects and exported it as a lossless quality MOV.
I then import it into final cut to edit slightly and add the soundtrack. This is then exported with the H264 compressor to a size of about 200MB.
when I play this on quicktime the quality is perfect but then on completition of upload to youtube the 360/480 settings take so much quality that it looks 'dirty' and blurry.
Is there any way round this which maintains quality at lower resolutions as most people don't click up to the higher HD quality options?
I'd also like to ask if what I'm doing is the 'right' way to do this whole process and exporting to a mov is right etc.
thanks in advance!

If you are using CS five or later than open the Adobe media encoder. then open your a the project in the media encoder and select H.264 and the YouTube HD preset.
Render them upload then wait for you to build the lo-res versions. Works for me, I do it all the time.

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Once we know that we can cross catch with the project preset and react accordingly. From what you wrote, your project is set for the default NTSC AVCHD Full HD1080i30 which may or may not be correct for your video source.
Export
You wrote
Im publish sharing using the HD presets.
Still not sure what you are doing with the export, and that is important to be able to trace down to the cause of the issue. You can upload your Timeline content to YouTube two ways for your 2 minutes and 52 second Timeline
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First let us target getting the properties of your source video for this project one way or other.
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I've been struggling lately trying to get my set of youtube videos to appear at the proper resolution and ideally fullscreen without the black bars at the side.
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720p: 1280x720
480p: 854x480
360p: 640x360
240p: 426x240
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I just bought Premiere 13 hoping it would WORK for me as none of the other versions I bought did. It worked great to edit my video. I then shared it with Youtube, but it uploaded in low definition (360). The video was recorded in High Definition as our my other videos already on Youtube.
What do I do to get my videos to upload to Youtube in High Definition as I recorded them????
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Joy
Please explain further.
If you create a Premiere Elements 1920 x 1080 project and you upload it to YouTube with the High Definition for YouTube - 1920 x 1080 preset and, at YouTube,
you set the viewing of the YouTube player to HD, are you saying that the quality is poor? In addition, the YouTube player is a 16:9 player. Are your uploads presenting with black borders when viewed on YouTube when the upload is done using the Premiere Elements YouTube built in feature?
In other words, are you saying that are not being set back by YouTube player automatically setting the viewing for 480p or something lower than that rather than automatically setting for HD 1920 x 1080 viewing?
Your opening thread description seems to say otherwise.
I then shared it with Youtube, but it uploaded in low definition (360). The video was recorded in High Definition as our my other videos already on Youtube.
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process.
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both of your videos are avail in shiny 1080HD:
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Part 1: How to import .mod video to Windows Movie Maker
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