Best settings for youtube?

Noob99 · Post by **Noob99** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:15 pm

I'm putting some of the videos I make up on youtube. I've been told DivX or Xvid work best. Is that available in VideoStudio?

I am saving as MPEG-4, now with 320x240 resolution..
I am saving the video using the project settings
Anything else I can set that would make the video more youtube compatible?

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:52 pm

If you have downloaded the DivX bundle to your PC then it is available to you in VideoStudio - check the options when you create your video file.

why not just do it and try it - it costs you nothing - if you don't like the result try something different and upload again.

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Noob99 · Post by **Noob99** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:35 pm

Hmm Did not know about the DivX bundle. I will have to search the Ulead site for that. I just got VideoStudio. I did save it to the Ipod format and it seems good but I'd prefer DivX so will look for that next.

Thanks!

Noob99 · Post by **Noob99** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:45 pm

Not finding the DivX bundle. Isn't it supposed to be included in VS10 plus?

Noob99 · Post by **Noob99** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:49 pm

I found a post here on DivX.. will try to follow that...

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:12 pm

You don't download it from the Ulead website - you download it from here :-

http://www.divx.com/?lang=en

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Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:13 pm

Hi

just out of interest, whats the difference between DivX and Xvid

Is it just a play on words????????

Maybe I am a little backwards

Trevor

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:16 pm

You can find out more about Xvid here :-

http://www.xvid.org/

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htchien · Post by **htchien** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:38 pm

trevor andrew wrote:Hi

just out of interest, whats the difference between DivX and Xvid

Is it just a play on words????????

Maybe I am a little backwards

Trevor

DivX - commercial MPEG-4 codec pack.
XviD - open source MPEG-4 codec pack which is based on earlier version of DivX.

More info and relationship between DivX and XviD on Wikipedia:

DivX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX
XviD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XviD

Hope this helps.

H.T.

Noob99 · Post by **Noob99** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:01 pm

Thanks! great info. I got the DivX downloaded.
Seems they are both "free" so not sure why we need the Xvid open source one.. but I'm all for open source regardless...

Noob99 · Post by **Noob99** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:42 pm

doh.. I didn't see DivX was not free till I tried to use it..
So Xvid is the free version. Any reason not to use the free version vs paying $29.99 for DivX and the plug in?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:02 pm

Look carefully at the DivX site: the bundle is what you pay for, and it includes the PRO version of the DivX codec.

But there is a free version of the DivX codec on the site as well -- I think it is called the community codec. But you don't get the rest of the bundle. However, for the purposes of VS, the community codec is all you need.

And I thought DivX also had a cheaper offer for the whole bundle at the moment -- something like $19.99.

I have never used the Xvid codec so cannot comment on that part of your question.

Noob99 · Post by **Noob99** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:52 pm

Thanks Ken.. they do offer for $19.99 and there is an added "plug-in" for another $9.99. I will look for the free one. I am using the trial right now.
I am converting an mpg file that is around 2gb to DivX and it is taking a LONG time...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:22 am

You are asking your computer to take one relatively large, heavily compressed file which used a particular algorithm in its compression, and convert it into an even more highly compressed format which uses another alogrithm altogether. So yes, it will take a long time...

That is one advantage of actually buying the bundle because one of the plug-ins (maybe the extra one) is the convertor which is used to convert mpeg-2 to DivX. It does so much faster than VS because that is the specialised task it was designed by DivX to do...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:25 am

Links for further reading:
VS to DivX
VS: Encoding in DivX format using Video Studio