Export Quality on YouTube and Google Video

[Clark77042]

I have recently posted a wedding Album on Google Video and the video quality is something to be desired. It consists of photos that were posted in Ulead Video Studio 9. I have since upgraded to version 10 pro yesterday and also downloaded the evaluation version of Media Studio Pro 8 and tried reducing the frame rate to increase the quality since these our still photos. I am limited to a 100 Meg download on Youtube.com and Google Video, since I am going to be going Semi Pro next year this would probably be an excellent thing to learn. If you type in ¡§John and Jill¡¦s Wedding¡¨ in google.com under Video you will see what I mean, the first one was done under WMV Best quality, the second one marked Rev2 was done under NTSC VCD mode which is an MPG file, the WMV had a rate of 1 meg per minute while the MPG had a rate of 10 megs per minute. I think that Google had reduced the second Video so it would download faster

Help with this would be most appreciated.

Clark,

[Ron P.]

Hi Clark, Merry Christmas,

For YouTube they recommend that you use MPEG4-DivX or Xvid at 320 x 240 resolution. To encode with DivX you would need to purchase/download their Pro-bundle, which you can get here: Divx.com. DivX produces very good quality with small file sizes. Xvid is a free codec and can be obtained here: Xvid.org.

Google Video Recommends:

If possible, we suggest uploading the original source file. However, we recommend the specifications below for maximum quality and reasonable file size:

- MPEG4 (mp3 or mp4 audio) at 2 mbps
- MPEG2 (mp3 or mp4 audio) at 5 mbps
- 30 frames per second
- 640x480 resolution
- 4:3 frame
- de-interlace

I don't know what format you used on the 2 versions you uploaded to Google video. The first one does have some problems, the second better. So if they are not any of the above try re-rendering your project to MPEG4 (which VS10+ is capable of ), with the specified resolution, and bitrates.

One thing that is important, try to have your photos resized to your project size, like the 640 x 480, before inserting them into your project. VS will resize them, however since it is a video editing program may not do as good a job resizing as photo editing applications, like PhotoImpact. Of course you can use WinXP's resize function as well.

Since your slideshow is to be viewed on the internet, which uses computer monitors to view, they should be de-interlaced. Interlaced video is for viewing on television. Other suggestions for improving the viewing quality would include, applying a slight blur to those images that may have lines in the detail.

You might try those, and if you do need further help, please post your project properties, and the settings you are using to create your video files.

[Clark77042]

I went and purchased DivX 6.4 and it did the trick, the price was good $20. I rendered the original video and it wound up being almost 3 gigs in DV AVI mode, I used the DivX and it reduced it to a 60 meg file which is more then manageable. The only reason I had to split it into two videos is because of time restrictions by YouTube (10 minutes). Here are the links to the two videos.

Thanks again.

Kent,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqf9so0ERR8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wACjMPxLSs

[Ron P.]

Now that's much better, looks good Clark..