Adding mpg video clips to the internet...please help

jahmarvin · Post by **jahmarvin** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:37 am

hello...now I know how to add the logo to my video clips..I am trying to add several of them to myspace/ you tube etc. I have a sony dcr-sr 80 hard drive camera..so everything is already in mpg format.

I am adding my logo to all these clips separately...

after adding them I want to upload to put on myspace and you tube...

do I just save the file as a regular VSP file ?? then upload to myspace or you tube or photobucket ??? or do I need to covert the file again to something different...using the share ??

later on I want to use a lot of these clips to make a movie.. will I loose quality ???

please help

thanks

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:57 am

Please view:
VideoStudio: Rendering for You Tube.

jahmarvin · Post by **jahmarvin** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:11 am

thanks...but if I want to use these same files later...will I mess up the quality of the videos ?? I want to use them again for a dvd

thanks

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:22 am

Not as hard as you may think

What you do briefly is
1. Get your video onto your computers hard drive.
here it is recommended that where possible you keep the video in its original format - such as from a mini DV Camcorder that would be DV, from a TV Card it would probably be in MPEG.

2. Now do your editing - cut out the bad bits, add your titles, transitions, background music etc.

3. Save this as a vsp project file.

Now the fun starts.
Using that project file you can now create a video for You tube.
Do NOT save the project file again, we want it to remain as it was before you did the you tube video.

Having completed that you now close VideoStudio and re-open it. load up your vsp project file and now you can render it differently, perhaps as a DVD compliant MPEG2 file.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:43 am

When you save the VSP file, you are not saving the actual video! You are saving "the project", which is the "instructions" that tell Video Studio how to put-together the final video.

Go to the Share tab to create the actual edited video. (I've never uploaded anything to MySpace or YouTube, so I can't tell you what format to Save As.)

later on I want to use a lot of these clips to make a movie.. will I loose quality ???

Maybe...

If you are working with AVI-DV files (the 13GB per hour files from a MiniDV camera), you can edit and save these many times without any noticeable quality loss. With the more compressed formats, you may notice some quality loss due to the decode/re-code cycle. The best practice is to compress to MPEG only once.

For example, if you take an MPEG-2 file and add your logo to it, it has to be decoded (de-compressed) for the logo to be added. MPEG is "lossy" compression. So, when it's re-compressed (re-rendered) to MPEG-2 there will be some data loss. If you use a high-enough bitrate, the quality loss may not be noticeable.

jahmarvin · Post by **jahmarvin** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:34 am

thanks for the info...yeah unfortunately I have no choice.... the price you pay when you have a sony dcr-sr80 hard drive cam. This thing records in mpg...

thanks for the info

ps..is the suggested work guide the same if the format is already mpg ?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:13 am

Please view the following:
Suggested workflow by SJJ1805 for Video Creation
What is a project file?

In a nutshell, you aim to render an individual video the least number of times preferably once. By following the steps above you can produce several variations of your edited video and they will all be first generation copies.

You are using the original source material which remains untouched. Your vsp file is a record of your intended cuts, transitions, titles, background music etc.
From the vsp file you create
Video A for You Tube
From that same vsp file you create
Video B for your DVD Player
Video C for your website
Video D for an Email attachment and so the list goes on.