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Video for Youtube

Post by juan_pedro »

I made a DVD with MediaStudio Pro 7 and now I want to make a copy (worse quality, of course, but not so bad) to upload to Youtube. I want to know which compression is better for this and how can I establish the size of the movie before the rendering (because Youtube doesn't allow a video longer than 100 MB).
I have seen a tutorial in this forum, but it teach how to make the video with Ulead Studio, not with Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7, and the first one has an option that hasn't the second one (or, at least, I couldn't find): Create video file - You Tube.
If you can help me, I will be grateful.
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Post by sjj1805 »

I haven't had much luck creating files for the web with MediaStudio and so tend to create them in MediaStudio and export them as DV, open them and convert them with VideoStudio. I know that doesn't help much.
However you may be interested in looking at VEOH rather than YouTube. It is a similar service but allows larger files than YouTube.
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Post by Devil »

I have had no difficulty, using WMV, with excellent quality.

See my second test at http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=25889
OK, I've done another WMV test at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYogs9g7f0

This was some raw, unedited, DV footage (sorry about the sticky tripod and the first shot of the Salamis Gymnasium). It was encoded to WMV at 320 x 240, 25 fps at 100% quality. The 6 min 13 sec WMV file was 13.6 Mb, so 10 min would be ~22 Mb, still leaving ample space for tweaking to higher quality.
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Re: Video for Youtube

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juan_pedro wrote:I made a DVD with MediaStudio Pro 7 and now I want to make a copy (worse quality, of course, but not so bad) to upload to Youtube. I want to know which compression is better for this...
It's all in YouTube's help section.

juan_pedro wrote: ...and how can I establish the size of the movie before the rendering (because Youtube doesn't allow a video longer than 100 MB).
Bitrate is bits per second or a factor, so kbps is 1000 bits per second etc.

When you're encoding the file, you (generally) specify the bitrate. Multiply the file's duration by its bitrate and you have the number of bits. Divide that by eight for the number of bytes (or KB from kbps, or MB from mbps etc)

Sometimes, the result you get is inconsistent with that little formula, but that's the result of the encoder either deviating from the bitrate or filling the file with metadata that it's not including as part of the calculation. If your encoder does either of these, just factor the error it into your calculation next time around.

Don't forget to accommodate the audio bitrate in your calculations.

As you haven't searched this forum or YouTube's help section, it's probably worth pointing out you're limited to 10 mins too...
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