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YouTube Help Please

Posted by acousticguitarist • 5/17/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Hi

I need to upload a test video to youtube.

To save time uploading and waiting for the tubie to compress it, what's the best file size, screen size etc to prepare it to before it gets there?

Any tips

Thanks

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5/17/08

crkian

Have you got a developers account, I never compressed mine for youtube I just uploaded it

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1. 5/17/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Developers? I got some sort not sure of its status
  
  What file size was it before you sent it?
5/17/08

OzScot

Ah sorry AG - my software does it all behind the scenes and I don't even get to fiddle with it before it goes up to YT - sorry.

Ben

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1. 5/17/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Thanks
  
  I just dropped it from 331 to 20 to avi format
  
  I could throw it into flash and make it smaller.
  
  Does it like swf
5/17/08

acousticguitarist

Ben What software did you use

Does it like wmv Windows format?

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1. 5/17/08
  
  OzScot
  
  I used some cheap programme which came with my lap top - ULead Video Studio 8 - when I'm done editing I ask it to export to (is it ro WMF - I can;t remember?) at best quality and hey presto it's done (takes about twenty minutes to do the conversion though)...
  
  Ben
2. 5/17/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Thanks Ben
5/17/08

acousticguitarist

The prob with youtube is you can't see the upload rate

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1. 5/17/08
  
  crkian
  
  Lot of problems wth youtube, no warnings for uploads f incorrect or could be adjusted
  
  www.youtube.com/director
  
  Will help with adding more info about yourself
2. 5/17/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Thanks
  
  Can see potential in there
  
  Cheers
5/17/08

acousticguitarist

I'm seeing a Scientology add just beneath this post here...are you?

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5/17/08

crkian

nope

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1. 5/17/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  It's gone now..
  
  Maybe I'm a potential candidate...actually Jimmie Spheeris, Linda Rondstadt, Chic Correa, a lot of great musicians signed up.
  
  Not today thanks.
  
  Oh it's just come back..they want me bad
5/17/08

acousticguitarist

Thanks sorted

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5/17/08

ekim941

Not that I'm an expert on youtube but my few uploads went smoothly using windows movie maker and saving the video for best playback on my pc.

If that helps at all.

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1. 5/17/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Thanks
  
  I've sorted the basics.
  
  Now I've got to sort what is the best compression to use, basically at what point in the process to shrink it to get the best possible quality without losing too much.
  
  Sample A: au.youtube.com/watch?v=wPi48b76wtc