I've been trying to mess with this for a little while now and it's kind of baffling me. I've tried several different file formats and a few different encoding options and whenever I upload the video to youtube it's low quality still and takes over two hours to upload. I'm using adobe premiere though I'm new to the program so not very used to it. I shortened an originally 35 minute clip down to 10 minutes and added music to it. Any tips on what format or encoding settings and what not I should use? Any other programs maybe? This is kinda driving me nuts. I'll go back and edit this thread with the specifics I've tried already- but these are 2 test videos I've uploaded with different settings. Same video, just different settings. Original fraps recording looks nothing like that- but it's also 70 gigs of video which I'd very much so like to delete once I get a good upload!
I typically export from after effects, so i would presume the encoding options would be somewhat similar. That being said, I usually render with .flv or .f4v when I do maple videos (or any long videogame footage). You may be thinking what the heck, but it's actually a really good looking codec for how much it compresses. and as far as uploading to YouTube...You don't get any faster. I would definitely give that a try and see what you think. Other than that, I'll occasionally render video lossless, so avi with a huge file size and then I'll run it through xvid codec compression. I use format factory or virtualdub to compress it. Format factory comes with xvid built in, so I'd probably recommend that. This typically looks a little bit better than flv/f4v in most cases, especially camera footage. These 2 formats are what my 6-7 years on and off video editing have led me to. It's the best, in my opinion, of time uploading to video quality ratio out of after effects. So there's my 10 cents for yah. I'll post up some of my video if you would like. EDIT: I just got a chance to look at those videos up top, I would also make your composition size 1280x720 when you render, and fit the video to the composition. The reason is, Maple is the wierd 800x600, which isn't a standard that YouTube accepts, so it will downgrade to the closest standard (720x480), which makes things look worse. 1280x720 is the next standard you therefore need to round up to. 720p will even give you the fancy little HD button. It stretches the video a bit, but that's okay, you just don't want it condensed, because it cuts out pixels you recorded. It's the best we can do with v.62 maple xD. 1080p and above is complete overkill unless you have other stuff taking up space besides maple footage like fancy text or other things that require the pixels to look nice. I don't know why people upload at that res. with just maple footage. At that point you're just eating space on your computer with copied pixels.
I just do it really simple, lol, by using Windows Live Moviemaker: 1) Copy the clip in. 2) Publish it via the program. 3) Choose the settings (can set it upto 1080p HD). 4) Let it upload, doesn't take way too much time. 5) voila. Atleast how I do it.. :S
Sila OuO I am by no means a video expert and you can get a better quality/size ratio if you tweak the settings a bit. Make sure to watch the video at "1080p60" on youtube. i think firefox doesnt support 60 fps yet but i'm not sure. Fraps settings: Full size, 60 fps. Sony vegas: Before you start doing ANY editing you need to right click ALL of your video files and tick the option called "Disable resample". Smart resample is motion blur that we dont need since we record and render at a high framerate. Render settings: Under "Sony AVC/MVC" Choose "Internet 1920x1080-30p. Click Customize Template. Change the framerate to 60. Go to audio and choose 256 instead of 128, press OK and start rendering. Half way thru the video i decided to go widescreen because it looks good. Maybe not ideal for zakum where all of your screen is needed to see whats going on, but i think its pretty neat in this video though. Enjoy
When I used to use fraps to record stuff I also got huge video files, up to 1GB per minute, so I used a program called VirtualDub to compress the file size about twenty fold. It keeps the quality and makes everything smoother. Just open the software, drag your original video file into it > click the video tab > compression > choose mpeg4 (divx codec) and let it compress. Voila!
