I've been getting quite a bit of success by softening my videos a
bit. . It makes sense when you think about it. If you take the edges
off the image, there is less information, meaning the bitrate will
have more of the good stuff in there and not get bogged down on the
jagged edges of a picket fence or window blinds.
So what I've been doing with my stuff recently is taking it right out
of iMovie or FCP as an h.264, 320x240 .mov file at a bitrate of 1000
with a blur setting of one in the filter.
Examples:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dvHHhxsUlQc (progressive...thanks BC)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hEd1962JH2k
Old non-blurred footage:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3rUMNSxBK3Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_EgYT0BKc-g
We do lots of panning and it's high action footage and our image
quality has dramatically improved since doing this.
I got the tip from a you tuber, but can't find the video.
Cheers,
Ron Watson
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On Jan 31, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Renat Zarbailov wrote:
After 2 years of constant search for the ideal compression scheme, I
have finally come to a solution. If you're using Adobe Premiere CS3
and you edit your footage in 16X9 standard definition, simply do the
following.
1. Sharpen the video to the point you see some dotty artifacts
appearing in the video (looks like a jpeg still image when highly
compressed)
2. Right out of timeline, without even hitting enter to render SD
edited material, go to export, adobe media encoder. Once there under
format choose Windows Media, and under preset NTSC Source to
Download 1024kbps, however, that is not all, we will edit this preset
and then save it as a Youtube one for future sweet encoding :)
So now, in the video tab...
BASIC VIDEO SETTINGS make sure you have the following;
Allow interlaced processing - unchecked
Encoding passes - Two
Bitrate mode - Constant
Frame W/H 640X480
Frame rate 29.97 but depending on your footage (some people shoot in
24 frames)
Pixel aspect ration (important) - D1 DV NTSC (0.9) this is 4X3
although the original footage is 16X9
BITRATE SETTINGS
Maximum bitrate - 3,739.63 (yes under 4mbps)
Image quality - 100
ADVANCED SETTINGS
Decoder complexity - Main
Keyframe interval - 5
Buffer size - Default
Now go to Audio tab
change Audio format to 192kbps 44 stereo VBR
3. Hit OK on the bottom (you will see that the estimated file size is
beyond 100mb allowed by youtube but don't worry, if you go the
approach described below all will be fine). Save to file to you har
drive.
4. Log in to youtube and at the upload page, on the right hand side
you will see a new Multi video uploaded button to upload files
larger than 100MB or upload many files at once!
That's it! :)
If you have achieved better quality using Premiere CS3 I sure would
like to hear about it.
Thanks
Renat of Innomind.org and Mr.Thyself.com
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