By the way here is the link to the final video with the compression I mentioned about... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvu8Bqx5vQ
Is this kick ass quality for youtube or what?? Cheers --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Renat Zarbailov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >