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 http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com 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 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
