I'll try to converse on questions below. In general, practice with many different short clips before settling on particular settings.
> From: Brian Schott <[email protected]> > > I have also looked at the following link which suggests to me that the > "export" stage I mention below in Screenium should not be used at all > because this link suggests that you avoid reencoding videos before > uploading. > > http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=132460&topic=16612&hl=en-US > > I am not clear about the information provided. Consider the following example. > > fmt=18 > - Sound: Stereo, 44KHz > - Max Best Resolution: 480×360 > - Video Output Format: FLV > - Sound Output Format: H264/AAC > - Video Download Format: MP4 > > On Screenium there is a "record: stage where you set things like the > window on the screen to record, and the "export" stage where another > level of encoding occurs. After all that, from my browser I go to > Youtube.com, and click on an "Upload video" button which sends me to > browse my drive for the .move file to upload. Then there is the stage > where I watch the video on Youtube.com. I count 4 stages there. > > What part/stage is "Output"? Is it the first stage above? Output is probably when YouTube sends the video to browser, which may be different from the Uploaded or "master" format. Output can be default, or one of the &fmt=XX variants. > What part/stage is "Download"? Is it the second stage above? I think Download is the same as Output. > How would I add the format code to my upload. Would I just add "&xx" > to the end of my file name? And would that go after .mov? These &fmt=XX are only for Download. Theoretically, you can Upload any format, but it is best to match it with your intended Download (such as HD and/or iPhone) to reduce conversions and quality loss. > It is particularly confusing that my support person at Screenium > contradicts these other links. > > The default window size for J is 700x500 on my Mac. I think I need > 750x724 to get the menu bar, also. I believe 700x500 can be configured > differently, but none of the options at your link are even close to > 700^500. According to my reading of the Youtube link above, the > aspect ratio is more important than the size itself for encoding. Since these are movies, aspect ratio should match the resolution (eg 640x480 screen resolution or 720x480 for DVD etc.). You cannot pick an arbitrary resolution. So you need to layout the (portion of the) screen and adjust window sizes, which can be given in J Configuration. > This is clearly a complicated issue about which I am not confident I > have much patience. I was pretty pleased with my most recent upload, > though. So don't put much (any?) effort into answering my questions. > > Thanks, > > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:10 PM, bill lam wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Brian Schott wrote: > >> settings better match Youtube's software. So, I exported the newer > >> video with jpeg compression and 425x318 size, not the default H.264 > >> compression or 1024x768 "current" size, and for the audio to use mpeg4 > >> at 30fps. I am not quite sure I am using the 30fps because a couple of > >> times when I forced 30fps the upload file ballooned to 150+ mb and it > >> looked liked the upload stalled. So I let the software determine the > >> fps. > > > > youtube allow different picture quality by appending an "&fmt=xx" to > > the url, where the number xx is 18 or 22 > > > > http://www.net.chanun.com/tips/download-high-quality-videos-from-youtube > > > > > > -- > > regards, > > > -- > (B=) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
