Carl Karsten wrote: > I was given a 30 min 2gig .mov taken with a ntsc camera - taked to post to > youtube (don't worry about the time, I can post big stuff) > > I am not exactly sure what youtube does on there end, pretty sure they will > re-encode it or something. I want to get it to something that doesn't take 10 > hours to upload. > > Anyone have a recommendation on encoding parameters? > > I hear h624 is 'best' for stuff like this.
What would be best would be something that has the same resolution as the youtube content, and that has had the higher frequency components cut off. That said, I suspect that using lavc mpeg4 2-pass with nr just high enough so that things begin to soften would be best. That way there's nothing that will be a challenge for the awful encoder that youtube will throw at it... No scaling required and no wide peaks to get chopped off.
