thanks all for your responses. A great help!!!!
On 12/20/07, Brook Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > If your clip is very short you could try a strategy someone on Ken > Stone's site uses - compress to photojpeg at as high a quality as you > can while staying within the 100MB limit. Since photo jpeg doesn't > compress temporally, you only end up going one pass through a temporal > codec (whatever flavor of flash you tube is using). But this only > works for a VERY short clip. > > Cutting your frame rate down to 15 should help too. > > I notice there's now an option to upload pretty gigantic files to You > Tube using a program they offer for download, but it only runs on > windows. WIth that option you could theoretically do photo jpeg or dv > for longer clips. > > My best results so far on longer clips have been with h.264 even > though You Tube claims they don't support it. Occasionally they'll > reject an h.264 - it looks like these are usually close to but still > under the 100MB limit, but I don't have enough data to know for sure > that's the trigger. > > But it ends up in a low quality flash encode no matter what, so > anything with detail and motion is just going to look like crap on YT. > On the iphone, though, SOME of it looks pretty good - probaby because > those particular clips are h.264 from a relatively high quality > original upload. > > Brook > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >
