Just to test, I uploaded and FLV file to YouTube. Here's the version that YouTube rendered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4YbxYHJM0
and here is the version that I uploaded as an FLV to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR-Ra4eAcw . You can fast forward to the middle part of each video to compare the clarity of the screencasts. I guess when doing screencasting with YouTuve, it pays to convert to FLV locally before uploading to YouTube. Just so you know, I converted the original 640x480 mp4 to FLV 640x480 with the free Quick Media Converter software. I used the easy settings on QMC. For the sake of comparison, I also uploaded an FLV version to Blip. The FLV is here http://bizresearchbasics.blip.tv/file/2496646/ and the original is at http://bizresearchbasics.blip.tv/file/2493638/ . I can't tell a difference between the two, so Blip evidently handles the screencasts better with the native files than YouTube. --Chad On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Chad Boeninger <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > I uploaded the identical 640x480 mp4 file to both Blip and Youtube. Here > is the Youtube Version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4YbxYHJM0 and the > Blip Version http://blip.tv/file/2493638 .Once you get past the part with > me giving the introduction in the Youtube video, you can see how the > screencast gets squished (for lack of a better term). I'm going to use Blip > for my actual show, but then also post content to Youtube. > > Do most folks here post the same content to both places? Do you have a > particular way to render for Youtube? With some previous videos, I > actually converted the FLV on my desktop with Quick Media Converter and then > uploaded to Youtube. Here's the result > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSU-6y9OLM , which is clearly better > quality. I'd rather not have the extra step, but I guess it's necessary if > I want the better quality. On a related note, does anyone know if the Blip > to Youtube sends a FLV to Youtube or the source? > > Thanks, > Chad > > -- > Chad F. Boeninger > libraryvoice.com - blog > libraryvoice.com/videos - videoblog > twitter.com/cfboeninger > -- Chad F. Boeninger libraryvoice.com - blog libraryvoice.com/videos - videoblog twitter.com/cfboeninger [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
