WVU #16 – Crystal Clear Videos With YouTube
Posted On: December 11, 2008
Posted In: clear video, cloudy video, fuzzy video, YouTube
Comments: 8 Responses
Posted In: clear video, cloudy video, fuzzy video, YouTube
Comments: 8 Responses
YouTube is the run away champion for web video in terms of viewership. The problem is, most videos on YouTube look cloudy or fuzzy. In this tutorial, I’m going to share with you the secrets to making sure your videos appear crystal clear when when you upload them to YouTube…
I suspect that you are using a green screen and have placed the background in with the editor. Perhaps not, because I don’t see any rough edges around your image…you know, the sawtooth type shape.
Is this green screened?
Richard – I’m not using a green screen. Just a backdrop stretched tightly to remove the wrinkles.
Is this still relevant after youtube made the changes
in Nov 08?
Yes, it’s still relevant. The wider YouTube player is just to accommodate the growing number of HD videos.
Standard definition videos will be centered in the new player…so you still want to upload at 640×480 or 480×360.
If you’re watching directly on the YouTube site, you’ll want to click the “Watch in High Quality” link directly below the bottom right edge of the player. Example here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjgzNE3il8
If you’re grabbing the embed code from YouTube to place in your web page or blog, you still do the exact same techniques I showed in the video (changing embed code width to 320 and height to 265 is optimal).
Dave
Can you tell us what compression settings you used.
was it h.264 or just regular quicktime.
Also audio was it linear pcm ect…..
Video was H.264 (MainConcept .MP4)…1,800 kbps
Audio was AAC…128 kbps
So…you export it as 480 x 360 or 640 x 480.
Upload it.
Then after it is uploaded youtube will have the embed code (which will be wrong–425 x 344) and that is when and where you change it (within Dreamweaver)to 480 x 360 before you cut-n-paste the embed? So–even though you’ve exported correctly, YT still changes it …and you have to change it back?
YouTube will display the video on the YouTube page correcty…but they change the dimensions in the embed code they give you (for whatever reason).
So you just need to change the height and width in the embed code…adding the extra pixels to the height (to allow for the player bar) like I demonstrate in the video.