How to upload your videos in HIGH DEF to YouTube

[Sombeech]

For the past month and a half, my YouTube videos have been very grainy for some reason. So Alex and I were discussing this while on the river on Friday, how you sometimes see the option on YouTube to "watch in high quality"

I'm gathering that there are some specs that will give you this option, and I'm going to try it with our Westwater video this weekend.

Here's what one dude says:

Here are the settings to use:
-Divx, Xvid, H.264 video UPDATE: You can also use WMV and HuffYUV.
-At least 600kbits/s video bitrate (Verify with MediaInfo). UPDATE: If you have a low motion video that doesn't make 600k, add a faster moving segment, or decrease the Max IDR-frame interval (x264) or Max I-frame interval (Xvid). I will keep you updated on the screen capture/video game 600k issue.
-At least 480x360 screen size (try 640x360 for widescreen)
A 2-pass encode isn't a requirement, but it produces better looking results. Also I forgot to mention instead of choosing "nearest neighbor" as your resize method, try "Lanczos3," I think it too produces better results."

I'm testing one out by uploading as a divx right now. That may be the ticket. I'm SOOOO tired of grainy footage on the trail. I just may have to re-upload my latest videos in a different format to see if it works.

Here's his video which is a bit long...

[Mtnman1830]

I thought the reason my videos were grainy was my phone only has a 2 megapixel camera...

[Sombeech]

OK, I just saved this video as Divx, bitrate at 700+ kbps, and size 640 X 480.

It's already clearer than my original version... BUT... It will still take a few minutes for the high quality option.

Here's the NON high quality version just barely uploaded:






As soon as I see that high quality option, I'll put it side by side for comparison

[Sombeech]

Hmmm... still no high def option.

I'll get back with you guys on this.

[Sombeech]

Well, that biking one never did it, but the river one worked.

I'm not sure if this embedded video is the high quality or not.
Click this link to make sure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtPyLK4z0A









EDIT: It looks like the embedded video is the standard quality version, and you'll have to click the link to find the high quality version.

This is just a rough draft of our river trip on friday:
http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13094