Best Export Settings For YouTube?

[beginwhereUR]

Hi Friends,

Sorry if this topic has been covered already. Here's what I found after a forum SEARCH:

If you're using a standard project then you can modify as follows:

Video Tab
Video Codec: H.264
Quality: 100
Frame Wdith: 720
Frame Height: 480
Frame Rate: 29.97
Field Order: None
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 1.2 (or D1/DV NTSC 0.9 for SD 4:3)
Set Bitrate: checked
Bitrate: 8000 kbps

That should generate a .mov file that Youtube will handle correctly. You can change the Bitrate to reduce the amount of data size, and you can change the Quality number to reduce the encoding time. its not recommended go lower than 3000 kbps for a bitrate or below 50 on Quality

Audio Tab
Audio Code: AAC
Output Channels: Stereo
Frequency: 44kHz

Works for PE4 or PE7

FWIW, the project I intend to upload is on a non-internet computer, so I will be saving it to disc first. Would the above formula still apply? Also, I assume I would use the FILE>Export menus, rather than the SHARE menus to do this. Is this correct?

Thanks so much for any help!

Regards,
Joe

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Joe, Welcome to Muvipix

That should be fine although a bitrate of 8000 is going to create a pretty huge file.
If your video is only a minute or two long it should be fine, much longer than 2 minutes and you will probably get beyond the size limits for YouTube.

[beginwhereUR]

Hey Chuck!

Thanks so much for the reply and for the warm welcome!

The aforementioned video is four minutes, thirty seconds. Should I drop the bitrate down to something like 6000 then, or even less? Is there a simple formula I can use to calculate this for myself, such as average bitrate per minute?

Another question: PE seems to have converted my music track to 48K, though the original was at 44K. I haven't noticed any deterioration in quality, either in the raw edit or in the DVD test burn. Can I just keep the track as it is, or would you recommend reloading it at the original 44K before exporting?

Thanks again!

Regards,
Joe

[tiny]

This brings up a good question. . . . Will youtube just re-encode it at a lower bitrate once uploaded? If so, then it would just mean that much more time for you to upload and for youtube to re-encode.