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I'm having a bit of trouble uploading videos to youtube- I'm aware that youtube -recompresses your video- which would explain why my animation looks alot better in quicktime than it does on youtube...

However I've been playing around with the options and still cannot get a decent quality- and I also notice that when the camera moves in the video becomes fuzzy...

Is this normal?

Does anyone have any specific combination of settings they can suggest using?

Well, I would recommend creating your project in 1280 x 720, or higher.
25 or 30 frames per second that’s up to you, but stay with the same frame-rate
and resolution through your whole project. (personally I use 25 fps)

Export as QuickTime:
Resolution      1280 x 720 / Deinterlace
Compression  H.264
Quality            High / Multi-pass
Data-rate        Automatic or at least 3000 kbits/sec
Sound            AAC, Mono, 44.100 kHz, 64 kbps

Upload that movie to Youtube:
The initial display of your video will be still in normal quality, but now you have the option to click on the “watch in HD” button...
Example:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmXsELT8 ... re=channel

Cheers
Nolan

To be honest Nolan when i clikced on the link I couldn't find the "View in HD option" and your video looks every blurryer than mine! And I was completly dishearten...


BUT- then I found the little button/option and your animation looks truly gorgeous!

I'm gonna try uploading my little test and see how it goes- thankyou for giving me hope!!!

Now I've found the option to view the videos in high quality I can now find it under some of the videos I have lready uploaded!!!

I feel stupid- becuase I spent the whole of yesterday afternoon trying to work out how to upload decent quality videos!!!

Thanks again Nolan!

I seem to be having a problem- I changed all the options to what you suggested and when I try to upload the video I get this message- Failed (unable to convert video file)

Any ideas?

Maybe the file is too big?

You should read up on youtube's own tech specs about video formats.

Maybe.. but I'm only uploading a 3 sec animation...

OH YEAH! I JUST DID IT!!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv8r0qZsxLc

Ok- what i did was-

I used 1290 X 720 (instead of 1280) as youtube prefers this for a HD video...

Also exported into a quicktime animation and instead of selecting H.264 I just used MPEG-4 Video and then- 25 FPS and 3000 KBytes/sec and quality high.

great post Live the Dream, I'm having trouble with this myself. hope your method works for me too.

Works great! thanks for posting!