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Youtube doesn't like 14Gigabyte music videos
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:09 am
by Vagabond
Just made a video to go with a Jane's Addiction song and rendered it as uncompressed QuickTime file and it was 14GB LARGE!! Not only that but the guitar png particles I got for free from Content Paradise randomly flashed black. I had a black layer underneath everything so I could fade to black at the end so I made it invisible til the last few frames I actually needed it for... no help. I've rendered this file so many times it took longer to render than to make it!! Uncompressed, Animation, H264, avi, half size, half frame rate, AAARGH! Excuse my frustration. I'm still learning the program.
Anyway, I hope y'all like what I finally came up with. It's a little blurry cause I had to re-render it at a lower resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyGgVGBH06A
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:20 am
by Mikdog
14GB is mad overkill.
For YouTube compress with the H.264 codec. You should end up with a good quality file around 30MB.
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:39 am
by slowtiger
My last project of 5'30 min in HD 1280 x 720 was 250 MB in size to upload to YT. I used MP4 and a good combination of settings to maintain quality.
However, the separate scenes rendered in uncompressed PNG for best quality during production added up to 20 GB.
Don't mix up production renders (which must be best (uncompressed) quality because they'll be imported to other software) with the final releasae render (which should follow YT's advice about dimensions, FPS, codec, and file size).
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 6:27 am
by Vagabond
I read on the forum that there is a problem with audio and H264 so I used Quicktime and Animation. Then I used Quicktime and mp4 and they were both multi-GB files. I used avi and cinepak compression and wmp wouldn't play it. When it did I got a strange unsynched half screen mess. I finally did half frame rate and 1280x720 but it was 900MB. It took an hour to upload to youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLa2bEfBLio
I'm thinking I used HD photography for my backgrounds but why would that make it larger than the bootleg movies I've downloaded from the internet? Am I going to have to buy a whole new external drive for each project? Anyway thanks for the help.