How to Upload HD Videos to YouTube HD

You know you’ve done it. You’re part of the YouTube generation and you’ve not only watched videos but uploaded them as well. Once you did that though you realized the quality of your video just sucked. You tried a variety of things and still aren’t happy with the quality.

In the meantime, read through this article and you’ll get some better looking videos in the long run.

Resolution Let’s face it, YouTube is now HD Ready like the latest LCD and Plasma televisions. So that means you need to adapt to their system in order to get them to play nice. Their native resolution? Its 720p, a 1280×720 pixels of resolution. Its HD quality, so you’ll need a video source that can handle it if you want HD quality videos. When you save that video for YouTube make sure you do that in 1280×720 and YouTube’s compressor will love you for it and reward you with some better quality and give you the luxury of having a watch in HD link on your videos.

Bit rate ” You’re asking what the heck that is right? Well simply its now much information your video will contain per period of time. Normally this comes up in Kilobits or Megabits per second. Obviously in this regard the higher the better. However if you go too high the video files will far exceed the limitations of YouTube so you need to learn balance Grasshopper. In this case you still want a high number but you don’t want it to be sky high. Somewhere around 6Mbps to 8Mbps is a good range. Then when the video gets to the YouTube compactor it’ll have enough data to retain quality. YouTube can handle up to 1GB of file but only 10 minutes so pay attention to that also.

While you’re thinking about the other things you’ve also got to think about several more things, audio is one of them. You need to have this in MP3 or AAC (44.1KHz Stereo ideally) on the track or you risk losing quality during compression and conversion. Your best bet is to set this to CBR of VBR if you have the option. Frame rate is another thing you should pay attention to. To keep thinks flowing smoothly you’ve got to maintain a minimum of 30+ FPS or frames per second. The file format you need to have your stuff in is .mov or .mp4. If your video editing package can’t handle that then you’re going to want to look into one that can. QuickTime Pro is often touted as the ideal since it’s both cheap and handles a wide variety of video formats.

Once you’ve got all this, upload your video, wait for YouTube to process it and you should a nice looking video pushed out to the site for your friends, family and complete strangers. Good Luck in your video marketing efforts.

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