Three things I know for sure. One, I wanted to see how to get the best quality video on YouTube. Two, Jacksen is starting to make more interesting sounds than crying. Three, many of you are dying to see boring home movies. So my first experiment in YouTube broadcasting stars Jacksen and has the un-cut, raw feel only parents wishing to capture every moment can create. Enjoy all three and a half minutes.
Update - Stormy asked how I got the video from camera to YouTube and I should've put it in here so I can refer to it next time. There were a lot of steps that video went through and it's still not perfect but it's pretty good for the first attempt. Most of the time was spent trying different combinations of filter and compression settings.
Amazingly, I used free software at every step and they were all high-quality.
- Copy 850 MB DV file from camera with WinDV.
- Open video in VirtualDub.
- Set up Smart Deinterlacer, Resize, Levels and Sharpen filters.
- Process video and save as XviD, 640x480, 2-pass, 1024 kbps, 29.97 fps. Save audio as Lame MP3, 48 kHz, 64 kbps, mono.
- Upload 27 MB video to YouTube and let them re-compress to 320x240.
I screwed up on the aspect ratio though. This version looks fine but the high-quality versions YouTube offers are squished. I accidentally flagged the video as widescreen.
Next I need to find a good video editing app. The free ones all seem to suck in different ways.
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4 comments:
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! So cute and adorable:)
that's pretty good quality. what's the trick?
This video explains how to create YouTube videos better than I can.
hahaha, I can't believe you rick rolled him, that's hilarious.
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