The BEST WAY to render final project!

Libertycourt · Post by **Libertycourt** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:00 pm

Fellow Animators,

Everytime I finish a final profect, it looks fine in Real Player, but when I load it onto You tube, it takes on a grainy appearance. I've tried .avi(too large), .mpg4(grainy), and .mpg(grainy).

What is the best approach to take with AS to get a clean, smooth video?? Is it compression? (I was told not to use any by AS support) but that doesn't seem to answer my problem. There has to be some sort of reasoning besides "trial and error". But if that's it, I live with it.
Please give some feedback on what you think (and I'll keep searching this forum to find a possible solution).

Sincerely,
LC

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:08 pm

No matter how clean your project looks, youtube will butcher it down to its own specifications. So rule # 1 is: it can't get any better than youtube allows.

youtube compresses hard. It has a file size limit. Because of that limit, short clips will look better than long ones. If your film is longer than 10 minutes, it will barely recognizeable.

You can only try and fit your film's settings as good to youtube's internal settings as possible. Picture size and frame rate are the most important ones. Other than that there's not much you can do.

DarthFurby · Post by **DarthFurby** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:53 am

I've never uploaded anything to youtube because I really can't stand the way it compresses stuff, but some people have found a way to bypass the crappy compression to get less crappy quality:

http://www.squidoo.com/youtuberight

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:08 am

I have no inside knowledge or any information other than my own "instincts" but if you are willing to wait, my feeling is it is only a matter of time before Youtube offers "HD" quality uploads.

There are a bunch of popular video sharing sites that are going "HD" because people like "us" want better quality. These other sites are filling that niche. To maintain market share I think google/youtube will have to go that way pretty soon.

However the link posted above does clearly show that a somewhat "higher" quality is possible on Youtube but only if you are willing to jump through the hoops required.

-vern