Moho Animation Forum

Hey, what are the best size settings on moho for youtube videos?

You mentioned in your other post that you were using the Debut version. Maximum frame size for you would be 900 x 900

If you want to work in the smaller version of HDTV 1280 x 720, it looks like you should try 900 Wide and 506 Height.

Ok, thank you:)

If you want to stick with standard DV settings, use 852 x 480. In Debut, the preset in Project Settings is called 480p Widescreen.

900 x 506 may be proportionately correct but it's not a typical screen resolution. If you upload a movie with this size to YouTube, it's probably going to get down-sampled to 852 x 480 anyway, which might result in a slightly softer video and perhaps even some artifacting. But to be sure, I would upload a short test animation and see what happens.

Personally I would stick with industry standard formats, especially when I'm working in multiple production programs (i.e., video editor, compositing, etc.) Some video containers/codecs won't even accept non-standard resolutions.

However...

If your intention is to upscale the video to HD res, the closer you are to 1280 x 720 is better.

The result is going to be a little soft for an HD video, but it might be slightly better than what you get by upscaling from 852 x 480.

Hope I didn't just confuse everything.

To me, if I was going straight to YouTube with the output, the 'safe' thing is to stay with Debut's 480p Widescreen preset.

Ok, I'm going to muddy the waters even more now.

Sometimes I like to add fake camera motions in post, like for a handheld look or shaking from bumps and explosions. This can be done to any pre-rendered footage in a compositing program or video editor. The catch is, the trick requires you to scale up the image slightly, which can result in a slightly softer picture. To prevent the softening, you need render the footage at a higher resolution so you can have enough bleed around the image to add the fake camera motions.

So...in this case, I would render from Debut at 900 x 506. But my final output of the finished movie from the compositing or editing program--and for YouTube--would still be 852 x 480 (480p Widescreen).

Oh, I just thought of something else: In Moho Pro, when rendering at the full maximum resolution, there's a potential render error that may occur when certain Style effects have been applied--like Shaded, I think--and the artwork breaks the edge of the render. I haven't tested for this personally but it was reported in another thread a few months ago. It's possible the same error happens in Debut but at Debut's maximum resolution. Just something to think about.