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  • not bad but u failed to answer my question how do i get the right format I have never done this before and felt very let down when all the work I had put into my amv was rejected for being in the wrong format how do I get the right format please explain thanks

  • what about M2TS files how long does that take and does it work?! SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME I WANNA POST VIDEOS WITH MY REALLY COOL CAMERA

  • thank you.

  • can I upload my videos in mp4 format???

  • Thank you!

  • Ask and you shall receive...

    I found something that basically stopped my research dead on it's tracks.

    I finally found the answer to all my questions.. and since YouTube is not letting me post the site's link on this comment I will put it up on my own YouTube page.

  • I have sent various messages to users like: MediocreFilms & also to cdrdj & also a few others and I have gotten 0 answers from close to 10 messages I sent. I guess those people are too important to respond to messages from people like me or they hava a secret they don't want to reveal...!!!

    Well....I will keep experimenting and if I find something I will come back and post it.

  • I don't know why the first half of my comment didn't come out but here it is again.

    Dear YouTube:

    Obviously this helpful video is not helpful. Almost a year later people are still searching for the same answer. Your helpful video posted here has great quality!!! (who cares about the audio at this point) Can you please make a ...........(to be continued)

  • .....video showing the computer screen step by step on how you made this video and how you exported it and encoded it. Please!!!

    Thanks!

  • Question: To get the best quality when exporting my video out of Final Cut Pro, Do I select "Deinterlace" "Progressive" or "Interlaced"???

  • I understand that this was supposed to be funny by being so intentionally lame, but it really just ended up being lame. Plus, Mr. Helpman was echoing way too much....

    Note to noobs: the max resolution has, I think, been increased to 640x480.

  • HAHAHAHA LOL RETARDS LMFAO

  • HAHAHA YEAH GHROX

  • i used the mpg format then convert it with the free divx download it makes it look clear but not perfect but better than what I used to have

  • its strange... they saying 320x240, but their video is in other format! (its not 16:9)

  • This is all wrong... The video quality differs on the type of footage you have. 320x240 mpg encoding doesn't give high quality to everything. You just have to try different resolutions and compression rates/types to see what works best for your vids.

  • i use 320x240 all the time to send stuff to my boss on a server. its fine.

  • I've just uploaded a video to Metacafe and the quality is wonderful, just like I always wanted them to be . Give it a try everyone !

    Youtube needs to fix that awful resizing program that blurrs and decreases video quality to all of our videos . It's urgent Youtube !

  • how do you get delete a friend on you tube

  • MPeg-4 is a china format that only works on cheap china Ipod players

  • You guys are idiots! The compression settings suggested aren't even consistent with the output from your site. For example, you suggest a resolution of 320 x 240, but the videos everyone watch are 425 x 318. So you're taking a small image and blowing it up! What are you thinking?! Anyone who has tried to do this in photoshop with an image knows it loses quality! QUIT MAKING LAME TUTORIALS and fix your image problem! It's annoying for those who make real videos. AND USE MPEG H.264! Not Flash!

  • You seem to make logical sense but you have such an anger against people who may not have your skills or expierence. Can you simply suggest programs that will keep the videos clear and or as bright as possiable without the personal attacks.

  • you should be able to do it right out of your editing program.

  • You guys are idiots! The compression settings suggested aren't even consistent with the output from your site. For example, you suggest a resolution of 320 x 240, but the videos everyone watch are 425 x 318. So you're taking a small image and blowing it up! What are you thinking?! Anyone who has tried to do this in photoshop with an image knows it loses quality! QUIT MAKING LAME TUTORIALS and fix your image problem! It's annoying for those who make real videos. AND USE MPEG H.264! Not Flash!

  • my videos that were clear 2 days ago, now are extremely blurry. What happened???

  • use your glasses? lol

  • how do i condense my video to a smaller size so i can upload...please help send me a message!!

  • depending on your program it will change but basically all you have to do is change your output quality when exporting it or import it into something like windows movie maker and change the size to the number you want

  • in windows movie maker there is no mpeg-4 choice?

  • it's a lie WMV format is just as good if not better but never use AVI!!!

  • avi is the best except when you compress it

  • AVI won't upload

  • hahahahhahahah

  • what I was waiting a full half an hour for it to upload and it didn't

  • I made a video with Paint & Movie Maker, but the format isn't valid. What do I do?

  • Please allow us to upload FLV without YT changing them.

    Other Do! If you are using On2 Technologies should be no problem. YouTube is trashing our videos.

  • Yep, i'v used 640x480; 30fps; DivX; MP3 128 CBR audio -> YouTube recommended settings and it lokks CYBER CRAPPY!! (KpQz_ivE8qU). You forgot 2 tell the most important thing: BITRATE !!! HAlllo what bitrate do you suggest??

  • Youtube Using FLV Format Video 254 KPBS And It Audio 22 KHZ Wow. Best To Up Load Format Put On Maximum Setting On FLV. And PAL Setting MPG Seeting.

  • Why 30 frames/sec ?

    For just videologging a face 21 fps is enough, 24 is fine too (still used a LOT in cinema), and 25 fps is a more than perfect frame rate. 30 is just overkill, to be honest. It's not even 30, it's 30000/1001, or 29.97 fps.

  • you guys better watch my profile video for best resolution and upload experience.

  • My you tube does not work here or at facebook please help me to fix the problems

  • YOU TUBE HELP team, please help me. The Audio Swap on my account suddendly is gone and I cannot download any music for my video. Why was it removed?? It was there last week.

    Any one has any idea...Thanks for the answer.

  • you cant export in mpeg 4 in VideoStudio 8

    only MPEG1?

  • Yeah, i can only render mpeg1 and mgep2.. Mgep2 is great quality, but fills to much.

  • this is cory can i use a gr-axm18 camcorder to put videos on youtube?

  • I'm in the UK - so I should set my fps to 25, not 30, right?

    Also, 640 x 480 pixels gives me the wrong aspect ratio - 640 x 512 is more accurate.

  • I'm having a problem even 'Uploading' a video! it used to have a blue bar showing the percent complete as it uploads, now its a circle of lines and Im just getting it stall and pause after pressing "upload" Ive tried other formats, whats up?

  • YT doesn't have the percentage bar anymore. From what you're saying, it's doing exactly what it should. Just leave it on the upload screen and it should go through fine. Kinda sucks that they don't show the progress bar anymore, but at least the uploads are quicker. Last week, I got a 3:30 vid up in about 15 minutes.

  • does the "circle of lines" intead of the 'bar' flash around and around? because when I try to upload, it does nothing after I press the upload button. when they had the 'bar' I was uploading over 3minute videos in less then 5minutes!

  • i want the old prograss bar back

  • you guys better watch my profile video for best resolution and upload experience.

  • Ok, MPEG-4, 30fps. what about the KBPS for the vid? what should that be?.

  • HOW CAN I GET A VIDEO TO LOOK LIKE THIS??? My .divx vids are all grainy because you assholes do extra transcoding anyway. Every one suggests that we use .flv. Then you stop taking .FLV files???? U HATE ON THE LITTLE MAN YOUTUBE!! YOU HATE ON US!!!

  • What are you bitching about? Learn to convert videos and read the "Help Center". And uploading .flv files works fine for me.

  • "what more could you ask for"

    How about key frames?

  • Hard to understand the audio on laptop speakers. Invest in an external camera microphone!

  • This is what I was looking for YouTube tutorials.

    Look out MGM.

  • Can a Power Point slide show be uploaded? .PPS is the file extension.

  • convert to a video file extension and then it will work

  • Yes you can. For the Mac-users out there, here's how it's done:

    Create or open an existing PowerPoint file. Go to File and choose "Save as Movie..."

  • I have a wireless Bluetooth-headset, what does normally work when it is connected. Butt when I want to play a Youtube video the video gets stuck after 2 seconds. When I just let the sound get out of my boxes the video just continuous. Does someone know what's my problem is? Please respond.

  • I've just watched this video and I founded plenty shocking and disgusting. Harmful at the core, please stop chowing this behaviur.

  • @anneyre: The video is an instructional/teaching video. How did it offend you?

  • To Crickettedog :

    I was just making fun :)

    I even flagged the video as being extremely dangerous, but all as a joke.

    Truth is I like it.

    Nothing wrong with the clip, good job UTube :)

  • retard

  • DUDE? This video is from YouTube help desk, it hasn't offended anything or anyone?

  • What if you have wmv format???

    Plz answer thanks

  • works in a higer quality than mpeg most of the time

  • It's 2008. Why is YouTube still 320x240? Everyone in America just got an HDTV for Christmas (1920x1080), but youtube is putting out highly compressed 320x240.

    How about a 640x480 option for those of us with Director accounts, and a 16x9 option?

  • I would definitely want that.

  • It's called 16:9 (sixteen by nine) ;)

  • yea! 640x480 would be great..and the 10 minute limit isn't enough

  • directors dont have a time limit for movies unless they changed it in the new year

  • hahaha

  • this worth nothing sorry....

  • perhaps before we are link to this help vid,we are given option i) ans. in 2 sec ii) 92 sec.I need help so I appreciate whatever kind of help.tx HELP dept.

  • it gives you the MPG-4, the resolution, the audio, and the fps, but it doesn't tell you how to to format to these specifications. I even downloaded the youtube uploader setup .exe, but wasn't told how to use it. I'm sorry but this sucks.

  • this help video is really for the birds. The information could be given in 2 seconds without a video. I have some serious problems using the remixer and can't find the help I need on this website. It is really annoying.

    The help section of you tube could be greatly improved, the rest is great!

  • thx for the help, stupid vid...

  • lol what a lameass video. Anyway MPEG4 is the best way to go. The best thing to have is a video editor program that can export your video as MPEG4(a.k.a H.264)with a Youtube preset. Adobe Premiere Pro can do just that.

  • Cheers.

  • And also while using a video editor, it's best to keep the resolution of your source clips the same as the project settings. I used to use clips that were 352x480 when my project settings were defaulted at 720x480. Then when I resized my source clips to 720x480, the quality improved vastly. If you've done that already and your videos still turn out like crap, then probably the source video from the dvd you captured from had poor quality in the first place.

  • Because they can't afford to give us any more than a 768K bitrate. ::: lame :::

  • Why does the video stop and start and stop and start

  • Cannot find the Handycam (Tape).

    Check the i.LINK connection to the Handycam.

    It's hooked up! Why can't it see my handycam?

    please help

  • Why doesn't someone from YouTube read and respond to the many questions/concerns here?

  • How come the video says 320x240 but the print in the Help section says 640x480?

    Also, the video program I use says 29.97fps is the correct one for video, not "30" fps.

    Also, what mp3 sample size/bit rate is best? "Mp3 audio" is pretty vague.

    Also, when can we finally get decent STEREO audio on YouTube?

  • yes could someone please answer mstax's question.

  • This just does not cover enough settings, plus some of these things aren't really available in the program I'm using (maybe some of these settings are too old?).

  • Oh my gosh!! This is just awful! Just get to the point. This video is not even remotely entertaining...it's embarassing. Just list the settings and stop torturing us.

  • If it is possible, can Youtube fix my channel? I am having trouble in using features and I can not reply to comments on my current vids. My subscriber count is off as well. When I add my website and edit my channel, nothing is recorded. My influences and other information is not being posted. It is getting worse everyday. I do not want my account to get deleted as well for Youtube's mistakes! I am calling you all and writing emails continuously. Someone needs to reply.

  • Cut all the crud out. All we need to know takes up less than 10 seconds in a video over 1:30 long.

    The whole matchmaking parody isn't even close to funny.

  • For movie maker users: When you save a file, save it as high quality video (large). It has 30 frames per second and 640x420 . or you could save it as small. 320x240

  • Thank God for people with a sense of humor!

  • 30fps??? that's impossible!!!

  • no it's not! wtf?

  • er.. what do u mean? n why at the last part the firl suddenly hug that man??? why why why?????

  • lolol!!!! this is just a bunch of buzz!!!!

  • I Love it

  • Is that.... an SCV shirt?! Woohoo! Go drum corps!

  • yea hahah! i just noticed that.

  • COME ON YOUTUBE help team....

    Change the wording on the support page

    its says "640x480 resolution (* most updated recommendation)"

    So does that mean the 320-240 recommended in this video has been updated to the 640-480 in the text or vica versa ?

  • i'm not sure if my video editing system even has that format as a choice

  • what setting on movie maker do i save the video on and upload it on youtube? cause all my videos come out blurry and the music is static-ish

  • 5 star just bucuz it was creative :)

  • wow..not very helpful. my problems are not with fuzzy or choppy conversions. Its massively pixilated and sounds like crap. converting my music videos to 64bit mono is just wrong. I've got to wonder if this isn't really about hard drives and bandwidth.

  • the 320x240 resolution is a lie.

    thats the resolution that ENDS UP on YouTube, but NOT THE RESOLUTION YOUR CAMERA SHOULD BE SHOOTING with.

    852x480.

  • Hey what bit rate should i use???

  • MP3 audio? Oh, puh-leeze...

    AAC is far superior.

  • Rating5 Cool............

    Young008

  • thanks much.

  • I think Youtube is full of SHI#. How many people have uploaded their video to 320 by 240, 30fps, etc and it still looks CRA#. They just say that so it saves space and work on their Youtube servers. Why do all the popular high rated subscribed channels have excellent quality vids like lonelygirl15 for example. I bet Youtube makes exceptions for those channels.

  • wtf how do u do dis shit my vidz are bad quality.dey shoulda gave us more info on how not what.

  • i upload almost all of my videos with asf and it looks fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Santaclara Vanguard? You rock.

  • my videos have all been uploaded with the file extension, '.avi'. until now. now all i get after upload in the broadcast field is 'failed'. it doesnt tell me why it failed. how can i find out whats wrong. im using the same format ive always used. the video is less than 30 seconds long. video taken with same camera as the successful uploads. WHY ISNT IT WORKING NOW??? *WAAAAH!!!*

  • You can't create such in important video in such a room. Because of the echi, I could only hardly understand the spoken words...

  • Please YouTube, increase the filesize limitation by at least 50MB's. Even 150MB's would help alot. 10mins of video + audio with WMV9 encoding is 'still' 153MB's. The compression is alot better than Xvid for filesize and it's still too big! :'( I'm dyin here trying to find a solution.

  • Please somebody reply to this... How can I convert a .VRO (from a digital camcorder) into MPEG-4? I've been googling for the past 2 weeks trying to figure this out, but any ideas or suggestions would rock! Thanks

  • Go to download*com and search 'any video converter', it can convert everything to mp4.

  • thank you for sharing, I just downloaded it. ^^

  • your welcome! :D

  • How are you supposed to change resolution? and all that..where are the option to click for all that

  • Watching this makes me feel like I am in a mental institue. It sucks.

  • How come they say 320x240 if the embed says 425x350  ?!?!?!?!

  • yeah your right. This is pretty fucked up. lol

  • that girl is hot. I hope my man hits dat

  • what's the bitrate?

  • WTF was this all about?

  • people uploading videos the size of 1280*800 in mov format that gets all screwed up in the converting process

  • If it'such a great format why does it keep stopping and starting, YouTube has gone shit since Google bought it.

  • Thats usually caused by small bandwidth or unreliable connection... it has little to do with the format.

  • noooo It's not that Format is converted anyways... into flv FLASH VIDEO duh you think everyone has codecs for all formats!!?!? lol there would be far more talking about it if it where to be diff formats

  • that's where the whole problem is, too, no real video standards or expiring codecs. *in a perfect world* we should only have 1 compression standard for the following :

  • why the video get pause when its run is it problem with computer or with your youtube

  • I figured out how to get High Quality Videos for Upload to YouTube, converting your videos into the Flash Video Format (FLV) using the Total Video Converter 3.10 and some special settings explained in this tutorial.

    Long version: watch?v=FLVA91WkCfI

    Short Version: watch?v=08NI4cy4zik

    NOTICE: videos converted to FLV format with another programs(Adobe Premier, VirtualDub, Riva Encoder, Sorenson Squeeze), will be and degraded by YouTube Servers, in the same way like other formats.

  • waste of time

  • ok ok ok ok ok

  • I have found that Flash media (.flv) yeilds the best results. There is no format that works best for everyone. EXPERIMENT! -IRTheBorg

  • GADE ALMALEH

  • Wow, the thing at the end was really cool

  • Dr. Gregary Warren McHelpMan?

  • ROFLMFAO! ! !

    This sounds like those useless Paid Programming Shows that comes on really late. ( the music sucks too )

  • what does the end of harry potter have to do with this movie?

  • Yeah liks to the format sites would be the very least to expect, i love how youtube uses 320x240 and streaches it to 425x320 and sayes that is chrips quality.

    Not to mention the crapy conversion they make to .flv.

  • This is whereYou Tube really lets people down.I want to know how to upload my videos.How do I connect my video cam to my computer etc Making these unfunny videos debases you organisation.Please give sensible info well presented -taking us from the beginning

  • This is not enough info, please don't dumb down. Have you searched YouTube itself to see how many ways people are trying to get the best quality compression? This is NOT enough info...not cute either. While compressing videos on various programs, there are many parameters to check on/off, bit rates, hi-med-low...Please put some of your GOOGLE brains on this to provide specific info, screen shots of iMovie, MovieMaker, QT, etc. Ie, should one select "compress for download...hinting" or not?

  • dear help center don't listen that jerks! that was helpful and funny :]

  • that was actually really helpful.  and informative!

  • this wasn't very helpful. they didn't even tell you how to upload windows moviemaker videos!! :(

  • *lol* You suck!

  • That's exactly what I use, and yet still the quality sucked when I uploaded it.

  • what the hell?

  • wat if my computer doesnt have that format???!!!

  • Then you download it :P

  • I didn't learn anything by watching this. =0(

  • nic

  • d2hv9

  • Hah nice.

  • Lily uploaderson,HaHaHa,good one YouTube! I'm Edy Downloaderston,I think she's my perfect match.Funny videos,Keep putting more hot girls in them! Check you later!

  • hey guys...i use divx export for the most part...i try other stuff too...i export witht he settings they suggest...ive even tried other sites with different suggestions

    but every time i upload to youtube it comes out pixilated! or really low quality! does anyone have a suggestion i could do to make my video come out like the one i am commenting?

    by the way i use final cut express on a mac so there should deff be somehtin to export on that! or somethin i should do differently!

    later!

  • I also don't agree with the Divx format thing. In the past, when I uploaded in that format, the audio desyncs really badly. What I have to do is save using Fast Motion Divx ;-) (don't know where I got that codec though...) and recompress the audio in Mp3, Direct Steam Copy won't work. (I use VirtualDub) Then I use Riva FLV encoder, use the Divx bitrate calculator I just mentioned to figure out what bitrate I need and convert my video to .FLV and upload that. THAT's what works best for me.

  • Actually, I found that the higher resolution I upload my videos in, the sharper the video is. I sometimes upload my videos in 640 x 480, sometimes 512 x 384, sometimes 480 x 360. I go lower for longer videos so I can stretch the video data out, resulting in less compression artifacts. By the way, I use the Divx bitrate calculator to figure what bitrate I need to stay just below the 100MB limit. It can be accessed through VirtualDub if you have the Divx codec installed.

  • When I saw the help for video formats

    had a "Youtube" video I thought great,

    and sat back to take on board the information.

    I actually felt a little sick after being

    dragged through this corn ball cheap muck.

    A great opportunity blown.

    Do it with some professional integrity

    or not at all! Please!

  • ...

    wtf

  • What... were you guys on drugs when you wrote and made this??

  • They don´t help at all..

  • W T F!!!

  • I want my 92 seconds back :(

  • nice goin retard u wasted anoter 20 sec wrtitin that comment