Avid HQ YouTube Guide: Part 1

um i just got the program, how do u import a video ?

right click, make a bin.
drag the video to the empty box that being created beside you windows with the bins.

What about HD?

Hi. This guide was done prior to when YouTube switched on HD features so it is now a bit outdated.

You can follow the same steps when using an HD Avid project type, and use these settings as a guide for HD material:

1280x720 Frame size (Preferably progressive or de-interlaced material)
~5000Kb/s Bitrate (H264/x264/AVC Codec)
256Kb/s Stereo Audio (MPEG4-AAC, AAC-LC Codec)

I'm using and Avid MC. When I export my video to Quicktime using H264 and either auto or limited to 4000kbs, and uncompressed audio, YouTube's standard quality playback looks like crap (because they compressed it further), but the "high quality" playback plays choppy as though my computer can't keep up. But when I play the original file in WIndows, it appears fine.

What could be wrong?

This was really something for an old Avid user (born in the fifties). No more heavy QT-exporting now. Maybe I'll have to redo a lot of clips (sigh), but this was a treat. And you're also from a PAL-country. Thanks!

Hello! great vid, really helping, but I have a problem. Im new to this whole avid thing. does it support .avi files? cause i capture my vids with the occult webcam program for the acer webcam. Im trying to get them to 16:9, withought the movie maker margins. can U help me?

Hey, maLeFunKtion, please make a tutorail, i beg you, i want HQ stero sound:) i dont know anything about FFmpeg, Static Image??

Thx :P gonna try it

Yeah. Try it. When I used MPEG Streamclip for a static image, I found I got mixed results depending on what the source image was visually.

I shifted my Static-Image encodes across to FFmpeg and 'forced' a constant 1000Kb/s bitrate. (But the workflow is still rather long-winded.)