HDV to YouTube encoding test - HV30 Canon - Winter Park, CO

I have started encoding all my video I upload to YouTube to Mp4 rather than H.264. File sizes are bigger but encoding time is a third! This was shot in Canon's 30p mode and encoded with Final Cut Studio's compressor - Mp4, resized to 720p dimensions. I tested H.264, my former method of encoding and resultant picture looked less blocky but also somewhat less sharp than Mp4, strange. So folks it's good old MP4 in future, no more LONG wait times, excellent! Encoding time are still ridiclious on even with my fancy MacBook Pro Dual Core laptop with 4 gigs of ram. This 1 min clip too 3x to encode to MP4 and a whopping 10x to encode to H.264, ouch!!

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Science & Technology

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• Winter Park
• California Zephyr
• HV30
• Canon
• MP4
• H.264

[scottdoggz88]

i feel that the 30p is the way to go. great upload quality btw. ur a str8 merking beast.

[cottonproductions]

I recently discovered that MP4 is the way to go also!! Much higher quality than anything I have done before with smaller file sizes.. I was using WMV before that. I was curious, if you dont render at 1280x720 and leave it at 1920x1080, how does that effect the quality of the vid when you upload? I am sure that youtube would resize just curious.. thx