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fevictor

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From: Quepos / Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

Uploading videos to Youtube

I did an advanced search already, but wasn't able to find the answer I was looking for. Basically I'm wondering what the best format is for Youtube. I bought a webcam that creates .AVI videos. I recently recorded a short video clip, about 25 seconds, and its 275 MB. I tried uploading it once already and it took like 1.5 hours, and came out all fast and weird sounding. I'm in the process of re uploading, but this is just taking forever!

Should I be converting to a different format? Like WMV or MP4? What do you guys use? I want to start uploading recordings, but this is ridiculous! I looked online too, but theres so much information and most of it just goes over my head.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Edit: My second upload attempt just failed to. The video plays super fast, but the audio is normal speed.

Vic

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 0:13:37

fevictor

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From: Quepos / Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Super fast playing!!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 3:15:08

at_leo_87

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From: Boston, MA, U.S.A

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

damn yo!
are you on steroids?
i would just try a different format. youtube is retarded like that sometimes.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 3:46:51

kozz

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

wtf,
can we win a $10.000 dolar guitar?

Use a converter to reduce the size (320x240 or double), and the sound to 192kbs .

Whats your guitar?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 5:52:09

rombsix

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

quote:

Super fast playing!!

HAHAHAHAHA! Ole y awesome!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 5:59:23

Elie

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

omg that vid was so freakin awesome
answering your question
for my video uploads I use .wmv extension and it is about 20MB for one minute

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 10:01:10

KMMI77

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Funny video!

There is a free program for mac called mpeg stremclip. It is great for converting any video into pretty much any format.

It's quick and easy to use. You just drag your video into the viewer, go to file and choose the type of format you want. I am sure there would be something similar for pc but unfortunately i don't know anything about pc programs.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 10:19:43

XXX

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Which codec are you using? Sometimes webcams have exotic codecs and maybe youtube cannot handle it properly. I would get a software like SUPER (yes its really called like that) to convert it into a youtube friendly format/codec, but i forgot which one it was (please search for it).

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 10:33:42

Doitsujin

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

I used to use "idkfa" or "idmusXX" for cheating... I also remember "idclip"... but there was none for accelerating...

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 15:31:18

rombsix

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From: Beirut, Lebanon

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

I use a Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 along with the software that was bundled with it to capture the videos. I used to use Debut Video Capture Software which is free (when I was still using my built-in laptop webcam). I use a CAD u37 USB microphone to record the audio for the videos. I use Portable Adobe Audition 3.0 to tweak around with audio sometimes. I use Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 to edit and render videos. I use WMV at about 640 x 360 at about 500 K bitrate, and I end up with a widescreen video of about 5 MB per minute of video (so a 5-minute video would be about 25 MB).

Here is a sample:

I hope this was helpful.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 16:00:39

XXX

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to rombsix)

thats incredible Ramzi... your sound is good. When i uploaded a 60MB video youtube worsened the sound much more than on the 280MB video (it was the same video+audio just rendered with more pixels) and my video was only 1:20 long.... man this youtube conversion thing is intransparent as hell!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 17:52:46

Escribano

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Your AVI file may well be uncompressed, therefore HUGE. YouTube transcodes uploads into Flash FLV or H.264 for HD.

Try converting to MPEG4, 25 fps for PAL or 30fps for NTSC or whatever your camera is recording at - you have to check. Bitrate should be around 1 Mbps although Ramzi gets away with lower.

You can get converters on the Web to turn AVI into MPEG4.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 18:35:18

orsonw

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to Escribano)

I was thinking of getting a webcam to upload my playing but it seems quite time consuming and I need to buy stuff.

I have a Mac ibook G4 with garageband and imovie. Anyone use Mac who can suggest/explain a simple set up?

I was think of getting the logitech pro 9000 web cam and some kind of video editor? How easy is it to record seperate audio and then put it together with the video?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 19:21:09

Escribano

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to orsonw)

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I was think of getting the logitech pro 9000 web cam and some kind of video editor? How easy is it to record seperate audio and then put it together with the video?

Easy to record and load onto YouTube straight from iMovie 09 which you should already have in Snow Leopard. Just select YouTube from the Share menu.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

Don't bother trying to synch audio and video, unless you have a very good reason and I can't think of one.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 19:39:07

fevictor

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From: Quepos / Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Holy crap....this stuff has gone way over my head! I have no idea what a codec is. I think Ill just try and convert online to different formats and see what happens.

I guess I was just looking for a standard "this is the way you do it", but I guess theres more than one way to skin a cat.

Thanks for the responses!

Vic

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 20:42:55

rombsix

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 20:45:08

fevictor

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From: Quepos / Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Thanks Ramzi! Ill download this tonight to my laptop and give it a try.

Kozz, I have a Raimundo Classical guitar.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 20:52:06

veet

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Save your vids as an .mp4 file. That's readable by Mac and PC apps both, pretty universal these days. Like Escribano said, Youtube converts to Flash or H.264, but that needn't concern you. AVI is an ancient codec, hasn't been supported or upgraded in maybe 10 years. Nowadays, it stands for AVoId.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 21:11:03

fevictor

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

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Save your vids as an .mp4 file.

The problem is that my webcam only has the avi format to save as. I don't think it will let me save in any extension.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 27 2010 21:27:27

at_leo_87

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to orsonw)

quote:

I have a Mac ibook G4 with garageband and imovie. Anyone use Mac who can suggest/explain a simple set up?

i recently discovered the potential of garageband. it's amazing!

i think you can record a video with photobooth. then just import it into garage band to edit the sound. that's if you want to use the built in mic.

i haven't tried recording audio and video separately yet. but will soon. i'll get back to you when i figure something out.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 28 2010 1:45:40

KMMI77

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From: The land down under

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to orsonw)

quote:

I have a Mac ibook G4 with garageband and imovie. Anyone use Mac who can suggest/explain a simple set up?

I was think of getting the logitech pro 9000 web cam and some kind of video editor? How easy is it to record seperate audio and then put it together with the video?

It is very easy to record a video and line it up with audio in imovie. There are a few steps involved and i would recommend experimenting with imovie to get to know it a little first.

Have you played around with imovie at all?

I assume that you don't have a built in webcam?

Let me know what you already know and maybe i can help.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 28 2010 3:31:19

veet

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From: L.A.

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

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The problem is that my webcam only has the avi format to save as.

Didn't you ask whether to convert to another format, mp4 or wma?
There are lots of apps that do that. Tunebite is one, that will convert to a lot of different formats. Google for others.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 29 2010 22:35:32

Janne H

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Hi,

was trying to upload a video (.mov) to youtube and the sound quality turned out really bad.

What to do?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 2 2010 18:17:58

Janne H

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

And how do I embed the video from youtube, with the link or with the embedding code?

It doesn´t show up...

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 2 2010 23:19:50

NormanKliman

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to orsonw)

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How easy is it to record seperate audio and then put it together with the video?

quote:

Don't bother trying to synch audio and video, unless you have a very good reason and I can't think of one.

Orson, if you're asking about simultaneously recording with a camera and an audio recorder and subsequently synching the audio and video files, it's a relatively easy and worthwhile endeavor. The audio of some video cameras is of very poor quality, but if you have good video software you can easily substitute the audio for a separately recorded track. In the program that I use, audio and video appear onscreen as horizontal beams that can be dragged with the mouse.

However, it would be more difficult to try to match audio and video of two different performances of the same piece of music. I may be wrong but I think that's what Escribano was referring to. In theory, though, I guess it could be done almost as easily if you used the same click track, palmas loop, etc.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 3 2010 9:13:51

cathulu

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

Hi Vic

My panasonic LX3 camera shoots video in motion jpeg in a quicktime MOV container. Youtube was not getting anywhere with that. A lot of cameras use m-jpeg and the files are huge.

So I used a program called MP4cam2avi (free shareware and safe) to convert the MOV container with m-jpeg to an AVI container with XVID video codec. Although when I do a mediainfo check it says it is DivX 5... basically the same thing though anyways.

I suggest you first use a program called mediainfo (also free shareware and safe). This will tell you exactly what is in your camera's AVI container. I suspect it is also a m-jpeg video codec file. From there we can possibly help you more if you still need it.

Anyways, try MP4cam2avi. It should convert your source AVI files to a more amenable codec for youtube.

The thing to realize is that AVI is just a "container" with your video in a "video codec" and your audio in an "audio codec" inside the container. Other containers are AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, etc... Youtube can handle AVI containers, it is the video codec in your AVI container that appears to be the problem.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2010 1:21:52

fevictor

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From: Quepos / Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

quote:

Hi Vic

My panasonic LX3 camera shoots video in motion jpeg in a quicktime MOV container. Youtube was not getting anywhere with that. A lot of cameras use m-jpeg and the files are huge.

So I used a program called MP4cam2avi (free shareware and safe) to convert the MOV container with m-jpeg to an AVI container with XVID video codec. Although when I do a mediainfo check it says it is DivX 5... basically the same thing though anyways.

I suggest you first use a program called mediainfo (also free shareware and safe). This will tell you exactly what is in your camera's AVI container. I suspect it is also a m-jpeg video codec file. From there we can possibly help you more if you still need it.

Anyways, try MP4cam2avi. It should convert your source AVI files to a more amenable codec for youtube.

The thing to realize is that AVI is just a "container" with your video in a "video codec" and your audio in an "audio codec" inside the container. Other containers are AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, etc... Youtube can handle AVI containers, it is the video codec in your AVI container that appears to be the problem.

So basically the thingamajig is causing the doohicky to get all out of whack?

I gave up on that little piece of crap camera...I have a friend thats going to be coming this way and I'm just going to have her bring me a decent camera that can hopefully create better quality videos. The quality and sound sucked anyway, and the fact that it only creates huge AVI files is apperently a problem, plus my connection is so slow that I had a hard time even trying to convert the file. Most programs said it was too big to convert anyway. I ended up getting frustrated and forgetting about it.

At any rate, I appreciate everyones input and help. I hope to try this again soon with a different camera.

Vic

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2010 22:09:50

rogeliocan

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RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

In case you haven't seen this page, read the info in the Uploading Videos section.

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/static.py?p=my_videos_upload&page=start.cs&hl=en_US

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 5 2010 13:10:13

fevictor

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From: Quepos / Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

RE: Uploading videos to Youtube (in reply to fevictor)

So my lack of imagination and originality, along with Ramzis help, has led me to purchase his exact same set up:
Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 with CAD U37 USB microphone. The sound and video quality of Ramzis videos are nice, so why not go with what works?

A friend of mine from Florida found them on Amazon.com for real cheap compared to store price. Like $60 for the camera, and $50 for the microphone. Great deals on this website.

So I hope to upload some videos by mid November when my new toys arrive. Thanks for everybody's input.

Vic

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 18 2010 0:24:04