YouTube Video Encoding Tips
Video Marketing is huge and only becoming bigger. If your business is not producing video for use in your marketing efforts then you are falling behind. But it’s not just about uploading your video to YouTube and that’s it. You’ve got to consider a few things about encoding in order to get the most out of the medium.
Tony Murphy writes:
“Many videos uploaded Youtube don’t use good video encoding settings hence don’t look good when viewed. This spoils viewing experience can lead your videos getting lot less views than they really deserve. However this problem that easily fixed. This article covers main factors that need considered when encoding uploading video Youtube. Getting these video encoding factors right could make difference between video that gets millions views one that gets very few views.
Probably most important factor or setting video file format that you use. You don’t need understand technical details file format. You just need make sure that you use one that accepted Youtube provides good quality. There many video file formats choose some obviously better than others. Good file formats use MPEG4, WMV (Windows Media Video) MOV (Quicktime). Other formats can used these probably more popular. The main benefit good
file format that it will give you an excellent balance between file size quality video. This means that you will get better quality video smaller file size.
Another important factor cnsider window size your video. The window size physical height width your video when it displayed your screen. It better use smaller window sizes as they result smaller video file size hence faster upload. This saves time you less likely experience dropped connections associated frustration hair pulling. In addition good video compression it also possible put more video time into smaller file size. So example 20 minute video could compressed down 10 minute video without losing too much quality. So make sure use right window size.
The video frame rate another important factor. This generally shown as fps, or frames per second. This simply number video frames that displayed your monitor every second. So 25 fps means that every second 25 frames displayed. 30 fps typical setting.
Bit Rate number bits information streamed or displayed your computer every second. This another important factor. The bit rate should high enough display good quality video not too high that it soaks up all your available bandwidth. 200K upwards typical.
200K means that 200,000 bits information transferred video server your computer every second.
So we have covered four main factors encoding video that will look good Youtube. There other factors these probably more important ones. Any decent video editing software, like Sony Vegas, will allow you change experiment all above settings so that you video that looks good Youtube.
About Tony Murphy: To learn more encoding video Youtube please visit http://www.webvideobytes.com where you will also find some free tutorials”
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