YouTube quality

[RobL]

Has anyone got any tips for producing decent videos on YouTube?

It was my 11 year old son Alex who put togther this one

Orienteering for Beginners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZOI9kKuA4I

and the quality looks pretty good. I think he stuck to the guideline:

'We recommend the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 320x240 resolution with MP3 audio, at 30 frames per second. Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your clips look better on YouTube.'

The film was edited on Pinnacle Studio 9.

[Simon E]

My efforts on YouTube have been disappointing. I'm using Windows Movie Maker, and I haven't yet worked out what settings to use to get it to match the YouTube recommendations. I did a few quick Google searches and got nowhere. Maybe it just can't be done and I need to upgrade to something a bit more powerful.

Still, the Movie Maker quality is OK if you host it from your own site.

[Tatty]

One of the best qulaity O videos I've seen. Well done Alex!

[bedders]

Thats ace mate! Nice one!

[Matt L]

Fantastic vid Alex. Really impressive and accessible for beginners.

Any chance we could have Edward looking at his map to work out where he is when he hits the incorrect control? Too often kids do seem to adopt this run heedlessly until they find a flag approach.

I realise this may prove hard as there is no bench on the map between 2 and 3; you have used no. 4. (Presumably because Edward is far too good an orienteer to actually go to the wrong control )Do you have any other footage you could use to show relocation at this point?

[AndyO]

What a great video - simple and clear, and gets the job done. Well done Alex - I can see a series coming up.....

[Meat Market]

Hehe good effort even though you called it a ***ber not an SI card, ill let you off because it was such an ace video. It got all the important bits across without getting bogged down in detail. Is Edward available for shadowing idiot m21s who fail to read the control descriptions and mispunch?

[awk]

Great video. I'm also impressed with the video quality which is much better than anything I've seen on YouTube to date. I'm using this with my school club! Thanks Alex.

[RobL]

I think that I've cracked the quality problem!

After spending all weekend trying to get my son Alex's latest 0-promo to be half decent quality, I finally solved it at 01.30 this morning. The trick is to make the video 10 minutes long, but only to shoot 3.5 minutes. If you do this, you get an allocation of 10 minutes-worth of data crammed into 3.5 minutes as with this example here:

Park Orienteering

Initially the quality was awful because of all of the action shots, pans, zooms etc. I guess Alex's previous film had been OK because there were plenty of still frames of maps etc.

Orienteering for Beginners

So, the answer is to either have plenty of shots with little action, or use a tripod, or stick six minutes of non-moving credits on the end.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rob.

[swat]

The Park Orienteering video picture quality is good, but it pauses rather a lot, presumably for buffering, on my work internet connection (which is normally pretty quick).

[Gnitworp]

Hehe good effort even though you called it a ***ber not an SI card.

Are you an agent for Sportident, Meat Market?
Calling it a ***ber's better with people new to orienteering. What do you do with an SI card, SI?

[distracted]

What do you do with an SI card, SI?

Punch, like you always have done?

[Gnitworp]

I think the brilliant video would have lost some of its impact if the 'thing' had been called an SI card.
Sorry.

[mharky]

Hehe good effort even though you called it a ***ber not an SI card.

Are you an agent for Sportident, Meat Market?
Calling it a ***ber's better with people new to orienteering. What do you do with an SI card, SI?

What do you do with a computer mouse? Mouse? What do you do with glasses? Glass? What do you do with XBOXes? XBOX?

It is a piece of Technology with a name, an SI Card. Not everything in the world has to be named after what it does.

[RobL]

The Park Orienteering video picture quality is good, but it pauses rather a lot, presumably for buffering, on my work internet connection (which is normally pretty quick).

I guess the solution is to stick the video on pause until the red line has made a bit of progress. I tend to drag the indicator back to the beginning when YouTube stutters and often this cures the problem. May be the service provider's policy on caching has a significant effect too.