{"id":11068,"date":"2008-03-29T00:39:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/03\/29\/11068.html"},"modified":"2008-03-29T00:39:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T07:39:14","slug":"uploading-highquality-video-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/03\/29\/uploading-highquality-video-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Uploading high-quality video to YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've thus far avoided posting much video online, partly 'cause I don't really know how (even though I helped document the relevant Dreamweaver plugin some years back). Also because I don't know of a place where I can post video that isn't visible to the whole world, which I'd sometimes like to do.<\/p>\n<p>But Mary Anne's been posting some videos lately, like this afternoon's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamohanraj.com\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=4293\">Kavi with mirror<\/a> video. And she asked about quality, and I got curious and did some poking around, 'cause not knowing what to do about quality is one reason I haven't posted many videos.<\/p>\n<p>So here are some notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The YouTube Help Center claims that \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/youtube\/bin\/answer.py?answer=91450\">All you need to do is [...] upload the highest quality video you have available<\/a>.\"<\/li>\n<li>The Making Movies blog suggests \"<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/makingmovies\/archives\/2006\/04\/youtube_and_the.html\">reducing the amount of detail and motion in your video<\/a>\" and adds: \"Shoot in front of a visually simple scene, and mount your camera on a tripod.\"<\/li>\n<li>The Automatic Filmmaker provides <a href=\"http:\/\/ellingtonmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/6-tips-for-high-quality-youtube-video\/\">6 tips for High Quality Youtube Video<\/a>, including: start with your original video (rather than a compressed version of it); use the H.264 compression codec; etc.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia's section about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YouTube#Video_format\">YouTube video formats<\/a> may shed a little light on all this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I'm understanding all these pages right, YouTube stores the version that you upload, but also does compression\/conversion on a copy of it, so that YouTube viewers who don't explicitly request \"high-quality video\" will see the lower-quality version generated by YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Btw, another issue that people often run into when uploading video is what, if any, music to use in the video. Making Movies has a useful post about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/makingmovies\/archives\/2006\/04\/music_copyright.html\">music, copyright, and fair use<\/a> that discusses some ways to deal with this issue.<\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, I should add even more of a disclaimer than the one that appears on the front page of my blog: I'm definitely not speaking for my employer in this entry, and I have no special knowledge of what YouTube does or doesn't do, etc. Everything I know or think I know about this stuff comes from publicly accessible web pages like the ones linked to above.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thus far avoided posting much video online, partly &#8217;cause I don&#8217;t really know how (even though I helped document&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-video","category-web-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}