IMPORTANT tips for your uploaded videos

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

1. Export your HD videos like in the tutorials below, in 1280x720 HD resolution: http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:36422
[I am still missing a tutorial for NewTek's SpeedEdit, so if you use that editor, email me directly so we can create a tutorial for that editor too.]

2. The tutorials listed above create formats that are generally compatible with Vimeo HD, YouTube HD, XBoX360, PS3, and if you shot, removed pulldown and exported in 24p, they will also work with the AppleTV too. Many of us download the original file from Vimeo and watch it on our HDTV, so it's nice to offer us the original file.
[Please note, Vimeo allows only 1 HD re-encoding per week to its non-PLUS users. Additional HD uploads in that week will come up as standard definition on Vimeo, unless you purchase Vimeo PLUS. YouTube does not have this limitation.]

3. Always include tags on your videos on Vimeo & YouTube. For example: "HV20" "HV30" "HV40" "HD". These tags are browsed all the time by the community, and also the moderators will find easier your videos add them to channels, so even more people see them. Caution though, "HV20" or "HV30" are more popular than "Canon HV20" or "Canon HV30".

4. Regarding music on your videos, it's best to not use RIAA-owned music, but find good music from the royalty-free Creative Commons realm. There are thousands of quality albums to choose from. I have written an article that explains how to find and properly use Creative Commons music: http://www.osnews.com/story/20575/ Viva la revolution!

5. On Vimeo, do not disallow the video to be "added in collections" (some people do that without understanding why). The more collections your video is part of, the more people will see it.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

To embed a video on the HV20.com web site, you just copy/paste the video's URL link. The embedding will happen automatically.

Now, here's how to embed Vimeo and YouTube widescreen videos on your website.

Vimeo, at 640x360 window. If that resolution is too wide for your website's design, replace these numbers in the code with 512x288 (basically, any 16:9 ratio resolution will work fine). Finally, replace the two XXXXXXX with the Vimeo's unique number identifier for your video (found in the URL of your video page). This will come up in "standard definition", unless you are a Vimeo PLUS customer, in which case you get 5,000 free embeds in HD format (you can purchase more at their site).

<center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" data="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=XXXXXXX&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=XXXXXXX&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933" /></object></center>

YouTube, at 640x360 window, in high quality embedding mode (as opposed to the default "low quality" mode). If that resolution is too wide for your website's design, replace these numbers (found twice in the code) with 512x213 (basically, any 16:9 ratio resolution will work fine, plus 25 pixels for YouTube's control bar at the bottom). Finally, replace the two XXXXXXX with the YouTube's unique number identifier for your video (found in the URL of your video page).

<center><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXXXXX&fs=1&hl=en&rel=0&ap=%2526fmt%3D18"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXXXXX&fs=1&hl=en&rel=0&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></center>

You can also embed YouTube in HD quality, but this is more of a hack and not an official offer by the site, so I won't list it here. It's easy to find out how you can do that though by searching online.

[2Bdecided]

It's a shame both YouTube threads are locked...

http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=22780
http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=21617

...because it stopped me replying with this:

Those instructions give you 30fps, even from 24p-in-60i material.

Many people watch YouTube using the default "normal" (i.e. terrible) quality. It'll happily encode 30fps content, but the quality is even worse than 25fps, 24fps, or even 20fps. On YouTube, higher frame rate = smoother motion but lower quality.

Of course, if the original was 24p, that's what you should upload. 30p is just the same content, but with extra (duplicate / near-duplicate) frames to make it stutter more. As has been discussed previously, it's perfectly possible to edit 24p-in-60i as 60i, and then remove pulldown. As much as purists like to argue that it's a compromise, it's far far far better than "deinterlacing" to 30fps.

http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=8065


I think 30fps is a bad choice for YouTube. 24p is fine, 25p is fine. 50i>25p is fine.

If you have a 60i source, then in some respects 20fps is better than 30fps - the movement will be even more stuttery (bad), but the YouTube compression won't be as nasty (good), and there's only one frame-rate conversion (dropping a consistent 2 out of 3 images to go from 60>20) (good) rather than, on Vimeo at least, 2 conversions (dropping 1-in-2 frames to go from 60>30, and then dropping other frames un-equally (very bad), so introducing judder, to get 24p on Vimeo).


Just my thoughts. I'm glad I'm in a PAL country where I can take 50i and trivially re-purpose it to 24p or 25p for use anywhere.

Cheers,
David.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

30p is not stuttery or problematic on YouTube. It works fine. If you shot in PF24, of course and you need to remove pulldown first and then export at 24p. But if you shot in 60i, 30p is fine.