How to Upload HD Videos to YouTube HD

Ok so, you’re posting videos on YouTube and they look well they look like junk. You’re wondering what the heck is going on and how the heck to fix it, right? Well that’s where we come in. This article will give you some quick tips and tricks to getting the best quality you can out of YouTube until they change the how and what of their service to allow for better videos or HD content.

There are several variables that you yourself can control prior to uploading the video to the service. Of these the most important are outlined below.

Resolution ” YouTube display in a fairly specific resolution and to help their compression utilities get your video up with the minimum of loss of quality you need to match your video up to their resolution. Since they’re using 720p now, which means you should have 1280×720 pixel resolution you need to set your video resolution accordingly. This will cut down on compression time and give you a better idea of what your video will look like in the end. Its not so bad really. The resolution is HD and that means that you can get a real HD experience out of YouTube.

Bit rate ” Without getting into the technical mumbo jumbo, this is how much information each second of your video is. The more information means the better quality generally. So when you’re making your video, editing or converting you’ll want to get this to somewhere around 6 Megabits-per-second and 8 Megabits-per-second. This will give you a large file size that should fit into the YouTube limits (1GB) and still give you ample quality after the YouTube compression process. This is a good way to make sure your video will retain some semblance of what it looked like when you made it.

What else can you do to help YouTube make your video the best it can be? Well you can make sure your audio tracks are set to MP3 or AAC encoding (44.1KHz Stereo) for one. Another thing you can do is make sure the file format is H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 format because quite simply, YouTube doesn’t really like much else. You can get yourself a video editor that handles multiple formats to help you with all of this and so that you can convert and edit as you need. You needn’t pay a lot for one, even QuickTime Pro is only $30. Finally you can keep your video file above 30 frames per second and this will help reduce jitter after the compression process.

Take all of this into account and you’re on your way to some better looking YouTube videos in the near future. Now get out there and get to work!

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