What is the best video format to upload to YouTube?

Question

Youtube converts all uploads into flash video, and as a result, some videos look like complete crap, while others loo and sound pretty good.

I have uplaoded up to 99MB MPEG-2 videos (DVD standards actually), however they are less than 4 minutes long. Yes, I do get that great quality, for a price.

DIVX and XVID seem to have a "lip-sync" problem, unless the audio is non-compressed, then we are back to that 99MB limit.

WMV seems to work well, all around, but you get that pixel-looking archive look, kind of fuzzy, at times due to the variable rate

MPG1 (or VCD) is "OK", but it turns out blurry, and the original size is smaller than YouTube's video window, thus adding to the distortion when it is enlarged on their website.

MOV (QuickTime), I never tried it on YouTube, and never really had a great compression ratio on other projects either.

ASF is about as good as WMV.

Any tips are appreciated.

OH, and Yahoo's spell checker is crap and didn't catch a typo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The YouTube site says:

"Unless you're a professional video producer, we recommend that you save your videos as either QuickTime .MOV, Windows .AVI, or .MPG files— these are the most common formats and they work well within our system. We specifically recommend the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 320x240 resolution with MP3 audio. Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your clips look better on YouTube."

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

The format doesn't actual count number. once you upload your video besides, youtube converts the video to a distinct format. Your video clips typically do not look sparkling because their decreased in length to in good structure the small field on youtube and since the generic is majorly decreased so that you'll be able to upload it.