How to upload to Youtube without it horribly ruining quality

[felinoel]

So I was talking with someone about how no matter how good the quality of video I make Youtube always RUINS it insanely and they asked why I wasn't using a Youtube codec...?

After some googling I found that Youtube uses H.264/MPEG-4 AVC but... I use Adobe CS3 Premiere Pro because it was cheap since it is so old.


Here is a screenshot of the Encoder menu and I circled where I thought I would find a different codec option but am not finding it, is this where it should be? Might it be elsewhere? Might I be able to download and install a custom codec that is basically Youtube's so that I can apply it to all of my videos so that Youtube stops RUINING my videos?

[MyNameIsKir]

You probably want to check out this link to answer your question. It's Google support listing off recommended encoding settings.

[bhnascar]

Since Premiere Pro 3 is old, perhaps you need to update to get H.264 support?

Quote:

The Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 3.1 update includes compatibility updates and important bug fixes. It is highly recommended for all Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 users. The key changes in the 3.1 update are:

• Support for native ingest, editing and output of content from Panasonic P2 cameras
• A number of key bug fixes for HDV editing, H.264 export, and other issues

[felinoel]

MyNameIsKir

You probably want to check out this link to answer your question. It's Google support listing off recommended encoding settings.

Recommended encoding is fine and all but I am looking for how to encode it to those recommended settings.

bhnascar

Since Premiere Pro 3 is old, perhaps you need to update to get H.264 support?

Quote:

The Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 3.1 update includes compatibility updates and important bug fixes. It is highly recommended for all Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 users. The key changes in the 3.1 update are:

• Support for native ingest, editing and output of content from Panasonic P2 cameras
• A number of key bug fixes for HDV editing, H.264 export, and other issues

CS3 is ancient and yet they still have this link on their sie?!?!??
Thanks I'll try i!

[felinoel]

bhnascar

Since Premiere Pro 3 is old, perhaps you need to update to get H.264 support?

Quote:

The Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 3.1 update includes compatibility updates and important bug fixes. It is highly recommended for all Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 users. The key changes in the 3.1 update are:

• Support for native ingest, editing and output of content from Panasonic P2 cameras
• A number of key bug fixes for HDV editing, H.264 export, and other issues

Nahhh that update didn't change anything, maybe there is a preset I could use?

[felinoel]

I had actually just found this:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbCnsyqT9E



and found that my issue is that I do not have Quicktime installed on my computer lol

I tried using the other H.264 but the export never finalizes so I am installing Quicktime now, thanks though!