Many folks, who like shooting videos, also enjoy sharing them with others. The easiest way to do this, is to upload your movie to a video sharing website like YouTube. Most of these sites limit you to a 10-minute flick, and/or a 100 MB file. Also, these sites will re-compress the video you upload, so in most cases, you are not going to see the same quality on these websites as you would on your computer. So, you may ask, how do I go about uploading the best quality file to a “YouTube”, while remaining within their file size guidelines? I spent a week reading articles about this vary issue.
What I typically do nowadays is to:
- Download the original video footage into my computer from my mini DV camcorder.
- Create a movie for viewing using video editing software (i.e. Adobe Premiere, Apple FinalCut, Microsoft MovieMaker, etc).
- Export the movie as an un-compressed AVI file (DEINTERLACED!)
- Use Quicktime Pro ($30) to encode the AVI file into an H.264 (Mpeg-4) movie file.
- Upload the movie to a video sharing website.
- Done.
You may watch some of my videos on YouTube.com and Blip.tv by searching on the following “helmet camera mikie”. I typically use QuickTime Pro for encoding the final edited AVI file to H264. One tip to help your videos look good on the Internet is to make sure you de-interlace the video when you encode it! Click here for a great article that is very useful in helping you learn how to use various encoding programs like QuickTime, and others. Below is a list of some video sharing websites for your reference.
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