I capture 720x480 VGA with my Aiptek A-HD+ 1080p camcorder, but they always have fairly bad quality on YouTube cuz YouTube makes all videos in the .flv format. It makes all my videos blurry, but the audio is kept crystal clear.
The videos I record r .mov/H.264/AVC/AAC/.mp4 since it's comming from a mini-DV camcorder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTFsHtVdNbM
Any tips on how I could reduce the blurriness/pixilatedness of these videos?
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maybe try for the watch in HQ or HD links for higher quality videos. you could upload video in 1080p for a HD link. or use a higher bitrate with your 480p mp4. in the 4-5 mbps range might get the better quality video links.
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Yeah, it looks better after adding &fmt=18 to your URL to get the HQ version:
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Originally Posted by minidv2dvd
Well, I use SUPER to convert my clips to .avi. But when it asks me to do this part:
...what should I choose?
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Originally Posted by minidv2dvd
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you are looking to get the HQ link under your videos right? as long as it's under 1gb youtube will accept it. huge is relative, if you want the HD video link on youtube you need to go to even bigger file sizes with 1280x720p video.
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Originally Posted by minidv2dvd
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Hey, I tried ur method. I increased my video clip's usual bit rate that I choose (which is 768 kbps), to 4,224 kbps, and it really made a difference. The only problem is that the produced file is 70MB and takes about a minute to import into WMM, which it used to take a few seconds =\...
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Well, that's just life. You can have high quality, fast conversion speed, or small file size, but not all at the same time.
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don't convert to wmv. upload the mp4. it's what youtube wants these days.
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Originally Posted by Nintendo Fan
Use Windows Media Encoder instead.
And yes, aedipuss is right --- drop the WMV format if your target is YouBoob.
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Originally Posted by Nintendo Fan
DON'T EVEN MESS WITH WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER OR THE WMV FORMAT!
Just upload the files the way they are. Don't worry about filesizes. The filesizes of the videos I upload are often times several hundred megabytes. (Hell, I jack the bitrate up so high on the videos I upload, I sometimes have trouble keeping them under 1GB.) Just start uploading the video before you go to bed, let it run all night and into the day while you got to work or school if you have to. (That's what I do.)
As a comparison, check out the videos I've uploaded. Don't even bother watching the normal version. The links to the high quality versions should be right there on the page, so start loading the high quality version right away...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKi8HwWIobE
If you don't want to watch Mr. Resetti, then, try the very first Brawl video that I posted...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGyeqSh4fac&feature=channel_page
If you don't want to watch it switching back and forth between widescreen and standard, then try Kirby boiling Olimar's Pikmin to death...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP241SBSNxU&feature=channel_page
But yeah, you get the point. Also, I don't think there's much point in aiming for a HD version of Brawl videos. The Wii can't output high-definition video, so, in my opinion, it's best to stick with getting the most out of standard definition. But then again, I haven't tried upscaling my Brawl captures to high definition followed by uploading them to YouTube either...
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Originally Posted by miniDV2DVD
Number 2, I need to edit my clips in Windows Movie Maker, and it doesn't support .mp4/.mov/H.264, so therefore I need to convert it to .avi.
Originally Posted by sincostan45
U good at Brawl? I am =P. I'm good with Link, Marth, Lucario, Ike, Falco, King Dedede and Snake.
Well the reason I'm asking how to improve the quality of my videos us cuz I've seen other videos like mine that are a lot clearer than mine. I also don't use a capture card. I use a camcorder with VGA support, so that's how I do my recordings. I'llcheck out ur channel
Well I want to edit my files in WMM, so how am I supposed to do that if u don't want me playing around WMM? WMM doesn't support .mov so that's y I need to convert them to a file WMM supports and edit it. When i convert .mov to .avi so I can edit, it worsens the quality of the video a bit, but not a lot. It just makes it a bit blurrier/pixilated-ish than the input.
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Originally Posted by Nintendo Fan
A camcorder with VGA support? Meaning it accepts an auxiliary input and captures video from that? And from what you wrote, I gather that the camcorder writes the video as a .mov file.
So here's what you can do. Again using super, convert your .mov to an .avi file. Select Divx or Xvid and then jack up the video bitrate as high as it'll go. Retain the same size, aspect ratio and framerate. Next, for the audio, select mp3, 48000Hz, 256 or 320kbps. Then start it and let it finish. THIS WILL PROBABLY TAKE AWHILE.
After you get your .avi file, I would suggest opening it VirtualDub or avidemux if all you are doing is just cutting out the parts you don't want.
If you use VirtualDub and you get your file opened in it, go to Video, make sure "Full Processing Mode" is selected, and then go to compression. If you have Xvid installed (which you should if you're doing any type of video processing), scroll to the bottom, select it and then click on Configure. This is the way I have mine configured:
I suggest configuring it this way. (It will produce pretty big files, but they won't be full of compression artifacts.) After that, open the audio menu and make sure "Direct Stream Copy" is selected.
Now that you got your settings configured, you'll want to cut your video. This can be done by first dragging the slider at the bottom to the FIRST point of the video that you want to remove, clicking the left-pointing arrow that's on the right side of all the buttons on the bottom, dragging the slider to the LAST point that you want to take out, and clicking the right-pointing arrow that's on the right. This should highlight the part you want to remove at the bottom. Hit the delete key. And that part of the video is gone. You can also advance and reverse through the video frame-by-frame by using the left/right keys on your keyboard if you want to be more specific.
Do this again for other parts of the video you want to take out.
Then go to File, Save as .avi, let it do it's thing and you're done, aside from uploading it to YouTube. A status window should come up, giving you stats as it's compressing and saving.
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Originally Posted by sincostan45
Yep. U got it. I plug the camcorder's red, white, yellow AV cables into the back of my TV (in the AV outputs), and the single jack goes into my camcorder's 'AV input/output' port. Then I select "Output" out of "Headphones, Input, Output". Then watever is on the TV shares the same exact quality on my camcorder's LCD screen, except on the LCD it's a bit brighter (do u know why? I can't even adjust the brightness on the TV cuz it still maintains the brightness).
Geeze! All that stuff u said about using different editing programs just lost me lol. I've used VirtualDub but it wont work cuz I don't have this one plugIn, so I never got to experience it. And I have used Avidmux to try to convert my .mov to .avi (failed), and that's a good program.
Also, the type of editing I usually do is stuff like muting the audio of the track and adding music to it. I may also put in subtitles and other features to my videos, trim clips, cut clips, add music, etc.. Any ideas?
And can I use 128 kbps for audio? Cuz that's wat my video clip uses, and SUPER said to use the same audio bit rate as the input. -
I just converted .mov to .avi w/ XviD & mp3 at 4,224 kbps and another at 9,600 kbps (highest it can go). The 9,600 kbps one took like a half hour lol, and it was like 185MB. The difference between 4,224 and 9,600 kbps is very subtle, so I think I'll stick to 4,224 since that one is small and still almost the same exact quality as the 9,600 kbps one.
Now question. When I tried to import the XviD ones into WMM, it crashes....so the XviD is a no-go....so wat now?
Btw the XviD codec makes the video look clear as a crystal. -
Originally Posted by The most ridiculous videogame character ever
However if it satisfies your current needs very well, not a problem at all.
Anyway, the best that you can do in WMM is save your works as DV~AVI,
and later compress it into an ASF file with WMNicENc, WMVMuxer, or (why not?) WME
(you could also use VirtualDub if you prefer a "square" AVI output ).
Now question. When I tried to import the XviD ones into WMM, it crashes....so the XviD is a no-go....so wat now?
"Much to learn you still have."
[Yoda to Dooku, in "Star Wars Episode 2"]
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Originally Posted by Midzuki
And WMM has always satisfied me before in the past. I was able to upload my 139 YouTube videos with it. I just hate how it has a very bad format list. -
Originally Posted by Nintendo Fan
And can I use 128 kbps for audio? Cuz that's wat my video clip uses, and SUPER said to use the same audio bit rate as the input.
Geeze! All that stuff u said about using different editing programs just lost me lol.
I've used VirtualDub but it wont work cuz I don't have this one plugIn...
When I tried to import the XviD ones into WMM, it crashes....so the XviD is a no-go....so wat now?
Btw the XviD codec makes the video look clear as a crystal.
Also, the type of editing I usually do is stuff like muting the audio of the track... Any ideas?
Where your videos are getting blurry at is when you save to .wmv in WMM. AVOID THIS BY SAVING IN AVI FORMAT.
When I occasionally use Windows Movie Maker, I NEVER, EVER, use it to compress the final file. I save in .avi and then continue working on the saved file in VirtualDub or another respectable program that doesn't shit all over my videos.
I really don't feel like doing all that stuff. I'll just deal with my blurry videos
You're on the right track. It sounds like you did the right thing with Super, so start with VirtualDub and work your way from there.
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sincostan45 wrote:
I agree that saving in .avi format is the best thing to do in WMM, but... an ASF file?
Are you kidding me?
very-good reasons to keep using Windows Movie Maker, ...
well, at least now he knows how to produce WMVs correctly.
Regards from your favourite "smasher"!
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Originally Posted by sincostan45
I had no idea u could choose the output format in WMM!! Thx a lot dude! I never knew that, and I've been using WMM for like 3 years...
About SUPER, yea I see wat u mean. I could do the audio thing u said or the stream copy.
I'll try VirtualDub since I keep hearing about it every where I go. It must be a good program. -
Nice it worked. I did ur VirtualDub method and the video came out very clear!
But when I try to import it into WMM, it crashes still!! I need a free editing program that can allow me to mute clips, add music to the video, and use pictures in the video, and will compress the edited file without losing its quality.... Any ideas for me now? -
Oh nvm! Sincostan, if I just import a .mov > .avi file with WMV7 codec into WMM, then edit it and all with WMM, I exort it out as a DV~AVI, and it still is as clear as the VirtualDub one!
Great, so that means I get to still just use WMM and convert and everything like I used to. All I needed to do all along was jack up the bitrate to 9,600 kbps, audio to 320 kbps, and export it as a DV~AVI using WMM.
The .mov > .avi > DV~AVI was like close to 1 GB (862 MB), but Idc. I'm not gonna be keeping it on the computer anyway
Nice. NOW I can perform the ultamite test.
Oh and question: YouTube can only upload up to 1 GB files, so wat if my videos r over that? Cuz my DV~AVI is only 4:10 long, but it's 862 MB, so if I had a video that was 10 minutes, it'd probly be near 2 GB. What should I do if I go over 1 GB like that? -
A avisynth based editor might work well. for example avsFilmCutter. You could recompress using virtual dub or similar to a very high bitrate xvid avi.
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Originally Posted by loster
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Dude it takes like 2 hours to upload the DV~AVI video to u tube cuz it's 862 MB but the video is only 4 minutes long. Help?
Information on the clip (copy and paste this link):
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Sincostan, I couldn't use DV~AVI cuz it wont upload to YouTube cuz it's too large, so instead I used the one right under it in WMM, which was basically just as good as the DV~AVI, exept this one was a 720x480 wmv.
Here is the video. Can u tell me why it's still ultra blurry when I even use a 720x480 output in WMM?!?!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMENa4pkh1E
Never mind I deleted the video. Plz help me guys I'm waiting for posts, I haven't gotten any in like 12 hours... Plz help me I've been patient enough!
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