Google Video Quality Question

[B11]

I produce movies as 720x480 avi files for TV shows.

Then I encode the movie to mpg2 using Adobe Media Encoder using MainConcept MPeg Video Codec into 720x480, 29.97 with highest quality video.

I upload the mpeg video to Google Video, but the Google video quality is terrible!

Please see:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6007179721460914392

I'd appreciate all inputs to improve the video quality.

Thanks in advance!

--B11

[minidv2dvd]

try encoding to h264 mp4 w/ aac audio. make the bitrate fairly high 5-10mbps 2 pass variable. see if that helps.

[jagabo]

Whatever you upload, Google video will resize it to 320x240. Use the "original size" option to see the small frame. That explains the low resolution. I don't think there's any way around the downscaling they do.

Your opening credits have lots of macroblock artifacts because there is too much motion. That exploding star/plasma field will not compress well at the low bitrates Google uses. Aside from the low resolution, the rest of the video looked fairly good (what I saw anyway). You used static backgrounds, a tripod, smooth pans, all things that compress well.

The video looked to me like it had been drop-field deinterlaced. I don't know if you did this or Google did it when it resized. If you can shoot progressive video there will be less jaggy artifacts on sharp, nearly horizontal edges.

[waefwaeefwaefw]

Use YouTube instead, they now have "Watch in High Quality" and "Watch in HD".

[zoobie]

they'll all follow suit...nobody wants to be left behind