Good quality video conversion

[Soopafreshfan]

Hello,

I am making a movie in Windows Movie Maker and I am using videos that I downloaded off off youtube to make a slideshow video with different clips. The original videos weren't sized right to fill the whole screen so I resized them to 16:9 ratio and 1280x720p. The only problem is when I publish the Movie which is in 1280x720p HD it turns out pixelated and choppy. I used AVS video converter to convert the videos. Is there any way to stretch videos to fit a youtube style player without them loosing any quality?

and also SoopaFresh is awesome!!!! If anyone know where he is tell him thanks for me because I owe a debt to him

This is for SoopaFresh ;(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YbBHVF4g

[edDV]

What were the original resolutions of the clips? Upscale is lossy.

[ricardouk]

if you resize videos from 640x360 from youtube to 1280x720 you'll get those artifacts (pixelated).

oops...eddv said it all

[aedipuss]

download the best hd youtube version available to start with. 1080 or 720 at least.

[Soopafreshfan]

Most of the videos were in 480p in Mp4 format then I resized them to 720p in 16:9 ratio then converted them to AVI

. *sigh* I just wish Soopafresh was here he could solve anything

[edDV]

Most of the videos were in 480p in Mp4 format then I resized them to 720p in 16:9 ratio then converted them to AVI

. *sigh* I just wish Soopafresh was here he could solve anything

Just use 480p upload. Why convert to avi? YouTube will recode anyway.

[Soopafreshfan]

Most of the videos were in 480p in Mp4 format then I resized them to 720p in 16:9 ratio then converted them to AVI

. *sigh* I just wish Soopafresh was here he could solve anything

Just use 480p upload. Why convert to avi? YouTube will recode anyway.

I had to convert the clips to AVI to import them into Windows Movie Maker because It wouldnt read the mp4 files

[ricardouk]

your workflow:

1- get youtube videos
2- resize them - 1st conversion and loss of quality
3-convert to avi - 2nd conversion and further loss in quality
4- upload to youtube - 3rd conversion and further loss in quality

pump up the video bitrate in steps 2 and 3 and get better sources are my advices

[Soopafreshfan]

your workflow:

1- get youtube videos
2- resize them - 1st conversion and loss of quality
3-convert to avi - 2nd conversion and further loss in quality
4- upload to youtube - 3rd conversion and further loss in quality

pump up the video bitrate in steps 2 and 3 and get better sources are my advices

By how much should I increase the bitrate? the default is 1500

[ricardouk]

1500 for 1280x720p? seems a bit low, thats what i use for 480x272 videos i share on the web, the higher the better but it wont do any magic, its kind of a "counter measure" to atenuate the loss of quality between conversions...no magic