Youtube videos

[snafubaby]

Does anyone here know the dimensions that a video must be in to be posted to Youtube? I've posted some to Youtube, videos that were originally just slightly over the 100mb limit, which i had to trim, and they looked terrible when i went to Youtube and played them. I am just trying to improve the video's quality, but lessen it's size. So i am wondering if anyone here knows the dimensions that a video should be in order to be posted to youtube.

For example, i've seen camera phone videos posted there, but they didn't look all that great. If i have a, say, 160x120 video, can it be posted to youtube where it will look ok, or will youtube enlarge it, where it may look very bad?

thanks for any help!

[guns1inger]

YouTube clearly state what they want. 320 x 240, under 100MB, preferably Xvid with mp3 audio. You submit something with a lower resolution and they will scale it up - badly. And everything you submit will be re-encoded.

[snafubaby]

thanks for the info! My vids will look much better because i'll make sure they are of the required parameters.

[guns1inger]

I guess better is a relative term. I have seen very little on YouTube that I would classify as reasonable quality, let alone good quality.

[SatStorm]

Filter a lot your source before you upload it on youtube. Make it as smooth as possible. Always encode to CBR and a sligh bitrate overkill won't harm...

The 2D cleaner and Dynamic noise reduction filters are the ones I recomend to use with virtualdub when you prepare a video for youtube. Dimension 320x240, as guns1inger already told. They say "use xvid" but I suggest to try with mpeg 1 too.