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Here is a list of the options i have when i make a video. I do not know which is best. Thank you and have a nice day.
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That does nothing to help us without the context of what your source material is/are and what your target display/device is/are.
Scott -
i want to make the best quality youtube videos i can with my music and art. Here is an example of a recent video i made that i havent put music to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aB6TAHG8lI
My video is from a nikon d90. If you need more information please ask. And thanks for your response.
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Well you got a Nikon D90 (not very good for video) so you can record up to 5 minutes at a time 720p or 20 minutes of SD video. You may find a firmware hack to lengthen that but use at your own risk.
By the way video recording time limits are only partly due to protect sensor overheating they are also due to traffic and duty policy idiocy. -
So, you're limited by what your D90 can do. It is an earlier model that doesn't have nearly the video capability that newer models have: only 1280x720p24, 640x424p24, or 320x216p24! Only the 1280x720p24 is decent, and it still isn't great with motion (which would have enhanced what you seem to be trying to show). MJPEG is the codec, AVI the container.
With that as your source, your best choice among those listed is: "HDTV 720p High Quality" (assuming you are intent on using whatever app that is for making your videos). However, that sounds like it is limited to a specific codec and bitrate bracket. You might do better with a different video editor/compositor/encoder - what are you using now?
Scott -
I am using Adobe Premiere Elements 11. That is what gives me those options to save videos many type of ways.
whats the difference in the 24, 25 and 29.97 settings?
and thanks for responding.
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The framerate. Faster/higher supports smooth representation of faster/higher motion. But there is very little difference between 24, 25 and 29.97 (aka 30). Note however: the 29.97i is interlaced, so it actually is displaying 59.94 FIELDS (half the image in odd/even lines), so while there may be artifacts introduced, it does show much smoother motion. 48/50/59.94/60p would be best, but that doesn't seem to be an option for you.
APE11 may just be giving you choices based on what your source footage is. IOW, if your source were higher motion, it might give higher framerate options. But maybe not - it is a "lite" version, so that may be one of its limitations.
What is your "project preset"?
Scott -
Frames per second. You'll want to match it to what you're shooting. What frame rate you shoot depends on a) your subject and b)how and where you intend to present your finished piece.Originally Posted by john1967
You may want to spend some time with the owner's manual of the camera and the software as there are some very basic concepts you appear to be unaware of. -
Are you using "Publish/Share to Computer File"? Those should be customizable.
Scott -
These numbers refer to frames per second and were set due to historic events.Originally Posted by john1967
24 fps is the standard film rate. It is really insufficient because the human eye can detects 24 fps easily, watch white patches and see them flicker. 24 fps became standard partly because of sound, because sound was part of the film anything lower than 24fps would make sound pretty much intolerable.
25fps (or 50 fields per second) is related to the AC frequency in Europe and Japan. The US found out that 60 Hz is really not the smartest thing to use so when Europe and Japan was rebuilt after world war II 50 Hz was adopted.
29.97 is due to the fact that the television industry wanted to use the existing technology for color TV instead of making a new color standard, so a lot of fudging was necessary to make color work in conjunction with black and white. Color is more or less 'dumped' between the lines and between 29.97 and 30. It was really a hack.
Last edited by newpball; 4th Mar 2015 at 17:06.
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Hello Scott. i do not know how to find that out. Or what that is. The project preset thingy that is.
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in the projects settings it has under capture format DV. It also gives me the option for either HDV or WDM. capture. Here is some other information i do not know if you need. And thanks for the help.
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Don't have APE11 myself, so can't help as much as needed, but in Premiere ProCS3 you can see (but not edit) the project settings in: [Menu | Project | Project Settings], then you have a choice of General, Capture, Video Rendering, Default Sequence tabs.
To actually edit the setting, you need to start a new project and choose "custom settings" tab.
Similarly for Render/Export, CS3 has [Menu | File | Export | Movie...], with a [Settings] button that you can customize (or load, save).
Scott -
In the Video Rendering tab, make sure when you do your renders/exports/sharing/publishing, it is set to [Maximum Bit Depth]=Checked.
Like I thought, you are currently set to 1280x720p24.
Scott -
if my settings are set for 1080p x 720p. Then, should i use the HDTV 1080p 24 high qualiity or the HDTV 720p24 high quality setting.
and thanks for your help.
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1080p24 has more resolution than 720p24, but only if natively generated & composed. If the source files starting out are only 720p24, going to 1080p24 isn't going to create new detail, just "guess" at some interpolated average. Same with going to higher framerate.
So, I would stick with 720p24, but export/encode to a lossless codec (such as UTvideo) using AVI container.
Then use Handbrake or similar to make a high quality MP4 (with AVC codec) for consumer playback, or if uploading to Youtube. Of course, you could try uploading the UTvideo-compressed AVI, but it will be huge so will take a long time to upload. But the quality will be the best YT can do that way.
Scott
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