Help please... Made my first video but now it looks poor !

Dean it looks like it has been saved (or uploaded) at too low of a resolution.

Did you really set it for a 28K modem like the screenshot above?

You do need more light, and there is probably a white balance control somewhere on the camera. The red/orange look is caused by incandescent light with a camera set for daylight.

:-Don

Dean..

Might be worth while checking out Josh Andersons's "Optimize Your Video" product, its at [http://optimizeyourvideo.com/]..

Its out real soon, so worth watching for..

Hope this helps

Bruce

Doug Simons has a nice program on creating and editing video.

Its http://www.ultimatevideosolutions.com

thanks guys .. some good advice

do you suggest any of the drop down settings then for what i am
doing ?

Dean

Pick the HD quality encoding for best result and then compress it to an flv with different software.
In such programs there are always options for "custom" settings. Set the size you' d like (for example 640x480) set the frame rate (for example 15 fps) set the encoding quality, audio quality etc etc. You can always create a 10 second test video and play with the settings.

Chris

>Try adding &fmt=18 to the URL of your newly uploaded video for HQ playback.
that &fmt=18 trick is pretty cool. looks like youtube maintains two versions of the video.. actually, i've also learned about adding &fmt=22 for widescreen(?).. but it doesn't always work though

btw Bruce I have to agree about what you said about the optimizeyourvideo site.. Josh gave my company a sneak preview of his methods sometime back and I was like "whaaat.. dude, how do you know all that stuff about Youtube?".. have to say it's some pretty wicked video optimization stuff

1. Never encode with windows media unless that is going to be your final output.

2. Always save as an uncompressed avi file or if you are working with HD save as an uncompressed HD file such as m2t etc.

3. Upload the highest possible quality master video file you can at youtube while staying within their 1gb limit.

If you do that alone you will go a long way for improving your quality..

However note that with the current formula and changes at YT all standard quality yt video are going to look like garbage which is why they are not including HQ and HD links (for the videos that qualify) for users to view in higher quality.

Youtube's standard quality is garbage and the format and tool you used to encode your original file just made it worse because you uploaded a highly compressed file and youtube recompressed it.

If you must use compression I recommend that you avoid windows media at all costs. It will give you the crappiest results. You can use h.264 and higher bit rates and still get compression but retain a great deal of the quality so that what you do upload stays better looking.

Here is what I published recently about youtube quality issues:

Watch in HD

Hi

Thanks a lot to you all, Im gunna give another video a test run later. .See what happens !!

Dispite the poor turnout of quality Ive had over 800 views in just over a day .. lol

Imagine if it looked good !!

Thanks again