Talk:FAQ:What are the best settings for YouTube?

Aldecovidpro 23:54, 5 December 2008 (UTC)I just want to follow up on a discussion about export settings from the Premiere timeline. The YouTube setting out of Premiere Pro sucks. What might have been considered "high quality" years ago, is crap now. I looked at all the postings on this thread and when I tried them, they all sucked. I suppose i can tweak my way to a better solution, but has anyone considered updating Premiere's preset? or maybe provide a drop-down menu based on the various native formats? For instance, a lot would depend on the native format of the footage - HD or SD, how to stay within the file size limits, expected output or preview, etc. It would be nice to have some kind of a grid that is user friendly and could be updated periodically. It would show all the possibilites. the preset would tell me what the upload time would be, and whether it would enable the "View high quality" in YouTube, and whether my internet connection would support it, etc.

You are probably wondering why I can't figure this out on my own. You're right; I should. But I can't keep up with all the new formats and codecs, and hosting sites. I'm just looking for a better way, and a tool that will help us all. There is now only one preset available. If I was to export from Premiere timeline, the native NTSC DV AVI is best as long as it's under 1GB. But if I have to convert it to something else, I have to experiment and export my timeline to ten or twenty different formats to see what works. Procoder has a Premiere plug-in that I use. Same problem; their preset may have been developed five years ago. Why have a preset at all? I use CS3 - is CS4 updated? You would think the people at YouTube and other hosts would want to help producers upload high quality videos to their site.