By Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, March 31, 2009
For the past year uploading HD videos to YouTube has been a bit of voodoo. The protocol that worked last week suddenly goes dead. It takes forever then crashes. Hours are spent after final edits fighting with the system. Arghh! I finally have the painless, no-brainer way to upload videos in no time flat. Use FLV files. Yup, it finally works. YouTube is now accepting wide screen Flash Video 8 700K files without any effort. The wide screen format has to be customized in Adobe Premiere because Adobe likes to make the world complicated. I use 640 x 360 which YouTube likes.
It takes more time to render the video on my computer but not more than an hour for 10 minutes of video. I have a 4 processor Dell XPS games machine which runs reasonably fast. The upside is uploads happen in minutes and processing by YouTube is less than 10 minutes. Total time on my latest video Asimo BMI Robot knows thoughts took 35 minutes from the time I started Adobe, inserted the file, added a logo, fixed the sound, rendered, saved as FLV, uploaded to YouTube and hit Play. I was also writing 2 stories while that was going on so I wasn’t optimizing the time.
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