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| Hello All,
We would like to know which are the EXPORT OPTIONS that people consider BEST (and yes, each project is different) for their YouTube videos created in CTA?
* WMV...or...MP4...? If so, which standard size....HD 720p (1280x720)....HD 1080p (1920x1080)
* If AVI, which settings? Which coders gave you the best result( ie DivX, etc)... Compression rates?
* FLV...?
Thanks!
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| So far we've tried to export in FLV and test in youtube with the highest resolution option:
HD1080p (1920x1080)
...but it does not give us crisp clean lines for the wide shots. Close ups are very decent, but if you need a professional level export, this still falls short. We even tried exporting with super sampling, which must be said - is an improvement...but no cigar.
MP4 option, also on this resolution: HD1080p (1920x1080) has better quality, and when we play it on our local players it looks great, but once we upload it to youtube, youtube says that it doesn't like the format and that it might cause unexpected results.
From our testing, we couldn't see the "unexpected results" that youtube complains about...but it gives us an iffy feeling to upload something to youtube that it complains about. Perhaps if we would test this more thoroughly we would find certain browsers that might act strangely...so, we've just decided to try different formats (+ export options) until we find one that consistently gives us good results.
The search goes on...
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| If you are allowed FULL Frames Uncompressed AVI, then use it as the setting for output.
Once Rendered Drag it to Format Factory (FREE), and Export to Custom MP4-HD using AVC/H264 as the Output setting. I still use version 2.50, but the newest version may be better, just haven't seen the need to upgrade. I tried upgrading once to 2.70, but it kept doubling the Video Out and leaving the Audio as a single stream.
Perhaps the current version will work better, but I stay with what works, and move on when it stops working. That includes all software I've ever used. The newest is not always the best.
Format Factory will reduce your output to a size approx. 10% of the original, and give you a nice clean result that YouTube has no complaints about.
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| Sounds like you've been down this road before Cricky!
Thanks for your input! We will take look at this closely and let you know how it turns out 
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| Cricky (4/28/2012)
If you are allowed FULL Frames Uncompressed AVI, then use it as the setting for output.
We'll keep this approach in mind for smaller projects, but we have a bigger one at the moment where we might need to look at other options. In any case, we tried your suggestion anyway, but the final avi file comes out to 45GB uncompressed; so even if we could trim it down to 10%, we would still end up with a pretty large file (which if possible, we would like to avoid).
The same export with WMV and MP4 end up with a friendlier 300MB-390MB...which would be ideal!!...but CTA has only been able to do that trick once  ...For some unexplained reason, after we edited some camera angles (this is all in this thread: http://forum.reallusion.com/Topic120670-251-1.aspx ) we ran the export again with the same settings, and CTA kills the export right at the beginning with a "Could not load WAV" error...!?
We would love to be able to end up with a WMV or MP4 of ~390MBs...but so far, no dice...
Even though the point of this thread is to get people's input/experiences on what the best YouTube export settings, tips, etc. are in their opinion, IF anybody has been able to solve the "Could not load WAV" riddle, PLEASE share it with us here !
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| How to render high video quality is question that has plagued human kind since the dawn of full color video cards. After spending an obscene amount of time experimenting with various codecs, etc. here's the two phase process I follow:
Regarding Resolution:
I export to full HD 1080p (1920x1080) the quality is indistinguishable between that and 720x480 when viewing in other than full screen mode, but no reason not to use it.
Codec:
I use the Xvid codec that's in the K-Lite codec pack I downloaded from: http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_full.htm
Step 1: Export From iClone
Export to AVI using the following settings:
Standard Size >> HD 1080p (1920x1080)
Pixel Aspect >> 100
Final Render >> Checked
Anti-aliased >> Checked
Frame rate >> 25
Select Codec >> Xvid MPEG-4 Codec
Xvid Configuration:
Profile @ Level >> Xvid HD 1080
Encoding type >> Single pass
Target quantizer >> 1.00
Quality slider >> 1 (maximum quality)
Quality preset >> General purpose
This gives me a file of a manageable size that presents nicely and could be uploaded to YouTube as is but I generally like to add credits so . . . .
Step 2: Editing & Render of Final Production
I use AVS Video Editor and Converter to produce the final version. ( http://avsmedia.com). It's relatively cheap for lifetime upgrades and it meets my meager needs.
Open my new video, drop in the credits etc. etc., when I'm ready I select the HD for YouTube Profile with the following settings:
Video Codec: H.264/AVC
Encoding Type >> Single Pass - Bitrate
Average Bitrate >> 4500
Frame Size >> 1920 x 1080
Bitrate >> 4500
Frame Rate >> 25
Audio Codec: MP3
Sample Rate >> 44100 Hz
Size >> 16 bit
Bitrate >> 256 Kbps
Channels >> Stereo
Here is one of the video's I've rendered following this process:
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| Hey BristolDuncan,
Thanks for your very useful post! I checked out your vid and it looks great! We will definitely give this a shot and post our feedback
Merci!
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