Ideal Settings For YOU TUBE's New High Quality Option

(By J.P. Shook, Director of Internet Development, Digital Juice Inc.)

Now that YOU TUBE has started offering higher quality videos, the old settings for encoding your videos should be tossed out the window.

This tip will walk you through the steps required to compress your video for YouTube so it will look great.

01. First, make sure your video is exported to the highest quality possible.

02. Open SQUEEZE and expand the MPEG-4 presets. Click the "HQ" preset and copy the preset by finding copy under the audience tab or clicking the copy icon. This will create a duplicate preset that you can title "YouTubeHQ."

03. Set your video data rate to 4000 kbps, encoding method to 2-pass VBR and resolution to
640x480 (4:3) or 640x360 (16:9). During testing it was found increasing the data rate to 4000 kbps produced a higher end data rate with YouTube's high quality encoded version.

04. Set your audio data rate to 256 kbps.

05. Save the preset, apply it to your video and click "Squeeze It."

Using the higher resolution and data rates will ensure that your videos look great at the current high quality options and be ready for any future increases in quality or resolution offered by YouTube.