A video absolutely has to have some kind of encoding before uploading to youtube. My video person handles that, but from what I know, they want it MPEG4 (a few formats of MPEG4 are supported including QuickTime MOV).
Regardless, YouTube *re-encodes* it to suit their requirements for streaming and they turn it into FLV Flash. That always degrades quality (or most youtube videos would look much better than they do), but in this case, it wasn't the usual and bearable degradation-- something went wrong on their end. Their processing even changed our usual blue intro screen to a different and darker shade of blue-- that's never happened before. Thus it doesn't match video review 1 and video review 3. *sigh* But too many sites are linking to that video, so we can't pull it and upload a new one (like I said, YouTube doesn't allow you to replace an existing video, only delete it).
That's my long, boring explanation of how YouTube works
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Originally Posted by heatlesssun Can you encode video before its uploaded to YouTube? |