I've been fiddling with posting ride videos to youtube... I don't care
much about watching a bunch of ride videos, so I've never spent
much time trying to post them. Perhaps though, 30 seconds of
some interesting thing or other in a ride report might be useful.
There's an art to posting usable video to youtube, and much of it
still escapes me
...
You need to worry about codecs and bitrates and all kinds of hoo-ha
that's about as interesting as moss on a rock. They tell you what you
need, but not how to do it (google owns youtube):
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171Some people don't worry about the hard stuff, like making a
video that is both small and acceptable quality. The videos
of the new goldwing at the Honda powersports site are
like 50 megabytes... they look great if you have a large
Internet connection, but I have the wimpiest of DSL connections
here at home. I looked at them at work, but I sure wouldn't
look at them here.
On the other hand, a Jay Leno's garage episode on youtube is
about 500 megabytes! But it plays OK because when you divide
how big it is by how long it is you can see that the bitrate is
still low enough that it can sort of stay ahead of itself while
playing even on a slow connection...
My gopro takes 30 frames a second, each frame pretty good
quality. Here's a link to 25 seconds or so of us on 28's newly
paved curves last weekend. About all I did to it to get it
smallish was change it to 12 frames per second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbHuDduSvKQAfter you upload your video to youtube, they process it
down to a bunch of different resolutions and when someone
looks at a video, youtube shows them the video at whichever
resolution is suited for their Internet connection... good resolution
(the gopro gave me 1080p, so that's the max you could get out of
my video) for people with fast Internet, and like 240p for people with
crappy Internet connections like mine.
When I look (I guess when anyone looks) there's a gearwheel
at the bottom of a youtube video, and when you click on it you
can see what the quality setting is. For me it seems to always
be "auto", that's the setting that allows youtube to set (and
reset) the resolution you're getting as the video plays. You
can also click on whichever resolution you'd like, but of course
if I click on a high resolution (like 1080p) I have to wait forever
for the video to load.
Who here posts videos? Who knows all the tricks? There's some
videos I can look at that seem to be great quality even at low
resolution... I think I have a lot to learn
-Mike
