Uploading to YouTube!

Many video formats will work for uploading to YouTube, but there are ways to get the best quality possible once uploaded and the smallest file to upload. If you want your video to have the "watch in high quality" link just under it, you'll have to upload the video at 640x480 or 640x360 for widescreen. I usually encode the video using H.264, but set the quality to High. I don't want to compress it too much, because YouTube will recompress the video using a different compression format. I use AAC 128 kbps for audio. The framerate works best at 30 fps because YouTube drops half the frames to reduce the file size. It will end up being 15 fps. Unfortunately, the majority of my videos are shot at 24 fps and they end up being compressed by YouTube to 12 fps. Here is a screenshot of the settings that I use: