Adobe Premiere suggests a list of presets when encoding a video. For me, the good candidates to encode for YouTube are:
- HDTV 1080p 24 High Quality
- HDTV 1080p 25 High Quality
- HDTV 1080p 29.97 High Quality
- NTSC DV Widescreen High Quality
- PAL DV Widescreen High Quality
- YouTube Widescreen SD
- YouTube Widescreen HD
So far, I've tried YouTube Widescreen HD
and YouTube Widescreen HD
. YouTube Widescreen HD
is quite fast to encode, and the exported file is not too big. But there is a slight decrease from the 1080p raw footage (I'm using footage from a Panasonic HDC-SD900), and it is only available in 720p max in YouTube.
So I've tried HDTV 1080p 24 High Quality
. The quality is almost as good as the raw footage (it is hard to tell the difference). But the video takes ages to encode, and its size is huge (for a 1min30 video, the size is about 30MB with YouTube Widescreen HD
, and 300MB with HDTV 1080p 24 High Quality
.
Is there something in between that gives good results? Based on the format, aspect ratio and frame rate of YouTube, what should I use?