Youtube Goes 1080p

[speedo]

In recent years, 1080p camcorders have found their way into more consumers’ hands. Now YouTube will allow people to take advantage of all those pixels. Starting next week, the HD options on the popular video sharing site will include both 720p and 1080p, provided the original source allows it.

There is a test video already up here. Performance seems to be good, but it doesn’t look tremendously different from current YouTube HD offerings. If you have an HD camera, YouTube would like you upload some 1080p video. They will be highlighting some of the best footage on the front page soon. If you shoot HD video, will you take the extra time to upload your videos in 1080p?

[xtalentz]

Yea,... If you render a movie in 1080p... it will be like 1gb for just 2min record.

1gb upload takes a while :P

[miko3ed]

1080p is mostly overrated unless you are viewing on extremely large screens. I have noticed very little difference between 1080p and 720p on my computer LCDs... Don't get me wrong, I like youtube's HD service quite a bit, I just think they could have done without the 1080p service as it is eats up their resources and bandwidth that could be used for us 720p users

[seena123]

This test video is just under 10 mins long and was encoded to 1920x1080, 24fps, at around 25Mb/s MPEG-2 with 5.1 AC3 audio. It weighed in at 1.5GB. It took most of a day to upload on my pokey aDSL with a slow upload speed. After a few hours the video went live in its low quality "draft" mode as the HD continued to process... many hours later the HD version went live. So be patient. If the quality looks bad, check to see when you look at the video on its watch page if it still has a green banner across the top telling you that it is still being processed and the quality may improve. Once that disappears, it probably is done encoding and that will be the best it will get.

[Jaflosan]

There's no need to convert the file. Go to "Save movie file" instead of save as. It will take a bit longer to save but you'll be able to put it through youtube.

[masonKnight]

it also take forever to load, which sucks

[akm88]

Hi,
i am new to this forums

[johnarthton1]

A video test is already here. For performance sounds good, but it does not look much different from existing YouTube HD offerings. If you have an HD camera, YouTube videos you want to upload some 1080p. They will have some of the best view on the front page soon highlighted.

[WayneLanchasterz]

This check video is under ten mins long and was encoded to 1920x1080, 24fps, at around 25Mb/s MPEG-2 with six.1 AC3 audio. It weighed in at one.5GB. It took most of a day to upload on my pokey aDSL with a slow upload speed. After a few hours the video went live in its low quality "draft" mode as the HD continued to method... plenty of hours later the HD version went live. So wait and see. If the quality looks bad, check to see when you look at the video on its watch page if it still has a green banner across the top telling you that it is still being processed and the quality may improve. Once that disappears, it probably is done encoding and that will be the best it will get.