Hi,
I want to upload songs that I've made to youtube but I don't know to get the best sound quality. I just have Windows Movie Maker and I guess that it's not gonna give me high quality videos... Do I need to get some special program or how can I do this?
Thanks in advance!
How to optimize videos for best sound quality on youtube?
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- KVRAF
- 5440 posts since 4 Aug, 2006 from Helsinki
I worked with the same dilemma some time ago, these comments may help you, here
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19#5271219
The quality of your original sound track is of course important. Then, when you
compress your video, leaving the sound track untouched (as adviced here) because
Youtube compress it anyway, I've got reasonable results. H.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19#5271219
The quality of your original sound track is of course important. Then, when you
compress your video, leaving the sound track untouched (as adviced here) because
Youtube compress it anyway, I've got reasonable results. H.
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- Banned
- 13 posts since 5 May, 2013
I use http://www.tunestotube.com/, you can upload 320 kbp mp3s. Is that high enough for you?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 173 posts since 19 Sep, 2011
Yes 320 kbp mp3 is ok but I believe that if I use Windows Movie Maker it compresses the sound a lot and the youtube will compress it even more = bad quality.
Can I get better audio quality with for example Adobe Premiere?
Can I get better audio quality with for example Adobe Premiere?
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- KVRist
- 392 posts since 21 Sep, 2011 from Northern California
You get pretty good audio with Premiere, but the program is expensive and not all that user friendly (although a very powerful program). It has some nice output presets for YT, but I bet most NLE's do nowadays.
Leave at least 1db headroom so you dont get any clipping troubles from conversion. For YT I personally use 2 db.
Don;t worry about it too much. At the end of the day pretty much ALL audio on YT sounds like crap. If you have a really good source, like 320 mp3 etc, then it will just get compressed more and you don;t notice much difference. Plus I think YT changes compression based on the users connection, so everyone will end up with different quality anyways. I would only worry about it if you notice a specific problem such as artifacts or aliasing or something. Keep in mind that you may need to wait a few minutes after uploading for YT to do its thing. If you wait an hour or two and still have issues then you can try to re-up the video. This helps sometimes.
Leave at least 1db headroom so you dont get any clipping troubles from conversion. For YT I personally use 2 db.
Don;t worry about it too much. At the end of the day pretty much ALL audio on YT sounds like crap. If you have a really good source, like 320 mp3 etc, then it will just get compressed more and you don;t notice much difference. Plus I think YT changes compression based on the users connection, so everyone will end up with different quality anyways. I would only worry about it if you notice a specific problem such as artifacts or aliasing or something. Keep in mind that you may need to wait a few minutes after uploading for YT to do its thing. If you wait an hour or two and still have issues then you can try to re-up the video. This helps sometimes.