Video converters for youtube ?

[Dicehunter]

I'd like to start uploading gameplay etc... to the tube but im unsure as to which software i should use to convert my videos with.

Any info is appreciated

 

[tinytomlogan]

You wont need to 'convert' it at all tbh

 

[SuB]

Youtube has great processing in most cases, the only drawback from using 'raw' footage from gaming is filesize (the uploader is very slow in my experience).

Personally I'd run a very high quality H.264 pass on it just to take off the 'losslessness' then it should be a more suitable size to upload (and not 4GB per minute or whatever raw game footage is these days).

I don't have any particular suggestions for software per-se, as all the editors I use output through h.264 already.

Quicktime has a re-encoder you could try I guess? the quality usually stays quite high I think?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Forget high quality. YouTube will rape all that away anyways

 

[SuB]

It was just to reduce file size more than anything else, 264 has nice filesize for the quality, then at least the clips are archivable locally... ?

 

[tinytomlogan]

WMV ftw size wise.

 

[SuB]

Fairy snuff, I use a mac for most of my video'y stuff so tend to steer clear of wmv's personally.

I'll let your greater youtube experience take over here though What editing software do you use Tom?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Sony Vegas

 

[Dicehunter]

Thanks all for the replys, in the end i went with Xilisoft's video converter, read a bunch of reviews and it seemed the best in the sub hundred squid category ^^