How to Join Lines for Rendering in YouTube
Does your new YouTube video look distorted or fuzzy after you upload it? Are there unsightly anomalies such as green or black lines across the image? YouTube's built-in editing capabilities (including rendering) are very user friendly. However, some movie makers may be scratching their heads as to why their video doesn't look as good online as it did on their computer. Poor image quality on YouTube can be improved by following a few guidelines when it comes to the format of your video source.
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Shoot your video in 24 fps or 25 fps. These are YouTube's recommended frame-rates for producing the best playback.
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Keep your aspect ratios at either 4:3 or 16:9. Your resolution should be 640x480 or 1280x720. Using unusual resolutions or aspect ratios is the most common cause of rendering problems, such as lines or distorted images.
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Upload the original video source files to YouTube. Though some online tutorials recommend re-encoding your video before uploading, the official YouTube guidelines state that re-encoding can have negative effects on the quality of the end product. The best video formats to use with YouTube are H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
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Do not add letterboxing (horizontal bars) or pillarboxing (vertical bars) to your video before uploading it. YouTube adds these bars automatically to make all sizes of videos fit within its player. Putting in extra bars will result in twice as many bars as originally intended.
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