BrianCunningham

Posters or viewers of Video posted on YouTube.com

For those who upload videos to YouTube

You can now upload your videos in 720 Pixel resolution 16:9 format


For those who access YouTube Videos

You can access videos uploaded in HD by adding &fmt=22 to the video web address (URL)

You can access 480x360 pixel MPEG4 stereo videos by adding &fmt=18 to the URL

FYI Standard YouTube videos are 320x240 h263 video codec mono sound

“Watch in high quality” option provides 480x260 resolution in mono and also be accessed by adding &fmt=6 to the URL on videos that do not display the “watch in highquality”

Links to two videos in both the YouTube standard and HD versions

Porsche Panamera

Link to Standard YouTube video quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPZc4bTKWs&translated=1

Link to the very new HD capability

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPZc...lated=1&fmt=22


2008 TMSF F1

Normal quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCLpOam0w90&translated

HD Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCLpO...lated=1&fmt=22

YouTube search on &fmt=22 will lead you to the 2000+ test videos

meldog21

What a huge difference in the quality. I paused both of the first two videos at :20 and looked at the stills of the big rock. It's pretty clear which is better, pun intended.

Dog

Aardwolf

Finally they have better quality? I've been using vimeo.com they allow HD.

davidfarmer

if someone wants to send me a new Cannon HD Camcorder, I'll be glad to shoot some Video at VIR on monday........otherwise I'll stick with my SD camera.........

davidfarmer

btw, it still doesn't look very good. I've uploaded SD mp4's of my son's church choir that look better............I don't know if they are overcompressing, or just using poor source material, but I'm not impressed thus far!

dvandentop

looks alot better should be nice for road race videos

davidfarmer

Here is some HD 720p video I shot yestday at VIR. Nothing fancy, but you are right that if the source is good, the video can look really nice on Youtube

hd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53QjHgScDjs&fmt=22

normal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53QjHgScDjs

Pardon the chit chat, just playing with the camera

Thanks BRIAN for showing us how to do this.


****Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be taking this camera INSIDE of my track car. I bought a Sanyo HD Camera, and it seems pretty "fragile". My Sanyo SD camera seems much more stout, but I did buy a bargain HD camera

BrianCunningham

WOW looks great!

Falcon

I'm guessing the HD videos will be mucho larger than the regular videos, and will take substantially longer to upload. For a 20 to 25 minute race it takes forever to upload in the lower quality, so I can imagine how long it will take to put them up.

davidfarmer

That is certainly true Jody, but Youtube already limits clips to 10 minutes, so you wouldn't post full races there anyway.

But bandwidth and storage will get faster/cheaper, so it's nice to see what the future has to offer.

waddisme

I was hoping you had some video of me holding you up in traffic yesterday

StealthLT4

holy crap! YouTube in HD is the best thing ever...

Falcon

Yea, I agree, it's nice to see the quality available. I've been using Vimeo in the past when I need better quality.

I post right at 100mb of race stuff all the time on Google. That'll usually get about 20 - 25 minutes worth since I upload .wmv format. It makes for terrible quality, but many don't care, they're just watching for the action. If the files are 100 mb or larger, it makes Google hic cup pretty badly.

davidfarmer

I thought they had a time limit......I know they now have a 1GB space limit, but I'll test it later.

waddisme.....had no mount this trip, and you were cooking! I couldn't even get my front tires warm enough to stick, and drove very little. Just came to instruct a few friends and get a little more test time on the PFC brake setup. HOWEVER, some of the worse passing etiqutte I've ever seen at an event, but that's what happens when you mix advanced and intermediate students and throw "open passing" at them!

waddisme

It did get pretty crowded at times out there. I am not sure about the format. You would spend a lot of time following people, but in the end, there was so much track time it didn't bother me because I knew I had a lot more track time.

ghoffman

What is the hot setup in HD video cameras this week?

WBHighwind

This company seems to make some good inexpensive HD camcorders that I have been eyeing in the under $200 range and they seem to be better then the Aiptek offerings in the same price range. I definitely like the camcorder configuration better.

http://www.dxgtechusa.com/