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[ChrisGreaves]

I’m using FastStone 6.9 to capture videos from my screen but the output on YouTube is funny.
I’m not sure what to change and wonder if VideoLoungers can offer suggestions/experiments.

My computer monitor is a DELL, and in regular use I have it set at 1280x1024, but to make recordings I set it at 800x600 – the maximum (minimum?) possible.

I start recording work on an Excel worksheet, stop recording, and upload the video to YouTube.
Here is an example:(Link updated; my apologies) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKaylEdBih8

No matter whether I set my monitor to 1280x1024 or at the recorded 800x600, the characters in the video look fuzzy to me, either in the regular YouTube window or in the Full-Screen mode.

Is this a direct result of limitations in YouTube’s playback, or is there some magic setting I should know about?

As an experiment I uploaded the video to http://www.chrisgreaves.com/Downloads/Zoomp4.wmv, and when I use that link the appearance is much improved.

Same video, the second instance being viewed through a player on my computer.

Thanks for any advice you can offer

[HansV]

When you upload to YouTube, the video will be compressed to keep down the file size; this results in loss of quality. The video on your own website is the original, uncompressed version.

[ChrisGreaves]

When you upload to YouTube, ... this results in loss of quality.

Ok, Thanks, Hans, for this explanation.
Since I want to promote on YouTube I'll drop a link to a "better quality video", pointing to my web site, in the YouTube description.

[Bigaldoc]

Your YouTube link above is meaningless since it says the video has been removed by the user with no notes that I can see.

[ChrisGreaves]

Your YouTube link... has been removed

My apolgies Al (and all others).
I'm not having a good day.
After Hans's response I went back and diddled then, this afternoon cleaned up my account and threw out 'the trash".
I've re-hooked the link in the original post.

I am now providing users (on my web pages) with a link to the YouTube version of each video, and a High Quality link to the original stored on my servers.