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
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Re: On YouTube, the characters in the video look fuzzy to me
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.
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Hans
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Re: On YouTube, the characters in the video look fuzzy to me
Ok, Thanks, Hans, for this explanation.HansV wrote:When you upload to YouTube, ... this results in loss of quality.
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.
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Re: On YouTube, the characters in the video look fuzzy to me
Your YouTube link above is meaningless since it says the video has been removed by the user with no notes that I can see.
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Re: On YouTube, the characters in the video look fuzzy to me
My apolgies Al (and all others).Bigaldoc wrote:Your YouTube link... has been removed
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.
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