QuickTime glitchy

[Buggsy]

I don't know what it is with me, I seem to struggle at getting the production of animation to go smoothly. If it's not one problem it's another.

I went through the process of creating, editing and uploading a quick animation to my YouTube channel to find a workflow that gives me good quality results sufficient enough to be able to post all the other stuff I want to but what I have so far is crappy to say the least. Can anyone tell me why the quicktime animation that I created, that seemed to play nicely on my computer now has a terrible glitch in it when played back on YouTube? Is there a workflow that will give good results out of EI into Final Cut Express HD and onto YouTube?

I am using Final Cut Express HD and outputting animation from EI as quicktime with the "Animation" codec with the highest quality settings. I am then importing it into Final Cut Express HD, editing and adding titles with Live Type then outputting again same resolution and with "Animation" codec at highest quality settings. Uploading to YouTube (large file size) which then plays back with terrible quality.

Predictable results are eluding me and are frustrating me, as I want this to work well. I seem to be stuck in the mud and can get a flow happening quick enough with quality good enough to satisfies my creative passions. It all seems to happen too slow for me to stay focused on pushing ahead with doing more of it. I have high expectations but can't seem to reach them but maybe I'm expecting too much of the tools that I have. Any help would be much appreciated.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoodBuildingDesign?feature=mhum

Michael

[yhloon]

a little info from youtube...

Once you're happy with your final result, you'll need to save the video in a format that YouTube can accept in order to upload. Unless you're a professional video producer, we recommend that you save your videos as either QuickTime .MOV, Windows .AVI, or .MPG files— these are the most common formats and they work well within our system. We specifically recommend the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 640x480 resolution with MP3 audio. Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your clips look better on YouTube.

copy from here http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_makevideo

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Michael,

I like a lot more Vimeo than YouTube.

Our EIAS3D videos are totally based on it.

The compression is really better.

www.vimeo.com

A video tip, you can render your final edit movies in QuickTime with PNG codec, which is lossless and 1/3 of data size than a "Animation" codec.

Then you can use QuickTime to convert in the best quality of QuickTime H264 codec, it's which I always do. ;) then I upload to Vimeo.

Thanks

Tom