Tech - youtube video quality

"Khym;c-17839202" wrote:
I'm not an expert by any means, and I'm following this thread for a chance to learn as well :) When you said that you watch the videos on your own computer and they're higher quality then, is that the ready made video, or the raw material you're talking about?

The ready video. The final result of the extracted production. I normally save the final video in "best quality", but as files can be rather big, I save them in "better quality" (the next best option) when the video is something I don't really need to keep in the long run - like the "my screenshots folder" vids, and the "Free Will Show" episodes. For more time consuming and detailed productions like "As Sims Go By" (fiction soap/drama) I save them as best quality possible, as they are more valuable productions to me.

In the past I also kept the raw material, but because my hard disk is limited, and I rarely will need that material again, I delete most of it after a year or so.

Anyway, I need to find out if there are different formats. I forget to mention that my final videos , that are uploaded to youtube, are in MP4 format. Maybe that is the problem... how would I know.