YouTube hates me
HOURS of work just went down the drain. Mostly Cariann’s work but HOURS nonetheless.
I decided that Spacevidcast.com would be the defacto source for space videos. Cool, eh? To this end I had Cariann go through our archives of NASA TV footage (we record NASA TV 24×7) and look for any clips that relate to STS-119 and export them. We then have a watch folder that picks up the video, adds the Spacevidcast bug, sizes the video to 640×480, crops out the badness and does a motion deinterlace to make it look pretty. The end result is an MPEG-4 encapsulated h.264 file with AAC low complexity 44.1kHz audio at 2000Kbps for video and 128Kbps stereo audio. The raw videos look *stunning* and I was excited that my master plan was all coming together.
Then I uploaded the videos to YouTube.
For some reason every clip has an A/V sync issue. I don’t know why. I have other clips on YouTube that compressed just fine, but the several HOURS of video that we just uploaded are, well, wrong. Take a peek:
This is just one of many, many long and boring videos (hey, I didn’t say all the videos would be exciting) that we uploaded. Now I’m going back and running a couple of tests, one is the raw MPEG-2 file to see what YouTube can do with that and the other is a version that has a tweaked AAC profile with the ‘Keep CODEC delay’ turned off. Anyone know the best settings in Episode Pro to encode for the highest possible quality YouTube videos?
GAAAAAAAAAAH!