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YIKES! Video settings on Loopers Delight!! I work with this everyday and I can assure you all that it never really gets easy... never a day goes by when we don't test some new setting or another. As for uploading to YouTube (never done it so I dont know) you dont have to make the Flash Video file do you? just a Avi or quicktime or whatever? Of course the general rule is ... Quality IN = Quality Out. But there are many considerations. The most important thing is, is there alot of movement in the image? Then the CODEC is doing alot of work, re-compressing every frame, therfore Bad quality. But we all like super fast cuts and moving camera don't we? Well there are some great codecs you all should try. H264 is my current fave. And you should be able to save to these formats straight out of your editing application. I use Final Cut Pro on Mac or Premier Pro on PC. Currently I am using the following steps: But bare in mind that you can push these a bit higher, my target group is business and as such they have restrictions on streamed content at many offices. Export from Final Cut Pro at Full Size using H264 codec (It good to have a perfect (but playable) quality version on your machine. Then I encode to Flash Video (.flv) using the standard Flash Video Encode that comes with Flash. I use the fantastic On2 VP6 codec at 400kbps (this is the number you can push a bit higher if you are on a fatso line) and audio set to MP3 at 96 kbps (stereo) I use a low number here because I really want stereo. and I use screen sizes that are multiples of 16 (best) 8 (good) and 4 (ok) see here >>> http://www.flashsupport.com/books/fvst/files/tools/video_sizes.html usually 768 x 432 or 640 x 360 (these are 16:9 ratio widescreen settings - your stuff is probably 4:3 or 5:3) Then the flv is embedded in a flash page using the built in flash video component, and I have some custom code interactivity and captionating (not really relevant to music) Other tips? Well one CAN try a smaller video size, say 384 x 216 and then... on the flash page just resize the component to a bigger size (still using these ratios) this works very well for those who cant use the bandwidth but still want a largish screen. hope this helps to those who want to make their own video pages. For those YouTubers I just suggest uploading a good high quality quicktime video that has maybe been resized to correct size before hand (im guessing that their system takes shortcuts here...) hope this helps someone -- www.markfrancombe.com www.looop.no