Putting clips online - Youtube and Facebook

[SheriffHD]

Good render settings (not sure about movie maker, ive made sure that it doesnt even get space on my HDD)

Id advise that unless you have a really fast internet connection with more than 1mebabyte a second upload speeds that you stick to 720p render settings, if i remember correctly as well, recording at 60fps with most action cameras limit the videos to 720 any way or 30fps at 1080.

Ive done a fair few videos so for me I like to record at 720 at 60fps as it means that you can slow footage down at certain points for that dramatic effect while still keeping the footage looking smooth. it also means that you can track the footage to stabilise it a bit, which for a helmet cam is a good process for editing video because you get that horrible shaky cam that looks like it should be from the blare witch project.

Any way, render settings;

make sure pixel format is 32-bit floating point (full range)

Field order - i keep this setting to None by default which means its progressive

WxH 1280x720

motion blur Gaussian

FPS 30 (you may capture at 60fls, but when you render it out you want it at 30fps, this is because once you have uploaded it to youtube, youtube wont play any faster than 30fps. so this will half the file size)

Audio

stereo

sameple rate - 32,000 Hz

Bit depth - 16

Codec AVC/AAC .mp4 is a good format to use for uploading to youtube.

I also normally insure that varible bit rate is checked and set to around 14,000,000 bps

with these settings, you will look at about1.5gb per 30minutes of video, you can compress it, but when you compress a file you lose quality as well, so it makes rendering at 720p pointless if you end up compressing it down to a 480p quality any way.

sorry for the long reply.

also A quick side note, I'm not saying any of you are dumb enough to do it, but i actually had to tell my friend this (to which he spent ages trying to argue his error as well which was fun) taking video captured at 720p and then rendering it out to 1080, does not make it 1080p, it doesn't make the image any better, it just makes the file size much larger than it needs to be for the same quality.

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

I had thought about trying that haha, but I figure it's impossible to make a video higher quality than it recorded at lol.

I probably am that stupid though... Except I'd prefer to call it "not being computery"

I'll have a tinker with the settings next time I upload something, but I think the ones I had last time were largely the same as you outlined.

I'm limited to recording at 30fps in 720p anyway, so I don't need to worry about any of the 60fps, slow mo related stuffs.

 

[Gecko]

Ed, you haven't put any video up from 13th Oct at skirmish yet have you?

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

No, I didn't really enjoy myself much that day, footage wasn't that great.

I've not even watched it all back myself, yet. Might upload it at some point in the future, or make a highlights video or something.

 

[Gecko]

Oh thats a shame, what didn't you enjoy about the day? Anyway if you do decide to upload it let me know as I'd be interested to see it.

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

I just wasn't feeling it for some reason. I don't actually know why.

Probably a mixture of having a hard time, being too tired to move around all that much, bearing in mind my gear weighs around 15kg and it sounds weird to say it, but on that trip I wasn't testing the camera anymore, I was actually intentionally filming...

It sort of makes you feel like you're not there for yourself, you're there to entertain people with the footage, which I guess could equally spur some people on, but I felt like I wasn't out there to have fun for myself anymore.

Can't really explain it. I'm off to another site this Sunday, with my Uni Airsoft society, so I'll be filming that. Have to see how it goes. If I get some good footage and it's fun to edit then it might tempt me to revisit my last game at Skirmish.