Hi Guys,

New to the forum and really need some help, here is what I am trying to do. I am trying to make video's for my new web site with my Panasonic HSC-SD9 and host them on Youtube in HD.

I have had tons of problems.

I have took the video's on the Panasonic's HX recording mode which I'm sure its 9 MBPS. I then opened adobe Premiere CS4 to edit the video's.

Below are the settings I had Premiere at when I edited my video's:

General
Editing mode: AVCHD 1080p square pixel
Timebase: 25.00fps

Video Settings
Frame size: 1920h 1080v (1.0000)
Frame rate: 25.00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)

Audio Settings
Sample rate: 48000 samples/second

Default Sequence
Total video tracks: 3
Master track type: Stereo
Mono tracks: 0
Stereo tracks: 3
5.1 tracks: 0
Submix mono tracks: 0
Submix stereo tracks: 0
Submix 5.1 tracks: 0

The only problem I had at this point was the video was very jerky, but the main problem I am having is I don't have a clue what would be the best format to export it in so I can upload it to Youtube HD. There are so many different formats on Adobe Premiere CS4 that I don't know where to start.

If any of you guys can help out with what would be the best format to export in that would be a big help or even if you can let me know if I have went wrong anywhere else.

Thanks,
Kerri

This youtube page talks about recommended settings for your uploads (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=132460&topic=16612&hl=en-US). I prefer to export my videos at 720p before uploading to youtube. I use a resolution of 1280x720 @ 5mbit and save the file as WMV or MP4. I find the results to be quite acceptable.

Is 1280x720 @ 50/60p allowed on YouTube? Is interlaced allowed? Anyone with experience if this is possible, not just what YouTube recommend?

Youtube will accept quite a few different file formats, bit rates and resolutions. Once you upload your file youtube will re-encode it to flash video with a lesser resolution and bit rate. The trick to getting decent quality when viewing on youtube is uploading a file with good quality. That's why I choose 1280x720p @ 5mbit. Here's an example (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ATtiv1tM4) of a video I uploaded a few days ago. The youtube version is noticeably softer than the original 720p version I uploaded but the quality is about as good as you're going to get.

Have you tried using Vimeo instead of YouTube? I believe that Vimeo offers higher quality than the re-encoding done by YouTube.

I read that youtube started supporting the upload of .mts files, but these helpfiles make no mention of AVCHD/.mts, so does youtube support .mts?

And how about Vimeo?