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Here's a little short I did for school with my new A1. I used the vivid rgb setting. Still getting the hang of everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RpTRJrQ2Es

liked the little short, good humor......was this just the A1 and tripod or did ou use anything else?

Just a bounce card. Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

lol That was pretty funny. I liked it. Heh, and the funky music definitely made it complete.

I typically cringe when I see a YouTube link... Thanks for converting to flv before uploading... It's nice to see quality on youtube.... Good vid...

actually, its just a QT with mpeg compression. Converting to flv is a good idea though. Too bad I don't have software to do that. Any suggestions for MAC?

Huh... I wonder if Youtube changed their standards...? Normally when you upload anything except an flv they re-compress the file down to something that looks horrible.... That seemed to be pretty descent quality... As far as an flv conversion goes you may try Sorenson Squeeze http://www.sorensonmedia.com/pages/?pageID=2

http://www.google.com/support/youtub...y?answer=55745

Apparently they like MPEG4 now.... ***SIGH****

Nah, it's always said that. FLV is still preferable.
If you upload an FLV it's instantly available. It's not re-encoded to conform to the standard bitrate, which means you can get better quality if you want. (Some users might complain that they can't stream like they're used to)

What program will encode to FLV ?

Sorenson Squeeze http://www.sorensonmedia.com/pages/?pageID=2

or Flash v8 or higher... I believe...

Haha, that was a pretty clever little short. Good work Steve.

Thanks, Andrew

Yeah I've always uploaded MPEG4 videos to youtube and I haven't really seen any major problem with them. Here's a video I made with my little Panasonic PV-GS250 that I made during Christmas. I thought it looked fine for DV video on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTyhrBZNM0A

Taken from http://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/12/...on-the-iphone/
So Youtube could be getting better at quality, and I'd personally love being able to play regular formats with Flash instead of havng to make those flv's.