With my video Week 48 – 2008 I started to upload the “News Week Video series” in HD quality.
YouTube has presently 3 level of image and sound quality:
normal quality
high quality (HQ)
HD quality (HD)
First of all the quality level depends on the file size, but to achieve a HD level your file format must be at least 1280 x 720 px for uplaod. Since News Week 48 I upload in this size, and the file size produced by Final Cut of this 2:09 minute long video is about 80mB.
Watching in High Quality or HD quality is another matter. You can set your YouTube viewer to allways watch in High Quality, and if the quality level is available at source it will play in HQ. But to view in HD, you must force the window, it does not start automatically in HD (yet).
So you will most likely see one of these selections at the right under the video:
In a URL link, or through direct browser input, you can force YouTube to play the video in HQ or HD, if its available. For HQ, you add &fmt=18, and for HD you add &fmt=22 to the URL.
They should then look like this:
As you can see on the following screenshot, the quality between “normal” and “HD” is enormous:
Good luck.
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