Hurricane Video From Speak The Music
Posted Sept. 12, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
Natalie performed her song Hurricane live at the last Speak The Music with a little help from Constant Change, Syzygy, and Monkstilo. It was a good performance, and I shot some basic video footage of it. I uploaded it to the ZeroCoordinate YouTube account, and you can check it out here:
On a related technical note, getting video to come out looking good on YouTube is quite an arcane and secretive art... but a few things are clear: uploading video rendered at 640x480 is substantially better than 480x320, WMV and MP4 encodings both look good at similar bitrates/resolutions (the MP4 is sharper although it's a larger file), and getting the bitrate high enough to trigger the "High Quality" setting in YouTube's processing algorithm is essential. Since you can upload files up to 1GB now, I could've thrown an even higher quality file at it and it probably would've looked better. This file was 180 MB encoded at 640x480, 10,000kbps constant bitrate, with the MainConcept MP4 encoder.
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