[paddyak]

I have taken some footage of surfing with my mini DV camera during the weekend and edited it with pinnacle studio ultimate version 12. Played it back on the PC and looks good so I decided to upload it to YOUTUBE. Set up an account and Pinnacle have a feature that uploads it to youtube or Yahoo. The video uploaded to my account but the quality is bad. Best way I can describe it 'little squares'. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paddy.

[paddyak]

I have converted to M-peg4 and the quality has improved if played on high resolution on Youtube. What is the best file type to use.

[senu]

You Tube does have a guide and here
I say that because they have changed thier own size and format rules and previous advise given on n here might be out of date

The simple answer though is that any no of formats will get you there depending on your own software and how large the resulting file size is
A lot of experimenting is the way foward

Dont use Pinnacles You tube uploader

Output it yourself to any of the formats ( MP4 ect) and then manually upload
Pinnacle is more than likely using highly compressed but quality killing defaults in its uploader

[paddyak]

Thanks for the advice. As you say I will experiment and see what works best.