[pct-l] sharing camera video on the web

[Carl Siechert]

Does the output of either camera look decent on your computer (i.e., before
you upload to YouTube)? If it's junk to begin with, it's certainly not going
to improve with all the conversions. I found that, with my old Canon
point-and-shoot, the videos looked decent only when viewed on the 1.5" LCD.
Anything bigger, and it was terrible.

OTOH, I've been very pleasantly surprised with the video quality from my
Leica/Panasonic point-and-shoot. (I'll dig out the model number if you're
interested, but "buy a new camera" wasn't really implicit in your question.)
With my very limited experience, it seems like the key to decent YouTube
videos is to have a decent original -- which might not be possible with your
camera.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Len Glassner <len5742 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had used a Casio point and shoot that produces MPEG4 video output.
> For the PCT, I'm carrying a Canon camera that produces MPEG3 output.
> The Casio output, when uploaded to youtube, was of somewhat
> disappointing quality, but the Canon uploaded video is atrocious.  And
> it takes multiple times longer to upload.  Not worth the bother. So I
> went looking for a MPEG3 to 4 converter and have trialed that.  The
> MPEG3 video, converted to 'youtube' MPEG4 format, takes a lot less
> time to upload, but still looks just about as bad as unconverted,
> uploaded MPEG3.
>
> Anybody tried to deal with this, and found a good solution?  Is there
> some other way to get MPEG3 out there in decent viewing shape?
>