Uploading Music to YouTube

[Alhuin]

Thanks for the help guys! I downloaded Super and Movie Maker, and I'll see what happens.

Using Super, I noticed that, encoding to AAC, it won't let you choose anything higher than 256kbps. However, if I switch to AC3, it will. The YouTube information link that Kraco provided says to use AAC-LC, but to set the bitrate to 48 or 96. I don't know enough about encoding to know the difference, so I'm going to try what YouTube recommends first.

EDIT: Movie Maker apparently doesn't support AAC files. Guess I'll try AC3 after all.

EDIT 2: That didn't work either. Fuck it, keeping it as a WAV file.

[Buffalobiian]

Thanks for the help guys! I downloaded Super and Movie Maker, and I'll see what happens.

Using Super, I noticed that, encoding to AAC, it won't let you choose anything higher than 256kbps. However, if I switch to AC3, it will. The YouTube information link that Kraco provided says to use AAC-LC, but to set the bitrate to 48 or 96. I don't know enough about encoding to know the difference, so I'm going to try what YouTube recommends first.

48/96KHz is talking about the sampling frequency, that is how many times per second a data point is recorded.

Generally most CDs are 44.1
Movies are 48

You can set the bitrate to 128/192/256/320kbps independantly of the sample rate (44.1/48/88.2/96/192KHz)

Reducing sampling frequencies suck. Converting between frequencies that aren't multiples of each other also sucks. Sometimes you have to deal with it.

It's advisable not to change the sampling frequency of the source material unless you have to.

[Alhuin]

48/96KHz is talking about the sampling frequency.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, like I said, neither of the two encodes worked. I decided to try creating a video file using the lossless (WAV) audio files, and, choosing the output option of "YouTube" (which made it HD), I actually got a really good video. Is it the best quality? I don't know. But it sounds good enough, and for what I'm using it for, it's much better than what is available.

Seriously though, thank you guys. I didn't know where to start, but now that I've played around, I've already made two album's worth of videos! I just have to take my time uploading to YouTube. I tried a few test uploads... same file, multiple times... sometimes it came out as HD, other times it didn't. Not exactly sure how I got different results, but it seems like, if I don't do anything else while the file is uploading, it will come out as HD.