Is it better to convert my AVI, MPEG, or MP4 vids to FLV before uploading to...

Teemsan

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...Youtube or Dailymotion? Some of the AVI, MPEG, and MP4 vids are DV, some MP4 are HD. I only have the freeware Riva FLV encoder, although the vids were rendered with Sony Vegas Pro9. I've always wondered if I will get better quality in Youtube if I do the FLV conversion before uploading them. Any help appreciated, thanks.
 
No you will actually degrade your quality, upload your video's in their original file format. The reason is that when you convert your already compressed videos to FLV you degrade the quality again, compression = quality loss. Everytime you "convert" something you are "compressing" something (except when you are using lossless codecs but that's another story) Then you degrade it another time when youtube converts it to it's FLV codec. Just so you know there are different types of FLVs MP4s and so-on not all MP4s and FLVs are the same, they are merely containers, the codecs will vary.

In conclusion: keep in original format to avoid another compression.
 
No you will actually degrade your quality, upload your video's in their original file format. The reason is that when you convert your already compressed videos to FLV you degrade the quality again, compression = quality loss. Everytime you "convert" something you are "compressing" something (except when you are using lossless codecs but that's another story) Then you degrade it another time when youtube converts it to it's FLV codec. Just so you know there are different types of FLVs MP4s and so-on not all MP4s and FLVs are the same, they are merely containers, the codecs will vary.

In conclusion: keep in original format to avoid another compression.
 
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