iMovie Share Settings for 720p YouTube HD?

[SVOboy]

What are people using as their share settings? I've had a very frustrating several hours trying to get this done right.

Thanks

[bennelson]

YouTube works well with 16x9 hd video, as long as you start with the right settings in the first place.

On actual projects, I will shoot and edit in 720P (1280x720 - square pixels).

I then output as an mpeg4 using H.264 compression, file sized at 1280x720 with a data rate of 4000kb/s. It looks very nice doing it like that, although H.264 is slower to encode.

Play with a few data rates until you get something you think looks good.

(I'm NOT using iMovie, but I hope that helps!)

[SVOboy]

Oh, that's great! I think I had the data rate way too low. Thanks, Ben