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How to make my youtube video play in HD?

Guest
Guest

I made a video using an HD camera (Nikon Rebel), edited the video in Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7, and I added the 1080p in movie maker. Now when I upload it to youtube it doesn't have the option to play in 1080p or 720p! It only plays in 360p. So how can I make it so 1080p is availble to watch on my video?

Stick
Stick

The camera you film it in has to shoot 1080p and make sure the RAM on your computer is empty when you finalize or it won't be able to make it in 1080p. I don't know to much about pc and windows movie maker because I'm on a mac and i use iMovie so it uploads 1080p automatically.

Sean M
Sean M

This is a very easy, but important step. YouTube doesn't necessarily recognize the quality of the video, but rather the size of the video file you upload. For example, 1080p is exported as 1920x1080 and 720p is exported as 1280x720.

Make sure you are shooting in HD (which you are), then choose to export to either a 1920x1080 file size (1080p) or 1280x720 file size for 720p.

Jackie Marks
Jackie Marks

Hi, I think just because your HD video is wrong HD profile for youtube, so you met this problem, you should note, youtube only support special profile and format HD videos well, so you'd better convert your 1080p HD video to right profile and format 1080p HD youtube video, then re-upload onto youtube within 1080p, you could follow me to use Youtube Movie Maker, it can auto convert any wrong HD videos to right profile HD youtube videos, then upload onto Youtube within HD, just run Youtube Movie Maker, press "Upload Video", add your 1080p HD video in the file list, then press "SETTING" button to select a 1080p HD profile as target profile, at last press "Convert&Upload" button, the software will convert your 1080p HD video to right profile youtube 1080p HD video then upload onto youtube within 1080p(the highest definition on youtube), or don't use windows movie maker, you can directly use windows movie maker to make HD video and upload onto youtube within HD, better than windows movie maker for youtube video making and uploading, you can download youtube movie maker from makeyoutubevideo.com, hope it can help you too.