Let me start with the statement, which is nether bold or new: we are going high definition, and it is happening right now.

When I ran into Tim Maitski's YouTube "Watch in High Quality" - Embed High Quality Videos Into Your Blogs, I was absolutely ecstatic.

I have just bought a nice software and was making a crispy cool looking yet simple slide-shows, and all was well until I faced the problem to get it to the end user. I uploaded them on Youtube, and instead of cool crispy images, I got blurred images, making everything so unattractive and boring. So here I was wiith little hope, and bang!Tim showed that you can get a high quality and even the high definition from Youtube. The samples that he showed were just mind boggling.

I rushed to my stuff on Youtube, copied the link, appended "&fmt=18" (no quote marks) stuck it into the address line of the browser and clicked enter. The video started playing ... and the quality was the same way it was before. AGRRR. It is not that the code was not working, it is that my video/slide-show was uploaded not in high definition. The old adage that if you put the crap there, everyone would get the same crap from there, turned absolutely true.

A few days later an upgrade to ProShow Gold by Photodexcame and among other new cool things, it allows uploading to Youtube in high definition. Impeccable timing. I did it and then, if you watch on Youtube page, in the right corner right under the screen window, you see "watch in HD" link, and if you follow this link, the difference is enormous. When there is no such link, it means that the video is available only in standard mode.

See for yourself. Click the image or the link. The first one will play in standard Youtube quality. The second is high quality, and the last is in high definition. Note the size of the window and quality of both the slides and soundtrack:

Fountain Beach Resorthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdtn_f5Xps

Fountain Beach Resort  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdtn_f5Xps&fmt=18

Fountain Beach Resort  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdtn_f5Xps&fmt=22

I marked in bold the appendix in the links, that makes this miracle, so that you can try it. Remember, you can only retrieve the quality that you uploaded. If that's of interest, then I will write another blog about enhancing image quality, that would affect your videos and slide-shows.

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16 Comments on Wanna Get High? Watch Youtube...In High Definition

DEC
22
2008
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Hi Jon,

The results are absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing the tips on how to achieve such a great final product. Happy Holidays to you and yours!

8:52pm • #2
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Wow vey cool I didnt even know that that option was avialble. I amgoing to check ito ut. I take HD video all the time and Im always looking for a site to handle it.

8:55pm • #3
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Jon,  I'm glad it's working.

You had said you were having problems getting it as an embed.  I tested your video out trying to embed the high quality video in a post and it was working.  Go back and read the last part of my post and see if you can get it to work.  All you need to do is add &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 at the end of url in the two places where the url shows up in the YouTube embed code.  I'm not certain whether it's the high quality or the HD but it's definitely not the standard qauality.

9:08pm • #5
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Tim - I tried it many times, did it exactly right. I even copied the code from the site that you link to initially, and it did not work. I suspect that this is my Vista. I have so many problems with programs conflicting with Vista. I am actually very disappointed with Vista, because there is very little there which is not crashing in Vista. Including Microsoft own programs, like outlook, IE, MS Word, Photoshop, Adobe Writer... It is easier trying to figure what does not crash. That's the reason I put links in my post, as I could not get the embed code to work.

I will set that on another machine with XP and it may be that it works there.
Thank you for your help

9:22pm • #6
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Once again technology is ahead of the means to observe it. I have hi speed phone modem with AT&T but it is standard service and does not have enough speed or bandwidth or whatever in order to allow me to view it. I spend a few seconds watching the buffering take place and then only see a second or two of the clip.

I've ran into this same problem with virtual tours. The programs became increasingly larger to upload until the customers in our area couldn't watch them, as they would not wait several minutes for the clips to load.

I am intensely interested and thank you for the information. Even from our high speed office internet we are not permitted to watch the YouTube videos, even the standard ones, as it sucks up so much bandwidth the staff are unable to upload the all important real estate docs.

9:25pm • #7
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Kacem - I do not know why you like the pictures that are pretty much used as clip art, like as a button. I am not sure that you even watched the videos.

Looks like a 25-point comment to me, so I will better shut up and not spend 3 times more time than you on the post.

But anyway, Happy Holidays to you.

9:44pm • #8
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Lanette _ For me it was a shock. I was watching the hi def video and knowing that I can have the same quality was a great feeling.

Merry Christmas!

9:48pm • #9
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Heather - Me too. I actually used it and uploaded a post, and got a 2 comments, and they were "Wow". That made me write this, and there are still a lot of us, who do not know that.

9:50pm • #10
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Great tips, and yes high def ruins standard definition for you.

9:52pm • #11
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Bill - Thanks. I am glad I could impress you, especially with some technical stuff, which is not really my forte (and what is? LOL)

9:53pm • #12
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Jim - Terrific point. Yes, we can get it in hi definition, but it comes with a cost. That cost is the physical limitations of the channels. We come up with programs that eat up more and more bandwidth, and vendors are coming with it, and we still outpace them.

But we are still going in the same direction. Yes, you would not be able to watch it on Blackberry, but a home computer with cable or DSL will chew it with no problem, and in a year there would be new generation phones and they will not have a problem with this bandwidth.

Yes it is not for everyone, but for me it is a question of being able to offer it to my customers in 3 different resolutions. I can't change what they have, but I can offer it in the best format they can see without that annoying buffering.

Thank you for the comment.

10:01pm • #13
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Brian - I am not sure what you mean by "high def ruins standard definition for you", but I am sure you prefer to watch things in higher quality rather in standard, which is absolutely not great.

10:04pm • #14
DEC
23
2008
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Jon, I noticed this the other day on some YouTube videos. I will take a look at Photodex. Thanks.

8:17am • #15
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Michael - Photodex is a primarily slide show program. There is another program, called Vegas something, and it does the same for videos, but Photodex handles videos as well.

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