My YouTube Rocks

Happy? Yessssss! Finally got some YouTube out­put I don’t have to be ashamed of. For some time I was won­der­ing about all those guys who could pro­duce qual­ity YouTube HD clips while mine drowned in blurs and other neg­a­tive effects due to YouTube compression.

As so often online: your look is a mat­ter of money! Sure, as a surfer you can access all those good­ies and enjoy great info and media files for free. When how­ever you wish to put up your own stuff for grab, things change. Your pic­tures need to be in Pho­to­shop qual­ity and your videos need to be HD encoded to match the qual­ity your com­peti­tors produce.

Another 250 bucks down the road I finally can feel like an Inter­net astro­naut as well and dis­pose of my hi-tech, high-end cock­pit for edit­ing com­fort­ably HD stuff. Sure, I could con­tinue to pro­duce the “nor­mal” stuff and remain a vic­tim of YouTube’s com­pres­sion. The prob­lem how­ever, is sim­ple: most Inter­net surfers dis­pose of high res­o­lu­tion screens and are able to see the dif­fer­ence.  And my prob­lem is obvi­ous: I am sell­ing great web design and media ser­vices which need to be brought to poten­tial cus­tomers in an eye catch­ing way.

An image is worth a 1000 words but a lousy image’s value is 4 let­ters accord­ing to Nikos Adver­ti­zopou­los … how right he is again!

Slice Show Cockpit

Of course a new space rocket is a great thing, but you need to learn how to fly it. My first tests and exer­cises are get­ting there slowly and I am in for more. My first worry is the out­put qual­ity on YouTube and other free junk sites which usu­ally com­press away the qual­ity of hours of work.

Have a look at my recent YouTubes: the lat­est Astir Beach pic­ture show and Global The Brand; you can watch them in 720 p HD and go for full screen and it still is a plea­sure. And I can still step up the qual­ity by one tick to 1080 p.

See Astir beach on YouTube in HD full screen HERE

Look at the smash­ing HD out­put of Global The Brand HERE

Here is a screen-shot of a full screen Astir Slide on YouTube:

Astir Beach on YouTube

The screen-shot is an 80% qual­ity jpg out­put from Pho­to­shop of the YouTube full-screen view on my monitor.

The most cost effec­tive way to achieve the above and also to improve your edit­ing knowl­edge: join Ycad­emy. Ycad­emy is a non-profit online learn­ing pro­gram where par­tic­i­pants con­tribute to a pool with a monthly fee of $30 to access and to make avail­able the most advanced tech­nol­ogy and ser­vices online.

Oh, by the way, there is also loads of knowl­edge being made avail­able at live calls, train­ings and sem­i­nars. Use­less to tell you that I have learned it all at Ycademy :-).

The upcom­ing March Sem­i­nar of Ycad­emy builds a smash­ing flash site with par­tic­i­pants. The Pro­gram in April will be focused on basic media design and includes all the know-how and tools needed to pro­duce high qual­ity YouTubes amongst oth­ers. An Ycad­emy Sem­i­nar is worth more than 1000 words and more impor­tantly … more than 1000 Bucks!

For insid­ers only as there is no promo for Ycad­emy but you can con­tact Bianca at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

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Tags: Astir Beach, Better YouTube, Global The Brand, HD Slideshows, HD YouTube, Ycademy, Ycademy Online Seminars, Yorgo Nestoridis, YouTube, YouTube HD

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