

I liked my compromise because the video was still large enough to enjoy, but I could compress it more to allow for quick viewing. I picked 480x360 because my native material was 640x480 and I didn't like the very small quarter size of 320x240 for presenting to family and friends, so I chose the size in between. I wanted a balance between the quality of the video and file size they would have to upload. I was, and still am, uploading video to a private page for family and friends. The background to the 480x360 size I mentioned in my guide. For YouTube, I go with their recommendations. The thing to remember when exporting to odd sizes, keep the aspect ratio the same between the width and height of the video. I may have to update them, again.Īs for the 480x360 and 480x320 differences. Sounds like you read my iMovie export guide. If your iMovie project is set to HD, then use the larger size mentioned above, otherwise us the SD size.

I'd suggest re-exporting the video size to be larger than what you did do. I did find your videos, via a Google search. Don't bother trying to blow up the size of a standard definition image to HD. For YouTube that is now 640x480 for SD (standard def) or 1280x720 for HD. You want to set the size appropriate to where you are placing the resulting file.
