How to: Get Best Quality Phone Video up onto YouTube

[slitchfield]

Here's the scenario. You've shot a video (or two) on your Nokia Nseries smartphone, at VGA quality through a Carl Zeiss lens and up to 30 frames per second. And you want to be able to show it to the world in your blog. YouTube is the obvious choice, but how can you ensure that people see your clip to best advantage? Here's my intermediate-level 'How to'.

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[Micky!]

Great tip Steve, will certainly try this out.

Actually the high quality 4:3 videos are 480x360px on the YouTube so embedding with the largest size doesn't make sense it's just upscaled. The 480x385px option is just right.

[slitchfield]

Are you sure? Seems a bit crazy for YT to offer a 640 px window for a VGA original and then do silly down/up-sizing.....