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Losing quality when uploading!!

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Hello, i filmed a couple of gigs the other day( a new business). I came to upload one video which is just one of the bands songs and i obviously uploaded to youtube as most people do. When i came to watch it, i had lost a lot of quality which is very disappointing seen as I'm using a professional Canon XL2 minidv camcorder, and also its no good for business!

I searched youtube videos and came across one that told me to export using quicktime (I'm using imovies'11). So i did this, it took a while to export, i started uploading it today at about 4pm. I left my computer at my dads work as our internet is terrible at home, i left there at 7:30, it was on 40% complete, i guess its still going (time is 10:30pm). I know upload speed is important and i was uploading at about 0.500 mb/s which i know is slow, but it does go higher in the middle of the night. But the point is, the file is 2.7gb!

So my question is, how can i keep the quality without the size going out of control??

Also, what sort of upload speed would be good for uploading a file size like that, if thats the sizes that its going to have to be to keep the quality? I can get 2mb upload speed with satellite broadband that I'm looking in to.


Thanks you very much for reading, and i hope you can help a very frustrated person!!
 
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What file format is the movie in? Mpeg, avi etc?
You will always lose quality uplaoding to Youtube though, even using an HD format.
The size is decent at 2.7GB, but uploading it will take forever on that connection, though it will upload of course. I would reckon a 1mb upload connection would be plenty.
 
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What file format is the movie in? Mpeg, avi etc?
You will always lose quality uplaoding to Youtube though, even using an HD format.
The size is decent at 2.7GB, but uploading it will take forever on that connection, though it will upload of course. I would reckon a 1mb upload connection would be plenty.

Thanks! I ended up just exporting from iMovies, not exporting via quicktime, the quality was the same and then i uploaded to Vimeo with no loss at all! Thanks again
 

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