Well i bought a subscription to Vimeo because i always thought that the video quality there was slightly better than youtube … if you squint … kinda. Both sites allowed Half def 720p HD video. Until now that is. I read this post [ 1080p HD is coming to Youtube ] last week on the Youtube Blog and i’ve been dying to try it out. So i shot a little test clip in 1080 HD and have uploaded it to youtube. Now the weather conditions here are miserable and grey, hardly ideal! So i’m not sure how good this is gonna look.

I’m not sure how useful this is at the moment because i don’t know how many people have full HD monitors on their pc’s. My laptop is a full 1920×1080 HD screen but i hardly ever take advantage of it. Mostly because streaming a video that huge over the web eats at your bandwidth something shocking! And that’s the other thing, how many people have a connection fast enough to handle streaming full HD video? Mine isn’t.

But anyway, i’m going to start uploading everything in full HD from now on anyway because i’m sure there will come a point when it becomes the norm and at least it will save me re-uploading everything. Here’s my first test video shot and uploaded in 1080p. It looks how it does on the PC so Youtube haven’t destroyed the video. I just wish i’d had a better clearer video to demonstrate!

Click this link [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwkGwOMJy_s&fmt=37] and switch the video to full screen mode (the button just to the right of the HD button). At the moment to watch videos in 1080hd you aparrently have to add this to the end of the URL

&fmt=37

The settings i used in Sony Vegas Pro 9 are:

I shot the video in 25p CINE mode with the Vivid setting on, i also tweaked the levels in Vegas. Anyway, Render settings were:

Incidentally, i’ve also installed the new Flashplayer 10.1 which has made viewing these videos much smoother: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html