Hi there,

i recently bought some hardware and would like to start uploading LFS Videos on Youtube in HD Quality now.

I use the latest version of Fraps for recording in full resolution (1280x720) @ 30 FPS. My LFS is also set on 1280x720x16bit (32 bit is killing my fps really badly for some reason) with 8x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering while recording.
I render the footage in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 which is also configured to 1280x720(i ve tried all diferrent kinds of formats wmv,avi,mp4). Uploading the rendered footage on Youtube pretty much gives me the same result regardless of the format i choose.

The exact same file delivers a much nicer Quality on Vimeo.

However i'd like to use Youtube because its much more accesible for everyone.

Ive seen loads of incredibly high quality HD Vids on Youtube, l this one
and this one for instance.

i've seen lots of youtube tutorials on how to create HD Vids with Vegas. I've also read and adapted the "best formats for youtube" page on youtube itself.

Can you give me any hints on how to improve the quality on youtube?

Thanks in advance for any help.

H264 (use x264 codec in VirtualDub if Vegas doesn't supports it) 3000kbit/s two-pass.

Yeah i'm using H.264 allready, but thanks anyway!

Any other hints or suggestions ?

I think you are using 1-pass mode. That could be the problem.