I wish I could help you out with the issue you stated but I'm far from being a "techie."

I think you did a great job with the video. It's not perfect but so few are. You got your point across and it's more personal than an article.

I felt the pain when you said "this is take 100" lol I just finished a 3-part video series for a product and each video took about 10 tries.

Odd...well I've never had that sort of Youtube problem...I've uploaded several video clips that didn't experience much of a distortion or loss of quality. I think I used some software called Ashampoo or something like that to shrink my video before sending it to Youtube...anyhow just passing by!

Raymond
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There are actually a few good Squidoo lenses on YouTube Video quality

For encoding one of the best free tools is http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/index.htm

Raymond,
I am using the MS Movie Maker to edit the footage, as it is saving a movie for the web affects the quality. After YouTube process it, the quality decreases even further.

Andy,
Thanks I think information there is good no matter where you choose to host your video.

If you noticed gentlemen, I went with blip.tv instead of blip. I really like what they hae to offer.

you can actually take in more information because its faster i might introduce that full scale i think steve pavlina wrote about it aswell