I need help putting HD videos on youtube?

Alright, so i got this new camera that shoots in HD. When I put the clips on my computer they are Quicktime Movie Files (MOV.). I wanted to edit these clips on Windows Movie Maker, but since this type of file is not supported, I converted the files to WMV. This really lowered the quality of my clips, so I downloaded a better movie editing software that supported MOV. files. So after I finished making my movie, I went to File>Internet>Youtube>”Upload current film as video”, and as it was sending it, it converted the whole movie to WMV. so it was the same problem as before. So, can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks.
Yea, what i don’t get is how to put it on youtube.
The clips are MOV. format.

YouTube suggests regular video formats be
MPEG4 at 480×360, recorded together with
sound in MP3 audio, all at a rate more than
24 frames per second. Other files which are
acceptable are AVI, MPG, MOV and WMV.

Here is the relevant YouTube reference and
full URL address, followed by the direct link:

www . google . com / support / youtube / bin / answer . py ? hl = en & answer = 91450

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=91450

If you want your video to be “widescreen” at
a 16:9 ratio and with the high-quality option,
then please consider all of this:

Just about all digital video recorders (DVRs)
function using 720×480 “rectangular” pixels.
Computers have lots of different resolutions,
but they all utilize “square” pixels. As such,
Flash “encoders” can’t always compensate
or properly adjust for the difference. Just as
important, lots of downloaders & converters
render uploaded videos “fuzzy-looking” with
rather large square pixels that look as if the
videos were recorded using 120×90. This is
particularly noticeable when there is motion
in the video, or during slide show montages,
when still photos/images segué from one to
another.

DVRs and Hypercams are not “widescreen”,
nor does “widescreen” mean high-quality or
high-resolution. The only thing “widescreen”
really means is a “more rectangular” shape.

YouTube accepts file sizes up to 1,024 MB,
so it is now much easier to upload larger or
HQ/HR (high-quality/high-resolution) videos.
Everything on YouTube is, by default, “high
quality”; so you shouldn’t be worrying about
what you have to do in order to achieve HQ.
If your video is HQ enough, it will be offered
on YouTube as high-quality.

YouTube’s old ideal at the very beginning of
summer was 640×480. It seems reasonably
close to the 720×480 resolution of the DVR,
but YouTube really scales all of their videos
“down” to 480×360 (or 640×360 widescreen,
which is the new size of the player window).

Because the ratio may now also be at 16:9,
those types of videos can also be uploaded
at 480×270, 640×360, 864×486 or the really
massive 1280×720 — which is really overkill
for no practical gain. The best option surely
is 640×360. Because the aspect would still
be 16:9, you might get higher-quality videos
by scaling down to the lower number with a
video encoder that’s “high-quality”, such as
a codec that’s H.264, Xvid, Divx or MPEG-4.
This would then accomplish several results:
– a smaller file (thus faster uploading)
– YouTube also has less to “process”
– you control the final scaling of pixels
– the video gets high-quality encoding.

The exact same thing is true is you were to
use 480×360 for regular videos because not
only would that aspect ratio still be 4:3, the
height of the new player is 360 pixels.

I hope that my answer helps you somehow.

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