Best codec for youtube?

[Marklegg1001]

Hi, filmed music video (4min.) with HVX (720p, 23.98). Edited with FCP. Need to export to youtube (and stay under the 100mb limit).

What is the best way to export and keep the quality without getting a pixelated video that studders and looks like crap?

Do I need to convert 23.98 to 29.97 for web? or can I stay in 24p?

Tried using mpeg4, but it just looks bad.
Any good sites with this info?

thanks

[anonymez]

Welcome to the forum

IIRC Youtube re-encodes to Flash anyway, the best you can do is encode to Xvid or Divx AVI, allowing for a quicker upload. You'll probably want to resize to 320x240 in the process too.