This is all very helpful to me, as I am learning more and more about this process, but I was wondering, if the video is not coming from a camera at all, but being ripped from commercial dvds - Do you have any suggestions regarding what settings would be best for uploading my video to youtube - the files are all .avi with a DivX Codec and the video is about 3 minutes long, and I've been messing around for ages, but the quality is never what I aim for, which is probably this:
YouTube - Learning to Stand and the Mirror Stage
If you have any ideas, I would greatly sppareciate it