[Editor's Note, 7/20/12: After we published Jan's article, he received a note from Colleen Henry, Video Hacker, Google Video Infrastructure, with further recommendations for encoding for YouTube.
Uploading your work to user-generated content (UGC) sites like YouTube and Vimeo can be tricky. The great-looking brightly-lit video you start out with all to often turns into a badly-lit blob after ...