music video

I made a music video in my video elective to accompany an artist's music called An Earth Tongue. I want to upload this video onto YouTube so I can then embed it onto An Earth Tongue's MySpace. I have had so much trouble trying to upload it onto YouTube. I naively tried to upload it just as it was when I'd finished editing it on Final Cut but discovered the file size was much too big. I looked into the type of file that YouTube preferred which are H.264, M PEG-2 or M PEG-4. I tried all these but found that video quality was drastically reduced; my video was a small pixelated mess once uploaded. I found that Stephanie was having difficulty with the same thing, and she had posted a short how to on our courses own sort of Wikipedia. She had used QuickTime to compress her video so it didnt take a thousand lightyears to upload onto the Internet. I tried this as well but still the video quality was rubbish. I ended up getting a technician to help and he suggested to keep the file as DV PAL as this is what I edited my video as. He also lowered the sound quality as I thought this could be compromised as it was already very good quality to begin with. And now, finally, I am uploading it and it is working, just quite slowly. Throughout this brief, I have found myself constantly waiting for videos to upload, videos to render and computers to sort themselves out after they have crashed on me because I've been uploading too much. Though I don't know how I'd cope without the kind of technologies I've been using recently, they do seem to drain a large chunk of your life away. And it also seems that when using a computer for even the simplest of tasks it will NEVER go exactly to plan. No matter how careful you are computers are temperamental little bastards, freezing and crashing at the slightest thing. I think the computer geniuses need to revise their invention and make it more human friendly. Because I know my mum still hardly uses a computer unless she has to, and it's because they are pretty hard to figure out and when you have to constantly wait she thinks she can do things quicker on her own.