ggFTW - Youtube's HD Widescreen Settings

For your own needs :X
Compression H 264 (Must) <--- MPEG 4 Formats (DivX, Xvid, H.264) H 264 is best because of its flexibility and compression
Frame Rate : Current or 24-30 (Suggested)
Key Frames : Automatic
Data Rate : Restrict to 1000 - 6000 kbits/sec (2000-4000 suggested) [Longer videos, less bit rate]
Optimized for : (Any) Downloading or Streaming or CD/DVD or none
Best Quality Multi-pass (Suggested) or
Faster Encode Single-pass + High/Best Quality (Above 64%)
Export Size : 1280x720 16:9 HD (Suggested) or 1280x720(800)
Sound Compression : AAC (Stereo) (Suggested)
Rate : 36 000 - 44.100 kHz (Suggested)
Quality : Normal (Suggested), Better or Best
MPEG 4 AAC LC Encoder Settings :
Average (Suggested) or Constant Bit Rate
Target Bit Rate : 96 kbps, 112 kbps, 128 kbps, 144 kbps, 160kbps, 192 kbps (suggested) , 224 kbps or 256 kbps (suggested), 320kbps (Suggested)

The recording usually takes 130 KB to 750KB per second.
No bigger than 1.12 GB.
Processing should take 10 to 40 minutes.
High Quality &fmt=18 &fmt=6 will be avaliable once processed, immediately but it might or not show up under your video.
High Definition &fmt=22 will be avaliable after a second round of encoding, 10 to 20 minutes after the video is broadcasted, this option will be avaliable and all three options will be avaliable : Low Quality (Standard), High Quality (Requires &fmt=18), or High Definition (Sometimes audio is unsynced or some choppiness occurs because of High CPU Usage) - Full screen [720p]/Standard [380p]

&ap=%2526fmt%3D2 and [ythd] for embedding tags