If you use a frame rate that is too high when you export iMovie for use on YouTube, the picture will look muddied and pixelated. What’s too high? 30 frames per second.

When you ‘Share’ or export an iMovie, choose Expert Settings. You will get a quick message that the iMovie is compressing the video, but then a settings window is displayed.

YouTube preparation work well with the following settings:
Compression: H.264
Quality: medium
Frame rate: 15 fps
Frame reordering: yes
Encoding mode: multipass
Dimensions: 320×240  (also using 640×480)

Sound:
Format: AAC
Sampling rate: 48.000 kHz
Channels: Stereo (L R)
Bit rate: 160 kbps

Perpare for Internet Streaming: Fast Start

Frame rates at 15 fps show a little jump, but these settings keep the file size smaller and prevent muddy pictures with pixellations. Keep in mind that scenes with lots of color and motion contain a lot more information in each frame and are more likely to be pixellated or muddy from frame to frame — sometimes even at 15 fps.

Most outlinks from The Cardinal are set to show a balloon pop-up from Snap.com that shows a mini-view of the web page that corresponds to the link on the arlingtoncardinal.blogharbor.com page.

If your privacy settings block pop-ups in Internet Explorer, the mini-view balloons from Snap.com will not appear.

You can still block pop-ups, but allow the Snap.com balloons to appear by controlling your Privacy settings as follows:

Go to the Tools menu in Internet Explorer and select Internet Options.
Click on the Privacy tab to see the following displayed on your computer:

Next, click on the Settings button in the lower right of the Privacy window to see the following displayed on your computer:

Type “snap.com” (without quotes) in the “Address of Web site to allow:” field.
Next click the Add button and *.snap.com will appear in the “Allowed sites:” list field.
Click the Close button to finish.

Firefox and Apple’s Safari browser will still show the Snap.com balloon pop-ups even if pop-ups are set to be blocked.

The pop-up balloons also have settings buttons in the upper-right of the balloons that lead to controls that can disable the pop-balloons.

One of the new streetlight fixtures situated about 8 feet above the sidewalk was burning at the northeast corner of Northwest Highway and Vail Avenue about 6 p.m. Thursday. The clear plastic light housing and light bulb fixture were destroyed.

A wheelchair was reported stolen by a man who fled in a silver Ford F-150 about 6 p.m. Thursday evening at the Jewel-Osco at 1860 South Arlington Heights Road, near Golf and Arlington Heights Road [MAP/SAT].