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  • Open Blender.
  • Set your green cursor to the 0+00 frame.
  • Go to Add-->Movie.Add→Movie. Image Added
  • You only need to worry about your set frames-per-second (in Blender) being wrong if the video and audio clips show up as different lengths.
  • If you have multiple clips:
    • Set the green cursor to the end of the first clip, then do "Add → Movie".
    • The new clip and its audio should be automatically selected.
    • Press "g" (Grab) and then "y" (restrict movement to the y axis) and drag it up to a higher sequence.
      • Note that you do not need to click and hold to drag the selected clip.  Just move the mouse up without clicking.
  • Set the X and Y dimensions to 640x480. YouTube will adjust the video to look right with a wider screen.
  • Set the number of frames to 500 and do test runs to make sure everything looks and sounds right.
  • Determine the total number of frames through trial-and-error.
  • I used the following Encoding (output) settings: (it took some trial-and-error to get something that looked and sounded right) Image Added
    • Container: AVI
    • Codec: H.264
    • Output quality: Perceptually lossless
    • Encoding speed: Medium speed

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