Youtube 1080p major loss of quality...

[phildobaggins]

After 20+ videos I find if I encode H.264 5000kbps 720p with a 1080p raw video it comes out pretty good when uploading. With the large player on youtube there is almost no degradation.

 

[Shirou]

Doesn't matter how much bitrate you set your encoder for the upload, youtube will recode at the same resolution but lower bitrate. That gives viewers a video that loads faster, consumes less space and bandwidth but looks blocky and nearly unwatchable in complex and fast-moving scenes. If there's rocks, grass, complicated structures and high speed on your video, expect your youtube viewers to see not more than a blocky colour mess.
That's how youtube works and there's no way around it.

 

[TheDirtyAmigos]

There is some great help in this thread! Thanks guys!

 

[janx101]

That's how youtube works and there's no way around it.

... Is so too!!! ... We all band together, hijack the worlds supercomputers, control all information everywhere, get rid of all the bloody cooking blogs and 'my kid is the cutest' friggin blogs.... Freeing up vast amounts of bandwidth!! ... Then we turn off YT ... And using their infrastructure plus additional cutting edge transmission tech we run a new video hosting website!!!

CosyoUkNowiTsSpecial.com

.... Easy!!

 

[TriumfAnt]

Doesn't matter how much bitrate you set your encoder for the upload, youtube will recode at the same resolution but lower bitrate. That gives viewers a video that loads faster, consumes less space and bandwidth but looks blocky and nearly unwatchable in complex and fast-moving scenes. If there's rocks, grass, complicated structures and high speed on your video, expect your youtube viewers to see not more than a blocky colour mess.
That's how youtube works and there's no way around it.

Shirou, do you have a recommended bit rate for uploading?
Cheers.

 

[Shirou]

Shirou, do you have a recommended bit rate for uploading?
Cheers.

Here, these are my settings.

Video: Variable bitrate, target 7, max 9 megabit per second.

 

[Cagerontwowheels]

My settings are pretty similar to shirou.
But I enconde at variable bitrate, target (which is average on sony vegas) 28(vegas: 28'000), maximum 50(vegas50'000).
Only vids I dont mind the lower quality I go with target 10- maximum18.
My 24 min testride of the kawa gtr1400 was... 4.5 gigs.
I've had to secretly buy a 3tb hard drive. (wife would kill me if she knew I shelled out 100€ for a HD so I dont have to delete footage).

 

[MrCods]

I've had to secretly buy a 3tb hard drive. (wife would kill me if she knew I shelled out 100€ for a HD so I dont have to delete footage).

Thankfully my wife understands the need for more space in that situation

 

[EN187]

h.264 all day! Tho I have noticed with my new gopro, quality goes to crap if there to to much detail in a filmed scene, lots of trees right now with no leaves, if there are to much the video looks like crap cuz the recorded bit rate cant handle it so it doesn't matter what i encode at..

 

[Riding Japan]

i did 6-8 at first and now am at around 8-12 i think its all good ballpark figures

some of my friends say needs to be 12+ for good quality but i don t want 1gb + for less than 10 min vid

 

[Temporary Citizen]

Premiere have a whole variety of presets for youtube, so i'll just put it in h.264 and use the youtube 1080p 29.97fps preset. seems to work fine, although in saying that, my internet speed is nowhere near good enough to watch youtube vids in their full HD glory

 

[janx101]

brought the work laptop and SSD drive (where my vlog stuff is stored) home .. dragged out a spare hard cable from the ADSL modem .... my upload speed at home sucks compared to work .... ... of course at work ive got solo access ... home is shared with up to 6 devices ...

and the file size this time is big ... 15min for 2.26gB .. but its for a good cause! ..

reporting at 28 hours till complete ... lucky its the long weekend!