Ideal Bitrate For 720p And 1080p On Youtube?

[Gnarling]

I have been using 15mbit for 720p and 18mbit for 1080p lately and they seem to come out really clean, but if I go and try 11-12mbit for whatever reason on 720p it becomes muddy. I haven't bothered with going lower than 18mbit for 1080p for obvious reasons.

Has anyone found the golden ratio? I'm still new to the post processing department so any help is appreciated.

 

[thunderous71]

Same as you myself. I have found if you upload a file that is huge to youtube it sometimes recompresses the buggery out of it.

 

[SwissMotard]

Whatever your camera records at.

 

[Gnarling]

Whatever your camera records at.

I'm more speaking about the quality to size ratio. a 25mbit video that's 5 minutes long is well over 2gbit and my net is awful.

 

[Marbro_za]

best quality is what the cam records at.... how can you make it 25, when your cam only does 15?

or am i missing something here?

 

[SwissMotard]

best quality is what the cam records at.... how can you make it 25, when your cam only does 15?

or am i missing something here?

I don't think you are.

 

[Gnarling]

best quality is what the cam records at.... how can you make it 25, when your cam only does 15?

or am i missing something here?

I don't think you are.

The bitrate on the hero3+ silver is 25k @720p . I tend to set it to 15 when I finish editing so it's a smaller file size. Or at least I thought it was 25k, I could be wrong. I know it's lower for 1080p.

 

[SwissMotard]

25Mbps is only for protune 1080p for the Hero 3+ Silver. 720p will be way less.

Right click on a video and check out the advanced tab to see the bitrate.

 

[Gnarling]

25Mbps is only for protune 1080p for the Hero 3+ Silver. 720p will be way less.

Right click on a video and check out the advanced tab to see the bitrate.

Yep. says 22mbit for 1080p. Weird, didn't know that.

 

[SighBored]

To be honest, I usually just leave it as the default and never bother to check. I uploaded a video, almost 14GB to YouTube, turned out fine, I think.