What settings do you choose when you render?

[sachabapt]

Hi,

I've just bought myself a GoPro 8 black to film my bike trips.

I took 3 hours worth of footage yesterday and it looks good and all. However, when I export (render) it, everything looks smooshy and pixelated.

I shoot in 1080 - 60fps and I've tried different export settings, to no avail. Here's a pic showing how it looks in my video editor on the left (DaVinci), and on youtube on the right.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you could offer.

 

[R-Rated]

Hi,

I've just bought myself a GoPro 8 black to film my bike trips.

I took 3 hours worth of footage yesterday and it looks good and all. However, when I export (render) it, everything looks smooshy and pixelated.

I shoot in 1080 - 60fps and I've tried different export settings, to no avail. Here's a pic showing how it looks in my video editor on the left (DaVinci), and on youtube on the right.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you could offer.

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A few of us shoot the footage at 1080 or 2.7 and then upscale it when rendering to 4k with higher bitrates along the higher 4k as noted in this link:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en#zippy=,bitrate

This is mainly because YouTube throttles smaller channels as far as bitrate so upscaling tricks YouTube into letting us use the nicer Codec too.

Here is an older thread where it gets into the details why and how

https://motovlog.com/threads/making-1080p60-look-like-4k-by-getting-youtubes-bigger-bit-rate.17619/

You can also try increasing frame rate if you will be grabbing screenshot during the day.

One more piece of the puzzle is YouTube can take a good amount of time processing uploaded footage. I prefer to give the video a day or more to process up to full 4k before making the video available.

 

[HippoDrone]

Aye, as @R-Rated said, YouTube nerfs 1080 footage, so either record at 2.7k/4k, or record at 1080, but upscale it when editing. That will give you the VP9 codec on YouTube, which doesn't compress your videos so much.

 

[sachabapt]

thanks guys, I'll give all that a read