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5 years ago

Tech - youtube video quality

I just want to ask what quality you guys upload to youtube? I understand yt will compress quality, but is there any does and don'ts?

I create several sorts of videos on my channel, but I hardly ever watch my own uploads. Yesterday I did watch my latest "screenshots folder" video, and I was quite disappointed with the quality compared to what I see on my local pc. These vids are very short, less than 3 minutes, and there is only screenshots - no moving pictures except from a few transitions. There is music, too. All in all I would expect a pictures vid to need less compression, and less quality loss. But no, it looked rather bad, so there must be a better way for me to extract/upload these vids. But how should it be done?

I use Filmora wondershare editor to edit and extract. I normally save with "best quality" but for these vids I sometimes do "better quality" because of reasons mentioned above.

Is there any way I should alter my videos more before uploading them? I don't expect top quality on youtube, but I've seen vids on there with much better quality than mine - almost the quality I see on my local computer. So how is that possible?

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  • The screenshots video looks okay to me and your sims world is so detailed with so many sims with stories ... :o , but I think I see what you mean when I look at one of your old videos. The difference is super subtle, though, so I'm not sure. I'm sorry I can't be of much help.

    Maybe experiment with different upload settings or try to export/save the video with settings that are optimized for YT or extract directly from your editor to YT.

    Good luck!

    Thanks for the sweet comment on my video too.
  • Thanks for lots of useful input. Hm, could it be my computer messing up? Just don't see the relevance. I'll experiment some more with settings.

    Thanks again.
  • Yes, do absolutely try to save a video with 60fps and in 1080p, then upload to youtube and check for a difference. A panning shot might be the ideal test video :)
  • I've not done this so can't vouch for accuracy but a number of creators I speak with do not trust the YouTube encoding process for 1080p HD videos to maintain the best possible quality.

    What several of them do is record and upload in 4K resolution as, I'm told, YouTube handles this higher resolution better and even when it 'downscales' for 1080p the video will end up looking better, and more faithful to your original. If that helps at all. ?
  • "ajaxpost;c-17844828" wrote:
    I've not done this so can't vouch for accuracy but a number of creators I speak with do not trust the YouTube encoding process for 1080p HD videos to maintain the best possible quality.

    What several of them do is record and upload in 4K resolution as, I'm told, YouTube handles this higher resolution better and even when it 'downscales' for 1080p the video will end up looking better, and more faithful to your original. If that helps at all. ?


    Thanks @Ajaxpost ! That's exactly the kind of facts I'm needing. There is obviously something weird with the upload/compressing of my latest vids, and uploading as lower qualit than I do, might actually help. I gotta test this when I'm back from Easter vacation.

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