THE BEST EXPORT SETTINGS - YOUTUBE/VIMEO ETC

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knoxvillesjs

I know this has probably been covered a load of times but i cant actually seem to find any that work better then any others. So i want to personally hear your guys export settings for Youtube, or links to a decent article covering it.

For some reason i still cant get the crystal clear upload to youtube no matter how i go around it.

Im using FCP7 but welcome to ideas using external compressors or sorftware.
 
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I was reading somewhere dont know where that you should actually increase the bit rate target rather than use what Vimeo and Youtube recommend including the profile level, I havent tested this myself but I will be tomorrow and seeing how it goes, I will upload two clips and post them here including settings for results..
 
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They are but they are not correct. Not professionally anyway. Quality is always lost.

H.264 - V Bit Rate is not specific. There are plenty of options for this but none of them have been successful. I used MPEG Streamclip with some settings that worked better then the "Recommended H.264 settings" But still havnt nailed it. If you could link successful examples that would be great
 
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webm (I recently learned that is Google's codec - don't quote me though, I'm not sure it's 100% right). Whether or not you can export using this codec, though it'll still encode to h.264 anyway.

The are so many variables.

Part of the problem comes from encoding from a delivery codec like h.264. Doubly so when the bitrate has already been limited for delivery purposes.

It's not really feasible from my country as upload rates are slow and I also believe Youtube have file size upload limits, I remember a little while back that a tut suggested to export using an editing codec like ProRes. I'm not sure if DXxHD can be uploaded to Youtube, though I suspect it will accept. Using the higher quality source for Youtube to encode from is likely to give you a better video in the end, though you're uploading large files.

The quality of your source material may make this suggestion moot.

Test, test, test.
 
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