Uploading To YouTube?

[USNFilms]

Hey all,

As a young filmmaker I haven't got into distribution and such yet, but to earn off my videos I upload my films to YouTube and I make money because I'm a YouTube partner. I just recently bought a Rebel T3i to up my quality and my videos now have great HD! But it seems like once I put them on YouTube the quality is degraded soo much.

I watched my most recent video on 360p on youtube then I watched another video on youtube with 360p that had was filmed with the same camera and it was of a much higher quality.

I didn't do much color correcting or anything to degrade the image, as the video looks great when I play it on my computer. I'm just assuming that maybe the format (H.264) isn't good for youtube.

My Question: What is the best format and render settings for getting the best possible quality on YouTube?

I don't care if it will give me a huge file size or take a long time to render because my computer with 16gbs of ram can handle it

Thanks

 

[rayw]

Can you post links to both youtube videos?
We may end up contacting the otehr uploader and shaking him/her down for intel.

I've also experienced varying qualities of uploads even with identical camera, NLE, file save and upload settings. (RRRgh!)

So if I/we can figure out some method to the madness that'd be super-duper great.

 

[sonnyboo]

Use 1920x1080 HD in the H.264 format with an average bit rate of 15mps. My vids turn out pretty good even at 360 at that setting for upload to YouTube (in the last year or so).

Your bit rate needs to be higher in order to have more pixels to downres to 360.

 

[USNFilms]

Use 1920x1080 HD in the H.264 format with an average bit rate of 15mps. My vids turn out pretty good even at 360 at that setting for upload to YouTube (in the last year or so).

Your bit rate needs to be higher in order to have more pixels to downres to 360.

When I rendered my last video I did do H.264 format with a max and target bit rate of 300!!

The vid looked great on my computer but not soo good when on youtube

 

[USNFilms]

Can you post links to both youtube videos?
We may end up contacting the otehr uploader and shaking him/her down for intel.

I've also experienced varying qualities of uploads even with identical camera, NLE, file save and upload settings. (RRRgh!)

So if I/we can figure out some method to the madness that'd be super-duper great.

well here is mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy6UBlhkfyc

compared to these two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEnMN02d1E8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ4FGm9Fwvg

 

[superamazing]

I love conversations like this.

You know, I thought your video looks fine, compression-wise! I mean, if the compression messed up, you would see block and staircase artifacts, jittering or strobing, banding and mosquito noise, and I didn't notice any of these things. All I noticed was that softness that comes with lower-res video.

Are you sure you're not subconsciously comparing the grading, cinematography and so forth in these videos?

 

[superamazing]

By the way, YouTube recommends mp4 files with the h.264 codec.

I think they mentioned that they'd like you to submit videos with their the highest possible resolution and bitrate, provided it's under the upload limits. The limit is 2 gigabytes per upload, I believe (it might be different for partners).

One more thing--are you sure you are losing quality in your upload step? Because a more likely place to lose quality could be the export from your NLE.

In other words, are you sure these problems aren't already present in your original rendered file?