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Totally unable to get a good render on youtube!
I’ve always had problems with my videos on youtube, and at this point I’m forced to wonder if it’s actually a problem with sony vegas. Throughout the years using vegas I’ve tried many different render settings, but none of them result in a good looking youtube video. I really would appreciate help because my latest project, which is mostly just still images, are being turned into a blurry mess, even when the bitrate is overkill.
For a long time I was using these settings:
(Mainconcept AVC/AAC) Resulting in a large 8GB file
https://i.imgur.com/zeAAUMD.jpg
But today I’ve been experimenting with different settings which I found from this very site.
Sadly the quality is even worse. Resulting in a 3GB file.
Notably changing deinterlace mode to ‘none’ and using Sony AVC/MVC
https://i.imgur.com/z7UqaDs.jpgThe only thing that these render settings don’t have that youtube recommends is, I think, is ‘Video codec: H.264’ but I’m not sure how I’d go about that.
I just can’t figure out why these settings aren’t good. They seem to follow exactly what youtube requires. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en
Here are youtubes suggested specs, but I feel like the main one is bitrate which you’ve been going super heavy on. I don’t think you need the bitrate that high, maybe go around 10-15 million bps, try enabling 2 pass encoding and see if that helps.
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Sony avc uses H264.
Post a link to one of your YouTube videos so we can have a look at your quality problem.
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I know the bitrate is overkill, but why would that do anything other than decrease the chance the quality would be bad when it goes through youtube? It’s already destroying the quality on simple images when the bitrate is so high, so I don’t see how lowering the bitrate would help.
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Here are some comparisons showing the youtube upload vs the render. Apart from one part with the black smoke transition which is shown in the image, the video should be incredibly simple for youtube. It’s just still images and yet it acts like there’s a lot going on. There are also green streaks which I can’t figure out. Clearly youtube is handling the colour differently.
https://i.imgur.com/mBJwWuH.jpg
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Ah, black smoke youtube compression is not great with similar colored blotches that are moving. So things like sky, water, a bunch of smoke, a bunch of fire can tend to look not so great. I’m not saying reducing the bitrate will increase quality, just that increasing it may not be helping either.
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It really is minimal smoke though. I mean, there are far more intensive videos on youtube and they don’t suffer from the same blurryness and artifacts. I mean, are my settings correct? They look so.
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Can’t seem to find the edit post option but I should say the smoke is literally for 5 seconds and it’s just a normal transition, not anything intensive from after effects.
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