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  How does one select an appropriate bitrate?

  Posted by Sergei Sokolov on April 20, 2020 at 10:51 pm

  I don’t even know what it is.

  I do know that it affects file size.

  I tested different bitrates with sample video of me fixing a laptop.

  129000 kbps = good
  10000 kbps = good
  4000  kbps = good
  2000 kbps = just starting to pixelize
  300 kbps = full pixelized

  Does this depend on the machine viewing the video?

  What situations require different bitrates? When would you ever choose 300? Does it depend on what is in the video? Static interview vs. panning movement?

  Dimitrios Papadimitriou replied 6 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dimitrios Papadimitriou

  April 21, 2020 at 1:50 am

  So I’m not an expert on bitrates, I wish I was because I feel like my render typically are not looking as good as they should but this is partially because I use the MAGIX AVC and maybe also the NV Encoder, everyone says the old sony ones are better but they take a lot longer to render. Typically the bitrate being higher will make something look better, richer color depth and stuff like that. I don’t think rendering footage at a bitrate higher than the source footage will yield anything other than a larger file. I believe resolution and frame rate has an effect on what the bitrate should be. Over here you can see some youtube recommendations.

  https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

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