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  After effects export plays fine on PC.. but problems in youtube

  Posted by Emmanouil Stav on August 18, 2017 at 11:14 pm

  Hello everyone,

  I am new here so please pardon any miscommunication on my side. I have a client that has asked me to edit together various shutterstock footage and add some titles. When I export the sequence it plays fine on media player, vlc and quicktime. Now when I upload to youtube it plays fine on my laptop and my mobile but on my pc some of the shots have a weird scanline(see video link). Of course it could be a problem with my computer screen but why is the bug on specific shots of the entire video even though I have tried most of the exports youtube supports.

  Comp settings fps 29.97 – 1920 x 1080
  Video on the link fps 29.97 – 1920 x 1080

  The composition has various frame rates(shutterstock footage) but this particular video has the same settings as the comp settings so why the scanline? Shouldn’t it be playing fine since the other video clips play fine?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKtsVw5YB5A

  I appreciate any help / advise

  Best

  Remus Hosu replied 8 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mark Whitney

  August 19, 2017 at 2:44 am

  You don’t mention what bit rate you used. Take a look here for the guidelines:

  https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171
  and
  https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6375112?hl=en&ref_topic=2888648

  YouTube will ALWAYS re-encode no matter what you upload so there not sense in going overboard with the bit rate. You want to at least get it close to what they’re looking for to begin with. YouTube will eventually generate the other lower versions as well. My experiments led me to go with H.264 (MP4), and a bit rate between 2-3 Mbps for YouTube uploads.

  I’ve never seen the anomaly in your example but you might check back in a day or so & see if the problem is still there. If so, remove it & try the above info.

  You could get in touch with Youtube tech support I suppose, but when they did get back to you, they’ll of course refer you to their guidelines to start off.

  Maybe a few other’s here have more insight.
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  Remus Hosu

  August 20, 2017 at 10:26 am

  I recommend you go with MP4 (H264) with 8Mbs, VBR1. I know that Youtube likes this encoding, haven’t had any problems so far. Try to render with Adobe Media Encoder, there’s a preset you can use:

  https://bluefx.net/after-effects-cc-render-setup-for-youtube-part2/

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