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Animation looks bad in YouTube
I’ve tried a few different ways of rendering this and it always just looks bad in YouTube. This current upload was set to avi (Lossless) and I set the comp to 32 bpc. The file is over 3Gb for 10 seconds and it still looks awful. I tried slowing the animation right down but it doesn’t help. I guess YouTube compression methods means that it’s hard to have a lot of different smallish things moving with high definition but there aren’t even many colors here. Any suggestions or is it a case of just using Vimeo instead?
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what exactly bothers you about the export? without seeing at least a screenshot of the comp window before export we cant go without assuming it looks the way you wanted it to.
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Nothing bothers me about the export, it’s the way it looks in YouTube that I’m trying to improve by exporting it with settings that might help it to look better. It’s ok, I think I found the information that I’m looking for.
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I understood what you meant. What I was trying to say is the only reference you offered us was the YouTube upload. For that reason we have no way of determining what the differences are between between the export and the way that it looks after you’ve uploaded it to YouTube.
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Sorry for not being more thorough. Thanks for your assistance. The solutions that I’ve found are:
1. Try and export in 2k or 4k so that I get the VP9 codec rather than the crappy avc1 codec that YouTube normally tries to give.
2. Increase the bitrate to 2 or 3 times the YouTube recommended bitrate.
3. Schedule the video publish date to give YouTube more time to process the video.
4. Add mild noise / grain to the image if people have static parts to their video so that YouTube gives more data to those areas of the image.
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A static example from your main comp window would help.
I go through the same issue when shooting foilage.RED cameras, drones blah blah blah, they all hate shooting noisy patterns.
This is what I’m seeing with your video.
The compression can’t handle the motion and pixel changes.
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Exactly. The type of compression only looks for parts of the image that stays the same from frame to frame and persists that data so it doesn’t get written multiple times frame after frame. Therefore the non moving stuff looks very clear and in focus because the pixel data isn’t changing. It’s for this reason that when parts of the footage do move around a lot they tend to look blurrier than the areas of the footage that isn’t moving, when in fact it isn’t all that blurry. When sitting next to crystal clear non moving data however…
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Honestly, I don’t think you’ll be able to alter compression settings to improve this for YouTube.
Tom Scott did a video a little while ago talking about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
It’s more entertaining than problem solving, but it does highlight the issue you’re having. and of course, even if you get a great final result, doesn’t mean everyone will be watching at the maximum settings. Alternatively, have you considered larger or fewer moving objects?
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