Is there any way to get good YouTube quality without rendering in HD?

[John Rofrano]

[Katey Jones] “So is there any way to get that same 720p quality without actually rendering in HD? I’ve tried rendering in 360p and 480p but it doesn’t seem to work as well. The quality is still poor.”

Have you tried using the Internet 640×480-30p template under Sony AVC in Vegas Pro 10? I haven’t used those but they were made by Sony for sites like YouTube so they should work well.

~jr

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[Danny Hays]

John, maybe you can help me here too. When I upload a 1080p video to youtube, it takes much longer for the youtube player buffer to fill than other peoples 1080p videos. Any idea how I can get the same results as them? As always, thanks. Danny Hays

[Katey Jones]

I don’t seem to have that listed under Sony AVC.
All I have are these:
https://i53.tinypic.com/15yycf9.png

[John Rofrano]

[Danny Hays] “John, maybe you can help me here too. When I upload a 1080p video to youtube, it takes much longer for the youtube player buffer to fill than other peoples 1080p videos. Any idea how I can get the same results as them? “

Danny, I have never delivered 1080p to YouTube. Personally, I see no need for it . 720p looks great and loads quickly, so I’ve never pursued it (sorry). It’s anyone’s guess what YouTube does with our videos once we upload them. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. I would send a message to someone who’s video loads faster than yours and ask what they do.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Katey Jones] “I don’t seem to have that listed under Sony AVC.”

What version of Vegas are you using?

~jr

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[Katey Jones]

Sony Vegas Pro 8.

[John Rofrano]

[Katey Jones] “Sony Vegas Pro 8.”

OK Katey, try this… create a Sony AVC template that looks just like this one:

I started with the Memory Stick SD NTSC widescreen – 2128 Kbps template and made the following changes:

Change Video format from Memory Stick to AVC
Change Frame size from NTSC (720×480) to (Custom frame size)
Change Width to 640
Change Height to 360
Change Profile from Main to Baseline
Change Entropy coding from CABAC to CAVLC
Change Field Order from Upper field first to None (Progressive)

Then give it a name like Internet 640×360-30p and save it. Let me know how this works out because I’ve never uploaded anything but 720p on YouTube. This should make a Vegas Pro 8.0 template that is the equivalent of the Internet 640×360-30p template in Vegas Pro 10.0.

~jr

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[Al Bergstein]

I agree with John on this. I don’t ever send my HD footage to Youtube any higher than 720p. Not worth it. Hell it looks great in 360! Downgrading to 640×360 can work fine, and if you shoot with good lighting and sound you should see great stuff. Take a look at an HD video I shot last year, and put on YouTube at 720p. It looks great. All mistakes are my fault, not the fault of the resolution. I only use 1080 for BluRay disk showings.

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

Alf

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[Katey Jones]

Works great! Thanks! 🙂

[John Rofrano]

[Katey Jones] “Works great! Thanks! :)”

Cool… that one’s a “keeper” I guess. 🙂 Thanks for getting back to us.

~jr

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