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My videos seem blurry and I don’t know how to fix them.
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One thing to always remember. If your encode from Vegas looks good but the Youtube result does not then there is nothing you can do. It is what it is.
Youtube re-encodes everything uploaded and their bitrate, like all internet video servers, is quite low and some source material just does not compress well enough to maintain quality. When the bitrate is not enough you see quality drop but then it usually comes back up when the source material compresses better.
So you can look at someone else’s video and it seems fine, and you can use their exact encode and upload process, but it may not help your video because your source material is not exactly theirs.
The “internet” templates in Mainconcept AVC and Sony AVC are a good place to start. If one wants a smaller file to upload, then going to x264 via Handbrake or ffmpeg or similar is another way to go. Not sure how much time this might save. With the former you can be uploading while with the later you need a second encode before you can start an upload. It depends on the size of the upload and your internet speed.
This site and others need a “sticky” thread at the top since this video game, low quality, Youtube result question comes up most every week.
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What do you mean source material is not theirs?
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[Norman Black] “So you can look at someone else’s video and it seems fine, and you can use their exact encode and upload process, but it may not help your video because your source material is not exactly theirs.”
[Sebastian Hernandez] “What do you mean source material is not theirs?”
Your video is not exactly like the other one you are comparing to. Each frame in succession is not the same between your video and some other game video you are comparing to on Youtube.
Video compression in codecs like AVC/H.264 is highly variable and the amount of compression that can be done really depends on the exact sequence of video frames and how similar those frames are. The bitrates offered by Youtube/Vimeo are quite low and the get a quality level most would consider “high” your video needs to be capable of high compression. Otherwise quality suffers noticeably.
Most video game material has very jerky movement which is difficult to compress. First person type movement also is more difficult to compress.
I have direct experience first person movement. With my GoPro mounted to my mountain bike that is first person movement. My camera footage is crisp. My renders from Vegas are crisp. Internet video is only just okay. Stabilization helps in my circumstance.
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But there has to be something I am doing or some way to fix this. You can clearly see in this video of mine the blurry/pixelated areas that happen.\\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxLe1wE3uI
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You seems to not fully understand what is being said to you here!
Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
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