(((Please))) I am getting low quality videos after exporting to youtube

[Angelo Lorenzo]

What are your export settings?

——————–
Angelo Lorenzo

Need to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
Introducing ProRes Helper, an awesome little app that makes it possible
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks
Can your post production question fit in a tweet? Follow me on Twitter

[Jamie Sinclair]

First off I would like to say thank you for replying back to my post. I really appreciate it. This is a screen shot of what I export with when I’m getting ready to export “to youtube”

Quality over Quantity

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Base your export off the “YouTube HD 1080p 23.97”

You’ll want to be using High Profile, and the lowest allowable level possible (4.0, I think in this case). High profile allows for some very small compression optimizations, and level is a rating of computing power to decode a video so there is no advantage to artificially setting it high.

Since you’re using a little higher max bitrate, I would scroll down and set your keyframe distance to match your framerate, 24 for instance.

Beyond that, you shouldn’t see drastic color shifts. Granted you may see some variability because you’re now viewing the video in different software once it’s on YouTube.

——————–
Angelo Lorenzo

Need to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
Introducing ProRes Helper, an awesome little app that makes it possible
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks
Can your post production question fit in a tweet? Follow me on Twitter

[Jamie Sinclair]

By the way thanks for all the help

(1)I’m a little new to video terminology so please bare with me. When you say “base your export off the “YouTube HD 1080p 23.97” what exactly do you mean?

(2)Also, what do you mean by setting my keyframe distance to match my framerate, 24 for instance? I don’t see a “keyframe distance” option

Quality over Quantity

[Angelo Lorenzo]

There is a preset for Youtbe called “YouTube HD 1080p 23.97”, select it and then tweak your bitrate settings.

If you scroll down in the settings window, the last possible option is keyframe distance. You may not have noticed there is more to this panel.

——————–
Angelo Lorenzo

Need to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
Introducing ProRes Helper, an awesome little app that makes it possible
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks
Can your post production question fit in a tweet? Follow me on Twitter

[Jamie Sinclair]

(1)I don’t see “YouTube HD 1080p 23.97”. I use Adobe Premiere CS5 so when I click the preset it shows “youtube widescreen hd”. When I click that preset it automatically makes my video output to 720p and changes the frame rate to 24 instead of the original “23.976. Do I change it back to it’s proper fps? Also, do I change the 720p back to 1080 and if the answer is yes, how do I go about doing that?

(2)Wow, I just noticed that there is a keyframe distance option. Thank you. So what ever fps I export my video to I change the keyframe distance to that same number?

(3)One more thing, what do you think is a good target and maximum bitrate in this case?

-Thank you for all this help and your patience

Quality over Quantity

[Jamie Sinclair]

Aww man. I forgot to show you a photo of what I see when I make the preset “youtube widescreen hd”. Well the photo is below. Thanks again

Quality over Quantity

[Jamie Sinclair]

I tried those settings and didn’t get what I was looking for. Is it possible I send you an entire “adobe premiere” project through email and you can test the exporting settings yourself to better understand what I’m going through? 🙁

Quality over Quantity

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Here is the preset from CS6 with notes on what I would alter:

Format: H264

Filter tab: everything off
Video tab:
1920×1080
match source FPS
progressive scan/no fields
square pixels
TV Standard doesn’t matter (it just tries to override your frame rates)
High Profile
Level 4

VBR 2 Pass (2 pass will gain you a good amount of quality over 1 pass but will be slower)
Target 8mbps
Max…. I like giving it an extra 30%, so 12mbps

Keyframe distance to match framerate (24 in this instance) or a distance of 12 if there is a lot of motion

Audio tab:
AAC
48000Hz
Stereo
High quality
320kbps

Multiplexer tab:
MP4
Standard
—–

If you still find you’re getting some softness then take your timeline and nest it in another timeline then apply an overall sharpening filter until you just start to see the effects at 100% zoom. This should keep things crisp as it gets reencoded by YouTube.

——————–
Angelo Lorenzo

Need to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
Introducing ProRes Helper, an awesome little app that makes it possible
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks
Can your post production question fit in a tweet? Follow me on Twitter

[Jamie Sinclair]

Thanks for the big tips! I’m going to try this now

Quality over Quantity