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Problem exporting 24p footage… for Youtube
Hello,
I’m having a problem with a music video I’m trying to export. We shot it on the Panasonic HVX200, on tape, 480/24p. I’ve exported it for my web site, no problem, it looks great (I believe I used Compressor for this).
I tried using the same file to upload my video to Youtube (actually tried it on Myspace first, because the band wants to upload it to their Myspace page, but they’d be fine with embedding a Youtube video). On both Youtube and Myspace, the vid looks really gross — kind of blurry, grainy, and with a few glitches in the video.
Here’s how I exported it:
From Compressor: Streaming -> Quicktime 7 compatible -> H.264 800kbps
Kept all default options, except for size – changed to 320×240.
I got a good looking Quicktime but it looked gross on Youtube/Myspace. I believe this is the one I used for my web site as well, because it is a relatively small file size.Also tried: From Final Cut Pro:
Export – > Quicktime Conversion
Clicked options, clicked Video Settings: unchecked Frame Reordering, Optimized for Streaming, restrict to 1000 kbps, and the compression setting is H.264.
Changed size to 320×240 and checked “deinterlace source video”.
Got a bigger file size (about 85 MB) but still under the 100 MB limit for Youtube, yet it still looks grainy and gross.
I’ve exported videos with these settings before and they’ve looked great on youtube.I’ve also tried exporting using Compressor and keeping the original size of 640×480 and it looked exactly the same.
Anyone have a clue what I’m doing wrong? I’ve exported videos for Youtube before and haven’t had any problems, which is why I’m wondering if it has something to do with it being 24p — maybe my export settings need to be different.
Oh, and in case it helps, if you want to take a look at the video in question, here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSLS5aSVX9g
Let me know if anyone has any insights. Thank you! 🙂
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Update: I tried uploading it to Vimeo and it looks much better. The graininess is gone, though there are still a few lines (glitches) that show up every now and then, mostly when the camera’s moving (and it moves a decent amount). I came across a few other forum posts on the web where people had similar problems with 24p footage and youtube, it must just be something that it doesn’t process well. That’s my guess anyway..
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Try a higher bit rate than 800, like 1500 or even 2000, and at 640×480. YouTube accepts up to 100MB for direct uploads. Since you shot in a low resolution you need as much quality in the encode as you can get.
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Hi William,
Thanks for the response!
I forgot to mention it in my post but when I exported using Quicktime Conversion, I tried a few different bitrates… 2000 and 1200 made it too big for youtube, 1000 made it under 100 MB but it still looked the same on youtube as the Compressor 800kbps, even though the file size was substantially larger.
The 1000 bitrate QT was the one I uploaded to vimeo last night and it looks good except for some video skips and glitches in places — but its not grainy. I think vimeo lets you upload 500 MB a week — so possibly >100 MB file sizes… maybe if I try a higher bitrate on vimeo, it’ll take care of the glitchiness?
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