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Render in full 1080 HD for YouTube?
I’ve tried Googling for the highest quality settings to render in 1080 for YouTube but I’ve found a hundred different templates and I’m not sure which to use. Is there even such thing as a ‘highest quality setting’ or does it depend on the original file type?
I’m trying to create a highlights reel of my Bad Company 2 gameplay and I use Fraps to record, which records the file basically into raw data with no compression.
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There really is no specific, yet recommended…
The fastest is the Sony avc, use Internet 720p 16×9 hd…
From there you might need to change some settings, for some odd reason, Sony avc, has lousy options for simplicity for rendering…
You will need to check the box that says render at project settings or sometimes you just need to type in the frame rate at which you captured your footage.. -
You really can’t predetermine the resolution of your video that YouTube will offer after it is finished “processing” (I.E. re-encoding). That’s a decision that is made by YouTube.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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YouTube will ALWAYS re-render your upload. So to an extent, you should upload in the best quality you can afford. The limits aren’t crazy… YouTube (last I checked) will take up to 2GB of upload, and unless you have a Director’s Account (which is no longer available, but if, like me, you applied long ago, you still have this), you are limited to clips of 10min or less.
YouTube will handle many formats, but it’s pretty AVC friendly. For anything online, you want progressive video if you have it. Knowing the limited bandwidth, I tend to render to 24p or 30p, depending on how it was shot. For 720p, I usually render AVC at 6Mb/s… YouTube’s 720p runs around 2Mb/s, so you may not get much better video with a higher bitrate, but it depends on the material.
I did a couple of 1080p uploads last summer that passed whatever test YouTube does to give you 1080p back… these were encoded at 20Mb/s using the MainConcept VBR encoder (the Sony encoder doesn’t do VBR and doesn’t do 20Mb/s). They looked pretty good for YouTube, but once you get to 1080p, YouTube is generating a video rate many clients can’t stream (even when you have 10-12Mb/s service, you may not have a clear path to YouTube’s servers that can maintain 6Mb/s or whatever they’re running for their version of 1080p).
-Dave
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