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Tips for exporting smooth, clean, clear video
I would like to say Good morning,good evening & good night to everyone that tries to help me with this.
I shoot video with my Canon 60D and edit my video with Adobe Premiere CS5. My problem is when I look at my video in Adobe Premiere it looks beautiful but when I export it to youtube it’s not so pretty or smooth.
I’ve seen other videos where the quality is flawless and smooth on youtube. I will post 2 examples below. Video#1 is my youtube video and Video#2 is the beautiful quality video that I want to achieve. Also Video#2 was edited using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
P.S.: OK, so before I posted this post I previewed it and my video looks outstanding BUT it looks great when 720p/1080p in the small youtube player on this page. If you hover over the top of the youtube video and click the link so that you are directed to watch my video on the actual youtube page you will see the lack of quality. Sigh
Please….I have another gig coming up and need advice
#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAfyYEX0Xnk#2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCbGwOsVAOMThank you
Jamie S.Quality over Quantity
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Did you use the YouTube presets in Media Encoder?
Shane
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The youtube presets don’t make the videos 1080p in Adobe Premiere CS5. So I manually set the settings closest to the original footage. For example if I shot in 1080 24fps, I’ll export 1080p 24fps…
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Then the issue is that your export is then RECOMPRESSED by YouTube, because it doesn’t match the format they use. I’ll wager that the videos you linked to did encode with newer versions of Media Encoder, or some other encoding software, that matches the settings YouTube requires.
Shane
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Hmmm. Well…I’m pretty lost from here. So what do I do?
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Get encoding software that has presets for YouTube. What, I’m not sure. I have Media Encoder from CS6, and that has those presets.
I found this though….
https://www.videomaker.com/article/17034-encoding-youtube-videos-at-the-highest-quality
https://webvideotechniques.com/35/how-to-encode-your-videos-for-youtubes-new-high-quality-option
Shane
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I will take a look at those. Thank you very much
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I actually have adobe cs5.5 & I believe 6. Only reason I never installed them is because I use Magic bullet looks and other plugins for CS5. I’m afraid if I install CS5.5 or 6 my plugins won’t work -_-
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Jamie,
I’m curious as to where exactly you are noticing the loss of quality.
What I’m noticing is in the first video some pixelation on the effect layer over the video in the into and in the second video some lines in the sky.
From my experience, I think those problems come from a low bitrate. When exporting for 1080p HD your bitrate should be 10,000 – 20,000 kbits/s.
My guess is that when YouTube converts your video, the lower bitrate starts to bring out the pixelation and lack of information in the sky, so I would try exporting with a high bitrate then uploading to YouTube and see how that looks.
Hope this helps. You may want to post your export settings also.
Morgan
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Thank you for replying. I don’t notice any quality loss AT ALL in the small youtube player above. I actually love how it looks here BUT when I watch the video on the normal youtube player size on the youtube website I see the quality loss.
Click the top of the video so that you can view it on the youtube website and you will see what I’m talking about.
Below is a screen shot of my exported settings
Thank you once again.
Looking forward to your responseQuality over Quantity
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Jamie,
The only problem I can see in your export is you are changing your frame size. I can see some quality loss on your subject’s motion, especially when the shots are darker, I think this is because it’s hard not to lose information in the blacks when encoding.
The only last suggestion I could give would be trying to export to a lossless format, such as quicktime .mov. .mp4 is a lossy file compression and possibly YouTube’s re-encoding of your video is leading to the quality loss.
This is getting a little above my knowledge level, but that would be the next thing that I would try.
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