Vegas / Youtube Pixelation

[John Bolton]

Can you provide us with the Media format you are using and what render settings.

If you use the utility called MediaInfo https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo , let us know what the various details are.

With this it will be clearer as to the issue as normally most YouTube videos are relatively pixelated free..

[Rick Potter]

Thanks for the response. Mediaarea is really neat! Here is my youtube video that has pixelation. I see other drone videos that don’t have the pixel blur, so I know it can be done. Comments appreciated. Rick
https://youtu.be/tZVuzq_tgJI

Mediaarea info from original file from my Q500 drone. 1080 60p
11349_sourcemp4fromdrone.txt.zip

Mediaarea info from rendered Vegas 13 file then uploaded to Youtube:
11350_renderedfileuploadedtoyoutube.txt.zip

Original Drone file data:
General
Complete name : E:\Missile base and #8 golf course\Source.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp42/isom)
File size : 1.76 GiB
Duration : 5 min 0 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 50.3 Mb/s

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4.2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 5 min 0 s
Source duration : 5 min 0 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 50.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 59.940 (59940/1000) FPS
Original frame rate : 59.940 (60000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Source stream size : 1.72 GiB (98%)
Title : Yuneec AVC
Language : English
Color range : Full
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
mdhd_Duration : 300437

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 5 min 0 s
Source duration : 5 min 0 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Nominal bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Source stream size : 1.63 MiB (0%)
Title : Yuneec AAC
Language : English
mdhd_Duration : 300523

Rendered file from Vegas 13 uploaded to Youtube file data:
General
Complete name : E:\Missile base and #8 golf course\#8 golf Course.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp42/isom)
File size : 144 MiB
Duration : 53 s 370 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 22.6 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2016-10-02 18:09:50
Tagged date : UTC 2016-10-02 18:09:50

Video
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=High@4.0
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 53 s 370 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 22.3 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 26.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 59.940 (60000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.179
Stream size : 142 MiB (99%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2016-10-02 18:09:50
Tagged date : UTC 2016-10-02 18:09:50

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 53 s 355 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 2.04 MiB (1%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2016-10-02 18:09:50
Tagged date : UTC 2016-10-02 18:09:50

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[John Bolton]

is it possible to take short video with your drone ( maybe a couple of minutes fast and slow moving ) and upload it so I/We can download original video and have a close look at it.

[Danny Hays]

I’ve seen posts about this problem many times. Mostly with gamer’s that use a really high frame rate screen capture app. Have you seen any 1080 60p youtube videos with that much detail, (Green landscape) with that kind of fast motion without pixelization issues? I suggest you make several 30 second samples rendered at different formats and bitrates, then upload each and see which gives you the best results. Also are you downloading the youtube videos with this problem to see if it’s a streaming issue. Hope this helps, Danny Hays

Danny Hays
Samples of my Work can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ErnestDaniels/videos?view_as=public

[Kim Durecki]

I have been fighting pixalation with youtube recently. I found a fix for me. I render the video at the highest bitrate possible- then I download this file into youtube- youtube will always degrade the original file but using the highest quality rendered video helps ALOT!

I have also then taken that high bitrate video and then used handbrake and downsized it- that also helps.

[Francois Blawat]

I am wondering if anyone has used this Free plugin for Vegas that works under Vegas Pro 8 – 13?. It is called the Video4YouTube located here: https://vegasaur.com/Video4YouTube This is created by the author of the Vegasaur Toolkit Plugin program.

I have not used this myself, but since it is free, I wonder if this will help alleviate some issues users are experiencing. Plus, what is the worst? If this does not work you can always uninstall it.

Hopefully this works.

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