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Youtube takes my video and craps all over the quality. Please help!
OK, for a while now I’ve been doing an amateur video game review show, and I’ve been using two different video capture devices. One is a Hauppauge PVR-150, and the other is a USB Adaptec Gamebridge 1410. I believe they capture out to MPEG format.
I haven’t had a single problem with them before as my episodes for Playstation and Playstation 2 games look perfect.
However, when I use the Nintendo Wii, there is a dramatic dropoff in quality when I upload to youtube. I typically try to render my videos out at 320X240 .WMV, 600 KBPS and 100% sharpness per Sony Vegas 7.0’s options. The video looks perfectly fine when I load it in Windows Movie Player, but when I upload it to youtube, the quality drops by 90%! This even occurs at 640X480 3.0MBPS, which is utterly ridiclous.
I’m sorry for the lack of pics/images, but when I get home I will post a screenshot of how the video looks rendered out on my PC, and a youtube video to show the bewildering change.
I have tried different formats such as .MP4 and .MOV but achieve the same result.
I have tried converting the MPEG to AVI, AVI to DIVX, DIVX to WMV and still get the same result.
I sincerely hope there is a workaround to this. I have NEVER had this problem occur before!
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I’m sorry, but I’ve already used this. Even at 3 MBPS, the quality is lessened.
I’m not sure what causes this, but whenever I edit my footage AT all it comes out perfect in the render, but terrible in youtube. Check out this ridiculous difference!
https://img108.imageshack.us/img108/9792/youtubesuckswn8.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoKLpiZzXuQ <--unedited, not so good quality, ~50% loss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pdgGcW4ypY <--edited for less time, TERRIBLE quality, ~90% LOSS! Both of these videos look exactly the same after I render them in terms of quality, but youtube sees fit to take a dump all over them!
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Read the following thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=24&postid=868498
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Terje A. Bergesen -
TheFiddler just linked to that!
For the THIRD time, I’ve already done this! 1mbps, 320×240, 100% sharpness. Looks perfect once rendered, LOOKS. LIKE. CRAP. IN. YOUTUBE. Even at 3mbps, 640×480 youtube THRASHES the video. PLEASE LOOK AT MY VIDEOS AND IMAGES, SOMEBODY. SOMEBODY?
I’m about to give up, because people just don’t read my posts at all on this issue and give me the exact same video tutorial, no matter what the forum.
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Sorry for trying. Despite your rudeness, I’ll give it one more try. Why don’t you find a flash encoder and encode directly to flash? YouTube is flash video. Try to encode directly to flash and see if YouTube does not re-encode.
If not, take it up with YouTube, but try to ask them for help by not being an ass.
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Terje A. Bergesen -
I apologize for expressing my frustration. There are many people that absolutely do not read my posts and parrot the exact same question I ask and try to pass it off as the answer. It’s happened 5 times on this issue alone.
I will try to encode directly to flash. Thank you for the help.
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No one I know has ever been happy with YouTube for this very reason. You’d probably be better off posting elsewhere, perhaps on your own website where you have control of the situation.
sjc
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Ah, but there’s a problem in that. youtube is where I gain the most exposure. My first video, for instance, currently has over 53,000 views. On a competitor, livevideo, it has around 50 (Not thousand. Just 50.) I’m stuck using youtube until another competitor gains much ground on them.
I don’t like youtube, but it is the most popular site and it is the only source I can use at this point in time until my show perhaps gets sponsored on another site.
Kinda like why I use eBay for auctions and myspace (very reluctantly) for social networking and viewership expansion.
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ANSWER: No matter what you do it will look like shit on YouTube.
Why? Because – they are recompressing with a shitty codec and settings built for small filesize, low quality – and if you are sending ANY kind of file already compressed, well – when compressed again by YuoCrap you will get – CRAP no matter what you do.
Period.
Some of us plain just don’t like YouTube. Perhaps I’m biased since I fight contantly to get my stolen material taken down from that copyright infringing piece of crap.
OK I’m done. I’ll do chill now!
*LOL*
(But seriously – their compression sucks so you are playing a losing game)
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