[Lukas Hajk]

wow those videos indeed look awesome.

Danny, do you have any Instant messaging program which we could use? I feel like it would be faster & more effective since we’re the only ones talking in this topic, most of the time 🙂

I can adapt to your choice.

[Lukas Hajk]

Ok Danny,

Here’s a picture from my newest upload, I did what you said with the Sony Vegas reset.
These are exactly the same settings, as of now it shows AVC1 codec in the youtube video properties.

Here it is: https://ctrlv.cz/G3Yo

Compare it with yours: https://ctrlv.cz/lRtd

The difference is kinda noticeable, at least for my eyes. In the places where I have a lot of pixels (maybe even blur) you have kinda a good quality. That means it has to be due to AVC codec… One of my videos just got changed to VP9 randomly, so I will just wait if this one transfers too and if the quality changes with it.

You probably don’t have any other ideas, do you?

// Edit. My video just got changed to VP9 and look at this one: https://ctrlv.cz/uP9F

When you compare it with yours, it’s the same. So it was all about the codec, which most of the time didn’t make it “into” my videos.

Still the quality isn’t as good as some editors’ so I have to keep experimenting and don’t give up…

Thanks a lot for your help guys, especially you Danny.

[Lukas Hajk]

Okay, gonna do it right now, thanks! Will update you.

[Lukas Hajk]

Danny are you still out there somewhere? 😀

If so, do you think that the VP9 codec is the reason why your video is so smooth?

as I said, some of my older videos are also encoded by VP9, which I really don’t know how it happened, but since those are totally different videos I can’t compare them… I’ve talked to 4 different people today, who are game moviemakers and I copied their settings exactly and my video still looks a lot more blur-ish and pixelated as seen in videos above.

All of them have VP9 codec when I right-click on their videos, I’m the only one who keeps getting AVC1.xxxxx”

Could anyone help? :/

[Lukas Hajk]

Hey Aaron,

thanks for the info & suggestions. I’d like to let you know that I have to record at, say, 240-300fps (I think I just use the wrong word for you to understand this) – if I record at 300fps, I can slow down the video to 20 % and it will still look smoothly at 60fps. If I use incorrect words, I’m sorry. But I guess don’t mind this, it’s a standard way of capturing the gameplay to be able to do slow-motion, I’m sure I do it correctly, don’t mind this part! 🙂

By the way, I’ve made some research today and found out, that all the Youtube videos I have showed you so far, have been encoded with VP9.

I have even found out that some of my older videos have been encoded with VP9. But these ones tend to be encoded in the AVC format, which seems to be the problem I think. What else would differentiate our videos when they are rendered in the exactly same settings? Do you know how to encode it in VP9? I think this might be the problem we’re talking about the whole time… Thanks, Danny!

[Lukas Hajk]

My friend just noticed a very odd thing…

When you right click on youtube and you take a look at the stats,

In your video, it shows this: https://ctrlv.cz/XTlw
In my video, it shows this: https://ctrlv.cz/u1I7

The dropped frams change depending on how long you play the video, but notice the codec…

Your says VP9, mine says AVC.. I’m not really expert in this, but maybe you will know something more from that?

// edited link on my video, I accidentaly posted yours twice.

[Lukas Hajk]

Ok Danny, now it gets really strange…

I copied your settings from A to Z, everything.

And now compare our videos:

Your: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E26KimA-JY0
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA9RnZk0bBs&feature=youtu.be

Although my clip is a bit longer and starts like a second earlier, I’m sure you will still notice the difference. just look at the crosshair, yours is nice and smooth, my crosshair is like pixelated etc…

Can you also see the difference?

[Lukas Hajk]

That indeed looks quite good! Although it’s with Smart resample, right? I’m not really a fan of it as it makes a very ugly motion blur when there’s a lot of movement, did you also try it without resampling?

I’m going to try the same settings as yours and upload it, we will see if I have the same results.

Thanks a lot so far! Will definitely update you in a short while.

[Lukas Hajk]

Norman,

I understand that Youtube can’t handle the quality I give it from the source files, but if you take a look at the 2 videos I provided above, you can’t deny the quality is just so much better, it even looks like they are source files. I just don’t believe there isn’t a solution. It’s the same game and editors use the same way as I do to make the first .avi file which we edit afterwards. The only difference is that their youtube videos appear to be 10x better quality than mine.

I’m sorry if I overlook something in your statements and I sound stupid now, I’d believe it if I didn’t know those editors and saw their videos. They of course refuse to show their render settings etc.

To Danny: No I didn’t, in fact I can see it in my previous post 🙂 But if you still can’t see it, here you go!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p21k4zm35tear40/1080p-Lagarith-300fps.avi?dl=0

Nevertheless, thank you guys for your patience, I didn’t really expect someone would even try to help, at least not this much! 🙂

[Lukas Hajk]

Also, wanted to show you another thing which I don’t understand.

Take a look at this video, this is probably the best quality I’ve seen from CS:GO (the game’s name) videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrbAfUczsWI

One thing is the awesome image quality, I think I didn’t see a single pixel.
The second thing is the “movement” quality – is it just me or this is neither a Smart resample nor a No resample? Smart resample looks usually terrible in gaming videos, no resample makes the image sharper but at the same time the video looks a bit laggy even in 60fps

– for understanding here’s an example of 60fps no resample video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-z8Qh7IXw

The first video in this post is just… something different, I feel like. It has a great quality and basically no motion blur. Is it possible that he rendered it in a program different than Sony Vegas/After Effects to achieve this great result?

Danny, if you’ll be able to achieve nearly the same quality as the first video I posted, I’ll be forever grateful for that 😀 Take it as a challenge maybe!

Thanks a lot for your help.

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