Unfortunately, uploading using the Mainconcept hasn’t fixed my issue. YouTube keeps pixelating my videos a lot. I’ve tried a fair amount of things to remedy the problem. I’ve tried recording and rendering using different bitrates. I’ve tried the method of trimming a frame to trick YouTube into encoding the video as vp9, and it still pixelates the video. There’s no visible difference at all from mp4 to vp9 on my videos.
If I follow YouTube standards, record my videos in CBR 40mbps with OBS and render in the recommended 15mbps with Vegas Pro, the end product looks terrible; pixelation and blurry video. If I use my own settings, record my videos in CBR 80mbps with OBS and render at 50mbps with Vegas Pro , the end product looks great; clear smooth video. So, my options seem to be, I either upload a blurry pixelated video that YouTube will accept, or I upload a great looking video that YouTube will compress into a blurry pixelated video.
I’m not sure where to go from here. Sorry I have no good news to offer. Thanks again for the help with the Mainconcept issue.