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Thanks Jon, I always forget to be specific (I suppose that helps!). I’m using my CC license for Premiere Pro, on a Windows machine (high end GPU’s, plenty of high speed SSD and HDD). I’m rendering directly from the Premiere “export” menu. I don’t often use the media encoder (most of my stuff isn’t a large enough workpiece to make me develop good workflow habits).

Small update; 6 tries couldn’t yield a good result. I went back to the YouTube HD preset but changed to a single pass VBR @ 10-16. It still wouldn’t do the 22min full length, but I worked around it with 2 separate 11min videos successfully. Anything longer than 11min and I had the same random corruption.

Its not the end of the world, but its less than ideal for my platform, and its never happened before this project. So I’d love to know the “what and why” this happened so I can avoid it.

I’m starting another new project this week and I’ll see what it does.
Thanks!

The Reverend Jay, aka REV J.

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Thanks for your response Ryan. I’m prepared enough from an audio standpoint, as even now I end up re-voicing most of the studio stuff. Same goes for things like Sd cards and some of that “infrastructure”. Its not my first time with video, nor my first time with a camera, simply my first time using DSLR’s in particular for video. I will take a look at the hardware unit you suggested for ambient/situational audio.

As for the Recording times, that does make a big difference, but from what I’m reading the issue can be skirted with the firmware changes…though being able to have a wifi connection to trigger through an app would be very nice. GoPro did spoil me on that fact.

The low light issue is a bigger one. I do have some lighting, but when we do outdoor and semi-outdoor shoots for car shows etc, I don’t want to worry that I’ll lose good footage to bad lighting if the weather is erratic or we are stuck on situational lighting only.

While I understand DSLR’s are designed for stills, thats the route I (and apparently more than a few others) would be subject to taking….unless there is a prosumer video camera that can beat its results for the same dollar. Sadly, every midrange (5-1100$) video camera I see ends up being a glorified camcorder, doing nothing more than my current cameras do, aside from increased battery life and onboard storage.

The Reverend Jay, aka REV J.

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The video wasn’t resized that I remember; though there are a few sections that go split-screen so the Position/Scaling were modified on those particular clips.

Thanks for confirming the “to be expected” amount of degradation on the clip. The point still comes across, and the majority of those scenes still looks ok (sans those few areas which tool the brunt of the compression).

I’ve use the Warp Stabilizer before, didn’t think to use it on small vibrations like this…I’m more used to using it for the “Wobble” that aerial shots get without a gimble. I’ve also been trying something called Mercalli ProDAD, which seems to work really well, but makes HUGE files.

I don’t have formal photography training so forgive my ignorance on the exposure; are you suggesting the re-edit because of the areas in the video where the sharp dark/light switch causes the camera to sort of “blink”? I don’t know the correct term for it, but like when you get a glare of sun in your eye and have to squint to prevent your vision from being washed out.

The Reverend Jay, aka REV J.

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Thanks for the advice. Between the level of motion, the vibrations that the camera is subject to, and the compression, I may just need to say “good enough”…but I hate settling on that.

As for the upload rates; those appear a tad different than the old guidelines I had downloaded from the “For Creators” section in the YT help. I don’t have an “enterprise” speed connection, but if I read that correctly, is it saying that the “broadcast” 50/m rate is allowed? It would take me a a week to upload, but its nice to know.

Heres a still from the base footage, exported from Premiere

Here’s the 9-15/mb output of the same scene

And Here’s the same scene again, output to the suggestion Ivan had.

In each case, I see some garbage around the leading edge of the hood, where the arrow points.

If you’d like to watch the video, the scene is taken from 6:35 in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-ynu9sjqo

I know certain things about the composition aren’t ideal, and the vibration doesn’t help…but I always get the feeling someone is “doing it better”, and I’d like to know HOW. I’d also like to start using ProTune to help with my color correction etc, and someone even suggested trying out the “Cinema” quality levels.

Thanks for your help!

The Reverend Jay, aka REV J.

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Hey Ivan, thanks for your response. Your settings are definitely a bit better than mine in terms of quality, tho still not quite what I had hoped. Your settings helped out with some of the shadow-area artifacting, but I’m still getting lots of antialiasing on some edges. Would posting video help out at all?
The video’s that get the issue are mostly action, things like vehicle mounts, drone usage etc. Some mounts are more stable than others…I just upgraded and got a gimble to help with this issue.

I couldn’t find any action-camera specific segments of the forum, so I’m not sure if any of my problems are related to the GoPro. I’ve heard that its infinity-focus and its lense is part of the problem, but for the most part my footage is all very clear when being watched straight before editing.

I’m just learning to use Protune for my editing, but with how much information is out there, I’m having a hard time identifying where my weak-links are. (ps, I don’t have money for something like Black Magic’s yet, but someday I hope to!). So far the GoPro has been great, and its community is awesome, but I don’t get the editing/production/workflow expertise that I’ve been lurking-through here.

Thanks for your help.

The Reverend Jay, aka REV J.