[Stephen Chapman]

LOL! Thanks for the response, guys.

John, since YouTube currently only supports 60FPS at 1080p, I wouldn’t mind trying the AVCHD/Handbrake route; however, do you know of a method in Vegas that I could use CABAC entropy as well as a bit rate above 25Mbps? 50Mbps is what I’d like to shoot for, since I’ve seen the bit rate spike higher than 25Mbps on YouTube playback of 60FPS HD videos.

From what I’m seeing, it looks like I may have to start messing with methods outside of Vegas, but the question is if the gains will be noticeable enough to even worry about it (I’m all for testing, though, so I’m up for it!). I’m just looking to achieve as little pixelation as possible after YouTube’s encoding of my upload.

Could CABAC at 25Mbps produce noticeably better results on YouTube than a much higher bit rate with non-CABAC encoding? *Cue Tootsie Pop commercial* “The world may never know…” lol.

I may just have to do some testing to see. Thanks again for the feedback, and happy new year, all! =)