Uploading videos to youtube....

[Rokins]

Why is it that when I render a video it can look flawless on my computer, meaning that you can read the text perfectly and the resolution is great, but the second I upload it to youtube you cant even make out what the text says anymore and it looks 10x shittier?

[MiRai]

Why is it that when I render a video it can look flawless on my computer, meaning that you can read the text perfectly and the resolution is great, but the second I upload it to youtube you cant even make out what the text says anymore and it looks 10x shittier?
Doesn't YouTube re-encode it for their site? Hence the reason it takes time to "process" videos that you just uploaded. I always try to offer a 720p or 1080p direct download from FileFront or MegaUpload. I like MegaUpload myself because you can create a free account there and keep track of your videos.

But, don't make your videos 7GB in size and then wonder why no one wants to download them. :)

[Rokins]

Doesn't YouTube re-encode it for their site? Hence the reason it takes time to "process" videos that you just uploaded. I always try to offer a 720p or 1080p direct download from FileFront or MegaUpload. I like MegaUpload myself because you can create a free account there and keep track of your videos.



I mean I suppose thats true. If that is the case then I need to figure out what codec to use that will result in the best quality YOUTUBE videos =/

[DLoweinc]

I just watched your stockades vid and everything was clear to me. i was reading your guild chat while watching you kill lame mobs that run when low on health.

[Rokins]

I just watched your stockades vid and everything was clear to me. i was reading your guild chat while watching you kill lame mobs that run when low on health.

True, but what I am saying is on my video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL6DmY_v22I it looks ok in 720p, but when I try to encode it in 1080 the text on the screen becomes almost unreadable. Its almost as if its being squished and distorted.

[Maxion]

True, but what I am saying is on my video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL6DmY_v22I it looks ok in 720p, but when I try to encode it in 1080 the text on the screen becomes almost unreadable. Its almost as if its being squished and distorted.

Sounds almost like your screen isn't 1080p.

[Rokins]

My screen is 1920x1080, and I have no problem recording 1080p on fraps for my wow videos. Hell it even says in camtasia that my native resolution and default recording resolution is 1920x1080. Maybe I need to lower the bit rate?

[Maxion]

Or increase it. I know you're able to set your ingame resolution to anything to want regardless of what your monitor resolution or window size is, so it may be a combination of that and window size.
My 1080p videos look okay right?
I get black bars on mine cause my window is only 1680x1050, but i can still encode in 1080p and it looks fine, just with some black bars in some places.

[Rokins]

Ill try maxing out the bitrate first, just to see if I notice a difference because its already pretty high at 40. I use the h264 or whatever codec which is recommended.

[Maxion]

I use what ever the highest setting in WMM is.

[not5150]

You are dealing with two issues... compression when you make the video and the recompression done by YouTube.

You can't do anything about YouTube's compression... it sucks, but you can sorta help it out by uploading the best quality movie you can make.

You don't need 40 Mbps, that's complete overkill. I always encode my videos with H.264 variable bit rate 10Mbps/15Mbps two-pass.

For H.264, encoding at the same bitrate for a 720P and a 1080P video will result in less quality(fuzziness, artifacting) for the 1080P clip.

Take a screenshot of your camtasia settings and post it up here.

[Siaea]

Go to YouTube and do a search for "how to render hi-def" or something along that line. I'm using Vegas Pro and there's a nice tutorial on how to set your file to make it appear in HD.

[Rokins]

Maybe ill switch to vegas pro or something, but my camtasia settings were simply to capture my whole screen which is 1920x1080. I then saved it with no compression so I could edit it in adobe premiere without any issues. Afterwards, It looked great and then youtube effed it up. I just wonder if its just the 1080p setting =/

[not5150]

Post up a screenshot of your Camtasia and Premiere settings.

[Rokins]

Post up a screenshot of your Camtasia and Premiere settings.

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w63/Supremecommand/Camtasia-1.png - Camtasia

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w63/Supremecommand/Preimere2.png - Premiere

[not5150]

Your settings look ok... actually woah I take that back.

Ok if you are outputting at 1920X1080 then your renderer will overcrop during the render and will kill your text. Resolutions have to be cleanly divisible by 16. 1280 X 720 is clear because 16 goes into both numbers cleanly. 1920 x 1080 sucks because 1080 doesn't divide cleanly.

To compensate, your render program will add 8 pixels to either the top or bottom (I think Premiere does it to the top). The frame is then encoded and when the frame is done the top 8 pixels are chopped off.

This will thrash your text big time and this is why your 720P text looks great and the 1080P text looks meh.

Output your video by 1920 X 1072 and reupload.

[Rokins]

Your settings look ok... actually woah I take that back.

Ok if you are outputting at 1920X1080 then your renderer will overcrop during the render and will kill your text. Resolutions have to be cleanly divisible by 16. 1280 X 720 is clear because 16 goes into both numbers cleanly. 1920 x 1080 sucks because 1080 doesn't divide cleanly.

To compensate, your render program will add 8 pixels to either the top or bottom (I think Premiere does it to the top). The frame is then encoded and when the frame is done the top 8 pixels are chopped off.

This will thrash your text big time and this is why your 720P text looks great and the 1080P text looks meh.

Output your video by 1920 X 1072 and reupload.

HOLY SHIT

EPIC QUALITY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNOTLTPjGWc

Thanks dude!

[not5150]

Hehe... you wouldn't think 8 pixels would make that much difference, but it does.

[Maxion]

You can remove the old version from your youtube channel if you'd rather just have this version up ;)