Uploading videos to youtube....

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.

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.

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 =/

Post up a screenshot of your Camtasia and Premiere settings.

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Originally Posted by not5150

Post up a screenshot of your Camtasia and Premiere settings.

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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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HOLY SHIT

EPIC QUALITY

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

Thanks dude!

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

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