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YouTube super compression?

Arcapse
By Arcapse
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Unsure if this is the right section to post this in, so apologies if it's not.

 

I uploaded a 1080p video to YouTube. When watching the video locally on my PC, it looked fine. However when I uploaded it to YouTube, it was barely watchable due to compression. I know YouTube compresses all videos, but this seems like something else, as it was compressed to the point where you can't see shit.

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Arcapse

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Are you sure the video is processed? (AKA: is the 1080p/1080p60fps or whatever option available already?)

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Just now, Minibois said:

Are you sure the video is processed? (AKA: is the 1080p/1080p60fps or whatever option available already?)

Yeah. All the options, 1080p video.

 

 A friend of mine posted a video and it was super compressed so I downloaded the video file (not from YouTube, he sent me it) and uploaded it myself to see if that would make a difference. The result, it didn't.

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Because of the way that not lossless compressing works, the more random the change of the individual pixel colours are, the worse will be the final video quality on YouTube

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Youtube now uses H.265 codex, not H.264.  Switch your codex so it doesn't have to re-encode the video.  Double compression in different codec's is annoying.

Your other option is to export your video at ProRes (if you have that option) 4:4:4 or an uncompressed file and upload it.  Granted, that file will be gigantic and take forever.

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