YouTube - Enabling 4k/60FPS?

[Frankenburger]

I'm curious to know how to enable 1440p/60 FPS and 4k/60 FPS. Apparently there's something that goes on either in the back end or something in the user profile that allows for it, but I haven't gotten any clear indication as to how it works. As of right now, uploading any 1440p/60 FPS or 4k/60 FPS video only gets processed up to 1080p/60 FPS with no options to display any resolution higher, even at 30 FPS.

[Jasun]

are you sure you're rendering your videos in 1440/4k? I'm not sure about the 60fps part because that would take a lot of space in the youtube servers. 

[Frankenburger]

Just now, Jasun said:

are you sure you're rendering your videos in 1440/4k? I'm not sure about the 60fps part because that would take a lot of space in the youtube servers. 

Positive. I have no issue with 30 FPS sources. Also, 4k/60 is indeed a thing, since there are channels out there that have 4k/60 videos.

[Jasun]

2 minutes ago, Frankenburger said:

Positive. I have no issue with 30 FPS sources. Also, 4k/60 is indeed a thing, since there are channels out there that have 4k/60 videos.

o snap, you're right. never seen anything like that lol. 

[BlueCrazii]

I think there are even some 8k60fps vids on youtube

[xGGAx]

make sure you videos are rendered at  4k/60fps and not 4k/59.9 fps
I had a similar issue with 1080p.

[Frankenburger]

3 minutes ago, xGGAx said:

make sure you videos are rendered at  4k/60fps and not 4k/59.9 fps
I had a similar issue with 1080p.

They are. I manually specify the frame rate in ShotCut before uploading. Like I said, it goes up to 1080p 60 FPS no problem. Anything higher than that and it won't work.

[xGGAx]

have you tried a different format? I assume you are using .mp4 ?

[mariushm]

It could be a "popularity" thing as in .. as soon as you get a significant amount of viewers, youtube probably enables 4k for your channel.  maybe your videos are long enough that they'd use a lot of processing time to do 4k versions and maybe they don't want to waste their resources with a channel that has few viewers.

[Frankenburger]

13 minutes ago, xGGAx said:

have you tried a different format? I assume you are using .mp4 ?

I've tried both mp4 h264 and mp4 h265. Neither of which yields different results.

 

8 minutes ago, mariushm said:

It could be a "popularity" thing as in .. as soon as you get a significant amount of viewers, youtube probably enabled 4k for your channel.  maybe your videos are long enough that they'd use a lot of processing time to do 4k versions and maybe they don't want to waste their resources with a channel that has few viewers.

Yeah, I've also got the feeling it has something to do with channel traffic/subscribers. When I googled how to enable it a little while ago, I found a post on the Google boards saying there's a flag in the YouTube dashboard, but I couldn't find any such thing. The post in question was before the (terrible) YT redesign, so it's either really well hidden, or my channel doesn't have what's required to enable it.

[Nostalgia_Realm]

4k videos can take up to a day to fully process on YouTube's side, the only thing you can do is wait.

[Glenwing]

38 minutes ago, mariushm said:

It could be a "popularity" thing as in .. as soon as you get a significant amount of viewers, youtube probably enables 4k for your channel.  maybe your videos are long enough that they'd use a lot of processing time to do 4k versions and maybe they don't want to waste their resources with a channel that has few viewers.

I can upload 4K videos with basically no viewerbase, so it's not that.

 

It just takes a very long time for options higher than 1080p to appear, if you only uploaded it now, I'd wait at least a few days and check back to see if the options are available.

[Frankenburger]

16 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

It just takes a very long time for options higher than 1080p to appear, if you only uploaded it now, I'd wait at least a few days and check back to see if the options are available.

My 4k 30FPS videos tend to show up within 5-10 minutes after uploading. I always upload a 5 second sample clip to do a quality check. Initially I thought I might just need to give it some time, but after an hour on the 5 second sample 4k/60FPS clip, it still only showed 1080p/60FPS.

[Juba]

On 9/2/2017 at 8:15 PM, Frankenburger said:

I'm curious to know how to enable 1440p/60 FPS and 4k/60 FPS. Apparently there's something that goes on either in the back end or something in the user profile that allows for it, but I haven't gotten any clear indication as to how it works. As of right now, uploading any 1440p/60 FPS or 4k/60 FPS video only gets processed up to 1080p/60 FPS with no options to display any resolution higher, even at 30 FPS.

For 4K 60fps go to this page https://www.youtube.com/testtube

 

then click "Try New Youtube" then upload your 4K 60fps.

 

 

[Frankenburger]

31 minutes ago, Juba said:

For 4K 60fps go to this page https://www.youtube.com/testtube

 

then click "Try New Youtube" then upload your 4K 60fps.

 

 

Thanks but it didn't work. It just redirected me to the YouTube home page (apparently I was already using the new YouTube). Uploading a 4k/60FPS video still only processed at 1080p/60FPS max.

[Juba]

2 minutes ago, Frankenburger said:

Thanks but it didn't work. It just redirected me to the YouTube home page (apparently I was already using the new YouTube). Uploading a 4k/60FPS video still only processed at 1080p/60FPS max.

Give it a few minutes, I had this issue with every new Youtube Update, 4K60fps gets disabled for me, so i visit https://www.youtube.com/testtube again and click "Try New Youtube" then its good to go.

 

I did also "Sign up to participate in user experience research studies and get rewarded for your time", in the same page, try that too.

 

 

[Frankenburger]

8 minutes ago, Juba said:

Give it a few minutes

I checked back and needless to say, it was more than a few minutes

 

The sample clip I used was 15 seconds @ 30MB, and I had uploaded it just a couple minutes after you posted your comment. When I saw your new reply, I checked back and sure enough, 1440p/60fps. From there I kept refreshing every couple minutes until finally 4k/60FPS showed up. Holy hell, a 45 minute processing time for a 15 second clip is absurd. I can't begin to imagine how long it'll take for some of my 20 minute clips!

 

Regardless, thank you. I appreciate the help.

[Juba]

5 minutes ago, Frankenburger said:

I checked back and needless to say, it was more than a few minutes

 

The sample clip I used was 15 seconds @ 30MB, and I had uploaded it just a couple minutes after you posted your comment. When I saw your new reply, I checked back and sure enough, 1440p/60fps. From there I kept refreshing every couple minutes until finally 4k/60FPS showed up. Holy hell, a 45 minute processing time for a 15 second clip is absurd. I can't begin to imagine how long it'll take for some of my 20 minute clips!

 

Regardless, thank you. I appreciate the help.

Good to hear.