Best settings when exporting a video for youtube.

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ronin99

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Hello,


The presets on Adobe Media Encoder don't cut it, I've tried upping bit rates,
using max render quality/bit depth and it is an improvement but
has anyone figured out the magic formula for great looking youtube videos?

I don't care about file size but I do care about encoding time so will you see
a quality difference in a 35MB CBR vs a 35MB 2-pass VBR?


Should we just throw the highest quality file at youtube, and let it
do its thing, so Pro Res 422, HQ and or 4444?
 
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Length of your video seems to have something to do with how YouTube's encoders are triggered also.

I've uploaded short (less than 4-minutes) videos to YouTube and even at Low-Res 360p they look great. I started with a very high bit-rate MPEG2.

But then when I upload videos that are over 4 minutes and of the same high bit-rate MPEG2 - the playback at 360p looks horrible.

This is an issue that has been bugging me for 2 years and I cannot seem to get a solid answer either. I've seen people upload 1080P videos of longer lengths and they come back looking far more "intact" than what I get. Someone must know, either intentionally or accidentally, what the magic recipe is...
 
ronin99 said:
The presets on Adobe Media Encoder don't cut it, I've tried upping bit rates,
using max render quality/bit depth and it is an improvement but
has anyone figured out the magic formula for great looking youtube videos?

Should we just throw the highest quality file at youtube, and let it
do its thing, so Pro Res 422, HQ and or 4444?
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Avoid presets for online uploads. Use MP4/H.264/AAC (audio at highest bit rate), with quality at 100%, bit rate 8.0 Mbit/s, at 1920x1080. VBR is fine, yeah. I doubt YT will recognize a prores codec.
 
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You can upload ProRes and even DNxHD videos, ive done it, but the quality seems pretty much the same as uploading a high quality H264 file.
 
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