Quality severely drops after upload to youtube

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pootytangFL

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I'm using an elgato to record game footage. the quality of the raw footage is excellent.(raw as in the encoded h.264 file that elgato does automatically)

i use sony vegas to edit the video as elgato footage needs a bit of color correction.

i render it again using sony vegas, i try to preserve as much as possible by rendering the video to as similar properties as it was recorded.

high profile, cabec, 2 reference frames, 720p60, mp4 container, variable 25-15 mbps.

i used media info to check what elgato spits its files at so that i can match them in vegas.

rendered video comes out great.

as soon as i upload to youtube, it turns to utter garbage. though by comparison to others my quality is fine.... but by comparison to the original its just totally awful...

its not even a slight quality loss, its a huge one...

and when i compare my video to a few others on youtube...

aka watch?v=wprJRFIC4LU vs watch?v=iH80YSnOe8I(mine)

the first video has the same quality as my videos before they were uploaded to youtube...

how does he achieve this?
 
I use the Elegato to record my PS3 (and tested well on the PS2), everything is/has been perfectly fine for me, can't think of reason why it would do that, sounds like a YouTube thing... maybe =/
 
DrFondoo said:
I use the Elegato to record my PS3 (and tested well on the PS2), everything is/has been perfectly fine for me, can't think of reason why it would do that, sounds like a YouTube thing... maybe =/
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Do you use Sony Vegas to render? Maybe it's something to do with that. I don't use it, and I have crisp 720 video and it isn't a huge file either (about 90mb per minute of video)
 
Do you disable resample when rendering? If not, the quality can be terrible once uploaded.
 
hmm, so ya i looked at your videos, then i looked at my videos, then i looked at your videos again..... i just walked away and took a nap.... too me, there is a clear difference between the way ur videos look and mine... care to explain to me your workflow? you know, from start to finish, how u recorded/rendered/uploaded and settings n junk.... that info would be greatly appreciated.
 
The best quality to upload to youtube i found through a couple of months of anger and testing is to make sure the video is in 720p the best for youtube videos and use youtube editors tools to enhance the video a little bit if you think it really needs improvement. I convert my high quality videos to that format using a converter:)
 
what do you mean? I just went to your video and set it on 720p HD. The quality is great. I don't understand :confused:
 
Mister Bear said:
what do you mean? I just went to your video and set it on 720p HD. The quality is great. I don't understand :confused:
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did u see the other link that i put right next to it? i want my videos to look like that one. there's this just this "noise" going on in my videos. like a static, fuzzyness the edges are not smooth kinda foggy... its just not a crisp image... especially when i compared it to the other guys.... u can notice a lot of distortion around the letters in the video, that seems to be whats affecting the video as a whole.

my equipment appears to be able to replicate that person quality post render.... but once its on youtube it gets all disturbed... though his videos seem flawless
 
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