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For the past few months/years I've thought that my render settings in my video editor were way too high for the quality of video I was producing on Youtube.
For a job, video file size was very important and I realized that I can cut the bitrate down quite a lot before the final video quality starts to fall apart.
Today, I looked up Youtube's recommended video settings which can be found [HERE] and matched those settings in my rendering settings. My bitrate was about 3 times higher than it needed to be , but that's because I was using the programs default settings.
I re-rendered my most recent personal youtube video using these settings and it dropped my final video size to 68% what my original render was. From my testing the render time didn't improve but my computer renders videos pretty quickly so I don't mind the extra 60 seconds.
Since I archive all of my video renderings, dropping the file down is extremely helpful. I actually found that I can drop my bitrate much lower than the youtube recommended and still have a high quality video. I will likely revisit this to find just how low I can drop my video's bitrate before I think it no longer looks good.
Obviously this depends on the quality of camera you use (I'm using a DSLR from 2011/2012) and the type of video you create (I create "story time" / talking head videos).
If you use a Red Epic and shoot high action CGI scenes you will likely want to keep the bitrate higher to get all the crispness you paid for. That being said, I still think this is a good exercise to go through to better understand the bit rate your style of video actually requires to avoid creating files that are 10x bigger than they actually need to be.
Happy Editing!
For a job, video file size was very important and I realized that I can cut the bitrate down quite a lot before the final video quality starts to fall apart.
Today, I looked up Youtube's recommended video settings which can be found [HERE] and matched those settings in my rendering settings. My bitrate was about 3 times higher than it needed to be , but that's because I was using the programs default settings.
I re-rendered my most recent personal youtube video using these settings and it dropped my final video size to 68% what my original render was. From my testing the render time didn't improve but my computer renders videos pretty quickly so I don't mind the extra 60 seconds.
Since I archive all of my video renderings, dropping the file down is extremely helpful. I actually found that I can drop my bitrate much lower than the youtube recommended and still have a high quality video. I will likely revisit this to find just how low I can drop my video's bitrate before I think it no longer looks good.
Obviously this depends on the quality of camera you use (I'm using a DSLR from 2011/2012) and the type of video you create (I create "story time" / talking head videos).
If you use a Red Epic and shoot high action CGI scenes you will likely want to keep the bitrate higher to get all the crispness you paid for. That being said, I still think this is a good exercise to go through to better understand the bit rate your style of video actually requires to avoid creating files that are 10x bigger than they actually need to be.
Happy Editing!