So Youtube is killing my videos...
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Symph
I'm a dude with a face and I know how to use it.
Yeah I think you're over thinking it, I mean I notice a small difference from my editor to youtube as well but it's certainly not big enough to care about. Your trailor video looks great man, very high quality.[DOUBLEPOST=1386580517,1386579468][/DOUBLEPOST]
Hey I watched one of your videos besides the trailor. I think it is the lighting. You've got a kind of... cloudy look to the video but I don't think it's the camera, try non overhead lighting, like lamps at chest level to brighten it up.
Stu J.A.
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Ah, so three-point lighting isn't so good for YouTube videos? I'll keep that in mind.
And the only video I've filmed with the DSLR so far is my latest, but that was filmed purely with natural lighting. Not very bright lighting though.
Thanks for your help!!
(and everyone elses'!)
Symph
I'm a dude with a face and I know how to use it.
Oh? I was assuming you were just using the lights in your room, like just overhead. I don't know a ton about lighting, I just know that when I use my room's normal lighting I look pretty shadowy and not so great, soon as I pop on a few lamps I'm pleased with the results. Also, cameras can have a natural hue to them. I had this one camera that made everything look kinda orange, now my camera naturally puts a blueish tint on everything. Ultimately though man, quality of picture doesn't have to be perfect. People want you to be clear, not grainy, and well lit, but does it have to look as good as ijustine's videos or toby turner's? Nah. Just don't look grainy and don't have shadows under your face and people will listen to you without getting distracted.
TheBatteryChicken
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Get 2 soft boxes on amazon for like £70, your videos will look better trust me
sirkibble2
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I don't know which video editing program you're using but some where your in export settings you should be able to see (and hopefully adjust) the bitrate you want to upload at.
Wrice4
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Remember though, YT caps bitrates...... so at 1080 the bitrate can only go up to 8k, and at 720 the bitrate can only go to 5k. No matter what bitrate you render at, it will be dropped to what resolution you upload at.
sirkibble2
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Yes, but if you're rendering at 2 bitrate with an HD video, then you're screwing yourself even more. Also take into account that if you render at higher bitrates, you'll take less of a quality hit.
Wrice4
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I was just talking about rendering at the maximum of 8k, not 2k. How will you take less of a quality hit when rendering more if everything is capped At 8k for 1080? That doesn't make sense. A video recorded at 90k will look the same at it recorded at 10k when both videos are capped at 8k.
sirkibble2
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YouTube can go up to 50,000 (and probably past that) in bitrate measures.
Either way, when you export a video, you're exporting with the bitrate quality in the file you're uploading so if you were to play it back on a regular PC, it'd have that bitrate. Principally it's no different if you were to compress a 1080p file to different 720p file. It'd look slightly better than a compressed 720 to 720 file.
Obviously, you don't need to go for a 50k bitrates with mp4 files. Those are reserved for raw files like ProRes but using higher bitrates does help retain quality over uploading. Again, it just depends on your time and how much it helps your video.