Video brightness is higher when uploaded to YouTube

velocity

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Quality is good but the brightness is slightly higher than it should be. I'm exporting the videos in 1080p in H.264 and I cannot for the life of me see what the reason would be. It's not a massive issue, just would like the blacks to look black rather than dark greys.

I'm sure someone must have run into this and know how to sort this.[DOUBLEPOST=1457997706,1457913222][/DOUBLEPOST]Bump. Anyone? Really could use some help.
 
Have you thoroughly checked your export settings? How many passes of compression are you doing? Make sure you're not over compressing. Have you look at what colour profiles and bit-depths you're rendering in? There are an abundance of small little settings within your editor that could impact the final video.

For interest sake, is the brightness issue only present when viewing on Youtube? Is the footage fine within the editor and when you play back through a media player on your computer?

James.
 
Which editing software are you using? If it's Vegas I may be of help as I have had a similar issue where my videos were coming out darker than usual and the fix I watched was a general lighting fix.
 
ItsJustJames said:
Have you thoroughly checked your export settings? How many passes of compression are you doing? Make sure you're not over compressing. Have you look at what colour profiles and bit-depths you're rendering in? There are an abundance of small little settings within your editor that could impact the final video.

For interest sake, is the brightness issue only present when viewing on Youtube? Is the footage fine within the editor and when you play back through a media player on your computer?

James.
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Thank you for the reply. Here are the settings I'm exporting in (http:/--/i.img--ur.com/NwEasQ6.p--ng ) (remove the dashes in the link, it's ludicrous you can't post any links at all here -_-), I'm not sure whether you'll be able to ascertain anything from that? The brightness is only an issue when uploading to youtube in Premiere it's all true to how it should look. Note in the example the blacks are how they should be but when uploaded to Youtube it looks a lot more grey down each side.

Shehzad said:
Which editing software are you using? If it's Vegas I may be of help as I have had a similar issue where my videos were coming out darker than usual and the fix I watched was a general lighting fix.
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No, I'm using Premiere Pro CC 2015.
 
Anyone have any insight? Can't seem to find the issue. Colours are fine even when exported, they only become to bright when uploaded to YouTube. I also notice 360p looks blurry but way blurrier than it should be, only looks readable at 720p and 1080p
 
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velocity said:
Anyone have any insight? Can't seem to find the issue. Colours are fine even when exported, they only become to bright when uploaded to YouTube. I also notice 360p looks blurry but way blurrier than it should be, only looks readable at 720p and 1080p
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Not that it's related, but for a YouTube upload your target bitrate is incredibly high. Push it down to around 10-12Mbps not 29.4mbps. YouTube generally only accepts 7-12mbps. This will cut your upload time significantly and also YouTubes processing time of your video, this might help with your video looking worse in 360p as their processing won't have to work as hard to create the lower quality version.

As for brightness, none of your Premiere settings indicate something would be wrong. My guess is it's just how YouTube is taking and displaying your video. Could you maybe take a still from Premiere and a still from YouTube and post them both so I can see the difference?
 
Andrew Flint said:
Not that it's related, but for a YouTube upload your target bitrate is incredibly high. Push it down to around 10-12Mbps not 29.4mbps. YouTube generally only accepts 7-12mbps. This will cut your upload time significantly and also YouTubes processing time of your video, this might help with your video looking worse in 360p as their processing won't have to work as hard to create the lower quality version.

As for brightness, none of your Premiere settings indicate something would be wrong. My guess is it's just how YouTube is taking and displaying your video. Could you maybe take a still from Premiere and a still from YouTube and post them both so I can see the difference?
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Appreciate the reply. I think I just had it that high just to be safe whilst I was testing it. I've lowered it down to 10 although I notice 360p somehow looks even worse now, everything just looks like a blurry mess :/

Here is the link of what it is like in the editor of premiere pro and what it looks like after being uploaded in 1080p. The left looks sharp with strong blacks, the right just looks horribly washed out in comparison. The weird thing is if I view the video after exporting it still looks fine, for some reason it's happening when uploaded to youtube.

http:/--/i.imgur.co--m/s8--mjrUt.pn--g (remove the dashes)
 
velocity said:
Appreciate the reply. I think I just had it that high just to be safe whilst I was testing it. I've lowered it down to 10 although I notice 360p somehow looks even worse now, everything just looks like a blurry mess :/

Here is the link of what it is like in the editor of premiere pro and what it looks like after being uploaded in 1080p. The left looks sharp with strong blacks, the right just looks horribly washed out in comparison. The weird thing is if I view the video after exporting it still looks fine, for some reason it's happening when uploaded to youtube.

http:/--/i.imgur.co--m/s8--mjrUt.pn--g (remove the dashes)
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looks to just be how YouTube is compressing your video. nothing you can really do about it.
 
velocity said:
There's definitely got to be more to it than that, even the thumbnails are in completely weird colours which seems to show something isn't right.
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Sorry for the late reply, very busy atm.

I've thought about this a little and checked all my settings on Premiere also looking up some FAQ and googling a few searches. All I can come up with is that this is a problem during the upload/processing stage. Something you should take up with YouTube support.

If the video is playing fine in Premiere and also looks fine once you've exported, but only looks discolored once on YouTube it's a problem with them. Have you tried uploading to Vimeo and seeing if the same problem occurs?
 
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