YouTube lowers my video quality

[Mesiacikk]

I have posted 4k video on YouTube. But it doesnt looks like 4k when watching on YouTube. Video is not sharp, kinda blurry, just bad quality. I have exported it with 120Mps Bitrate so this should not be a problem.

 

[EunRuby]

By default, when you upload a video to YouTube,
the video is encoded (compressed) once, so the quality is different from the original video
As far as I know, the standard bitrate for YouTube 4k is 44~56Mbps, and even if you upload more than that, it will be compressed

 

[Mesiacikk]

By default, when you upload a video to YouTube,
the video is encoded (compressed) once, so the quality is different from the original video
As far as I know, the standard bitrate for YouTube 4k is 44~56Mbps, and even if you upload more than that, it will be compressed

I know, but this qualitty is way more different

 

[EunRuby]

I know, but this qualitty is way more different

Will it be incredibly degraded?
It's hard to say because we don't know how much, but the
But different YouTube channels have different quality

 

[YoutubeScientist]

I have posted 4k video on YouTube. But it doesnt looks like 4k when watching on YouTube. Video is not sharp, kinda blurry, just bad quality. I have exported it with 120Mps Bitrate so this should not be a problem.

If you drop a reference i can tell you maybe what the problem is. There will surely be some degradation in quality due to YouTube's compression, so it depends on if you think that level of compression is not good in your eyes.
But if you think there is a strong level of degradation, then i won't be able to know without seeing the difference between the source file, the exported video, the link to the uploaded video, and the exact export settings & bitrate.

 

[Mesiacikk]

If you drop a reference i can tell you maybe what the problem is. There will surely be some degradation in quality due to YouTube's compression, so it depends on if you think that level of compression is not good in your eyes.
But if you think there is a strong level of degradation, then i won't be able to know without seeing the difference between the source file, the exported video, the link to the uploaded video, and the exact export settings & bitrate.

Can i send you link to the YouTube video? Export settings are 4K, 120Mps Bit rate, 60fps,H.265, MP4

 

[rocketpr]

Do you render your video files?

 

[Mesiacikk]

Do you render your video files?

Do i need to do that ? I took video files from gopro, edited them in premiere pro and exported

 

[YoutubeScientist]

Can i send you link to the YouTube video? Export settings are 4K, 120Mps Bit rate, 60fps,H.265, MP4

sure

 

[Mesiacikk]

sure

 

[YoutubeScientist]

the quality seems fine to me, i'm not sure what's wrong?
i paused the frames on the fishing scenes, and the grass had fine texture that looks ok for 4k.

what device is this recorded with? an iPhone? or some DSLR camera?
is the footage recorded from the camera directly uploaded or did you re render it? i think you did, because there is an edited video.

if so, what is the bitrate and settings of the source recorded file? then i can compare it with this, although i do think that 50 to 100mbps should be fine for 4K

 

[Mesiacikk]

the quality seems fine to me, i'm not sure what's wrong?
i paused the frames on the fishing scenes, and the grass had fine texture that looks ok for 4k.

what device is this recorded with? an iPhone? or some DSLR camera?
is the footage recorded from the camera directly uploaded or did you re render it? i think you did, because there is an edited video.

if so, what is the bitrate and settings of the source recorded file? then i can compare it with this, although i do think that 50 to 100mbps should be fine for 4K

It was recorded with GoPro camera, bitrate was 120Mbps, did you watch it in 4k or 1080p because i think in 1080p it looks bad. Or this is how it should look ?

 

[kingvestor]

Currentyly I use gopro, dji osmo, and iphone. What I notice is, when using gopro while the bit rate seems high, once I render it through capcut pro the output become meh, and it even worse when I uploaded on YT. On the other hand, recording from iphone and dji still watchable

 

[YoutubeScientist]

It was recorded with GoPro camera, bitrate was 120Mbps, did you watch it in 4k or 1080p because i think in 1080p it looks bad. Or this is how it should look ?

from the go pro, the default picture quality is already not as sharp or high as a DSLR camera. the quality looks like this as i've seen in other go pro videos. so yes it looks as expected.
i watched in 1080p and 4k, looks good. 4k looks sharper

 

[Mesiacikk]

from the go pro, the default picture quality is already not as sharp or high as a DSLR camera. the quality looks like this as i've seen in other go pro videos. so yes it looks as expected.
i watched in 1080p and 4k, looks good. 4k looks sharper

Thank you

 

[mailoto]

Happened with me too .