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Hi JASKJosh -
There are lots of factors at play here, as Hatti has pointed out.
It is a mistake, I think, to try to pin the whole cause on the use of a particular format profile (Sony PSP). How the hosting website processes the video is a huge factor. Your contact (Tom Pagut) seems to be eliminating this from the equation.
e.g. the video you labelled as "good" has a number of sections where the image is broken up... and I doubt whether they'd have been that way before upload. Have a look at the bit between 00:03 & 00:10... the trees & roofline.
Could you post the full MediaInfo report of one of the videos that you'd regard as "good"? (I guess, rendered on the Mac)
Personally, I wouldn't be doing any conversion. It's simply adding more variables. Have you tried producing to AVC H.265 M2TS, rather than MP4?
Here's a zip file containing 3 short videos. The original files were UHD .MOV shot on DJI Phantom. In PDR16, I produced to H.264 MP4 1080p, using both High 4.1 & Baseline profiles & H.264 M2TS 1080p. You might want to see whether any look OK on the hosting site.
Cheers - Tony
Thanks Tony! I completely agree that it is a huge factor in how the hosting site processes my upload. My situation is that someone else uses this same account on the hosting site so in the end, my raw footage is the same and the hosting site is the same, it's the part in the middle I'm trying to make work. The someone else will continue doing his part when he returns from vacation and I will continue doing my own videos from that point forward. I can't upset the apple cart at this point.
I also agree that the hosting site product isn't perfect but it is a lot better than what I've been able to get up there so far. I'm merely trying to get to that quality level. The quality on my computer when I export is fine (better than anything up on the hosting site), it's just a matter of getting it in to a format that will work as described as what I'm doing at this point is unacceptable. In Tom Pagut's defense, I only posted a small part of our conversation that dealt with the difference we could see between what the other guy was doing and what I was doing figuring that is the path of least resistance to get our goal accomplished.
Unfortunately I don't have access to any of the files he uploaded previously. I'm assuming he still uses a Mac but I've always sent him my raw footage and he's uploaded the final product. I've attached a MediaInfo report of what I download back off the hosting site with the HD option selected.
I've tried many, MANY different export options with basically the same results. At this point I'm beginning to question the project setup in some way but I just don't see that many options besides setting up the frame rate. I shoot in 60 and I've tried setting the project up in 60 and exporting in 30 or 60 and then setting it up in 30 and exporting it in 30.
With all that being said, I'm brand spanking new at this and my head is spinning a bit. Your videos look of the "good" quality or maybe "good enough" is a better description of the hosting site's end results:
https://seiclonesurveys.vids.io/videos/d49adfb41f1be7c75c/h-264-test1-mp4
All 3 were similar in quality on the hosting site.
I will check out the settings on yours and see what I can do to mimic and learn from that. If yours came straight out of PowerDirector 16, then it is possible for me to do the same. Just not getting something quite right yet...
I really appreciate the help!!
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