Absolute Best Settings For YouTube?

2dguy

Newbie Joined: Jun 16, 2021 12:33 Messages: 43 Offline

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Sep 12, 2022 11:58

So I've noticed 3 different quality levels of my videos, from best to worst...

1) Original GoPro 9 video.
2) Rendered via PWD 365.
3) YouTube

I don't care how large my file is, but I want the absolute best quality that YouTube can display. I realize YouTube compresses the video anyway, so rendered size on my hardrive is irrelevent.

I'm rendering 4k videos, what render settings should I use for the best quality results if YouTube is my main concern? I've read some users render using a very high average bitrate of 100,000 kpbs or more. Should I be doing that? Thx.

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Sep 12, 2022 23:16

Here are YouTube recommended upload encoding settings: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccontainer-mp%2Caudio-codec-aac-lc%2Cvideo-codec-h%2Cframe-rate%2Cbitrate .Expand to see each item.

More than likely your GoPro 4k videos are in the hevc format and not the YT recommendation. Use the Profile Analyzer to determine the parameters of your original videos and produce them with a custom profile to match the original for your own use if desired.

2dguy

Newbie Joined: Jun 16, 2021 12:33 Messages: 43 Offline

Sep 13, 2022 13:51

Quote Here are YouTube recommended upload encoding settings: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccontainer-mp%2Caudio-codec-aac-lc%2Cvideo-codec-h%2Cframe-rate%2Cbitrate .Expand to see each item.

More than likely your GoPro 4k videos are in the hevc format and not the YT recommendation. Use the Profile Analyzer to determine the parameters of your original videos and produce them with a custom profile to match the original for your own use if desired.

Thx, but not looking for recommended, I want the best quality settings to use before I upload to YouTube. I'm guessing the higher the bit rate the better.