Best way to keep youtube compression low? 5d M2 raw

[mrd777]

Hi guys,

What formats do you all recommend to keep the raw quality once uploading to Youtube? I always export in avid DNXHD 8bit for youtube. When I playback in my comp, quality is of course the raw quality. But as we all know, youtube compresses. Any codec they will maybe not compress so tightly? I feel like it's half the quality once I upload.

Thanks,
mr D

[Jackeatley]

I've tried various codecs but Youtube seems to attack them all these days, even if you give it exactly what it says it wants.

Some people are upscaling to UHD (4K 16:9) which seems to help.

But what seems to be a common theme is the addition of grain, by adding lots of fine detail to the footage youtube's algorithm seems to leave it alone, I've noticed it help on some projects I've delivered but not all.