Hey guys,
What do you guys recommend for the settings when outputting or compressing 1080 or higher resolution for Vimeo or Youtube? Before on my 60D, I would output to 720 and my settings from Quicktime Pro 7 were:
video -
format: MP4 (h.264)
data rate: 10,000 kb/sec
Image size: 1280 x 544 (2.35 ratio)
audio -
format: AAC-LC (Music)
data rate: 256 kpbs
channels: stereo
output sample rate 44.100 kHz
encoding quality: best
But now I'm shooting with 5D3 and I just finished a 1920x1080 size raw video. And I plan to go higher down the road. My question, should I increase the "data rate" for the video side? Or is it overkill? I know Vimeo has a limit I believe, but I'm not sure about Youtube.
For those of you who are shooting at 1080 or higher res, what are your settings?
Thanks in advance
Youtube encodes worse than Vimeo. Don't bother throwing some optimized 4.000 kbit/s file at youtube, because it will re-encode that again to max 4.000 kbit/s (if 1080p) with a high loss of image detail. Use your 10.000 kbit/s and youtube will do its work. You can't improve youtube's encoding quality, however the better your original file, the better the quality if youtube decides to re-encode it later. Personally I throw simple 12.000 kbit/s files at it, as I think it just works fine quality/performance wise. I tested various sizes including 50.000 kbit/s -> don't bother with that high bitrates, because youtube will encode your master file and then encode again from that for user streaming.
I alway render my mp4 off the timeline that's the Key
Don't make a master file then render from that you are
Just stepping on it for no reason,
I have a customs preset for 1080p
30Mb/s main color profile, level 5
6 frame reference multipass in apple compressor
Just remember "Garbage in Garbage out"
All video sharing site will render what ever
You upload & to my knowledge they don't
Recompress the file once already compressed
For streaming .
Plus one more thing , make sure your Level
Are right. You need to be in the 16-235 color space
Not 0-255 full range color space
:)