At my clients request I uploaded his video to Youtube. You've seen it before, you can see it
on Youtube. Please don't watch too much, it looks truly horrid.
However watch it in Youtube HD and it don't look too bad. Not as good as the same video on Vimeo but acceptable.
This was uploaded to Youtube as 720p25 H.264. Original H.264 looks pristine.
I can understand only too well what is going on. At the level of compression Youtube is using there's too much detail in the source for the encoder to handle, a bit less noise would help too no doubt.
I can wrangle all these issues to get the SD looking good but here's the problem. That's kind of going to defeat it looking good in Youtube HD. Maybe I'm stuck with this, maybe I should deliver unto Youtube what it wants for a clean SD encode and send viewers to Vimeo to watch in HD but that's a big ask.
Any and all suggestions welcome. I suspect there's no real answer to this but I'm all ears and eyes.
Bob.
EDIT: That was interesting. Watching it embedded on this page it doesn't look so bad at all. Watching it directly on Youtube it does looks like shite. Oh the joys of all this stuff.
on Youtube. Please don't watch too much, it looks truly horrid.
However watch it in Youtube HD and it don't look too bad. Not as good as the same video on Vimeo but acceptable.
This was uploaded to Youtube as 720p25 H.264. Original H.264 looks pristine.
I can understand only too well what is going on. At the level of compression Youtube is using there's too much detail in the source for the encoder to handle, a bit less noise would help too no doubt.
I can wrangle all these issues to get the SD looking good but here's the problem. That's kind of going to defeat it looking good in Youtube HD. Maybe I'm stuck with this, maybe I should deliver unto Youtube what it wants for a clean SD encode and send viewers to Vimeo to watch in HD but that's a big ask.
Any and all suggestions welcome. I suspect there's no real answer to this but I'm all ears and eyes.
Bob.
EDIT: That was interesting. Watching it embedded on this page it doesn't look so bad at all. Watching it directly on Youtube it does looks like shite. Oh the joys of all this stuff.