Youtube quality pixelated when in an area with a lot of visuals

Slauch wrote on 11/29/2018, 1:29 PM

Hello everyone, I am a starting youtuber and I have a problem which I can't seem to fix. Everytime I record a video in 1080p60 and upload it to youtube (after rendering in vegas pro 15) it comes out in good quality when there is not a lot going on on the screen, but when I come in a area in a game with a lot of visual effects the whole quality goes downhill rapidly. I am really frustrated with this since I tried A LOT of things to fix it. So here is an example of one of my videos:

In the beginning the quality is alright from my facecam and from the game but if you skip to 28:30 the quality of the facecam and the game is utterly pixelated and I have no idea why. These are my render settings in vegas pro if anyone is interested: MAGIX AVC/AAC MP4 >>> Internet 1080P60fps >>> custom template:http://prntscr.com/loj8oa

I record with nvidia shadowplay: http://prntscr.com/loj8yu

If anyone knows a fix then you'll be my hero haha.
Thanks!

EDIT: When uploading a video on youtube it also says: 'Your videos will process faster if you encode into a streamable file format. For more information, visit our Help Centre.' even though it is rendered.

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dape wrote on 12/16/2018, 8:59 PM

Hello everyone, I am a starting youtuber and I have a problem which I can't seem to fix. Everytime I record a video in 1080p60 and upload it to youtube (after rendering in vegas pro 15) it comes out in good quality when there is not a lot going on on the screen, but when I come in a area in a game with a lot of visual effects the whole quality goes downhill rapidly.

If anyone knows a fix then you'll be my hero haha.
Thanks!

EDIT: When uploading a video on youtube it also says: 'Your videos will process faster if you encode into a streamable file format. For more information, visit our Help Centre.' even though it is rendered.

Hi, i will make it short as a fellow gamer who uploads to youtube:

Try to ditch the geforce experience (ex. shadowplay) recording. The output file its glitchy and will confuse VP15 (i think the VFR problem is solved in VP16). Use OBS - resulted files work awesome with VP.
If you have a GTX1050 or newer/better try to use NVENC instead of the software encoding. You will save so much time rendering and the results will be almost the same quality wise for YouTube. There is really no good reason to render in software mode unless you want smaller output file sizes for local storage.
Why aren't you rendering at 12 Mbit max? YouTube recommends so for your resolution and framerate. If you really wanna trick YT into "better quality" then try number 4.
Upscale your 1080p videos to 1440p and render them at the recommended 24 Mbit and YouTube will always present them with the VP9 codec to viewers.

Musicvid wrote on 12/16/2018, 9:07 PM

Have you tried massively increasing the "Maximum bit rate (bps)"? There's really no reason to have it so close in value to the Average bit-rate if you're using Variable.

For 1080p60 youtube uploads I do I use:

Maximum: 50,000,000

Average: 28,000,000

I also have an NVIDIA card so I use NV Encoder instead of Mainconcept (bottom part of your screenshot) w/ Preset High Quality, RC Mode: VBR High Quality.

If you haven't tried bumping up the Max/Average bitrates I'd definitely try that first.

Oh and that message from youtube about streamable formats always comes up for me too......It won't affect quality - it would only allow youtube to start encoding the video while the upload was still in progress. These days the processing time is pretty quick anyway

My tests are here.

WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME OF YOUR OWN.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/wagging-the-dog-effects-of-hyperoptimal-youtube-upload-bitrates--114098/

Slauch wrote on 12/18/2018, 3:02 PM

Hello everyone, I am a starting youtuber and I have a problem which I can't seem to fix. Everytime I record a video in 1080p60 and upload it to youtube (after rendering in vegas pro 15) it comes out in good quality when there is not a lot going on on the screen, but when I come in a area in a game with a lot of visual effects the whole quality goes downhill rapidly.

If anyone knows a fix then you'll be my hero haha.
Thanks!

EDIT: When uploading a video on youtube it also says: 'Your videos will process faster if you encode into a streamable file format. For more information, visit our Help Centre.' even though it is rendered.

Hi, i will make it short as a fellow gamer who uploads to youtube:

Try to ditch the geforce experience (ex. shadowplay) recording. The output file its glitchy and will confuse VP15 (i think the VFR problem is solved in VP16). Use OBS - resulted files work awesome with VP.

If you have a GTX1050 or newer/better try to use NVENC instead of the software encoding. You will save so much time rendering and the results will be almost the same quality wise for YouTube. There is really no good reason to render in software mode unless you want smaller output file sizes for local storage.

Why aren't you rendering at 12 Mbit max? YouTube recommends so for your resolution and framerate. If you really wanna trick YT into "better quality" then try number 4.

Upscale your 1080p videos to 1440p and render them at the recommended 24 Mbit and YouTube will always present them with the VP9 codec to viewers.

Hi! Would you mind sharing your OBS recording settings with me? I tried recording with OBS before and followed a few youtube recording tutorials but the output was always waaaaay worse than with shadowplay.

Musicvid wrote on 12/18/2018, 3:07 PM

Did you miss or forget the direct link to the recommended OBS SETTINGS exactly 15 posts up??

We're those the settings you tried?

Slauch wrote on 12/18/2018, 4:06 PM

Did you miss or forget the direct link to the recommended OBS SETTINGS exactly 15 posts up??

We're those the settings you tried?

Yes, I used those as well initially but the quality was defo not great

Musicvid wrote on 12/18/2018, 4:22 PM

Oh, I see.