Nice explanation of YouTube bitrates

Hey folks,

I ran across this last night and thought some of you would find it interesting: https://youtu.be/dJQX0tZsZo4

He's talking specifically about video game recordings, but his points are directly applicable to gauge rendering on VIRB videos uploaded to YouTube as well. Hopefully Google is able to open their pipes a little wider soon. In the meantime, maybe this gives you some ideas for workarounds.

0 Brettkp over 9 years ago

Thanks for the link cvarley!

I'd seen another video that also suggested encoding at higher resolutions might improve the output on youtube. I'm in the process of creating another video at the moment and will try encoding at 4k before uploading to youtube. The video I had seen suggested that in doing so, even the 1080P playback will be better than if the video was uploaded at 1080P. Hopefully I'll know soon!

Cheers,
Brett