Upload to Youtube without losing quality?

[mike919]

So, everytime I upload to YouTube, it looks horrible. I use Lagarith for capture and ProRes 422 HQ for exporting for hybrid and it looks horrible. Any-way to get good quality by YouTube's encoding process?


Attached link is what the quality is straight from the .mov file.

Processing
Hybrid
QTGMC - Slower - Bob - Top field first
Upscale - 1440x1080
To make it look better I use mClean for de-noise and FineSharp for sharpening
Export:
Standard ProRes 422 HQ

https://youtu.be/9CVSCa2jT3Q?si=8px_qC6c5W6B5_C-

[latreche34]

You get better results by uploading lossless which eats up some bandwidth if you are not on unlimited fiber, Anything encoded gets reprocessed by youtube and compressed even further. Another better option is resizing to 1920x1440 to get their "newest" codec called VP9 or something like that, But personally that's way beyond of what I go to try to slightly improve the already shity processing of youtube.

Looking at your sample, that's the harshest test you can put youtube on, Static drives youtube algorithm nuts, Try to test with a normal clip that has no tape problems.

[mike919]

After doing some digging, I found out if I encode as a .mp4 and 3200-9000 bitrate it would look somewhat better on youtube. Aside from that I will not keep this file after uploading as I normally encode ProRes.