Which video looks better (quality and smoothness)?

[vin97]

Either watch the video in 480p large player (windowed) or 1080p fullscreen and decide which one looks better in terms of image quality and smoothness.

[Brad]

I take it these are both from a 1080i25 capture? If so I would like to see some options with interpolation-deinterlacing instead of blend-deinterlacing.

[sanlyn]

You need a third choice. How about #3, Almost Everything On UTube Looks Like Crap To Me.

[vin97]

The source was a 1080p200 file. Both videos were rendered with Sony Vegas and smart resampling. All the render settings are the same other than the framerate.

[Brad]

Is this part of the game or caused by Vegas? I don't like it.

[vin97]

It was caused by Vegas. That's the downside of multisampling. Sometimes it looks really ghosty.
But without it, it's stuttering too much.
It would be really cool if YouTube supported 50 FPS or uploading videos without re-encoding them.

[Brad]

I think it would make more sense to record at 50 fps so that you only have 2x motion blur instead of 8x.

[vin97]

Believe me. Fast PC-MP-FPS like CoD4 really need that high multisampling. I've tested that for quite a while now.

Back to the comparison:
The original 30 FPS video looks really smooth and sharp. It looks way better than the original 25 FPS video, where you notice much more stuttering and motion blur. On YouTube both look equally as smooth but obviously the 25 FPS video has higher image quality (just because there is more data per image).
Still, I am not satisfied with the quality (480p in particular) but I think that's just YouTube and it's low encoding settings.

Here is another very similar comparison. Again the origial 30 FPS video wins over the original 25 FPS video and on YouTube it's the other way around. The videos were basically recorded and rendered with exactly the same settings as the previous ones.
25 FPS Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lo0bOeealo
30 FPS Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-DPCuj5Ask
Maybe I will also upload one of the video encoded with FFV1 (lossless) to demonstrate that it's not the CRF of 20 that's lowering the quality.