Which of these has better quality?

[bojadada]

I color corrected one of them, but I'm not sure if adding effects to a video before rendering it reduces the quality at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztU5vCxT1-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lefa3aklfww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvbAkihRF4

[fitch.j]

Thats the most horrific lens i've seen used for a long time!!

As for your color correction, well you've overexposed sections of it quite badly so your losing a whole lot of detail, and for the other 2 you have a 1080 version and a 720 version so the 1080 is clearly superior. Comparing the two 720's i'm tending to favour the second, however i'm assuming that the second was uploaded by yourself at 720 resolution, and the first has had youtube encode a 720 version from your 1080 version, which would explain it.


You need to be a lot more detailed with what you want to know, the 'quality' is all down to how its encoded, if you gave us samples of the source file and what you were trying to achieve etc etc it would be a lot easier to help rather than just 3 youtube links that arent really comparable as they are of different resolutions.

[bojadada]

Ok, the first one was uploaded directly from my camera, no editing, I just got the m2ts file from my camera than uploaded it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztU5vCxT1-M I'm trying to get quality like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHKq3IkZIA The uploader is using the same exact camera as I am, so I'm pretty sure that there's something I'm doing wrong the way I'm rendering my videos, because that video has way better quality than mine.

[fitch.j]

Well the original footage itself is shot better, they have a much nicer wide angle lens on, whereas you seem to have a complete fisheye which is horribly distorting the picture.

They have also added a lot of effects to their footage, this can hide a lot of the 'truth as to what was shot, making it appear better than it was. I would say that their footage is definitely 'prettier' than yours, but saying it has 'way better quality' in terms of simply file format, i'd disagree.

And finally i would assume that they have uploaded their 720 version in a youtube acceptable format and bitrate, so that youtube itself won't re-encode it, so they can be certain exactly how it will look, this way they are not throwing their video into the slot machine that is youtube encoding, and hoping something acceptable comes out!

[bojadada]

Thanks, do you think you could tell what effects they added to the video? I can tell they did something with the colors, but I think they added more contrast too.