Film with canon edit with Premiere LOSS OF QUALITY

[joshuapearcefilms]

Hey my name is Josh and I love making videos, on to the topic -> So my videos I upload to youtube lose a lot of quality and do not look up to par with those filmed an d editing with similar equipment/software.

Here is my most recent video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYF5jEQPwqI (if link doesn't work type in "Kid Kern Ayo" its the first one)

Now the quality is so bad! I have always had this issue. Now let me go into specs -> Filmed with Canon Rebel t3i class 10 sd card. Filmed 1080p 30fps. Edited in premiere with the dslr 30fps sequence or i make a sequence from my footage. When I render I have tried MANY different things. Currently I use H.264 5.1 level max render quality, vbr 2 pass set at 10 and max set at 40. (I've gone as low as 4 and as high as 50 from 10min render times to 10hour) and I still get the same result as you can see in the video!! What is causing this??? Please any and all help is appreciated!!!

Thank you so much for your time. Let me know if there is anything else you need to know.

Please.

[newpball]

Currently I use H.264 5.1 level max render quality, vbr 2 pass set at 10 and max set at 40.

Max at 40 is not going to do much. For 1080p I would use something like 18 and max 20 to be on the safe side.

I still get the same result as you can see in the video!! What is causing this??? Please any and all help is appreciated!!!

Anything in particular that's bothering you? Looks like standard YouTube quality to me.

Here is my most recent video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYF5jEQPwqI (if link doesn't work type in "Kid Kern Ayo" its the first one)

Some feedback, two cents, take it for what you think it is worth, or just ignore it:

Nice work!
The explicit stuff bothers me.

I would be a bit more conservative on the effects, and totally skip the color shift effect.

A good trick is when you are finished to wait a couple of days and then check the video 20 times in a row.
If you then still like some effects leave them in and publish.

You have a lot of blown out whites but that may actually not be a bad choice given it is filmed with a Canon Rebel t3i. The video could use some color grading going from scene to scene.

Good luck and keep the hard work going!

[smrpix]

Some simple truths:
YouTube always recompresses -- and not well.
It never looks as good as it did on your editing system.
You're the only person in the world who knows what it's supposed to look like -- everybody else thinks it looks "great.'
Those other videos "filmed and edited with the same equipment" also look like crap compared to how they looked in the editing room.

Don't sweat it.

[budwzr]

What lens did you use? I'm guessing 100mm prime? Did you record from the HDMI out? It looks real good for a T3i.

[joshuapearcefilms]

lets compare my video to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPFx9PTA5A

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mh1xkNJrc

My quality is much more pixelated! And not as clear (when my shots are in focus)

Not looking for editing tips really just image quality tips. And lens's are 18-55 kit lens and 50mm 1.8 prime

[budwzr]

The Canon codec in that camera is blocky. I have the same camera. It's a consumer entry level camera.

[poisondeathray]

The quality isn't much different, and it's pretty much expected.

Your editing style predisposes your to compression artifacts. Basically the more motion the more "flashes" or scene changes, quick edits, the harder something is to compress. It's the way modern compression works - they store the differences between frames. Big differences mean a lot of bitrate is required to maintain a certain level of "quality" and when YT uses low bitrates, image deteriorates and falls apart.

The more sharp, the more in focus, the more bitrate is required. This again predisposing you to more artifacts. The softer, the "shallower" depth of field , the easier to compress, thus less artifacts

So if you shot a less flashy, slow moving video - it artistically wouldn't fit, but the image quality would be slightly better on youtube from a compression standpoint

If you say the other music video uses similar editing style, it's using ~2.4:1 AR crop (or "letterboxing") - i.e. there is less active "picture" to compress. , as well as a lower framerate "24p" - you can think of it as more bitrate distributed per frame.


BTW, your guy was funny in American Pie ... j/k...

[newpball]

lets compare my video to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPFx9PTA5A

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mh1xkNJrc

My quality is much more pixelated! And not as clear (when my shots are in focus)

Not looking for editing tips really just image quality tips. And lens's are 18-55 kit lens and 50mm 1.8 prime

Upload say 15 seconds (without flashy effects) of your original video on this site and you can point out what bothers you.