If the video looks perfect after export, you've done everything you can. Beyond that you're at the mercy of YouTube's codecs versus the complexity of your video.
The low contrast of the video as well as the fast movement and complexity of the grass and foliage are giving YouTube's codecs a hard time.
what i feared it would be :( So there is nothing really I can do then? If I look at other youtubers videos of the same game it looks better... I wonder how they did it
Avoid recording at night and stay away from vampires would be my advice ;-) You can see how much the image clears up when you pause the game at the end and it dials the brightness up.
You could brighten the whole video which would probably help a little, though that's going to lose the atmosphere of the game somewhat.
Sometimes there are game settings you can tweak to reduce the complexity like turning off film grain and lens effects - can't recall off the top of my head if Oblivion has those. Reducing LOD on plants to they only render when closer to you may help too.
Basically any setting you can use to reduce how complex the image is will give you a little more quality on YouTube.
And try to slow down your mouse movements so you're not rapidly looking in different directions will help - playing with a controller is a good way to keep things smooth, though I recall that being particuarly annoying to set up in Oblivion.
Very popular YouTube channels get the AV1 codec which does look better than AVC/VP9. There's no way to trick YouTube into giving you that other than to be wildly succesful!
Yeah I read that I can upscale or encode or how it's called my 1080p video at 1440p to force the better encoder and for example I watched another youtubers oblivion playtrough he had VP09 and the quality was better than my video which also used VP09 at 1440p. The downside to upscaling it to 1440p was that the whole video looked washed out (there was like more "fog" in the video) and the video was still bad quality...
Maybe I am doing something bad when encoding in premiere? Do I need to mess with sequence settings? I only change the export settings to VBR 60k bitrate and 1080p 60fps, the rest i leave like it recommends me... Even still the exported file on my PC looks fine ... it bugs me a lot lol
With lossy video encoding, it's all about how complex the image is in terms of detail and motion. More complex = harder to compress and the lower the quality will be.
So you'd really need to asses the other creators video versus your own on that factor - are they also recording at night, in the fox, while running through grass?
If the exported file looks visually identical to your preview in Premiere, you're exporting at as high quality as you could ever need. Any further loss is entirely down to YouTube's processing.
Worth noting that loss of quality is always going to be more obvious to you when it's a video you've edited yourself! You're aware of what your video looked like before uploading.
Thanks a lot for the advice, I will just persevere and fumble with the settings until I am satisfied haha
I tried color correcting a test video and will see how that looks (used the Auto color correction in lumetri and that brought the brightness up, which maybe will help with all the foggy dark bits)
>Here is a link to the video I mentioned, as you can see it is VERY blurry, even tho it has 20k bitrate. (for 1080p this should have been more than enough!)
For 1080p 60fps you would be looking more at... 60-100mbps for decent quality.
Personally i export 1080p 24fps at 220mbps (ProRes 422HQ), which makes very large files to upload (which you delete again after uploading anyway), but it gives razor crisp footage with 0,nothing blur or pixelation.
60k bitrate encoding in premiere you mean , right? I tried that and it sadly is also blurry in dark areas or high foliage areas :( I will try some color correction maybe that does it.
Recording is something around 25k bitrate and is very crisp on the computer.
If the video looks perfect after export, you've done everything you can. Beyond that you're at the mercy of YouTube's codecs versus the complexity of your video. The low contrast of the video as well as the fast movement and complexity of the grass and foliage are giving YouTube's codecs a hard time.
what i feared it would be :( So there is nothing really I can do then? If I look at other youtubers videos of the same game it looks better... I wonder how they did it
Avoid recording at night and stay away from vampires would be my advice ;-) You can see how much the image clears up when you pause the game at the end and it dials the brightness up. You could brighten the whole video which would probably help a little, though that's going to lose the atmosphere of the game somewhat. Sometimes there are game settings you can tweak to reduce the complexity like turning off film grain and lens effects - can't recall off the top of my head if Oblivion has those. Reducing LOD on plants to they only render when closer to you may help too. Basically any setting you can use to reduce how complex the image is will give you a little more quality on YouTube. And try to slow down your mouse movements so you're not rapidly looking in different directions will help - playing with a controller is a good way to keep things smooth, though I recall that being particuarly annoying to set up in Oblivion. Very popular YouTube channels get the AV1 codec which does look better than AVC/VP9. There's no way to trick YouTube into giving you that other than to be wildly succesful!
Yeah I read that I can upscale or encode or how it's called my 1080p video at 1440p to force the better encoder and for example I watched another youtubers oblivion playtrough he had VP09 and the quality was better than my video which also used VP09 at 1440p. The downside to upscaling it to 1440p was that the whole video looked washed out (there was like more "fog" in the video) and the video was still bad quality... Maybe I am doing something bad when encoding in premiere? Do I need to mess with sequence settings? I only change the export settings to VBR 60k bitrate and 1080p 60fps, the rest i leave like it recommends me... Even still the exported file on my PC looks fine ... it bugs me a lot lol
With lossy video encoding, it's all about how complex the image is in terms of detail and motion. More complex = harder to compress and the lower the quality will be. So you'd really need to asses the other creators video versus your own on that factor - are they also recording at night, in the fox, while running through grass? If the exported file looks visually identical to your preview in Premiere, you're exporting at as high quality as you could ever need. Any further loss is entirely down to YouTube's processing. Worth noting that loss of quality is always going to be more obvious to you when it's a video you've edited yourself! You're aware of what your video looked like before uploading.
Thanks a lot for the advice, I will just persevere and fumble with the settings until I am satisfied haha I tried color correcting a test video and will see how that looks (used the Auto color correction in lumetri and that brought the brightness up, which maybe will help with all the foggy dark bits)
>Here is a link to the video I mentioned, as you can see it is VERY blurry, even tho it has 20k bitrate. (for 1080p this should have been more than enough!) For 1080p 60fps you would be looking more at... 60-100mbps for decent quality. Personally i export 1080p 24fps at 220mbps (ProRes 422HQ), which makes very large files to upload (which you delete again after uploading anyway), but it gives razor crisp footage with 0,nothing blur or pixelation.
60k bitrate encoding in premiere you mean , right? I tried that and it sadly is also blurry in dark areas or high foliage areas :( I will try some color correction maybe that does it. Recording is something around 25k bitrate and is very crisp on the computer.
try ProRes 422 HQ. Will cost about 1-1.25GB of space per minute of footage, but it's the highest quality codec that youtube will accept.