Video Rendering and Uploading Questions

[ironroad]

Anyone here familiar with Window's Movie Maker or Power Director?

 

Forgive me if you feel this may be out of place as I would have posted this in the DCS forum, but I figured it was more of a rendering program-related question and not the sim itself.

 

I'm trying to stop my DCS/FC3 videos from being so pixelated and degraded after I render them and upload them my Youtube channel.

See my most recent releases here
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I'm using NVIDIA Shadowplay to do all of my capturing. The kicker is the raw files look pretty clean and only get degraded but so much. However, when I render the captured clips the degrade even more (slightly more pixelation but barley noticeable)and then when I upload the files to Boobtube it looks like I'm trying to get a rabbit ears VHF station during a snow storm.

I have tired different program, Windows Live Movie Maker and Cyberlink's Power Director, and have rendered files in WMA, AVI, MPEG-2, AVC, and XAVC S at full HD at 1980x1080 and 30p or higher, but I still get the same pixelated effect.

Sony Vegas (trial) showed a lot of promise and gave me the cleanest rendered files and those videos subsequently came out the cleanest on Youtube as well..

FYI: I run DCS at 1980x1080, all full settings (visible visible range is turned down some and civ traffic is off). My captures usually range between 30 and 65 FPS depending on the number of aircraft/objects active. Edited November 3, 2014 by ironroad

[Fubar512]

What are your hardware specs, and what OS are you using?

 

Update:

 

Ironroad, I believe that you're experiencing a "playback switchology" issue, and not a rendering issue.   

 

Click on the gearwheel icon on the Youtube window, and use it to set your playback resolution to the highest level allowed (720p or 1080p in the case of the video on the bottom), and see if that helps.

 

Edited November 3, 2014 by Fubar512

[ironroad]

Hey Fubar,

 

Would have replied earlier but been busy with work and such. I have an AMD 6400+ six core @ 3.4GHZ and 8gb of ram I'm running a GTX 770, Windows 7 home 64 bit.

 

I ran the question at another forum and someone recommended the output bit rate as a possible culprit. 

Edited November 5, 2014 by ironroad

[+RAVEN]

There is a video on YouTube explaining the best Bit rate, file format and resolution for uploading. I don't have the link so you'll have to search. Hope this helps?

[ironroad]

I definitely believe it may be a rendering or upload issue (or perhaps Scroogle/Boobtube throttled the video once upload), as I noticed I get the lowest quality when using Windows Movie maker and Power Director, never had such problems with Sony Vegas.

 

In all my videos I always render them at 30fps (really 29.99999) or 60fps (really 59.9999) if the codec I'm using allows it.

 

I'm using an Asus gaming monitor @144hz and I can definitely tell the difference between this amongst:

 

 

Latest video using using Power Director

 

This video I did a few months ago using Sony Vegas

 

And this earlier video in my series I did using Windows Live

 

Vegas so far appears to have the minimal amount of pixelation and "haze" in the post rendered file (before it gets uploaded and degraded further). I wondered in needed to play around with the settings in the other two programs (usually try to keep the bit-rate or perhaps try another codec that is upload friendly to Popculturetube. (I usually set custom settings and tell the programs to render at a bit rate at or above 120000).

Edited November 5, 2014 by ironroad