Best format to Render with?

[w@flz]

Whats a good 720p format to render with.

I want something that is small as it can be to upload to youtube but maintain decent quality.

I can post what my options are tmro

 

[RainMotorsports]

I prefer H.264 its used by Bluray as its primary codec and its also the official codec of YouTube. Thy have added WebM as well since half of HTML 5 browsers use WebM over H.264 because they worried about patents. However its complete BS as WebM has the same problem. H.264s patents are not enforced and WebM is subject to something I forget but they wanted to patent pool with MPEG LA.

YouTube will rape your 1080P down to an average of 6 Mbps 720P I forget.

My preferences for H.264 in regards to detailed footage such as games is 1080P 60 fps around 50 Mbps 1080P 30 fps 25 to 30 Mbps. 720P 30 fps 10 to 15 Mbps maybe.

At 1080P 60 fps detail really starts to go below 40 Mbps and at 30 fps around 20. As I said you tubes raping it anyways. When you upload to YouTube they encode it to H.264 WebM and 3GP for various devices and browsers so encode in something compatible with yt that plays on many devices and is future proof. H.264 plays on my phone among other things and is widely support by players and editors and will be for years.

 

[NotAnalGrap]

Problem with YouTube is that they use very heavy compression. So if you take a h.264 mp4 and upload it, it gets turned to junk. This means you have to create very large files to get a decent 720p video. At work, we created some marketing videos and ended up switching from youtube to Wistia for many many reasons. Wistia isn't practical for someone who does a ton of uploads unless you are a business (which will cost you a good amount per month). Wistia will give you 3 free videos per account though, and they don't use hardly any compression.

 

[RainMotorsports]

Yeah Amish thats why personally my important shit is now on my website. Server is on a 1 Gbps uplink. Pain is having 2 files taking space to support all browsers. You also have to keep the bitrate somewhere near your intended audiences internet speed or they have a lot of waiting in store.

6 Mbps is actually a fair value versus the average persons internet but 1080P in H.264 its just not awesome quality. Now when H.265 is out it will look decent at that bitrate.

 

[HeatSurge]

If you want to be hardcore, render straight to FLV lel.

In reality though, x264vfw 2-piss at 720p at about 5000bps should do the trick.

x264vfw - Browse Files at SourceForge.net

I like virtualdub for recoding too, but it should work with any software.

 

[w@flz]

I record with Fraps, I use Corel Video Studio Pro (Latest v) for editing.

 

[HeatSurge]

Install the shit above, and render 2-pass 720p at 5000bps. For 1080p, you probably need 9000-10000bps for excellent quality... Not sure how to set 2-pass up with Corel. I mean, you can do it manually but you'll have to wait for the first pass... too long to explain, I can explain with vdub...

 

[w@flz]

@heat

Ill show you my render options when i get home Heat

 

[HeatSurge]

Well, with 2 pass unless you can "queue" things like in virtualdub, you'll just have to render the first pass somewhere, then come back and render the 2nd pass... It's fairly easy, you just set up x264vfw for "first pass" then click "render" or whatever, and then set it up for "second pass" in the same folder and click "render" again (overwriting the .avi or .mkv or .whatever). What "first pass" does is create a "rough draft" of the avi with weighing data and a ".stats" file (or something like that) that it uses during the 2nd pass to assign more bandwidth to more complex areas of the video. That's kinda the basics of it.

With vdub it's easy because you can queue the 2nd pass so it automatically does it without you starting it manually...

That's as easy as I can explain it :-D .