The YouTube compression can also have a hard time of compressing footage with a lot of randomnesses (such as in film grain). The result is, that you’ll end up with a lot of digital blockiness in the dark areas of your frame. When there are minor changes (such as in shadows), the compression codec might interpret it as a single dark area and throw away a lot of the information which is actually there in the shadows. a dark corner in a kitchen scene in your short film. Interframe compression works by throwing away information (data), which appears similar across frames e.g. Interframe compression don’t like randomness in video footage The reason for this has to do with how something called interframe compression is designed. Digital artifacts also show in footage with a lot of film grain, smoke, or a lot of other particles. Such artifacts are often seen in dark areas or shadows, large areas of a single color, in blurry shallow depth-of-field backgrounds. When YouTube compresses your videos it can cause all kinds of digital artifacts – from blockiness to banding to bad skin tones. No matter what codec you use when you export your video from your editing program of choice, YouTube will apply extra compression to your footage when you upload your videos to reduce the size of the file. In this article, I’ll guide you through some tips and tricks on how to improve the image quality of your YouTube videos.īut first… Why is the image quality bad on YouTube? Then you upload it to YouTube and the image quality looks horrible due to the compression YouTube applies to your footage. So you’ve just finished editing a video, and when you watch it back on your computer, everything looks great.
You can see if a video plays with AV1 by using “Stats for nerds” as described under the “How to know which codec YouTube has used to compress your video” subheading further down in this article. Then you can go to the AV1 Beta playlist page and see videos compressed with AV1. It appears as if YouTube is still testing the format on the videos they choose.īut you can force YouTube to play videos with the AV1 when possible by going to the playback performance page under your YouTube account and choosing “Always prefer AV1”. It doesn’t look like you can force YouTube to play your own videos with the AV1 codec at the moment. AV1 offers better quality than VP09 – even at lower bit rates. Update: After I initially wrote this article, YouTube has included a new codec called AV1 (aka AV01) – not to be confused with the old AVC1 I write about in the article. PLEASE READ THE FULL DISCLOSURE FOR MORE INFO. "I" IN THIS CASE MEANS THE OWNER OF FILMDAFT.COM. THIS POST MAY CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS, MEANING, AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU, I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES. DISCLOSURE: AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES.
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