Horrible macroblocking and compression on youtube with my latest vid

[Gerbert Floor]

Hey guys, I made a clip for a band (all a7s, with external recorder). Now its on youtube, but the artefacts and macroblocking drive me crazy. Its much better on vimeo. I already rendered a version without grain and uploaded a h264 to youtube, that was a bit better than the prores 422 file who gave really weird artefacts. But its nothing close to what I have on vimeo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms9vPG9qhaY&feature=youtu.be

https://vimeo.com/155005760......

When I check out other videos on youtube like the beautiful Dear Brother film, I see nothing like what I have, even in the dark scenes. Anybody that can help me out here?

[Mattias Burling]

Try upscaling it to 4K and uploading again. That will give the HD file roughly tripple the bitrate. Works wonders for my videos at least.
Just 1440p will double it but save some space/time.

 

[Gerbert Floor]

tnx for the tip, im going to try that. 

[Gerbert Floor]

that improves it by a lot, great tip. Too bad the band already had to release it as is (damn deadlines). This kinda took me by suprise. I knew youtube was the worst (except for fb :P ), but not by that much

[Vesku]

On 16.2.2016 at 11:44 AM, Gerbert Floor said:

Hey guys, I made a clip for a band (all a7s, with external recorder). Now its on youtube, but the artefacts and macroblocking drive me crazy.

I watched your video so that I streamed it through Potplayer and I used debanding filter. Video looked fine, no banding and no macroblocks. Debanding filter makes miracles in playing crappy Youtube videos. It is almost insane how well it cleans up compression rubbish. I can also use many color and level adjustments and sharpening with Potplayer.