Best quality settings for youtube

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Here is a very related thread (motorcycle through forest/countryside) where the poster basically says to use UHD 4K even if that means upscaling:

Why I transcode to 4K and fast bit rate

Here’s a prime example of why I transcode to 4K, using a high bit rate. The first image is the freeze frame just before action starts. [image] This is a couple of frames later, as action begins. [image] Here’s the full video. Jump to 0:48 to see the comparison. Transcoding to 4K and high bit rates works around this problem. For Jaufenpass I used the YouTube profile with about 76 Mb/s. By comparison, Timmelsjoch is about 356 Mb/s. Kinda hard to miss the difference…

You can try to do that at Export time in Shotcut, but I suggest to not change the Export > Video > Frames/sec.