Optimize Export settings for YouTube

Help/How To
1

Hey guys,

I am currently working on my Youtube channel and finding a way to optimize the quality of my videos. I have uploaded a video already, which I recorded with a DSLR (Sony Alpha 58). However, after rendering it lost a lot of quality. I have tried just to increase the quality percentage to 100% under the Codec tab, but the export was very laggy and had some screen bugs like black dots and the sound was not aligned with the video. The other settings I have used are the following:

Video-Tab:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Aspect ratio: 16:9
FPS: 30
Scan mode: Progressive
Field order: None
Deinterlace: YADIF temporal + spatial
Interpolation: Bilinear (good)
Checked Parallel Processing

Codec-Tab
Codec: libx264
Rate control: Quality-based VBR
Quality: 100%
GOP: 15
B frames: 2
Codec threads: 0

Audio-Tab
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Codec: aac
Rate control: average bit rate
Bit rate: 384k

Other
movflags=+faststart
preset=fast

I would be forever grateful for anyone who can render my video as lossless in quality as possible.

Thank you!

2

You should give us original clips properties to see if it can be a frame rate issue or something like that.

The last words made me think that your computer was not enought powerfull at the moment you exported…

3

ok.
Video:
Resolution: 1920x1080
Data rate: 22248 kbit/s
Total bit rate: 22504 k bit/s
Frames per second: 25

Audio:
Bitrate: 256 k bit/s
Sample rate: 48000 Hz

4

You should start by exporting at 25 FPS instead of 30.

For the Rate control (quality) see here for some more info :
http://slhck.info/video/2017/03/01/rate-control.html

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

Maybe you need 2 pass encode.
Fixing 100% isn’t usefull here I think

5

Remember, YouTube will re encode your video if it doesn’t match their requirements. Try using the YouTube preset in Shotcut.