Sonic and All Star Transformed - 4K 60fps (Galactic Parade) PC
14OK, lads and lasses... hold onto your butts! This is a an experimental upload to see if I can stop YouTube from continually compressing and horrifically pixelating my video uploads, by upscaling into 4K. This was a video that I'd originally rendered in 1080p in 60fps at 20,000 kbps, which looked fine when played on my PC in Windows Media Player. I've had other videos with the exact same settings that YouTube butchers after uploading. I've tried uploading videos in 1080p at 60,000 kbps that come out looking exactly as bad on YouTube as ones that were rendered at 12,000 kbps (and that is to say, even the ones with the lower settings didn't look bad before YouTube compressed them).
So anyway, a few people have suggested, and I've also seen it recommended in a few 'how-to' YouTube videos, that if you upload your videos in 4K they come out better - The reasoning being, allegedly, that 4K videos automatically get upgraded to YouTube's apparently superior VP9 codec, something that also happens if
you have a video that generates a lot of views and becomes 'popular'. Some of my most popular videos have received this upgrade 9you can check in the stats for nerd bit if you right click on one of your videos) but I'd be lying if I said that I could see a massive difference though. Perhaps they look a tad clearer, but I could be imagining it.
Anyway, the reason this is a complete experiment, is because although I can render videos in 4K, I can't actually play 4K videos in Windows Media Player on my PC because Windows 7 (I can view it in the little pop up player in my video editing software, but I can't really get a proper full size look at it, so I'm just assuming it's turned out OK). I'm not really fussed about 4K though, all I really want is for it to be able to play in 1080p at 60fps on YouTube and not look like a 360p video (which is what keeps happening)... So we shall see what happens when it finishes uploading. FYI, the final 4K bitrate is 23,000 (I could put it all the way up to 200,000, but that would have left me with a nearly 7GB file to upload)