Many people have tested and shown that YouTube will re-encode what you give it no matter what (one even testing what happens when you run it through YouTube 1000 times! ). Doing this avoids one extra round of H.264 encoding. There’s no mention of uploading ProRes (or Cineform or DNxHR for that matter) and yet you can and you should if you have the bandwidth, especially as YouTube, unlike Vimeo, has no upload quota. ![]() ![]() YouTube’s recommended specs page is written with the average user in mind and can be safely ignored. With YouTube supporting 4K and 8K and even HDR, you want the best quality you can when you upload and you want to minimize the degradation that YouTube’s encoding does to your video. ![]() This music video I cut with Pete Doherty wandering around London was shot on 35mm black and white film stock and is on YouTube at a miserly 360p. I am old enough that some of my early work can be found on YouTube at very low resolutions. ![]() I thought I’d take a look behind the scenes of YouTube’s encoding and how to get the most out of it. But now you have to upload it to social media for it to be seen by the world and you want the best quality possible. You’ve spent months editing and grading and finishing your beloved video.
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