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Christian Selig

Is there any "meta" with YouTube and which video codec to upload so as to help with processing times? h264? VP9?

18 July at 0:58 | Open on mastodon.social
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Nicholas

@christianselig I dunno about processing times, but I am convinced that the quality is better when I upload a ProRes master (vs H.264/H.265)

18 July at 1:01 | Open on toot.cafe
Christian Selig

@nick Interesting. Wonder if there's any way to quantify that

18 July at 1:05 | Open on mastodon.social
Nicholas

@christianselig I suppose one could upload a bunch of files, and download the output & run it through VMAF or something, but ain’t nobody got time for that

18 July at 1:19 | Open on toot.cafe
Joseph

@christianselig anecdotally I’ve found AV1 to be much faster than H.264

18 July at 1:06 | Open on mstdn.ca
Christian Selig

@jsph Not a single Mac has an AV1 encoder that would take me years in software ;_;

18 July at 1:09 | Open on mastodon.social
Sang

@christianselig Lower resolution videos will generally process much, much faster, so if you want to optimize for processing time, I’ve found 720p video processes pretty quickly (it’ll be a bit faster too if you encode based on the YT guidelines - h.264 @ ~7.5 Mbps): support.google.com/youtube/ans.

YT seems to always re-encode uploads though, so I usually just live with the processing time and upload prores 422. The quality generally is noticeably better, esp at the higher end of the ladder like 2k/4k.

@christianselig Lower resolution videos will generally process much, much faster, so if you want to optimize for processing time, I’ve found 720p video processes pretty quickly (it’ll be a bit faster too if you encode based on the YT guidelines - h.264 @ ~7.5 Mbps): support.google.com/youtube/ans.

18 July at 1:13 | Open on fireplace.cafe
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@christianselig it’s possible you have some encoder setting enabled/disabled that’s causing YT to deprioritize your processing, but it’s more likely deprioritized because you don’t have a ton of/consistent views on your channel. Also 4K will slow down processing a good bit.

18 July at 1:33 | Open on mastodon.social
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