Hey Everyone,
I have a mac and I have linked my media to avid, it hasn't been converted to an mxf or anything just straight into avid via linking media.
I have finished my product and I want the best quality ( not caring about size) My theory is that since youtube compresses the heck out of anything, if I render the best quality version ill get more bang for my buck.
So I render a Proress 4444 and it looks good on the computer.
When I go onto youtube with it it looks very blocky. here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCrRwwvdRU
This has been asked before and I am truly sorry but I just dont understand.
To get the best youtube quality i've been told to render same as source and then go into media encoder and render again using h.264.. But what I don't get is that why would I render twice? that second render takes down quality again. and Since we are in 2016 now youtube actually takes bigger files. I would like to render once out of media composer and be done with it..
For some reason when I do render same as source I get the message saying that no same as source resolution exists and it will render what ever the media creation tab has set. probably because i have the files linked right?
should I always have them transcoded by avid and never link? I thought linking would leave the quality exactly the same from on the camera.
Essentially my question is. What is the best render setting that youtube wont crap all over. If pro res 4444 isn't doing the trick what will?
Will converting my timeline into an mxf and then rendering with what you guys suggest give me a better youtube quality?
sorry for the long message.
Thank you I would greatly appreciate it