YouTube compression ?

Dicehunter · 6 Oct 2014 at 16:20

So I uploaded a 20mb video to my channel and then re-downloaded it via the edit options and YouTube shrank it down to 1mb and the quality is horrendous, This normal ?

On the actual channel the video looks fine but I download it and the quality goes the way of the dodo.

Thomss · 6 Oct 2014 at 16:26

It sometimes takes a few moments before the full quality version is processed.

Dicehunter · 6 Oct 2014 at 16:33

Thomss said:
It sometimes takes a few moments before the full quality version is processed.

Well the video was shot in 480P and uploaded as such and even has the 480P option in the quality settings, Guessing it's just YT's horrid compression at work then

Steveocee · 6 Oct 2014 at 18:12

Yep youtube compress video like buggery. You're always best uploading as best quality as you possibly can.

stopper · 6 Oct 2014 at 23:13

Dicehunter said:
Well the video was shot in 480P and uploaded as such and even has the 480P option in the quality settings, Guessing it's just YT's horrid compression at work then

Remember though that 480 is only the resolution, youtube re-encodes the video at probably less than half the original bitrate at and keeps the resolution, which makes it look like turd.