YouTube and Vimeo encoders make my work look pixelated (even at HD 1080)

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Hey,

I have been producing a music video using glsl and external video footage, typically the workflow is to record the video using movie file out and the animation codec at 60fps. Then I then edit in Premiere and export. However, YouTube and Vimeo encodes the video in a really awful way.

Too bad because it looks great when I export a H264 from Premiere even at 30fps or a 4444 or a 422 LT. I have tried different bit rates. Everything looks good when I play the file on my computer. Even uploading to instagram looks fine. YT and Vimeo seem to be problematic.

Any thoughts?

Any recommendations?

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It’s an age old issue, those (free) platforms will re-encode all your uploads to bitrates as low as possible to save bandwidth.
You can also check previous discussion here:

Also see compression guidelines from Vimeo here:
https://vimeo.com/help/compression

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Thanks, I have been spending way to much time trying to figure this out.

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