The video is definitely 1080p. UA-cam compresses every video and that "grain" (compression artifacts) happens when there are many things happening on the screen; grass and foliage are especially bad for this. You'll notice the video looks crisp at around 0:25 because you're not moving and the screen is static, more or less. Then take a look at around 2:01 to 2:04. The car smoke and grass combined make the screen look grainy. May I ask, what program do you use to edit/render your video?
I used the "UA-cam 1080p" preset when exporting my first upload of this video. But the result seemed subpar. So I changed the export settings for this upload and I *think* this as good as it will get.
Ah, you use the same program, except I use 2019. UA-cam uses 2 main codecs to compress uploaded videos. They give smaller youtubers, who don't get that many views, the worse coded - avc (if you right click on your video and click "stats for nerds", you'll see you have avc and some numbers under "codecs"). My channel used to be a mixed bag, sometimes I'd get avc, but sometimes I'd get the better "vp9" codec, which looks much better and doesn't have nearly as much "grain". There *is* a little trick I use to force vp9: UA-cam automatically gives any video in a resolution higher than 1080p the vp9 codec, so all you have to do to increase the quality is just render the video in a higher resolution; it doesn't matter what the resolution of your recorded video is, you can still do it. I can't imagine 2020 Premiere is much different than 2019, so if you have a little time to check this out: when you're done with making your video, go to the export settings and just pull up the preset you usually use (so you'll have other settings the same). Then, change the resolution to 2560 x 1440. Sometimes, it'll say your other settings aren't compatible with that resolution, so you can scroll down to where the "Encoding Settings" are. I have Profile set to High and Level to 5.1. It should allow you to input the 1440p resolution then, and you can export the video then. Perhaps just render a 30 second clip around 2:00 in this video and upload it, so you can see the difference and if you think it's better. The file size of the rendered video should generally not change that much; it changed like 10 MB for me for a 7-minute video.
I didn't get your second reply when I was writing that comment, but yeah. That's also what I used, so just change the things I said and it should work.
The video is definitely 1080p. UA-cam compresses every video and that "grain" (compression artifacts) happens when there are many things happening on the screen; grass and foliage are especially bad for this. You'll notice the video looks crisp at around 0:25 because you're not moving and the screen is static, more or less. Then take a look at around 2:01 to 2:04. The car smoke and grass combined make the screen look grainy.
May I ask, what program do you use to edit/render your video?
I use Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2020
I used the "UA-cam 1080p" preset when exporting my first upload of this video. But the result seemed subpar. So I changed the export settings for this upload and I *think* this as good as it will get.
Ah, you use the same program, except I use 2019. UA-cam uses 2 main codecs to compress uploaded videos. They give smaller youtubers, who don't get that many views, the worse coded - avc (if you right click on your video and click "stats for nerds", you'll see you have avc and some numbers under "codecs").
My channel used to be a mixed bag, sometimes I'd get avc, but sometimes I'd get the better "vp9" codec, which looks much better and doesn't have nearly as much "grain". There *is* a little trick I use to force vp9: UA-cam automatically gives any video in a resolution higher than 1080p the vp9 codec, so all you have to do to increase the quality is just render the video in a higher resolution; it doesn't matter what the resolution of your recorded video is, you can still do it.
I can't imagine 2020 Premiere is much different than 2019, so if you have a little time to check this out: when you're done with making your video, go to the export settings and just pull up the preset you usually use (so you'll have other settings the same). Then, change the resolution to 2560 x 1440. Sometimes, it'll say your other settings aren't compatible with that resolution, so you can scroll down to where the "Encoding Settings" are. I have Profile set to High and Level to 5.1. It should allow you to input the 1440p resolution then, and you can export the video then. Perhaps just render a 30 second clip around 2:00 in this video and upload it, so you can see the difference and if you think it's better. The file size of the rendered video should generally not change that much; it changed like 10 MB for me for a 7-minute video.
I didn't get your second reply when I was writing that comment, but yeah. That's also what I used, so just change the things I said and it should work.
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