What is the best video format for Youtube? Part 2
And again, I welcome you to my site. This is the second part of the article, in which I verify from my own experience which video format is best for YouTube.
In the last part, I reviewed the AVI (uncompressed) video format, marking the rendering results in a special table. Today we will consider two most popular video formats, MP4 and WMV, which also deserve our attention. Let us begin!
MP4
MP4, like AVI, is a container for audio and video files, which uses many codecs like H.264 and AVC to encode video. Again, as in the case of AVI, for the experiment I will take only one of them, which in Sony Vegas Pro is called MainConcept AVC / AAC (Internet HD 1080p), since it is ideal for publishing on the Internet, and therefore on YouTube. …
Representation
MainConcept AVC / AAC MP4 video playback took 5 minutes 1 second, which is almost half as long as in the case of AVI.
MP4 rendering time table
The size
Also read: What video format is the best for Youtube? # one
But the video size in MP4 format is much smaller than in AVI format, and it is 129MB. I wonder how this affects its quality.
AVI size chart
Quality
In general, even considering that the video was encoded using the AVC codec, the quality did not suffer much. But something interesting was noticed in the way of increasing the contrast in one part of the video and decreasing it in the other.
Comparison of AVI and MP4
It clearly shows the difference between AVI and MP4 formats. Pay attention to the sky and the stump in the protagonist’s hands. This is what I wrote about above:
Contrast MP4
In my opinion, such video contrast, although it looks good, makes it uncomfortable for perception, so the final rating can be reduced by 2 points, that is, up to 8.
I have no complaints about the quality of the video, especially for such a small size of 129MB.
MP4 quality table
Conclusion: the MP4 (AVC / AAC) format has a small size and good quality, almost not inferior to the AVI format, but its strange contrast makes the video not very easy to read, which is a disadvantage of this format (although for some it may be an advantage).
