Wondering what is the best YouTube video format? We see this in this guide!
Hello, Today we’ll see what format you can keep the highest quality when you upload a video to YouTube. If you didn’t know that YouTube captured the video on its servers when it was uploaded, it will be encoded again. It is therefore important that we provide you with the highest quality file with our required specifications.
CODEC
Let’s start with CODEC. The choice is obvious and falls into the ubiquitous H264. It is widely used in both the shooting and distribution stages of many cameras and is the best choice even if we want to share movies online. The reason is very simple: having the same file size, it offers the best quality. Select it in your app to edit or encode. Of course, it would be great if it ended here. In fact, there may be variations in this algorithm that I will not explain in detail because it is a very complex and lengthy language.
What you need to know is that the H264 profile that YouTube requires of us is HIGH, its entropy mode is CABAC, and of course it has to be progressive, not intertwined, because we’ll upload the video, which will be on your computer, smartphone, and on a tablet instead of old TVs. In terms of bit rate, i. Y. The amount of data per second, YouTube tells us that we can leave it automatically, even if it shows that we want to choose 8000 Kbit / s for FullHD movies and 5000 HD movies.
We can increase this number, but keep in mind that as files grow, it will take longer to upload files and there will be more space for archiving.
CONTAINER
For an extension, ie a container, mp4 is the best choice. Obviously, the frame rate, i.e. the number of frames per second, should match the one you captured and edited.
FRAMES PR SECOND
For example, if you select 25 frames per second in these two phases, make sure they are the same when loading.
SOUND QUALTY
Okay, as far as the video part is concerned. What about the sound?
The choice depends on the AAC-LC codec, which is obviously stereo and has a sampling rate or sampling rate of 48 kHz.
I know this may sound complicated, but once you have dictated and saved these settings in your encoder, you just need to select them after export and forget about them. Maybe you think: But my app already has an Export to Youtube feature. I can’t use it? Quick Answer: You can do this, because in any case, they usually have settings that more or less meet YouTube’s needs.
However, for maximum control and quality, create a preset with the parameters I’ve given you before, which I’ll summarize quickly:
-H264 codec with high profile, CABAC entropy mode and bit rate, which can be automatic or 8000 Kbit / s for FullHD movies and 5000 Kbit / s for HD movies
-Extension mp4
– Frame rate per second corresponding to recorded and edited, provided it is between 24 and 60 frames per second
– Progressive and non-interlaced movies (e.g. 1080p instead of 1080i)
-48 kHz audio compressed with AAC-LC
