Lost Video Island

[Jamielost]

Hey,

I've been having trouble with Youtube quality... it's OK on HQ, but it's still a bit pixelated if you know what I mean. But here's the weird thing: the quality is better when I DON'T watch it in HQ. It's more noticable on the text, but here's some examples:

HQ:



Standard Quality:



If you look at the black lines on the yellow part of his socks, it's sharper. That isn't a very good example, but the text:

HQ:



Standard Quality:



The difference might not be that great, but there is a difference. On another vid of mine (just started, uploaded a test on a different account), the text was a bit blurry so I turned off the HQ button, and suddenly it was perfectly sharp. And the rest of the video was much better...

So I am a bit perturbed as to why low quality would be better than high... perhaps it is to do with rendering? I render with the following settings:

Rendering quality: Best
Audio: 128kbps, 44 kHz, stereo (A/V) CBR -- I wonder if that is the problem?

Mode: Quality VBR
Format: WMV9
Image size: 640x360 (for widescreen)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000 (square)
Frame rate: 30.000
Seconds per keyframe: 1 or 3... don't think it matters
Quality: 100%
Bit rate: 3mbps

Think that's all the details. Oh, and I change the project properties too.

640x360 again
Frame rate: 30.000
Field order: none (progressive scan)
Pixel aspect ratio
Full-resolution rendering quality: good (I thought it was set to best, but it's on good)
Deinterlace method: blend fields

So any ideas? I've tried so many different rendering settings, but this is the best I came up with. Is there a better way? And why is LQ better than HQ?!

Thanks in advance!

[Jamielost]

This has been solved by Maja (thanks ), and I thought people might like to know the solution since it's been a problem for a lot of YTers.