Create High Quality Motorcycle GoPro Videos - Lesson 1: Uploading GoPro to Youtube. 

Glad you like it Charlie... 4 more videos coming over the next 10 days.

Plenty more tutorials where that came from. Enjoy 👍

Yes, either a miracle or a smart RU-vid algorithm. Either way, I'm glad that my content is useful to you. Thanks for subscribing.

Hey Fred Nice to meet you. Glad this is useful. I'm probably going to post an update soon, only difference is that now I'm shooting and editing in 30fps. I did further testing etc. Where in the US do you live?

@@brentbat Hi Brent! Deep in the swamp - Washington, D.C.

Glad you enjoyed it. I'm uploading video 2 right now :-)

Thanks Tim, appreciate your comments.

I hear you. It drives you crazy. Key to better looking RU-vid’s is maximising nitrate on export. I have mine set at 50mbps

Thanks Throttle Downunder... Glad you are enjoying the series. I'm posting lesson 2 as we speak.

@@brentbat looking forward to it

Been referred here by Rob, great info and very glad he let us know about you Brent.

@@brentbat I'm looking forward to it too.

Hey Siddharth I edit in 1920X960 mainly (yes, this is a bit of a strange ratio, but I love the 2x1 aspect ratio). You might want to try some experiments.... try to work out why it is happening. I mainly watch videos on a 1080 stream (HD), so that is what I'm using to judge my work. After a ton of experimentation with both the capture, the edit and the export, I'm happy with my image quality now.

I use an M1 PRO Mac laptop

I've run a few tests and I agree with you. I can't really see a significant increase in quality with H265, but you do cop a big penalty on upload time, so I'm still using H264 until I find a way of getting discernable better quality.

@@brentbat thanks for the reply. Just to say really appreciate the time you give to provide 'trade secrets'. As an amateur with videography, content like yours is invaluable. Good luck with the channel 👍

Hey George, can you clarify what you mean by the use of the program Handbrake? is this a utility or something? I haven't heard of it. But I'll do some Googling now.

Thanks Andre, I split my time between Sydney and Austin, TX.

When you in Sydney flick me a message and let’s go for a ride and get a few recordings around! I ride a 1250gs adventure, my last video on my Channel was using the camera configuration that you suggested on a GoPro hero 9

@@andrefonzar6222 Thansks Andre, but it will be a while, my next ride is a big ride in the Flinders Ranges and I'll be shipping my bike to Adelaide for the ride, then back to Texas.

Hey DR200 Gold, I'm sorry, but I don't use any of hte phone or ipad apps for my editing so I can't help you there. But I'm sure there tutorials out there by people that have used them.

Hi CS, I'm confused... Simple Sam is a made up Persona. Or is there something specific you are referring to?

@@brentbat Ha ha🤣, Thanks once again for your wonderful lessons.🤝

Hey there Awesome Players, thanks for your note. On the first point, thanks for the info on CBR vs VBR... It was always my understanding that VBR was superior than CBR and VBR2 provided the best quality compression strategy, but I'm not an expert on compression algorithms for sure. I think the key point is still valid... the default data rates are too low for motorcycle videos which have huge amounts of the image that are moving between keyframes. So do you use CBR or VBR1? On the second point (why not edit at 2.7K) rather than up-rezing? Two reasons that are connected. 1) Most people watch videos at 1080p and I feel that HD is good enough quality for the videos that I'm making. I'm not doing it professionally, but as a hobby etc. 2) I find that if Im using a higher-res timeline then my computer is going to struggle during the edit. Perhaps not initially, but when I start adding effects etc, it will battle. Yes, I could created proxy files and do that, but when I consider point (1), I ask myself why. Oh, and a third reason, at 1080p, I have more flexibility in reframing in post, while I often just scale down 4K to 50%, When I'm really taking my time, I'll often be reframing in post to get the shots composed perfectly (or as perfect as I can :-) Appreciate the comment.

I one more point... Your last sentence said that your videos that are 1080 are in vp09. OK, I have a theory on this, but I think it is just a theory at this point. vp09 has been around for a number of years. I think when they first implemented it, they were quite sparing about who got access to it because RU-vid were worried it would kill their servers due to increased server load. Because it is a higher quality codec, I think they want to use it for ALL their videos eventually, and they are on a staged rollout. I think that when you upload video, if the encoding servers are not loaded heavily, they will give you vp09 at any resolution you upload, but I think if they are busy, then you get avc1 unless your 2.7K or greater. What do you think?

@@brentbat Hi Brent. I compress at 30 to 50 Mbps CBR using H264. I don't bother with VBR since it is all about getting a lower average data rate while allowing data spikes to optimize quality in a smaller file size. Very handy when trying to max out the amount of video on a DVD/BluRay or USB key. For VBR to work the average and max numbers have to be different. A CBR clip at 15 won't be as nice as a VBR clip at 15 with a max of 30 even though both files will be the same size. Adobe maxes out at 50 so you're already compressing every frame at the maximum quality in CBR. Sometimes on shorter clips I will just upload the ProRes 422 directly. About 1 gig per minute. In my tests I didn't see any noticeable difference between the ProRes or high bitrate H264. Seems the damage is really being done by RU-vid at that point. I agree about 1080. I still finish in 1080 as well as it is smoother on my system and allows for cropping when needed. My question is about resizing the 1080 to 2.7. That will certainly have a quality penalty as you are doing a 40% blow up. Perhaps that outweighs the loss in quality if your videos are being compressed by YT to AVC. I'm not a big Premiere user but I wonder if could edit in 1080 and then just before export switch your project settings to 2.7k. Then the 4K footage would be scaled to 2.7K and output directly as opposed to being scaled from 4K to 1080 and then upscaled to 2.7. Don't mean to clutter up your comments but i find this stuff interesting. If you ever want to chat you can find my info at AwesomePlayers.com. Cheers.

@@brentbat I've heard they are moving to an all VP9 scheme. A few articles have stated that low volume channels get AVC as YT is rationing computing power. I do know that when I do a video Premiere even at 1080 the videos look crappy with a lot of compression artifacts but then when I view them later the quality is noticeably improved. Next time I do a Premiere I will try the right click trick and see what's up. Apparently now videos at 50 or 60 FPS also go to VP9 even if at 1080. I checked my old stuff and it looks like it is VP9 starting in 2013.

@@AwesomePlayers .. A fellow geek! Love it! Thanks on the info on VBR... I've learnt something which is great. Yes, I also did tests with exporting using ProRes and came to the same conclusion.... Quality is obviously better, but files sizes are huge... and the incremental improvement in quality is not worth dealing with such HUGE files sizes. Regarding the up-rez to 2.7K from 1080p. Yes, you are interpolating more pixels, but as most people are watching back on 1080p windows or mobile, I don't think there is any perceptible loss in quality. If you were watching TRUE 2.7K vs 1080p that is upscaled, yes you would see a difference... but as I mentioned, I'm happy with a high quality 1080p finished product anyway. I don't think it is possible to change sequence settings in Premiere once it's created, and if you did, I don't know how it could possibly handle that. A lot of my shots are reframed slightly in the edit, so I don't know how it would deal with that. You certainly aren't cluttering my comments, if people aren't interested, they can skip it. I'm certainly interested and will go check out your site.

Hey Orpaztron On Q1, No you don't lose quality... The reason that I edit at 24fps (technically 23.976) is that this is the frame rate that cinemas use, and it gives a more "cinematic feel" to finished video. Some people say that sports should be shotat 30fps, but I want my videos to have a more cinematic feel which is why I set at that rate. So I shoot at 60fps but edit at 24fps. If I'm editing the video at normal speed, then the editor just ignores the extra frames and pulls in the 24 frames it needs... the rest are sitting there but not shown. The advantage that you have in shooting at a higher frame rate is that you can do slowmo. So if you shoot at 50fps, and you edit at 24fps, then you can slow your video down to 1/2 speed and then those extra frames that you shot are used to create silky smooth slow motion. I hope that makes sense. On Q2, Theoretically more is better but like anything there will be diminishing returns. Why don't you do a quick experiment. Render at 50mbps and then at 300mpbs and see if you can see any difference, and then for the fun of it... render at 5mbps and see the impact of too high compression on your content.

@@brentbat thanks for the detailed explanation. The last video I uploaded still shows avc1. I'll wait another day as you recommended. My files are large and a 20 minute video encoded at 300 bitrate reaches 30 GB .... so I gave up :)

@@orpaztron Well you answered your question about why not use 300mbps :-) Not sure how long since you uploaded your video that shows avc1, but it might be that the RU-vid servers are busy. There are some videos I upload where it is in vp09 immediately, and I've seen it take hours before the others flip. If it doesn't flip by tomorrow, send me the URL so I can take a look.

@@brentbat that's the new one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9h9CjqTpy6s.html

@@brentbat works like charm!

I edit and export in 30fps

Hey Ernesto. The only things you will need to adjust if you are not going to edit, are the colour and sharpness settings. Sety Color to either GoPro or Natural Set Sharpness to Medium All other settings stay the same.

@@brentbat thank you so much. I have tried but its so hard learning evrything on an edit software plus the verbage and what exactly do i want to accomplish.

@@etapon71 Hey Ernesto, yes, it is a steep learning curve to really master editing. But if you try some of the introductory programs like iMovie on the Mac, they aren't too bad.

AVC is not the high quality codec, you want it to say VP09 (that is the higher quality codec)

Hi Hagibis, you are absolutely right, H.265 is the later encoder (and technically superior codec), but I decided to not use that for my demo because some people may not have computers that support it yet. Also, I have run some tests between H.264 and H.265 and I couldn't notice any difference, so I just decided to focus on the two core things that DO make a significant difference. Compression and RU-vid Codec.

There are plenty of those tutorials out there. Sorry but that isn’t me.