Bit rate explained for beginners

This is a beginners guide to bit rate. Every time you record, export, or watch a video, bit rate has a lot to do with the quality. Learn what bit rate is and how it affects file size, image quality, accessibility, and delivery cost. Plus find out the difference between CBR and VBR.

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[BooneDavey]

Super good video yo. Real knowledgeable

[CurtEastin]

Hands down the best practical explanation of bit rate and how it affects the video creation process. Thank you, that cleared up so many issues I've been confused about!

[livingever]

I had an idea of what the audio bit rate is, but this helped to confirm it. Thanks!

[JehanKateli]

This cleared out all the confusion I had. Thanks!

[ericantonmoberg]

This video was really helpful, informative and easy to understand. Can’t thank you enough!

[t-producciones]

Great explanation! I have a question for years now. If my camera has a max bit rate of 100 Mb/s, and I use a Micro SD card of a max write speed 60 Mb/s, I realized it still works, but what is really happening there? Am I loosing quality?
Any answer is greatly appreciated.

[ukulelesafarikenya]

very well explained and straight to the point. thank you!

[SpoonerStudios]

Very informative, thanks for clearing all that techie stuff up and explaining it really well.

[PuelaLunaris]

Great info, clearly delivered! Please stop the music in the background as it is very distracting. Thanks a lot!

[nashidtravels]

Very good video. Watching in 2019 and still learned a lot

[jettburns]

Awesome video, I'm got the knowledge I came for!

[YappieKitchen]

really helpful video thanks so much. I think I finally found the issue to my problem. I was uploading in 4K and it was still looking a bit fuzzy.

[pcofranc]

Great video, could you do a follow-up featuring and discussing the various slr video camera bit rates 25 Mbs vs 150 or 400 Mbs and a scale for determining quality relative to file size etc. 8 bit vs 10 bit vs 12 bit.

[force]

I genuinely love u... everything u said was helpful... no digressing... i never skipped

[PedroVencore]

So, If I know my target audience is going to look my videos with a slow internet connection of an average of 2Mb internet connection It would be a smart choice to have a bitrate of 2k-3k in terms of cost-efficiency?. I loved your explanation, great video

[karoblazenko]

Thanks man, good work, just what i needed.

[docabelmanaloofficial]

Thank you for this info. Just what I needed! :)

[xXPOUSXx]

Thanks for that easy to understand explination. Great job

[Avenueaudiovisual]

Regarding the comments about Audio around 6:16... If your audio content consists mostly of speech (human voice) you can lower the audio bitrate significantly (32kbps-64kbps). More complex signals like Music or environments that are very noisy (crowd of people, forest at night, etc.) will require a slightly higher bitrate to avoid any artifacts, like 128+. Perceptually this approach will make a difference to the audience of the video. But, it is true that a relatively small amount file size will be saved by lowering the audio bitrate.

[boj]

I'm trying to understand if the lag between video and audio is due to VBR or CBR or if they have nothing to do with it...