No More Blurry Videos! Problem Solved! (PowerDirector and MP4's)

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Skyes PC Spec
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CPU: Intel i7-4790k @4 GHz
RAM: 16GB
GPU: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8GB GDDR5X

End Titles Music:
Tobu - Candyland

[JefferyHarrold]

I think the reason MP4 is considered the 'proper' format is because it's supported by more devices 'out of the box' right now. MKV is a better performing/more efficient container, just not as widely playable. It's catching up though

[Demaeter]

But youtube doesnt support mkv right? So you need to convert it again after rendering the mkv?

[robthehobbit]

I've spent two years trying to get my recording and editing programs to work properly, ended up with a new PC. Glad you got it fixed because I know how maddening it can be :)

[ShadowViewsOnly]

I don't know where you got the (FYI: wrong) info of mp4 being better than MKV, but it's not. File size is larger, lower video AND audio quality... it's just outperformed in pretty much every property... Except theoretically mp4 is capable of higher bitrate, but at the level, by human nature, it's unnoticable.

[krabsickle]

My Specific Issue (I use powerdirector as well) was that for some reason this would happen when i try to use h265 HEVC. switching to h264 completely fixed the issue.

[AgoraphobicNews]

i wanted to do an audio interview with images over it but they get all blurry from time to time after rendering. How to fix this?

[Mithraschosen]

Good ol' compression. Cheers to fixing it, mate.

[RockerMarcee]

I suggest you to export into Quicktime Movie (.mov), H.264, or maybe H.265. Pretty much industry standard format, shouldn't have problems. Though H.264 is the best suited for this. And I'm quite surprise that your editor supports MKV in the first place.

In any way it is probably your software that's messing things up, it seems like a very low bitrate video even though as you said yoou encode it in higher bitrate.

Also it is actually recommended to export in the highest bitrate you can, YouTube retains the source files, so if the decoder gets upgraded, your videos will look better.

Fired up my 3 editing software: Avid Media Composer (THE Hollywood software) can't export to MKV, DaVinci Resolve (other hollywood software, used in editing but mostly color grading) can't do MKV, Premiere Pro (and Media Encoder) can't do it either.

[JimBrodie]

Love eureka moments like this, .mkv is a fantastic format. =]

[Atraxitator]

i tried it but the video still comes out blurry... could it be the rendering format?

[BlueKingNL]

I had the same issue, thank you for your help!

[langjones]

The colour on the .MKV file seems to be better, too.

[MarcelEllerbrok]

Hi, if others have eyperienced that problem too, probably this has nothing to do with your software, but with YouTube re-encoding all uploaded videos to an YT-internal file format.

[DoubleYouTee]

Good Job Skye.... wondering why you didn't have that issue before... at least I didn't noticed it...

[albinekb]

Why aren't you uploading in 60 fps? It looks SOOO much smoother.

[fightorflightgamer]

Thats weird. I use Power director MP4 & never had that blurry problem

[NickTheHick]

I use Sony Vegas 13 and still have this problem. I'll give it a try thats.

[robbleeker]

Yeah, i was really bothered by it too, to the extend of getting pissed off.. :-) LOL.... You know, sometimes you get used to this sort of little things, you stop noticing it....I think if you had not pointed it out, i still would not have seen the blurring.... We have this You cannot miss something you do not have...

[Thomas-twzx]

When your WIFI is so bad that you can’t tell the difference .

[Spaltentier]

Very nice skye, i cannot watch those blurry videos. Others have sometimes the same problem, i just can't watch it 🤕😉