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cathym25893232
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August 16, 2017
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How can I publish a clear video?

  • August 16, 2017
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This is the case:

I record a video using 'Video demo' with the resolution(2560*1440), when I publish a video with the following setting, the published video is not clear. The text in the video is fuzzy. How can I publish a clear video ? I don't want to decrease my resolution for some reasons.

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    Correct answer Erik Lord

    Video quality appears best when the size (dimensions) being shown are the same as what was recorded.

    2560*1440 is huge, which is great, but YouTube surely has to scale it down a fair amount to show it to everyone...which is going to hurt clarity.

    Usually 'scaling down' retains pretty good quality (far better than the player needing to 'scale up) but text is a tough item to scale clearly.

    You could try publishing to as high a quality/dimension as possible from Captivate, then open the result in Adobe Media Encoder (AME), then select a more reasonable-sized preset (i.e. 720x405) and see if AME's output retains better quality. If so, then upload that to YouTube. If not, try again with AME but maybe something like 1280x720...

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    Erik Lord
    Erik LordCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    August 17, 2017

    Video quality appears best when the size (dimensions) being shown are the same as what was recorded.

    2560*1440 is huge, which is great, but YouTube surely has to scale it down a fair amount to show it to everyone...which is going to hurt clarity.

    Usually 'scaling down' retains pretty good quality (far better than the player needing to 'scale up) but text is a tough item to scale clearly.

    You could try publishing to as high a quality/dimension as possible from Captivate, then open the result in Adobe Media Encoder (AME), then select a more reasonable-sized preset (i.e. 720x405) and see if AME's output retains better quality. If so, then upload that to YouTube. If not, try again with AME but maybe something like 1280x720...

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