Facebook Compression - How to achieve best quality?

[pepitoc66708943]

Hi All,

I'm a new user of Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Been using it for almost a month now and have been producing videos and uploading them to youtube and facebook. I'm aware that youtube and facebook compress the videos we upload thus causing it to reduce it's quality. I've noticed that facebook compresses the videos that I upload more than youtube as the qualities that I upload there are of bad quality when already streamed on facebook. I'm wondering how will I be ale to avoid having low quality videos on facebook even after it compresses the videos. I normally use the below formats when I export my videos from Adobe Premiere Pro CC using Media Encoder:

Video

- H.264

- Width: 1920

- Height: 1080

- Frame Rate: 24

- Field Order: Progeressive

- Aspect: Square Pixels (1.0)

- TV Standard: NTSC

- Profile: High

- Level: 4.2

- Bitrate: VBR, 2 pass

- Target Bitrate: 16mbps

- Max. Bitrate: 62.5mbps

Audio

- Audio Format: AAC

- Audio Codec: AAC

- Sample Rate: 4800Hz

Channel: Stereo

- Audio Quality: High

- Bitrate: 320kbps

I use Maximum Render Quality in all my vids and I still get low quality video and SPECIALLY audio. Audio is much more important to me as I post cover song on youtube and facebook and this problem annoys me every time I post my videos. Also, the audio I use is in an uncompressed .WAV format exported from Adobe Audition CC. I hope someone can help me with this. I know there is a solution to this one as I see videos on facebook that are really good in terms of audio and video quality.

Thank you!

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

How can I make sure my videos are high quality? | Facebook Help Center | Facebook

[pepitoc66708943]

Hi Ann,

Thank you for your reply but I have already tried that as well. Still the same results.

[Ann Bens]

Your export example shows otherwise.

[pepitoc66708943]

Hi Ann,

Yes, it does show otherwise but I have tried the format you suggested AS WELL. It gave me the same result.

[Ann Bens]

Export settings show 1920x1080 and max bitrate 62.5 ?

FB likes 1280x720....

or just pick a Youtube preset under H.264.

Post a screenshot of your export settings.

[pepitoc66708943]

I have. The above export settings example is just what I normally use when exporting my videos. But since I want to try other export settings and found out about facebook having these format requirements for video uploads, I tried it and it gave me the same poor quality, at least in my audio.

I will post a screenshot of my export settings when i have my free time.

[dummergold]

I export out of Premiere Pro with H.264 preset of YouTube 1080p HD

I give person the mp4, who uploads to facebook (me not knowing that was his target) and tells me something similar to what you are experiencing. He tells me that facebook has added compression to the video and has made the video fuzzy.

I say, 'what have you set the playback preferences for?'.

He says, 'there is no way to set the playback preferences'.

I say, 'let me see. Look at the bottom (he has in full screen and fuzzy), click on that symbol (a pop-up menu appears and the option of HD is available)'.

He clicks on HD and the video appears as 1080p HD (not fuzzy), and says, 'oh'.

When you playback your videos on facebook, check your settings. But as for you seeing other videos that are good quality makes me wonder. Just saying, I saw this problem today and it was facebook compressing video due to playback setting.