>>4387698>>4387677I found this page:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en#zippy=%2CbitrateIt basically confirms what we've discussed above and it shows that 1080p is capped at 12 Mbps, 1440p at 24 Mbps and 4K at 53–68 Mbps.
So just upscaling to 1440p doubles the bitrate! Crazy.
I couldn't find any information about the impact of video formats on YT encoding but I think it's probably significant since H.265 will always produce lower bitrate videos than H.264.
Assuming that YT will process and re-encode every video (even those encoded with AV1/vp9/h.264) you're much better off uploading videos in codecs with least compression and highest bitrate and then letting YT reduce it to whatever they want.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to upscale 1080p to 4K? What produces the best results and doesn't take days of processing to do?
