I have created videos in After Effects, rendered them in Adobe Media Encoder, and uploaded them to YouTube with no problem many times over the years. For a reason I cannot determine, my most recent project, no matter how I render it, loses an enormous amount of quality once it's uploaded to YouTube and/or Vimeo. I do understand that there will always be some quality loss when uploading a video to youtube or vimeo because both services compress/process the original file, but this particular loss of quality is outrageous. Below you will see my results from utilizing Adobe Media Encoder, but I have also had the same problem when using After Effect's internal renderer.
See here:
This is how the video looks when played on my computer:
http://www.tommydimmel.com/images/my_photos/original.png
This is how the video looks on Vimeo:
http://www.tommydimmel.com/images/my_photos/Vimeo.png
This is how the video looks on Youtube:
http://www.tommydimmel.com/images/my_photos/Youtube.png
Here are the facts:
Here are my composition settings:
http://www.tommydimmel.com/images/my_photos/Composition%20Settings.png
Here are my render settings in Adobe Media Encoder
http://www.tommydimmel.com/images/my_photos/Adobe%20Media%20Encoder%20Render%20Settings.pn g
One quick side note that's a little odd...the thumbnail of my video is at the correct resolution/quality on Vimeo, but when I click to play it, it immediately loses a huge amount of quality. See this video here:
Vimeo Changes Quality of my video - YouTube
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I have rendered portions of this exact same video before, and uploaded them to Youtube, with little or no quality loss. But, now, no matter what I do, the video comes out looking super pixelated!!! Please help!