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For some reason Youtube destroys my videos ????
It seems as tho if the action is really busy, ie continually changing rapidly, the compression just cant keep up??
The original video looks heaps better than what's come out on youtube and I used all the recommended settings. It's odd because in places you can see the trees in the distance in reasonable HD and the foreground that's rapidly changing is all blocky

Hey Jason, try using a third party tool to upload the video instead of directly to YouTube. I use Cyberlink PowerDirector which is pretty cheap, and the main reason I use it is because it transcodes it to a more suitable format for YouTube prior to uploading it, which may help to eliminate some of the over-compressed parts. Not sure, but worth trying if you're not already.

Thanks for that,

I use Cyberlink to edit the video and as you suggested tried uploading it directly from within Cyberlink but sadly it was much the same. I normally would have but it stopped letting me for some reason about a month back so to try it I've had to find and d/load a patch for cyberlink to get that feature to work again.

What I will try next is to stabilise the video using cyber link so that that it's not too busy. I will loose some resolution but what I loose I should hopefully more than gain due to the ill effects of compression.

....................well that's the plan