Rendering clips change the quality?

[BayleyMaxcy]

so whats the deal with like rendering or what ever? my friend said if u upload clips and render them the quality will look much better on youtube? any one know if thats true or anything about this topic?

 

[Joe Riley]

Lolwut. Rendering lowers quality by compressing the size of the file.

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

ok lol my friends stupid then haha but if im getting a canon hf vixia 41 and i have a mac if i upload clips to youtube by uploading them in 1080 it will be good quality correct? haha i dont know much about quality or camaras

 

[Riley Hughes]

if you want to upload only the clips, then just upload the clips straight from the camera. but if you want to edit them into a video then you'll need to render them when you're done editing, which will lower the quality.

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

so dont render because it lowers the quality?

 

[Zach!]

ummm no you want to edit your videos haha if you want to be lazy you just just upload them straight to youtube.

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

i know i just want the best quality possible

 

[DerekS]

i thought rendering made the quality better aswell.

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

i know wtf is going on we need tomk in on this haha

 

[DerekS]

no we don't. I'll get banned again.. lol

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

ummm ok lol y?

 

[DerekS]

nevermind, back on topic.

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

ok.

 

[Riley Hughes]

if you ONLY want one clip, such as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k29D08v9Hck then upload straight to youtube so you can get the best quality.
if you want a bunch of clips in an edit, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJcUHz7K-_M&feature=channel then you need to edit the clips. the rendering will lower the quality a little bit, but if you render it with the right settings it won't be too bad at all. i rendered my video in 720p so it would be a smaller file size, but i could have rendered it in 1080p which would have been the best quality. however, even at 1080p, it loses a little bit of quality from rendering.

does that make sense?

 

[Jason Griffiths]

You HAVE to render your clips if you're making a video. There is no way around this haha.

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

ok is it easy to do on a mac? because im getting one at the end of the month

 

[Riley Hughes]

yeah there are probably 38429000 videos on youtube that you can refer to for help. that's how i learned to edit.

 

[BayleyMaxcy]

ok thanks