Recorded short video in OBS. Uploaded to YT. Resolution Bad?

[doni49]

I am planning to record AutoCAD tutorials and upload them to my Youtube channel. I just recorded a short video just to check the quality of the recording. I thought I might need to get a new microphone. But what I found after uploading it was the video resolution didn't look very good at all.

After recording the video, I opened it in the Default video player that came with my laptop. Following is a screenshot taken from that video player. The resolution looks reasonable to me. But the same video was uploaded to YT (only a minute or so long). The resolution looks terrible in the uploaded version. Is there something I need to do either in OBS or during the upload process to improve this?

EDIT: Yes, I'll be getting a better microphone. :)

 

[AaronD]

Are you sure you're watching YouTube in the same resolution as you uploaded? Or does it think you need a lower one to stay smooth, because of a less-than-stellar connection or something like that? YT does that by default.

Forcing the highest available resolution, looks similar to me as your screenshot here.

 

[doni49]

Are you sure you're watching YouTube in the same resolution as you uploaded?

Ding, Ding, Ding! That was it -- was set to Auto (360p) so I changed it to 720p and it looks fine now! I NEVER change the resolution when I watch a YT video so I never even thought to look there! When I've watched other people's YT videos. Is there a setting in YT Studio somewhere to tell it to play the video at the best possible resolution? I'm new to making videos for YT or otherwise so I'm unsure.

Thanks!

 

[doni49]

Never mind. I just found the issue. I ran the Auto-Configuration wizard, made a new video, uploaded that toy YT channel and played it. That version defaulted to the max resolution (720p).