FCPX 4K Export to Youtube?

[BrendanLeahy]

Hello - I know that you can do the 4K export from FCPX directly to youtube, which for my project creates a 645MB file (I'm assuming it's H264 and low Mbps).

Is there any benefit to doing this over exporting a 4K file then uploading it to youtube? Is there a huge leap in quality from one over the other?

 

[Kalechi Noel]

My advice is to do test. I know personally fcpx does a pretty good job automating the process , compressing the footage and optimizing it for best delivery YouTube / Vimeo . If you are savvy with bit rates etc .... You could always create a custom export (using compressor), and save it to fcpx for all future projects

 

[Keith Van Orden]

Exporting to directly Youtube just uses the same compression settings (like you said H264 and low Mbps) that Youtube would use to compress a larger file, so the benefit is you'll save yourself some time on the upload, as opposed to uploading a massive file and then waiting for Youtube to re encode it as a H264 internally.