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retaining HD quality after export

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i have some HD footage that was shot in a MD5 camera.

converted to pro res format for editing. finished edit. looks very clear.

however, when i did a bounce from FCP the quality seems to loose some of its shine and clearness.

any ideas what i may be doing wrong or how i can retain the original quality?

this file also needs to be able to stream on youtube ... so it has to be compressed to fit under the 200mb rule.
 
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Lower the resolution to 720p, and encode using the H.264 MP4 codec. Play with quality settings til you get a decent quality/size ratio.

Compressing video loses quality. The higher the file size, the better the quality (thats without comparing codecs.)
 
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I thought YouTube's limit was 2Gb?
 

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