How to best download to YouTube?

Tips how to download a GoPro Hero3 video from FCP to youtube maintaining a smooth and vivid video would be most welcome.

Here is couple of trials. The first one transferred directly from FCP in original GoPro 2.7k format, the second one colours a bit punched and first saved as 1080p QuickTime for Web services.

On the second one I also added some blur to the original 2.7K before saving in 1080P, to filter some details and noise away, hoping it would be easier for the YouTube codec to maintain smooth playback. The original video is very smooth, but not so when played back in Youtube, especially at higher resolutions.

The strange thing is that sometimes it plays back almost smooth, sometimes just bad.






Maybe I should try Vimeo would that be any better on fast movements.

I was hoping that noise reduction would help the YouTube encoder to play it back smoothly, but not. Maybe there is just too much panning tilting and zooming on this video and too many details for YouTube to play it back smoothly.

This is the edited version



I have plenty of learning to do with the colours too, on this area the main problem I am having is that when correcting the colour and dynamic range in one part of the much changing clip it will be totally of on other part.

Is there any way to do the correction on several parts of one clip?

On the first clip the sky is separated with a mask, the horizon was problematic, it is animated trough the clip, but I needed to pull the lower part of the mask over the ground and it made the ground at horizon dark. And maybe I did a bit overdo the corrections...

I finally treated a Vimeo account and downloaded the same video as above, with same settings directly from FCPX.

vimeo.com/102758745

What a difference, there is none of those dropping frame issues than with Youtube!