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This approach ensures the final video meets both size and perceived quality expectations.

Resolutions and Bitrate: Non-Linear Relationships

The expert discusses how compression impacts videos of different resolutions:

• Higher resolution videos (e.g., 1080p) require more bits for comparable quality.

• When compressing, the quality loss is not linear; after a certain point, further compression causes a dramatic drop in perceived quality.

• Interestingly, at high compression levels, lower-resolution videos may sometimes outperform higher-resolution ones in perceived quality because they have fewer pixels to encode, making the loss less noticeable.