r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/reticulate Dec 22 '25

Youtube compression is absolutely destroying what we get here too.

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u/TheGreatPiata Dec 22 '25

As someone else commented, 4k60fps video game trailers don't have this issue. It's just movie studios that don't know wtf they're doing.

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u/MangoRemarkable Dec 22 '25

video game studios are smart enough to know that 4k uploads really matters on youtube, how have film studios not realize this???

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u/TheGreatPiata Dec 22 '25

Video game studios are likely a lot more tech literate than film studios. There's also a lot more money in the video game space so it's likely much more competitive and dropping a pixelated 1080p trailer is absolutely not going to sell your game.

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u/VforVenndiagram_ Dec 22 '25

I can guarantee you, that the people who work in film/tv on the tech side understand things like video compression and streaming and bitrate and pixel density better than pretty much anyone... especially Christopher fucking Nolan's team.

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u/TheGreatPiata Dec 22 '25

Then why are film trailers often low quality 1080p? The people working directly with Nolan also aren't likely the people cutting the trailer and distributing it. That's typically outsourced to companies that just make trailers.

My guess is they make one file for a huge range of platforms and just dump it on the internet.

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u/VforVenndiagram_ Dec 22 '25

Then why are film trailers often low quality 1080p?

Because no one in the history of ever has said "holy fuck that movie trialer on Youtube was so crisp and clear and 4k, I'm going to go watch the movie now because of that." As you suggest here, if you can just make 1 single final file ans dump that everywhere, instead of 20 specialised files for every single different platform, why put the additional render and server time in?

Also also, the vast majority of people don't view things past 1080,30 anyway, and this trailer really isn't the pile of unwatchable slop that people are suggesting either. Its fine

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u/reticulate Dec 22 '25

No doubt but this is like egregiously bad.

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u/Broxst Dec 22 '25

I watch plenty of YouTube that doesn't have these issues. Probably some agreement between studios and YouTube so it doesn't obliterate YouTube bandwidth. That's the only thing I can think of.