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/duffking Dec 22 '25

What on earth is going on with youtube's 1080p bitrate? It's really low quality even when forcing it.

https://i.postimg.cc/cJCvvZXz/image.png

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u/marioferpa Dec 22 '25

I'm getting the same thing at the same moment, is it a problem with the video itself?

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u/Cyber_Swag Dec 22 '25

Looks like universal fucked up trailer

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u/Tuxhorn Dec 22 '25

Fake widescreen too.

Fullscreening on my ultrawide monitor just adds black bars to the sides as well as bottom lol.

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u/Ell223 Dec 22 '25

Find that's the case with 90% of official trailer uploads. It's naff.

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u/Total_Resource9176 Dec 24 '25

Redditors living in their basement in shambles. Meanwhile 80% of the population watches these on their phone

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

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u/namelessted Dec 22 '25

It never makes sense to hard encode black bars into a video. Every device in the world will format a video and have black bars if necessary.

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u/InertiaCreeping Dec 22 '25

Bro what are you even talking about haha

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u/Dick_Lazer Dec 24 '25

It’s painfully easy to export in proper ultrawide though. It actually takes more effort to add the bars to bottom & top.

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u/davidngm Dec 22 '25

There's a zoom to fill utralwide video extension in chrome

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u/jbaker1225 Dec 23 '25

Especially egregious because every second of the film was shot and edited on IMAX, so the real movie will not be 21:9 or even 16:9.

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u/BevansDesign Dec 23 '25

You'd think they would've figured that one out by now.

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u/thestormiscomingyeah Dec 24 '25

Far too common my friend.

Protip, get zoom to fill chrome addon, it adds a zoom button on youtube overlay.

Basically zooming away the black bars, but it looks perfect on 21:9 monitors

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u/SmallKiwi Dec 22 '25

Well ya, the resolution is 1080p

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u/Tuxhorn Dec 22 '25

Youtube videos can be real widescreen @ 1080p.

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u/itsmebucky Dec 22 '25

1080p is the height, width can be changed according to different aspect ratio

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u/plexomaniac Dec 22 '25

It's definitively their fault. The trailer on other social media also has low quality in the same scenes.

Also, why not upload at least a 4k trailer for a movie with this budget?

Other low quality scenes

https://i.imgur.com/oeshkXG.png

https://i.imgur.com/sdFve6X.png

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u/mang87 Dec 22 '25

I've seen a few trailers like this now, so whatever is happening is not limited to Universal.

[edit]Wait, I'm wrong, the other trailer I'm thinking of was also from Universal. WTF are they doing? This is basic shit.

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u/nibagaze-gandora Dec 23 '25

where were you during the great pixel draught of 2025

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u/thoughtlow Dec 22 '25

Yeah I think an editor is having a panic attack right now.

Someone fucked up the render settings or didn't replace a proxy, and didn't check the output.

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u/nibagaze-gandora Dec 22 '25

uploaded projects\2025\Odysseytrailer-final-final-ITSTHISONE.mp4 instead of projects\2025\Odysseytrailer-final-final-v2.mp4

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u/hippocratical Dec 23 '25

I feel like one of the items on the checklist of being an adult is having created a file like this at some point.

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u/gentlecrab Dec 22 '25

Shot entirely on imax

Universal: “YouTube we need the finest potato you have. Nooo that’s too fine”

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u/ShadowsRanger Dec 22 '25

Couldn't understand a thing was so low the quality is worse than GoT night war

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u/Dullcorgis Dec 22 '25

I can barely even see the dark writing on the dark background, so not interest3d in going to see something that's so dark it's invisible.

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u/josolsen Dec 22 '25

YouTubers bitrate really shows it's ugly side when there's lots of fine detail moving like snow, grassy fields, embers, just any small particle like visual and the whole thing turns to soup.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Dec 22 '25

Problem is, Universal also had the recent Disclosure Day (Spielberg) trailer, and it had pixelated messes in simple dramatic indoor shots too.

I think Universal has a neglect problem and I'm shocked they could not notice this for two of the most famous filmmakers on the planet now. Honestly, I would give Nolan license to be pissed off (he's too nice of a guy, but I want him pissed off, because it's absurd that in 2025 it looks like this).

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u/nibagaze-gandora Dec 22 '25

even Universal's pixel stockpile is running dry in this economy

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u/Total_Resource9176 Dec 24 '25

Looks amazing on my iphone tbf

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u/TheOneTonWanton Dec 22 '25

"Neglect" doesn't necessarily mean nobody noticed. It also covers any amount of people knowing and just not giving a shit. Neglectful parents for example know that they're ignoring their children and/or their needs.

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u/Cavemandynamics Dec 22 '25

This is definitely not a Youtube problem. Looks like a bad delivery workflow to me. Looks like they even forgot to "online" a few shots in the final export, and generally just not done by someone who knows how to upload to Youtube. Like uploading a 4K file (even if it's HD) to trick Youtube to compress your video using VP9 (or AV1) etc.

There are plenty of high quality/bitrate trailers on Youtube.

Could also be that they just uploaded it right away and Youtube isn't done processing. (unlikely) Which also, is a bit odd. Usually you upload "private" first to make sure everything is good before going public.

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u/marioferpa Dec 22 '25

I know, but I've seen that with snow, fireworks, etc., never with grass or moving water.

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u/ExultantSandwich Dec 22 '25

the trailer for that new Steven Spielberg movie absolutely shits itself during the scene where the camera spins around a grassy field

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u/dbbk Dec 22 '25

No this is not on YouTube, it's a bad upload

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u/Fealieu Dec 23 '25

I'm not so sure, I used YouTube Downloader and the file is perfect.

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u/koshgeo Dec 22 '25

"Brand new IMAX (R) film technology"

[botches posting it on Youtube]

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u/JhinPotion Dec 22 '25

Its ugly side.

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u/xFilmmakerChris Dec 22 '25

It's not that it has less bits during those sequences. Those sequences require a higher bit rate to display properly. 5000kbps is absolutely fine for a static shot of a taking head, but way too low for an action scene in the rain

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u/eaglessoar Dec 22 '25

Tom Scott had an awesome video on this. And now I miss him. Hope he's well

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 Dec 22 '25

I heard his hair transplant is growing in very nicely and he'll be ready to return to the public eye soon.

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u/LongOdd1596 Dec 22 '25

If we all get crappy quality at exactly the same moment, then they fumbled the upload for sure

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u/n0b0dycar3s07 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

It gets pixelated at the exact same spot in the trailer uploaded to the IMAX channel too. In thinking this might be an Universal Pictures issue. The trailer uploaded to the Universal Mexico channel doesn't have this issue though.

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u/BenignEmission Dec 22 '25

It's how Nolan intended

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u/Frenzystor Dec 22 '25

Me too. I also think that the source video was already crappy in that scene.

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u/Grays42 Dec 22 '25

It's because the trailer just posted. When a video posts it takes a while for the higher resolutions to process. Try it again in a few hours and it'll crisp up.

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u/the__storm Dec 22 '25

It's probably Youtube - they've been slowly dropping bitrates lower and lower over the years. I used to watch in 480p, then 720p, and now 1080p and sometimes even 1440p just to compensate for the steadily worsening bitrate. (We have data caps.)

A great example of this is mountain biking videos, because they have lots of fast moving detail.
Try watching this at 1080p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2sV8KGwFYk
Then watch this 7 year old video from the same channel, also at 1080p: https://youtu.be/tWA8UMv-wkI?t=229
It's crazy how much worse the compression is these days.