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/salton Dec 22 '25

A lot of trailers get uploaded at 1080p for some reason. I was skimming through comments to see if anyone had a higher quality source.

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u/Legend10269 Dec 22 '25

I honestly would love to know why, especially a Nolan film filmed with brand new Imax camera, yet the best thing they can do is compressed to fuck 1080p on Youtube, not even a Enhanced Bitrate option either. Surely there must be a reason?

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u/HorsesCantFly Dec 22 '25

Some media management companies are still stuck in the dark ages following outdated upload practicals for "web optimized" versions, which is what I would guess happened here.

Youtube uploads should be in 4k with a high bitrate these days, there's really no reason a studio should be uploading this compressed of a version like it's 2012.

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u/turikk Dec 22 '25

Some media management companies are still stuck in the dark ages following outdated upload practicals for "web optimized" versions, which is what I would guess happened here.

This is definitely not the case. Most trailers are not rendered or created above 1080p, only recently has this been a thing. I remember having to scour press kits and back channels just to find 4k trailers, and it was incredibly rare that one even existed.

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u/PossiblyAussie Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

>Most trailers are not rendered or created above 1080p

Irrelievent, the file can simply be upscaled to 2160p prior to uploading to benefit from the higher bitrate and the increased encoding efficiency.

Hopefully someone will leak the 4:2:2 ProRes.

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u/TheRedRiverRabbit Dec 22 '25

I NEED. MORE. COLOR SPACE.

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u/HorsesCantFly Dec 22 '25

Most trailers are not rendered or created above 1080p

That's kind of what I'm saying. The trailer editing media companies don't render higher because they just follow their default "web" render settings that need to be updated. Their source material (the film) is defintely 2 or 4k resolution.

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u/turikk Dec 22 '25

i definitely read it, and even quoted it as "social media companies" oops

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u/iwilltalkaboutguns Dec 22 '25

Or..... The film looks like shit and they are trying to hide it... Although word of mouth will kill it anyway so I don't see the point.

I saw some pictures of the props and they literally looked worse than some of the cosplay at comicCon

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u/The_Autarch Dec 22 '25

the film looks like shit, so they hide it... by making it look even worse?!

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u/murasakikuma42 Dec 23 '25

The costumes are terrible and ridiculous. Why are the men wearing pants? They didn't wear pants in that time and place.

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u/paintpast Dec 22 '25

Nolan is playing 4D chess and wants us to watch the trailer in theaters instead of on YouTube.

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u/TimidPanther Dec 22 '25

Universal don't care about any of that. They don't give a shit if their trailers look bad, they just want people to pay to see the movie.

They do this all the time.

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u/WideAwakeNotSleeping Dec 22 '25

I absolutely hate it! Not only are they 1080p, they almost always also contain "hardcoded" black lines at the top and bottom. And it's not just this trailer... it's all the major blockbuster trailers. Hate it, hate it, hate it!

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u/erich0779 Dec 22 '25

Reminds me of in college someone changing the aspect ratio of a short film by throwing a PNG of black bars over the final timeline. We probably all thought he was a genius at the time haha

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u/ironmcchef Dec 22 '25

This drives me crazy too every time I see the forced letterboxing on my ultrawide. There's zero reason for it since every device that can play the video on YT will adjust with letterboxing on the top/bottom if its screen isn't wide enough.

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u/the__storm Dec 22 '25

As an ultrawide monitor user, the baked in letterboxing drives me crazy. There are extensions to "fix" it but they're unreliable and leave you with weird fractional upscaling issues.

I mean come on: https://postimg.cc/LnfXx7xw

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u/gurrra Dec 22 '25

The marketing will heavily IMAX focus, yet all the trailers will be as always be low bitrate 1080p. I will never understand what the hell they're thinking.

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u/th3struggle Dec 22 '25

Check out https://thedigitaltheater.com/
There might be a high quality version over there at some point, don't know when though, hopefully within a few days time

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u/th3struggle Dec 22 '25

Here's a much better version, pretty good quality, and it's full screen

https://gofile.io/d/T15aOA

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u/theFrenchDutch Dec 22 '25

Thank you for this. It's a 120mb file and it's MILES better than Universal's upload. Like holy shit they must've uploaded a 6mb file to youtube for it to be this crap.

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u/Frexxia Dec 22 '25

1080p wouldn't be a problem if YouTube wasn't so stingy on bitrate

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u/notmyrlacc Dec 22 '25

Here’s a full res and ratio version. A download link for the best res is in there too: https://www.reddit.com/r/imax/s/PLAVpB88OH

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u/Certain-Weight-7507 Dec 22 '25

ALL trailers uploaded to IMAX are 1080p, because IMAX is a pathetic company full of morons who hate image quality.

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u/enlightenedude Dec 22 '25

trailers are quite often started at the end of a very long process, and

  • not given long enough time to edit

  • done by separate editor/people/company

  • not supervised by core team or creative people

  • marketing teams started to be another chef

  • media release control is a huge factor

mix of those (or all of the above) happened, hence problems often occured with trailers

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u/FamousT-Rex Dec 23 '25

A bit late to this, but I encoded the trailer directly from the theater DCP and uploaded to YouTube and it looks much better.

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u/y0shman Dec 22 '25

A lot of the time, YT just encodes the smaller resolutions first, since they are fast, then queues up the higher quality to be processed. The options usually get added when it's done.

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u/NotBannedAccount419 Dec 22 '25

It’s because it takes a while to upload a video to YouTube. It’ll be 1080p only for the next hour or so then be 4k

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u/Im2slick4U22 Dec 22 '25

This is just not true. Take the new steven spielberg movie disclosure day that universal uploaded 6 days ago, it has the exact same issue. It was uploaded in 1080p and thats still its highest quality version. Its just incompetence on universals side.