Google Photos - Video compression quality

[jonspectre]

Used Apple for a few years with everything stored in a paid-for iCould account, now moving back to Android/Google for my personal device.

I've about 50Gb of photos, which I've now uploaded to Google Photos on the High Quality (unlimited free) setting. I've looked hard at the photos post upload, and can't notice any compression whatsoever, although I know it's there! I'm very happy with that.

Videos, however, are truly shocking quality, even when downloaded. An old, very short, video which is 16Mb in the original file is reduced by Google to c.600kb, and is horribly pixelated.

Is this common? I'd rather have my photos and videos in the same place if at all possible.

[Tycho]

Sometimes it take a while for a video to be properly encoded when you upload it. It sometimes is only available at low quality for a day or so until it is properly processed.

I have loads of videos uploaded and have no issues with the quality.

[jonspectre]

Tycho said:

Sometimes it take a while for a video to be properly encoded when you upload it. It sometimes is only available at low quality for a day or so until it is properly processed.

I have loads of videos uploaded and have no issues with the quality.

Did you upload them on the HQ setting, or the original?

I switched to original, and the problem went away, although they are a bit pixelated when viewing via Google Photos, if I download them they are at the same quality as the original file uploaded.

[Tycho]

I do videos at original as I'm taking 4k 360 videos more often now. The photos are all high quality.