During the export of one of my last videos on my YouTube channel, I noticed that my PowerShot S110 gave me some pretty good raw footage in high quality, but that my exported files didn't turn out that well despite good export settings in Filmora Video Editor – the only time I got good exported footage was when I just exported short segments of my video, but longer segments became somewhat blurry.

I thought my computer or the video editor were to blame, but wasn't sure which one.

So yesterday, when I was working with something else, I tried to get another video editor called HitFilm Express 4 (a very solid and free video editor) working again on my computer and did during the day four things in an attempt to get it to work:

1. Updated or downgraded my graphics card drivers (in the past, older drivers have solved this issue with HitFilm Express)
2. Updated or downgraded the motherboard chipset drivers
3. Updated or downgraded the Intel Management Engine (Intel ME)
4. Cleaned freespace with CCleaner (a free tool to use)

That didn't solve my problem with HitFilm Express, however, when I later experimented with going through a bunch of new 3D LUTs in Filmora, suddenly I noticed that the exported files started to look really good.

First, I thought it just depended on me exporting short files (like before), so I gave the editor one more chance and exported one of my previous projects with a longer running time – guess what?! – the exported video file was suddenly crisp looking and also much bigger in file size.

During the export, I used the following settings (the same I had previously used to no avail):

1. Format: MP4 (Quicktime)
2. Quality: Best
3. Encoder: H.264 (not the H.264 HD optimized, but go ahead and experiment with this one)
4. Frame Rate: 23.97 fps (this is the frame rate the PowerShot S110 records in)
5. Resolution: 1920x1080 pixels
6. Bit Rate: 20000kbps
7. Audio: Leave as is

And one more thing – now I can use 3D LUTs without risking ruining the footage even further, the LUTs I've applied after updating my computer look good and natural instead of the other way around.

I hope my problem solving can help you as well in how to get high quality videos by using Filmora.