Video: What is the minimum accepted bitrate?

At Stocksy, we accept the following minimum bitrates depending on the video resolutions:

4K: 45,000 kb/s (45 Mb/s)

1080p: 25,000 kb/s (25 Mb/s)

We will accept higher bitrates, but not lower.

What is bitrate?

Bitrate in video measures the total amount of data encoded per second. High bitrates will result in a better-looking video. The best way to explain this is to check a clear blue sky in a video. If there is a “banding” gradation showing from deeper to lighter shades of blue, your video was probably encoded with a lower bitrate:

However, the trade-off is that higher bitrates will result in greater file size and longer upload/download time.

Export Settings

Depending on what NLE (video editing app) you are using, here are the settings you need to use:

DaVinci Resolve:

Premiere Pro:

How to Check Bitrates on Exported Videos

On Windows:

• Open the folder containing the videos and select ‘Details’ from the View menu:
• Right-click on the column header and select ‘More’:
  
  
• Select ‘Total bitrate’ from the details list:
  
  
• Your video folder will now list the total bitrate of the files in kbps:
  
• To convert kb to Mb, divide the Kb value by 1000.
  Example: 10,000 Kb = 10Mb

On Mac:

• Open the video in Quicktime
• From the Window menu select ‘Show Movie Inspector’ (Cmd + I):
  
  
• The bitrate is displayed in the ‘Data rate’ field in Mbit/s.

MediaInfo App (Mac/PC)

Alternatively, you can install a free application (for PC and Mac) called MediaInfo which can be used to access the bitrate along with relevant technical and tag data for video: