Blurry Exports

I have been having trouble when i export and upload to youtube it gets blurry. I render with the settings that are recommended by others for youtube uploads but it remains blurry on youtube in the project it is clear but after rendering and changing the file format it is blurry i shoot with a t3 and t3i from canon and mix the footage could the problem be that one camera shoots 1920x1080 and the other 1260x720 and i render in 1080 if so how is it affecting it any help would be appreciated greatly
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I tried uploading the mp4 created by Captivate 7 Trial Edition to YouTube, and then uploaded an avi video I created using CamStudio, and CamStudio was clear, while Captivate 7 was blurry. So the blurriness appears to be related to Adobe (or maybe mp4's), since other screen capturing software does a better job, at least on YouTube uploads. Both the mp4 created by Captivate and the avi created by CamStudio were clear when viewed locally. Only the Adobe Captivate mp4 degraded when uploaded to YouTube.

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