Question / Help 1080p 60fps Recording and streaming in 720p question

[PopinFRESH]

Hey dodgepong, somewhat off topic, but I was wondering if you had any insight or suggestions for settings to get the best looking stream for the most people. I'm capturing at 1080p60 with a Decklink 4K extreme on a MacPro and was wondering where along the signal path you would think it best to scale / convert down to the best broadcast resolution / frame rate. I have 100Mbit download / 10Mbit upload connection. I'm currently using Camtwist and Cocoasplit, however I plan to switch back over to OBS once the cross platform beta is available. As I'm not a twitch partner (so no multi-stream) I was thinking targeting 720p60 or 720p30 unless that is still too restrictive. My Mac Pro 3,1 is 8-Core 2.8GHz with 16GB of ram so I was thinking about keeping it 1080p60 through until encoding to broad cast because I'd also like to capture at 1080p60 to disk at the same time for editing. I should probably have posted this as a new thread but this thread came up when I searched for 1080p60 streaming. :/

Thanks for any advice.
-PopinFRESH

 

[dodgepong]

If you want to record and stream at two different resolutions and frame rates, then the encoder would really be the only place to differentiate, since you won't have two renderers. 720p30 is definitely watchable by the most people...I'd say 720p30 at 2000kbps is the best "average" stream to broadcast. 720p60 is often alright, too, as is 1080p30. But once you go over 30fps on 1080p, things get absurd.