Another help me with my recording problems

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blackoutvhs

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Heres the thing... I finally have a system that I think should be able to record at a "high" quality. I want to upload to youtube regularly and I have been. After many youtube tutorials on which OBS settings I should use to countless google searches that often bring me here..... I have realized that I just need to ask for help.

What I'd like to start off with is a suggestion (based on my system specs) for rate control, any settings you guys think I should enable disable. Then I record some gameplay 5-10 minutes worth, see if its going to be good enough.

I either have quality recordings but choppy or poor quality recordings but smooth. I'll post my specs below, please speak to me like a noob because I have almost no idea what im doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7EHLUgnw2A&t (example of poor quality, the stuttering is game related and now fixed)

^ The recording quality isnt that bad but when youtube gets a hold of it I find it awful.

Ideally I'd like to record at a higher quality (without choppy/stuttering) so that once youtube compresses... it wont be that bad.... I hope

System Type x64-based PC
System SKU To be filled by O.E.M.
Processor AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor, 3401 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. A.30, 2020-08-31
SMBIOS Version 2.8
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Product B550-A PRO
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 64.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 63.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 56.4 GB
Total Virtual Memory 73.4 GB
Available Virtual Memory 63.4 GB

*I have a few ssd's with games installed and os.
*I bought a 16 tb drive for recording although at the moment recording on the ssd.
*The computer was assembled by Canada Computers
*Im weary of messing around in bios

Thats all i cant think of.
I know you'll want log files etc

Thank you in advance for helping me out
 
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cyclemat

Active Member
to record use CQP not CBR and higher bitrate didnt bring anything to youtube F encoding try a high bitrate and a 4k resolution many people say it helps so youtube uses the new encoder
 
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koala

Active Member
The quality of your videos on Youtube is probably what you will get. Keep in mind this:
  • Youtube is recoding every upload. Your video ended up with a maximum bitrate of 5872 kbit/s (according to youtube-dl). You cannot do anything to raise that bitrate, since you have no control over the Youtube recoding. Even if you upload with infinite bitrate, it gets recoded down to that. Even if you squeeze out every bit of quality in your original video, these settings are not reused by Youtube for recoding.
  • The recoding takes some time and lower quality/resolutions is visible first, so make sure for visual tests that you wait until the maximum resolution is offered for playback (click on the cog wheel in the Youtube player and verify the video resolution+fps).
Quality suffers for high detailed, high motion video. Keep your camera as still as possible. Try to make slow smooth camera movements and not hectic pans left/right. You're moving back and forth with extremely hectic movements, this is not only bad for quality but also inconvenient/unpleasant for your viewers (for me, it causes headaches).
Very bandwidth hungry is foliage and highly detailed ground textures, so it might help if you tune down some game settings.
 
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blackoutvhs

New Member
Interesting. The problem with this game Chivalry 2 is that I'm having to constantly move around quickly.
So even if I record at a higher resolution.. I won't see much of a difference because youtube will compress it.... I will try lowering some of the quality to see if that helps.
 
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