Question / Help Awful sharpness and dull colors

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rualyl

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When recording to local files, the quality of my recordings is very low. Even if I disable CFR and use a CRF of 0, the color quality is awful.

Here is a direct screen capture: http://i.imgur.com/Rq2Z7UH.png
And here is a frame from a recording: http://i.imgur.com/UzPiWwD.png

As can be seen from the images, the contrast appears to be fine, but the colors are very dull and the sharpness is awful.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Also, I forgot to mention that the preview panel looks flawless. That would mean that this is an issue with the encoder, right?
 
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rualyl

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I've run the output video through a video editor and VLC to the same effect, so I'm sure it's with the encoded video, not the playback. Also, if I perform any down-sampling at all, the output is significantly worse. Any ideas on what settings within OBS might fix this?
 
Krazy

Krazy

Town drunk
If you are on an NVIDIA GPU and using VLC, the color output will not be correct unless you force full range in the GPU drivers, or change VLC to OpenGL output.

These are not settings that can be adjusted in OBS, unfortunately.
 
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rualyl

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If I force OpenGL output in VLC, the video is pretty much gone. The whole screen is gray, minus a few areas, such as parts of the screen that were yellow or gray. So I am fairly positive this is not my playback, as I already explained that I opened it up in a video editor and it was just as bad. Also, to reiterate, all of the text has some pretty bad aliasing, and if I down sample at all, the entire video gets significantly less colorful, which is hard to believe as there's little color to begin with.

This happens even with the default settings, with both the 32 bit and 64 bit application. I am running two monitors. Can anybody offer some advice?
 
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rualyl

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Reinstalling OBS has somehow improved the quality of my recordings a little bit. Maybe this is an encoder or codec issue specific to my machine?
 
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crazyoda

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Hi,

A workout if you have a Nvidia card:
Go in your nvidia config panel, then under Video -> Adjust video color settings -> Advanced make sure the dynamic range is Full 0-255.

Hope this is gonna help.
 
BossStompTV

BossStompTV

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crazyoda said:
Hi,

A workout if you have a Nvidia card:
Go in your nvidia config panel, then under Video -> Adjust video color settings -> Advanced make sure the dynamic range is Full 0-255.

Hope this is gonna help.
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Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

This has been driving me crazy.
 
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