Basic question about OBS

Babblingo

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I absolutely LOVE this software. Its been a year since discovering it. Why don’t I know this:

If I keep my current video card, but upgrade my 13-year old HDMI Dell monitor,
would my screen captures to MP4 or Prores the become sharper or only look sharper due to new monitor?


thanks in advance!
 
I absolutely LOVE this software. Its been a year since discovering it. Why don’t I know this:

If I keep my current video card, but upgrade my 13-year old HDMI Dell monitor,
would my screen captures to MP4 or Prores the become sharper or only look sharper due to new monitor?


thanks in advance!
 
What matters is not the type or age of monitor you use, it's the technical parameters: resolution and fps. If your new monitor supports a higher native resolution, you should switch Windows to this new resolution and configure OBS to use this resolution in Settings->Video as well.
 
Thanks very much, Koala. My media is 29.97 HD. I have been thinking of getting a new monitor capable of UHD. Do you know if there any important specs that helps OBS work at its best? I’m using Win 10 Pro.
 
Higher resolution need more resource (CPU and GPU).
Your capture picture is always sharper but compression is losses, and some information must lost, if you recorded picture is't too sharper increase bitrate (higher bitrate more space for details).
 
Hi DeFrisselle, I’d say I’m doing self-directed, very slowly paced, self-instruction based on Forum replies and links. My equipment is now 4 years okd but it works well with OBS in HD, in general.No complaints. Im not streaming, just recording. My biggest achievement in learning was recording 4 live streams in a 1920x1080 Quad that I tested using a live streaming feed from 4 siinultaneous TV/Cable sources, off the web.
The monitor Upgrade is on my mind as a technical curiosity, but Im not sutuated to overhaul my set up... at the monent. OBS and the plug-ins supporting it, is extremely brilliant and helpful for remote Zoom meetings and showing my PC works-in-progress to others using its output with hotkeys as a virtual camera. The software just feels right.

I did see some “micro bumps” when looking at playback of that Quad test... just a minor constant hiccupping of standard TV bottom-of-screen text crawls... I’d like to figure that out soneday... it seems to look bump-less in OBS while recording. So is it recording to disk/SSD or donething else? No urgency to answer that, though.
I want to also use OBS to make real-time versions of what would normally be an overnight render from my editing app. OBS works well in real-time, going to prores, but its result is nowhere near pro quality... due to the screen capture vs fike-render. OBS saves 3x tge tine, so even though it looks soft by comparison to a render, it is still a valuable option for me.
 
New and better monitor will just make everything look better just to you It will not affect the output of OBS or any other program
What will affect the quality of your recording and stream is your settings in OBS
Please post a log from one of your OBS sessions
How you set the encoder and its bitrate determine the quality Higher the bitrate the better the quality but also the faster the storage device needed Like at 4K with a very high bitrate, it would be best to record to an NVME drive Also, never save recordings to you OS drive If possible use a separate drive just for recordings Other operations on the drive can slow down write speeds leading to stutters and other issues in the recording
 
Thanks for all that. I’m using both a non-C:/ drive NVMe and a Spinner, so I’ll check on that for those bumps. Im not likely to send out a log file anytime soon, but will at some point. I guess once I start running my Windows display at 3840 vs 1920, I’ll see a better capture—- or were you saying that that change would not make any difference to my recorded output, currently set to Prores, which I convert with otger software to MP4...?
 
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