Best possible recording quality I can get?

[AaronD]

No sense in scaling up, unless you're trying to trick something else into not squashing your quality. You're not adding information, and I've seen a few complaints about being excited to see something in "glorious 4k", only for it to stay fuzzy as if it were produced in 720 and scaled up...because it probably was.

 

[RainGamma]

No sense in scaling up, unless you're trying to trick something else into not squashing your quality. You're not adding information, and I've seen a few complaints about being excited to see something in "glorious 4k", only for it to stay fuzzy as if it were produced in 720 and scaled up...because it probably was.

I'm only scaling up because of youtube compression so i can get vp09 codec

 

[RainGamma]

I heard putting on two pass quarterly is best for quality but not sure on that

 

[AaronD]

I heard putting on two pass quarterly is best for quality but not sure on that

I use two pass, full frame, because my old GPU can't do quarter. It's supposed to build a map of what to do before it does it, instead of trying to do everything at once. So yes, multiple passes gives you better quality because it can be more aggressive when it knows everything. But that comes at a performance cost, as you might imagine, from effectively looking at each frame twice.

 

[RainGamma]

I use two pass, full frame, because my old GPU can't do quarter. It's supposed to build a map of what to do before it does it, instead of trying to do everything at once. So yes, multiple passes gives you better quality because it can be more aggressive when it knows everything. But that comes at a performance cost, as you might imagine, from effectively looking at each frame twice.

Ill two pass quarter and im going to get full frame is better and one pass is the fastest

 

[RainGamma]

I use two pass, full frame, because my old GPU can't do quarter. It's supposed to build a map of what to do before it does it, instead of trying to do everything at once. So yes, multiple passes gives you better quality because it can be more aggressive when it knows everything. But that comes at a performance cost, as you might imagine, from effectively looking at each frame twice.

btw why couldnt your gpu do quarter isnt full higher quality

 

[RainGamma]

I'm not rlly sure if psycho visual tuning on or off someone said it allows the encoder to sacrifice some parts of an image to enhance other parts, to make the overall perceived visual quality better to the human eye. Sounds bad ngl

 

[koala]

Why must you change every setting? Use the defaults. They are there for a reason. If you want best quality, adjust the CQ level until you're satisfied with the quality. That's the quality adjuster for recording. Nothing else. Every other setting is about something different, so keep it at default - except if you need to change it due to that something different, but you didn't post anything that hinted you encounter that something different.
And if you have a canvas resolution of 1920x1080, use this as well as output resolution. Don't upscale. This bloats the video without improving anything. Rescaling and adjusting to the viewer's monitor is the task of the media player.

 

[RainGamma]

Why must you change every setting? Use the defaults. They are there for a reason. If you want best quality, adjust the CQ level until you're satisfied with the quality. That's the quality adjuster for recording. Nothing else. Every other setting is about something different, so keep it at default - except if you need to change it due to that something different, but you didn't post anything that hinted you encounter that something different.
And if you have a canvas resolution of 1920x1080, use this as well as output resolution. Don't upscale. This bloats the video without improving anything. Rescaling and adjusting to the viewer's monitor is the task of the media player.

im only scaling because I have to or the youtube shit compression ruins everything also doesnt putting b frames on 0 increase quality?

 

[RainGamma]

Why must you change every setting? Use the defaults. They are there for a reason. If you want best quality, adjust the CQ level until you're satisfied with the quality. That's the quality adjuster for recording. Nothing else. Every other setting is about something different, so keep it at default - except if you need to change it due to that something different, but you didn't post anything that hinted you encounter that something different.
And if you have a canvas resolution of 1920x1080, use this as well as output resolution. Don't upscale. This bloats the video without improving anything. Rescaling and adjusting to the viewer's monitor is the task of the media player.

not rlly sure what default is but is this fine besides changing default which you said p1 would be best since all it does is try to make file size smaller when recording and doesnt affect visual