Big File size Problem

[Gid]

Hey guys i just finished a 2 hour obs video for youtube and when i went to upload it it got stuck on 1% for ages, i soon realised it may be due to its size. The video ended at 140 gb for 2 hours.

My settings are mp4 and im recording at 3840x2160 fps 60

I have only done this for 2 weeks and altho i have uploaded 1 other video successfully it was only 8 minutes long with the same setting. Please help guys, i really dont want to redo the video !! :(

 

[Gid]

also, just to add i am not tech savy at all so if this is a stupid question please still tell me what ive done wrong as i got the settings off another youtube clip have no idea what i should be doing

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

140GB... yea, that is likely to be an issue... but depends... and everything from here will get techy
- I don't know...so you can check YouTube file limits on uploads.
- and, depends on your upload bandwidth (and what else is using, like others work video conference calls .. ie, don't be inconsiderate)

You can always re-encode your video to a lower file size (will most likely lose video quality in the process, but whether noticeable difference or not...depends (on numerous and technical details).

 

[Gid]

ok sounds good, ill try reencoding. Can you help me do that please someone. I have gone to the screen to change it but when i press ok it doesnt change the opened video. Its almost like it isnt connecting the new settings to the opened 4k video in the background.

 

[AaronD]

What's your encoding quality? Settings -> Output
Higher quality creates bigger files, so the tradeoff is how big a file you have to deal with, compared to how good it looks.

Also, I rarely see a need to have your canvas and output sizes different. Scale everything right up front, to the final size it's going to be, and then don't scale again. So if your output is 1920x1080, then set your canvas to that too, so that you scale your sources immediately as they come into OBS. If you've built a bunch of stuff to look "right" on a 4k canvas, then you'll probably have to do it all over again for the smaller size, but then it'll take about 1/4 of the effort for the computer to process it.
(Right-click -> Transform can be useful too...)

 

[AaronD]

...i got the settings off another youtube clip have no idea what i should be doing

I've seen a bunch of YouTubes too, about how to set up OBS. Most of them don't know what they're doing either. They just found a terrible way that happens to work, and they share that as if it's a breakthrough...which to them, it is.

Or they load you up with all the processing that they personally ended up with, without explaining it very well at all, and then people blindly copy it and have problems because they *didn't* need exactly that...

Anyway, glad you came here! There are about 10 active people here, if I estimate correctly, that actually DO know what they're doing. Lawrence is one of them.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

ok sounds good, ill try reencoding. Can you help me do that please someone. I have gone to the screen to change it but when i press ok it doesnt change the opened video. Its almost like it isnt connecting the new settings to the opened 4k video in the background.

Re-encoding is NOT something you'd use OBS Studio for (well, in a really cumbersome way, you could, in a work-around sort of way, indirectly... but don't... OBS Studio is wrong tool for simply re-encoding. You'd use whatever your video editor of choice is (with some producing higher quality output than others)