Blurry recording. How to make it as seen on screen

[ams ken]

Hi there I am recording some video tutorials of my screen and for some reason, it comes out much more blurry than what I am seeing.

Here is a screen shot with the difference recording on the right and my screen on the left

And here are my video recording settings...

Some help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

 

[nottooloud]

There are a lot of settings that affect things before you get to that recording screen. Please post a log.

 

[ams ken]

There are a lot of settings that affect things before you get to that recording screen. Please post a log.

Ok thanks for helping me I have attached it.

 

[nottooloud]

I don't see anything obvious. Base and output resolution is good. Bitrate is fast enough. You're not high speed gaming, so you can lean harder on quality. Try faster instead of veryfast. I'd try a different rate control. Since you're not streaming, switch from CBR to CQP or CRF.

good rate control article

 

[ams ken]

I don't see anything obvious. Base and output resolution is good. Bitrate is fast enough. You're not high speed gaming, so you can lean harder on quality. Try faster instead of veryfast. I'd try a different rate control. Since you're not streaming, switch from CBR to CQP or CRF.

good rate control article

OK so non of these settings really change the look of it which is weird as I have done a test in Screenflow with a similar setting to my original one and that records much clearer even with similar settings. Any other Ideas?

Im running a MacBook pro with this spec...

 

[CatMan]

I too have the same problem
So, is the dev going to fix this problem ?
been almost 1 year now

 

[khaver]

How large is the application on your screen. If the application is larger than your 1920x1080 base canvas size then you are downsizing the capture in OBS. If possible, make your application window size 1920x1080 so it's the same size as the base canvas. Any time you downsize you lose detail.

 

[CatMan]

How large is the application on your screen. If the application is larger than your 1920x1080 base canvas size then you are downsizing the capture in OBS. If possible, make your application window size 1920x1080 so it's the same size as the base canvas. Any time you downsize you lose detail.

OBS Blurriness - New Discovery & Workaround - Wayland related

TEST & DISCOVERY ON DATE: Tuesday the 8th of February, 2022 I tryed lots of different video encoding tests on obs and with different parameters I have been only able to use x264 as the Encoder for the Streaming option I tryed Codecs: MP4, MOV, MKV, TS, AVI I have set bitrates up to 70,000...

obsproject.com

 

[student]

Did anyone managed to solve the problem? What did you do to solve the problem? I have the same problem, I did not change any settings, once I install OBS I leave the default settings alone.

 

[returnMarcco]

Did anyone managed to solve the problem? What did you do to solve the problem? I have the same problem, I did not change any settings, once I install OBS I leave the default settings alone.

Hi. I was facing the same issue, and managed to resolve it by heading into OBS settings => 'Video' tab => changing Output (Scaled) Resolution to my target resolution, in my case 2560x1440. I don't know why this worked for me, as I explicitly stated not to rescale output in the 'Output' tab, but it did.

 

[hisyntax]

Hi. I was facing the same issue, and managed to resolve it by heading into OBS settings => 'Video' tab => changing Output (Scaled) Resolution to my target resolution, in my case 2560x1440. I don't know why this worked for me, as I explicitly stated not to rescale output in the 'Output' tab, but it did.

This actually solved my problem..
Go to Settings=>video... you might notice that the =>Base (canvas) resolution is not the same as the =>Output (scaled) resolution
If that is you case, make the =>Output (scaled) resolution equal to the =>Base (canvas) resolution.
That should solve the problem

 

[Phil35]

Hi @hisyntax
Thank you so much.
"make the =>Output (scaled) resolution equal to the =>Base (canvas) resolution."
This solves the issue too.

Thinkpad, under ubuntu 22.04, recording video in a firefox tab.

 

[oneearth]

Hi there I am recording some video tutorials of my screen and for some reason, it comes out much more blurry than what I am seeing.

Here is a screen shot with the difference recording on the right and my screen on the left View attachment 68100

And here are my video recording settings...

View attachment 68101

Some help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

I wonder if it has anything to do with your computer running OBS on the less powerful GPU?

After months of frustration and trying out the various suggestions, I was finally able to make a huge difference in the sharpness of the OBS recording by telling my computer to use the discrete graphics unit when OBS was running.

--> what a relief to see a relatively sharp image of the screen.
-- > Significantly not so blurry!

For text, I added an OBS filter and increased the contrast +0.2 and decreased the gamma +0.7 to improve on the sharpness of the OBS recording of the text.

. . .

To tell the PC (which was my situation) to use the discrete processor when OBS was running:

GPU Selection Guide | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. For computers with multiple GPUs, make sure to select the correct one for best performance

obsproject.com

> Windows > Settings > Display > Graphics settings > browse > find obs-studio executionable > Options > select High Performance

. . .

For a Mac, you could try what this person is suggesting:

How to force your MacBook Pro to use its discrete graphics card when…

The solution is to use the machine’s discrete graphics card instead.Because the discrete GPU uses more energy, I don’t want to use it when I’m on battery…

nathansnelgrove.com

Although someone experienced the pmset no longer working:

Graphics Switching pmset commands not wor… - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

. . .

HTH