Steve Macintosh
Member
Hey!
First time (almost) poster, long time lurker. I've been using OBS for a while now, but exclusively for streaming, Yesterday I took the step and moved over to OBS Studio and I must say I absolutely love it. Anyway, yesterday I managed to track down one of my hard drives that I had completely lost track of which before stopped me from doing any local recordings due to lack of space, and at the same time got an idea for a play through series that I would love to make. So here I am, ready to saturate the market even more and become "just another youtuber".
Now to my question. The glory days of my computer are long gone and the relative performance isn't what it once was so I have more or less decided that either QuickSync or NVENC is the best option for me so the performance hit isn't too big of an issue. I've done hours of research on this and as a last resort I, unwillingly, turn to the forums to ask for help as I fail to find the information I'm looking for. I'm trying to figure out what quality I potentially can record with. So since I didn't use the hard drive for streaming I decided to use CrystalDiskMark to see what my write rates are to know how hard I can push the hard drive. Turns they unfortunately only are around 62MB/s where the secondary disk will be used exclusively for recording. Now I know how to set up Quick Sync or NVENC but I have a hard time figuring out what resolution, framerate and QCP-combination would keep me in the safe zone. With CBR it's straight forward but this arbitrary QCP value makes absolutely no sense to me and reading through both Nvidia's and Intel's documentation, I'm none the wiser. Basically what I'm looking for is "if you encode at X resolution with Y framerate and Z QCP the "worst case scenario" bitrate would be...". Simply I just want to do the math so that I don't just trial and error, think that everything works fine, and then in a one sudden motion scene the bitrate maxes out and my hard drive can't keep up and drops frames. I don't want to lose any takes when I get going.
I want the quality to be as high as it possibly can be because after recording it will be thrown into Premiere for editing and then uploaded to YouTube. Since that means it will be compressed three times before it's made public I'm worried about the end result and if a 60MB/s drive will be good enough to capture good quality source material with NVENC/QuickSync so that the end product doesn't look like it's made by an amateur. Preferably I would like to record with 1080p60fps but I understand if that's pushing it.
Any information would be much appreciated and thanks for having the patience to read through all this!
Cheers,
First time (almost) poster, long time lurker. I've been using OBS for a while now, but exclusively for streaming, Yesterday I took the step and moved over to OBS Studio and I must say I absolutely love it. Anyway, yesterday I managed to track down one of my hard drives that I had completely lost track of which before stopped me from doing any local recordings due to lack of space, and at the same time got an idea for a play through series that I would love to make. So here I am, ready to saturate the market even more and become "just another youtuber".
Now to my question. The glory days of my computer are long gone and the relative performance isn't what it once was so I have more or less decided that either QuickSync or NVENC is the best option for me so the performance hit isn't too big of an issue. I've done hours of research on this and as a last resort I, unwillingly, turn to the forums to ask for help as I fail to find the information I'm looking for. I'm trying to figure out what quality I potentially can record with. So since I didn't use the hard drive for streaming I decided to use CrystalDiskMark to see what my write rates are to know how hard I can push the hard drive. Turns they unfortunately only are around 62MB/s where the secondary disk will be used exclusively for recording. Now I know how to set up Quick Sync or NVENC but I have a hard time figuring out what resolution, framerate and QCP-combination would keep me in the safe zone. With CBR it's straight forward but this arbitrary QCP value makes absolutely no sense to me and reading through both Nvidia's and Intel's documentation, I'm none the wiser. Basically what I'm looking for is "if you encode at X resolution with Y framerate and Z QCP the "worst case scenario" bitrate would be...". Simply I just want to do the math so that I don't just trial and error, think that everything works fine, and then in a one sudden motion scene the bitrate maxes out and my hard drive can't keep up and drops frames. I don't want to lose any takes when I get going.
I want the quality to be as high as it possibly can be because after recording it will be thrown into Premiere for editing and then uploaded to YouTube. Since that means it will be compressed three times before it's made public I'm worried about the end result and if a 60MB/s drive will be good enough to capture good quality source material with NVENC/QuickSync so that the end product doesn't look like it's made by an amateur. Preferably I would like to record with 1080p60fps but I understand if that's pushing it.
Any information would be much appreciated and thanks for having the patience to read through all this!
Cheers,
