Question / Help Can I have sharper rather than blurry videos?

c3r1c3

c3r1c3

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Since you're recording, why not use the recording quality presets under Settings > Output (when in Simple output mode), and in the recording section, change the Recording Quality to Indistinguishable Quality, and then set your encoder to NVENC?

This way you can record at 1920x1080 (or whatever downscale you want) with near lossless quality, and not use any CPU (esp. since you have only a 2-core CPU).
 
c3r1c3

c3r1c3

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Your reply makes no sense. I told you how to record so you:
1. Don't need a downscale filter, and
2. Lessen the burden on your system, and
3. get a clearer/sharper picture.

And you say to that "no thanks", but then ask to record without a downscale filter, which I just told you how to do.
 
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Foebane

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1. What I'm trying to do is to keep the same bitrate and increase the detail in the picture, even if it does lead to some artefacting.
2. I tried what you suggested, but the picture retained about the same level of blurriness.
3. NVENC I might put back on, but I have a concern about it.
 
c3r1c3

c3r1c3

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Once you set a bitrate, you place an upper limit to any possible quality by having said bitrate in place. Lowering your FPS and/or resolution can help increase the quality of the recording at a limited bitrate, but then you potentially loose clarity/sharpness through the lack of resolution.

It's a trade-off/balancing act.

Since you're recording (not streaming) and don't really need to limit your bitrate, why are you limiting your bitrate, esp. to something so... well actually the log you posted doesn't have any streaming or recording attempts in it so I don't know what bitrate you're running at, but it must not be very high if you have the quality issues you're talking about.
 
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Foebane

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Thank you for the informative response, and I apologise if I've come off rather brusque, but I initially started this thread because I figured it was those downscale filters that were the cause of my videos looking a bit blurry, but it turned out not to be, it just improves the look at lower resolutions (like 480p) which I appreciate, compared to my old recordings of Shadowplay. I'm recording videos for a portable device such as my smartphone, which is a tiny screen, and I just tried the few I made, and they look great on it. When I'm viewing them on my 1080p PC monitor, I just have to remember that 480p will look worse in fullscreen. ;) I'm also sticking with a low resolution like that so I can put as many videos on the 32Gb microSD card I have in the phone.

I don't even know what the bitrate is myself, I'm just using the "High Quality, Medium File Size" preset. I was also trying to retain the file sizes for the recordings in question, compared to the old ones, as my space is at a premium.

Also, my problem with NVENC is that sometimes, recordings I make have these nasty audio spikes in them at certain random points, which is a glitch with the driver or a fault with my Nvidia card, I don't know. But I've talked to others and they have had no problems, so I'm thinking it's the latter. I figured that by bypassing NVENC altogether, I can solve that problem. I don't really need it, as I'm only recording WinUAE output (a Commodore Amiga emulator) and my PC is managing fine at the moment. It's not as if it's something like Doom 2016! ;)

Anyway, thanks again, it's appreciated! :)
 
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