few newbie questions

[VVstreamer]

Ive attached my specs for my machine. How high can i run my bitrate with this pc? Internet is about 300/100 on a good day.

also, a person on my team said my talents shirt logo is blurry and they want me to sharpen the webcam (logitech c920). I feel like the talents face and shirt are in focus and not sure how to get the shirt logo to be more in focus. we are using a green screen and ive changed every setting i can to get it to focus better. I also attached a pic of it.

last question, should i have a profile set for recording and a profile for live streaming? We record intro videos before we do the live stream. Does that make a difference? I have recording set to "same as stream".

I cannot supply a log file until thursday. hope there is enough info here.

GeForce RTX 2080 for video card running 4 monitors.

 

[Sinapse]

The c920 is a webcam, it's not a professional camera by any stretch of the imagination. I used one for a long time for live streaming but there are limits to what it is capable of. The sensor in it is pretty small but it looks like you are providing adequate light.

From the perspective of the webcam:
1. Make sure you have focus set to manual if you have a static subject.
2. Make sure you have adequate light. (Looks like you do).
3. Consider toying with the sharpening on the c920.

From the perspective of your stream:
1. I don't know what your platform is but higher bitrate is usually better. This being said, things like Twitch have a cap of 6Mbit.
2. Higher resolution will look better than lower resolution (assuming your inputs are good) but you may have to reduce the frame rate if the service you are streaming to has bitrate limits.
3. Mess with the Downscale Filter on the Video tab. Lanczos may look better but it has a CPU cost.
4. In output, mess with the encoder presets. x264 tends to look better, in my opinion, at medium or slower than NVENC but it has a significant CPU cost. Generally the slower the encoding the better it looks but at the cost of more CPU consumption. NVENC will not rely on the CPU but you are limited to a lower quality ceiling.

So, to directly answer your questions:
1. The bitrate you can use will be dependent on your connection, the service you are using, and hardware constraints as specified by your encoder. You have to determine this yourself.
2. You could potentially record with different settings if you want but you will incur a cost because you are encoding twice.

Hopefully that gets you started.

 

[VVstreamer]

The c920 is a webcam, it's not a professional camera by any stretch of the imagination. I used one for a long time for live streaming but there are limits to what it is capable of. The sensor in it is pretty small but it looks like you are providing adequate light.

From the perspective of the webcam:
1. Make sure you have focus set to manual if you have a static subject.
2. Make sure you have adequate light. (Looks like you do).
3. Consider toying with the sharpening on the c920.

From the perspective of your stream:
1. I don't know what your platform is but higher bitrate is usually better. This being said, things like Twitch have a cap of 6Mbit.
2. Higher resolution will look better than lower resolution (assuming your inputs are good) but you may have to reduce the frame rate if the service you are streaming to has bitrate limits.
3. Mess with the Downscale Filter on the Video tab. Lanczos may look better but it has a CPU cost.
4. In output, mess with the encoder presets. x264 tends to look better, in my opinion, at medium or slower than NVENC but it has a significant CPU cost. Generally the slower the encoding the better it looks but at the cost of more CPU consumption. NVENC will not rely on the CPU but you are limited to a lower quality ceiling.

So, to directly answer your questions:
1. The bitrate you can use will be dependent on your connection, the service you are using, and hardware constraints as specified by your encoder. You have to determine this yourself.
2. You could potentially record with different settings if you want but you will incur a cost because you are encoding twice.

Hopefully that gets you started.

yes, we have plenty of light and i think i am getting the best picture i can from the webcam.


I have manual focus on. ive got it dialed in to be sharp on his face and shirt.

I am streaming to YouTube. ive been running 5000 kbps.


My cpu is usually no more than 10%.

Thank you so much for your response! I appreciate it and i will mess with the settings mentioned.

 

[Sinapse]

There's sharpening filters in OBS you could play with as well.

Bitrate suggestions for resolutions. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en