Question / Help How to record 720P60FPS HQ video?

belboz

Member
You can right click on the video and show stats and see that video is using the vp9 codec and has a very high bitrate.

YouTube gives vp9 codec to channels with lots of subs, or high views. The videos look better with it. If a video starts to get a lot of views YouTube will re-encode to vp9.

Learned this from a YouTube gaming employee over on reddit. (crschmidt is an employee of YouTube working on YouTube Gaming and here is the link where he talks about it https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/45mz01/my_1080p_video_looks_bad/)

I have 80K subs on my YouTube and some of my videos get vp9 codec and others don't.

I record with OBS at 1920x1080 60fps I do 20Mb or so on the bitate and render higher than that for the uploaded video.

I think my videos look pretty good regardless of vp9 codec or not, but they do look better with it. You can PM me and I can give you some links of my videos in Minecraft (older ones might be lower rez or non obs recorded) and you can see if you like the quality and I can show you my settings. Don't want to spam links to them in here.
 

ShippyG

New Member
You can right click on the video and show stats and see that video is using the vp9 codec and has a very high bitrate.

YouTube gives vp9 codec to channels with lots of subs, or high views. The videos look better with it. If a video starts to get a lot of views YouTube will re-encode to vp9.

Learned this from a YouTube gaming employee over on reddit. (crschmidt is an employee of YouTube working on YouTube Gaming and here is the link where he talks about it https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/45mz01/my_1080p_video_looks_bad/)

I have 80K subs on my YouTube and some of my videos get vp9 codec and others don't.

I record with OBS at 1920x1080 60fps I do 20Mb or so on the bitate and render higher than that for the uploaded video.

I think my videos look pretty good regardless of vp9 codec or not, but they do look better with it. You can PM me and I can give you some links of my videos in Minecraft (older ones might be lower rez or non obs recorded) and you can see if you like the quality and I can show you my settings. Don't want to spam links to them in here.

I would like to see your obs & render settings :)
 

belboz

Member
I do the following for recording.

Type: Standard
Recording Format: mp4
Audio Tracks (I have 4 but you may only have one and thats normal)
Encoder: Nvidia NVENC H.264
I don't rescale
No custom muxer settings

Profile: high
Keyframe: 2
Rate Control: CBR
Bitrate: 20000

I have both use custom buffer and advance UNchecked

My video tab is:

Base Canvas: 1920x1080
Output Scaled: 1920x1080
FPS = 60

That is pretty much everything important. Nothing super fancy. Only issue you might have is if you don't have an Nvidia card, you might not be able to do the NVENC encoder. Don't know if OBS Studio supports ATI cards for encoding, or if it is just the special build of the old OBS with that. You could also try Quicksync if you have that instead of NVENC.

I use the NVENC since it has very little impact on my CPU and with such a high bitrate you can can great quality. And if you want to stream also you can have a high rez recording with NVENC, and use software x264 for the stream.

I use to do 50000 on the bitrate instead of 20000. Made the drop down for non important reasons to this discussion, but you can go higher if you need to.

I then just edit and render to 1080p 60fps and I use 50Mb encoder default in my video editor. Files can be big for uploading to youtube, but if you have the internet it is well worth it.
 
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