Question / Help How to record a high-quality 1080p 60FPS video file with minimal storage size?

[Gamer7789]

This is my first time using OBS and I am trying to record footage that is an output of 1920x1080 60FPS. I have noticed that my 7 minute video is 1.6GB. would anyone know if it's possible to reduce the size of the video while keeping its quality. I have outputs for recording set for the following:

Recording Quality: high quality, medium file size

Recording Format: MP4

Encoder: Hardware (QSV)

If anyone has information about keeping the quality and reducing file size I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

 

[Narcogen]

Quality vs size is a tradeoff. With a given encoder, reducing the file size means necessarily reducing the quality.

To get better quality at the same size, or the same quality at a smaller size, you need a better encoder-- so that means either using x264 on your CPU with a slow enough preset that the quality is higher at a given file size, or utilizing a GPU with a hardware encoder that gives better quality at a given filesize than QSV does.

 

[Deleted member 121471]

You can only pick 2 out of filesize, image quality and hardware/encoder performance requirements.

 

[Gamer7789]

Quality vs size is a tradeoff. With a given encoder, reducing the file size means necessarily reducing the quality.

To get better quality at the same size, or the same quality at a smaller size, you need a better encoder-- so that means either using x264 on your CPU with a slow enough preset that the quality is higher at a given file size, or utilizing a GPU with a hardware encoder that gives better quality at a given filesize than QSV does.

Okay. I did follow your advice and I noticed that my computer was lagging a lot. It could also be that my computer is not as powerful as a gaming computer so that might be the issue too. Personally I may just need to reduce the file size by reducing the quality. Thank you for your input, I really appreciate it.