Question / Help How to reduce blur and improve sharpness on Youtube?

[marcoblbr]

Hello guys, my first post here. I just switched from ShadowPlay to OBS and I'm recording videos to upload to Youtube later (I'm not streaming). I read a lot about the best settings to use in OBS and I got a pretty good quality of my videos. The problem is when I upload to YouTube. The quality there is good, but in scenes with a lot of details, like flames and small rocks, they become blurry and lose sharpness.

Here is an example showing exactly what I described:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dk2q5mjoxc2ltip/comparison.png?dl=0

And the 2 images I used: (I extracted from the videos using ffmpeg)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ykc0ctn7i2yvx6/original.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a159e401ly5fsg2/youtube.png?dl=0

I think YouTube did a pretty good job compressing the video. A 26 minutes video went from 9.17 GB to 871 MB. Too bad it lost the sharpness. Are there any modifications in my OBS settings I can do to reduce this problem when I upload to YouTube?

My OBS settings are:

Output -> Recording
Type: Standard
Recording format: MP4
Encoder: NVENC H.264
Rescale output: Disabled
Custom Muxer Settings: left the field blank
Rate Control: CBR
Bitrate: 50000
Keyframe interval: 0
Preset: Default
Profile: main
Level: auto
Use Two-pass encoding: Yes
GPU: 0
B-frames: 2

Video:
Base (Canvas) Resolution: 1920x1080
Output (Scaled) Resoution: 1920x1080
Downsale Filter: lanczos (Sharpened scaling, 32 samples)
Common FPS values: 60
Disable Aero: not checked

Advanced:
Proccess Priority: Above Normal
Renderer: Direct3D 11
Color Format: NV12
YUV Color Space: 709
YUV Color Range: Full

Any help is appreciated. I hope it also can serve as a guide for other people with the same problem.

Thanks a lot.
Marco

 

[R1CH]

You can't do anything about that unfortunately, YouTube will always re-compress your video at a lower quality.