Question / Help Is there a way to reduce the size of gameplay recordings.

[want2stream]

Is there a way to reduce the size of gameplay recording.

I'm using Quick Sync with LA_ICQ and a 10 minute game play recording is a little over 1GB at 1280x720 @60fps. This is taking a long time to upload to YouTube, is there a way I can reduce the size of it without hurting the quality?

Thanks

 

[Fenrir]

You can re-encode the video after the fact to reduce filesize.

 

[C-Dude]

Is there a way to reduce the size of gameplay recording.

I'm using Quick Sync with LA_ICQ and a 10 minute game play recording is a little over 1GB at 1280x720 @60fps. This is taking a long time to upload to YouTube, is there a way I can reduce the size of it without hurting the quality?

Thanks

1gb for 10 minutes is not large at all. My recordings end up around 1/2 gig per minute. You can use a program like handbrake to improve compression of your videos. But lowering file size without losing any quality is near impossible. For minimal quality loss, re-encode the video or record at a lower bitrate but with better compression but this takes more cpu usage. With quick sync, you can change the target usage to quality for higher quality then lower the bitrate to achieve similar quality.

Or as I recommend using x264, then you can change the cpu preset, the slower it runs the more effort it puts to efficently compressing the video losing less quality. But this takes a lot of cpu usage, if done too much it will lag a lot.

I would need to know PC specs and your current settings to help you any more.

 

[want2stream]

Thank you both for your helpful replies.

My PC specs:
CPU: G3258
RAM: 8GB DDR3
GPU: 750 Ti

I'm very new to this game play recording, I didn't even know that there is such a thing as re-encoding, thank you for informing me about it, I think re-encoding is the best thing for me after I record the game play video, if I compress while recording, my CPU will have a hard time and my game might stutter, a 1GB file is taking more than 3 hours to upload to YouTube, I have a slow internet.

What free software can I use to re-encode for the best quality at lowest file size?

 

[C-Dude]

Handbrake is a really great piece of free software I know lots of people love it.

https://handbrake.fr/

Most people edit their videos in sony vegas pro or adobe premiere pro and export/render/re-encode (really all the same thing) their videos there.

I haven't used handbrake a ton since I really have no use for it, but I have heard many people say that it helps them out a ton. And compared to other programs it encodes fairly quick.