Hello everyone,
I am trying to record my web application in order to make a nice demo video for my website. The resolution is 1920x1080, and 30fps. I tried different software (Camtasia, Movavi, OBS) and the best result by far was OBS with the output set to "Simple" and "Lossless" (results in AVI file). However, unfortunately these files cannot be read by DaVinci Resolve which was recommended to me as a good free cutting software.
Does somebody here have experience with what the best workflow would be? I am just recording very short videos (a few minutes long), so file size is not a problem and I would have no problem with using a converter or anything like that. I am new to the whole video production topic, so any help would be highly appreciated. What settings in OBS work with DaVinci Resolve? Or should I use something else instead of Resolve?
I did some tests and Resolve can read MP4 files with lower quality, but since I am recording my website with buttons that have text in it etc. you can instantly notice quality differences, just like in the game screenshots in this thread (the text looks sharper/"crisper" with the lossless setting). I know the quality will be lost at some point of uploading the video, but I am probably not going to use YouTube for hosting the videos, but a host with better quality instead (Vimeo, Wistia, or similar) and in general would prefer to have the best quality possible during the editing stage.
Any ideas? What I have tried to far: Simple / Lossless (OBS produces AVI file, best quality!!), and Advanced with several lossless settings (MP4/MOV file, very good quality). None of these files can be read by DaVinci Resolve.
What are, in general, the recommended settings when recording content like this? I also did tests with the color format to RGB but that led to light grey colors being shown as white in the resulting video. I changed to I444 which works great but I see no difference between YUV color space on 709 vs 601.
Question unrelated to OBS but in case anyone has done this: my current setup only is good enough for 30fps recording. Has anybody here experience with recording similar content and whether the step up to 60fps is "worth" it? I will have screencasts of my software, and I will also record myself talking to the camera at fullscreen, and will cut back and forth between the software and myself.
The final result will look hopefully at least remotely like this:
https://wistia.com/library/explainer-videos
Thank you so much for any help!
P.S. These are the supported codecs by Resolve, this is a closed book to me ...
http://documents.blackmagicdesign.c...DaVinci_Resolve_12.5_Supported_Codec_List.pdf
I am trying to record my web application in order to make a nice demo video for my website. The resolution is 1920x1080, and 30fps. I tried different software (Camtasia, Movavi, OBS) and the best result by far was OBS with the output set to "Simple" and "Lossless" (results in AVI file). However, unfortunately these files cannot be read by DaVinci Resolve which was recommended to me as a good free cutting software.
Does somebody here have experience with what the best workflow would be? I am just recording very short videos (a few minutes long), so file size is not a problem and I would have no problem with using a converter or anything like that. I am new to the whole video production topic, so any help would be highly appreciated. What settings in OBS work with DaVinci Resolve? Or should I use something else instead of Resolve?
I did some tests and Resolve can read MP4 files with lower quality, but since I am recording my website with buttons that have text in it etc. you can instantly notice quality differences, just like in the game screenshots in this thread (the text looks sharper/"crisper" with the lossless setting). I know the quality will be lost at some point of uploading the video, but I am probably not going to use YouTube for hosting the videos, but a host with better quality instead (Vimeo, Wistia, or similar) and in general would prefer to have the best quality possible during the editing stage.
Any ideas? What I have tried to far: Simple / Lossless (OBS produces AVI file, best quality!!), and Advanced with several lossless settings (MP4/MOV file, very good quality). None of these files can be read by DaVinci Resolve.
What are, in general, the recommended settings when recording content like this? I also did tests with the color format to RGB but that led to light grey colors being shown as white in the resulting video. I changed to I444 which works great but I see no difference between YUV color space on 709 vs 601.
Question unrelated to OBS but in case anyone has done this: my current setup only is good enough for 30fps recording. Has anybody here experience with recording similar content and whether the step up to 60fps is "worth" it? I will have screencasts of my software, and I will also record myself talking to the camera at fullscreen, and will cut back and forth between the software and myself.
The final result will look hopefully at least remotely like this:
https://wistia.com/library/explainer-videos
Thank you so much for any help!
P.S. These are the supported codecs by Resolve, this is a closed book to me ...
http://documents.blackmagicdesign.c...DaVinci_Resolve_12.5_Supported_Codec_List.pdf
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