Question / Help Low Video Quality

Juancavel

New Member
Hello, I just want to use OBS to record my desktop and browser for tutorials. I noticed that the recordings are not in a good quality as you can see in the following screenshot

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Here are my video & output settings:
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I hope someone could help me out, thank you in advance!
 

carlmmii

Active Member
You're recording using CBR, which is a constant bitrate... and you're using a very low bitrate for recording.

Your best bet would be changing your Rate Control to CRF, and setting a quality of something around 20-25. This mode attempts to maintain a constant quality across the recording. The lower the value, the higher the quality... and vice versa.
 

Juancavel

New Member
I also tried various other screen recording tools and I have always the same problem. I set everything to the highest quality but after the video is "exported" the quality is not the same. Can it be related to my COU or graphics card?

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad with an i7 7500U CPU 2.70GHz and a AMD Radeon R5 M430 and Intel HD Graphics 620.

I don't want to record games, I only want to record my browser... shouldn't require the best set up right?
 

koala

Active Member
This is no encoder quality issue, it's some kind of scaling or monitor resolution related issue. You don't have display scaling 100%, you have 125% as far as I see from the screenshots. Quicksync recording mostly still images like browsers without animated stuff can be crisp and crystal clear.
Please post a logfile with a recording session, so we can see the actual settings. Additionally, a full screenshot of your monitor in its native resolution with the stuff visible you want to capture would help as well. Create and upload a screenshot with png format, not jpg, because jpg would distort the picture info that is important in this case. Simply press the PRINT key to capture to the clipboard and press CTRL-V here in the forum message editor should work best without intermediate file.
 

Juancavel

New Member
This is no encoder quality issue, it's some kind of scaling or monitor resolution related issue. You don't have display scaling 100%, you have 125% as far as I see from the screenshots. Quicksync recording mostly still images like browsers without animated stuff can be crisp and crystal clear.
Please post a logfile with a recording session, so we can see the actual settings. Additionally, a full screenshot of your monitor in its native resolution with the stuff visible you want to capture would help as well. Create and upload a screenshot with png format, not jpg, because jpg would distort the picture info that is important in this case. Simply press the PRINT key to capture to the clipboard and press CTRL-V here in the forum message editor should work best without intermediate file.


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CURRENT LOGFILE: https://obsproject.com/logs/abdlB9ueK4Eu7UuG

LINK TO RECORDING: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rcBKbIvp9w5_wgtEQ48RuM4GGcOmvyNC/view?usp=sharing

Thank you a lot for taking the time to help me out! :)
 

koala

Active Member
Looks all good for me. The attached video was good quality. Not the blurred stuff from your first 2 screenshots. Where did you take these?
How did you check the recorded video? Which player? Did you upload to Youtube and checked the quality there? Keep in mind that Youtube recodes every uploaded video and it takes time until the native resolution is available. The first resolutions immediately after upload are very low and appear blurred and pixelated. You need to wait until Youtube offers the uploaded video in all resolutions.
 

Juancavel

New Member
Looks all good for me. The attached video was good quality. Not the blurred stuff from your first 2 screenshots. Where did you take these?
How did you check the recorded video? Which player? Did you upload to Youtube and checked the quality there? Keep in mind that Youtube recodes every uploaded video and it takes time until the native resolution is available. The first resolutions immediately after upload are very low and appear blurred and pixelated. You need to wait until Youtube offers the uploaded video in all resolutions.

To me the recording I uploaded to google drive is still blurred... Is there no way to make it better?
The 2 Screenshots from before were taken right from the exported mp4 file from obs. I didn't upload the video. I just played it with a player and made a screenshot.
 

koala

Active Member
Must be your video player. This is a comparison of your screenshot above (left) and a screenshot of my media player showing your video you uploaded to Google drive (right). They are looking the same.
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Try VLC as media player or Media Player Classic.
And in OBS, set Settings->Advanced->Color Range to Partial instead of Full.
 

FIXER

New Member
GO to Settings -> Video -> Can base calvas resuloution to your computer resuloution -> and Output scaled resuloution to your computer resuloution and restart OBS Studio and your Done! i also have the issue and this fixed it!
 

bautbaut

New Member
Today it was first time i used OBS and i have same issue. As "@FIXER "indicated I applied the resolution of my screen (1920x1080) to the 2 settings of Video topic: "Base (Canvas) Resolution" and "Output (Scaled Resolution)" and it was running well . Then it was important than the two params have the same resolution of my screen in my case.

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Superduashwin

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To me the recording I uploaded to google drive is still blurred... Is there no way to make it better?
The 2 Screenshots from before were taken right from the exported mp4 file from obs. I didn't upload the video. I just played it with a player and made a screenshot.
Hi,
The video is clear only.. make sure u watch the video in 1080p quality.. Because it automatically sets its quality to 480p.. Pls Try it and reply... I also got less quality while recording in obs studio... U can use any other recorder (Powder recorder) and check if this problem persits.. ^_^

Thank You
 

Apple_2

New Member
GO to Settings -> Video -> Can base calvas resuloution to your computer resuloution -> and Output scaled resuloution to your computer resuloution and restart OBS Studio and your Done! i also have the issue and this fixed it!
I spent almost an hour trying to fix this issue by watching various youtube videos. No one mentioned this. Fixed my issue, thank you!
 

OblongEggplant

New Member
Must be your video player. This is a comparison of your screenshot above (left) and a screenshot of my media player showing your video you uploaded to Google drive (right). They are looking the same.
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Try VLC as media player or Media Player Classic.
And in OBS, set Settings->Advanced->Color Range to Partial instead of Full.
It is unlikely that you will read this reply. However in the off chance you do, just know, I spent so much time on my editing pc messing with presets from my previous setup, trying to optimize because it looked like my footage was underwater. *checks default player* "Huh guess windows media player is default on this device" *launches in vlc* " Holy sh--". Thanks, you're a real one.
 

AaronD

Active Member
It is unlikely that you will read this reply. However in the off chance you do, just know, I spent so much time on my editing pc messing with presets from my previous setup, trying to optimize because it looked like my footage was underwater. *checks default player* "Huh guess windows media player is default on this device" *launches in vlc* " Holy sh--". Thanks, you're a real one.
WMP didn't used to be that bad. I wonder what happened. Oh well, more publicity for the free cross-platform thing. :-)
 
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