Need best advice for Boardgame OBS capture!

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Damn3d

New Member
Hello everyone!
With a friend, we are currently creating our Youtube channel for capturing boardgames! Obviously, we use OBS and we have the ambition to make the quality, as much as possible, from the launch!

We therefore use two Logitech Brio 4K cameras connected to OBS, a first films the table seen from above and the second is used to film the maps in zoom mode. For the moment, we switch from one to the other via a keyboard/mouse shortcut during recording.

Everything is coupled with a recording from a tripod camera to film us and the profile table, no connection to OBS so it doesn't matter!

We capture everything in 4k resolution, that is to say in 3840x2160p!

Regarding the PC:

Processor: i9 10900k
RAM: 32GB
CG: GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Regarding OBS:

Base Resolution/Output Resolution: 3840x2160p

Format: Fragmented .mp4
Encode: HEVC
Rate: CBR
Bitrate: 6000
Preset: P5 Slow
Tuning: High Quality
Profile: main
☐ Look-Ahead
☑ Psycho Visual Tuning
GPU: 0
Max B-frames : 2

Do you have some advice to have the best quality possible in that configuration ?
We never use OBS to capture program/game window! Only real camera :)

We are lucky to have a very good PC so we might as well make it cough a little! We don't master all that a lot, I read guides but the best advice remains the live user, I think :)

Huge thank you in advance, and don't hesitate if you want more info :)
 
dcmouser

dcmouser

Member
I don't have any general advice but I wish you the best of luck! Have fun and try to enjoy the learning process!
-jesse
 
koala

koala

Active Member
The general advice to all the "best settings for <whatever>" threads is Tools->Auto configuration wizard.
 
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Damn3d

New Member
koala said:
The general advice to all the "best settings for <whatever>" threads is Tools->Auto configuration wizard.
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Well, i have already try but it's really too simplistic, if it were even more advanced I wouldn't say but clearly, I think we can optimize better, in my humble opinion anyway!

Nevertheless, thanks for your feedback!
 
koala

koala

Active Member
What do you expect beyond best practice? The wizard is asking for a usage scenario, checking your system for performance and available hardware encoders, and applies best practice. Since you initially chose to start with 4k resolution with bitrate 6000 and hevc codec for recording, I conclude you're starting as beginners in video recording and processing.

In this case, applying best practice is really the best you can do to get a reasonably good video right from the start. Do best practice until you advanced in knowledge and know better to judge if you could benefit from overriding best practice settings and apply fine tuning. But before you understand what to fine tune, collect knowledge by doing actual recordings and uploads to Youtube and see how small configuration changes will change your product.

It's impossible in my opinion to start with a perfectly optimized video product as hobby project when you start fresh. 2 Cameras to handle, lighting, directing, audio recording. Then cutting, mixing, creating some kind of branding, uploading, checking with a variety of the Youtube players fullscreen, windowed, on tablet, on smartphone, on small laptop monitors, on 24" monitors, on 32" monitors... You just cannot do it right, right from the start. If you will look back from one year in the future, you will say: "boy, were those starting videos bad, but we got better, and we love all of our videos".

If you're afraid to publish bad videos, publish your first videos in a different channel.
 
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