Question / Help OBS Settings, Can not get recording to look good I have tried literally a million videos. Please Help

Sp3cilaist

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I have a i7-8700k with a EVGA 1080 TI, 32 GB Memory and two SSD. I should have no issues with recording, the streaming is good, but trying to record clips is a pain. Anyone with any type of fix or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
 

koala

Active Member
What exactly do you mean with "...is a pain"? According to the log, the recording is flawless, no errors. No dropped frames, no overload, native resolution, 60 fps.
 

Sp3cilaist

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it just looks like shit when i repost it onto youtube its not 1080p it looks more like 720. Is there a way to show you a recording?
 

koala

Active Member
Is the quality of the recorded video bad, or is the recorded video good but the correspondig Youtube video is bad after you upload the recorded video? If the recorded video, played back in a media player on your PC, looks good, OBS did its job fine and you don't have a problem with OBS. If only the resulting Youtube video is bad, the problem lies within Youtube.

Keep in mind that Youtube...
  • recodes every upload. Not all resolutions are immediately available after you get the "your video has been processed successfully" notification. First are the lower resolutions, and sometimes you have to wait 1-2 hours for the HD versions become available.
  • recodes with some fixed settings and sometimes bad quality. You cannot do anything about this.
is my bitrate good?
Well, actually you set it wrongly. For recording, you don't choose CBR as rate control. Choose a quality-based rate control like CRF or CQP for NVENC. As CQP value, choose 15-23. 15 is higher quality but huge file size, 23 is lower quality but smaller file size. It's best suited especially if you intend to do video postprocessing with a video editor.
 
Well first of all, you're trying to record in CBR. That isn't always going to be the best for quality and space on your hard drive.
If you still want to use CBR, 10,000 is WAY too low of a bitrate to be recording 1080p60fps with NVENC. Use atleast 50,000.

But if you want good quality, use CQP (Constant Quality) compared to CBR (Constant Bitrate)
Then you just adjust the QP levels based on how big you want the files to be. 26 Being the smallest files but the least quality and 1 being best quality but biggest files.

Most people use a QP of 16.

EDIT: @koala we posted at same time yikes xc


EDIT #2: To go into what Koala said, youtube compresses the sh*t out of their videos. You're never going to get perfect quality on videos uploaded to YT.

(BTW, when you upload a vid to YT it quickly encodes it in a very fast but very inefficient encoder, and will later on re-encode it in the better, slower one. However, it prioritizes videos that will be popular and need to have the better quality one first. So, the bigger your channel, the better the quality on your videos. [FYI videos posted as unlisted or private get sent to the bottom of the queue so they almost never get re-encoded])
 

Sp3cilaist

New Member
Ok so im gonna try the CQP, but what about the preset, profile,and level-frames are at 4.el then? gpu is at 0-, and bframes are at -4
Preset-Bluray
Profile-High
level-Auto
 

Sp3cilaist

New Member
PS. The Stream is coming out good, Quality and performance is great and its only at 6000 CBR. I'm very new to OBS so if the info im saying sounds dumb, its because i know nothing.
 

koala

Active Member
As general rule of thumb: leave all settings at default. The defaults are a result of years of experience. They're good. Change a setting only, if you know what it will do. And if you change something and it doesn't work out, reset it to the original value before you try to change another setting.
The encoding settings that have major impact to quality and system load are: encoder, rate control, bitrate (with rate control CBR), quality (every other rate control). Every other setting is secondary, and because of that the simple output mode exists. It hides the complexity of settings you will never need to change anyway. Use simple output mode, if you are overwhelmed with settings.
 
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