Question / Help OBS Studio w/ Elgato HD60 Pro - quality only degrades when moving in streams/recorded videos

[blinkytracer]

Hi! I recently bought an Elgato HD60 Pro and messed around with settings after researching. The quality for streaming sufficed enough for me but not anymore. I realized the quality downgrades a lot (pixelation) when I move characters around (or when there's a lot going) and as well as low frame rate for a few seconds from time to time. Recorded gameplay looks the same as streaming which is concerning. I also should state that when using the Elgato program - the streaming quality was a lot worse than OBS but recorded gameplay was crisp. I would like for OBS to have crisp, 60 FPS quality for both streaming/recording.

Here is a preview of how streaming looks like in general: https://clips.twitch.tv/AltruisticRamshackleHedgehogDogFace
It looks great in one moment but the next the quality doesn't make me satisfied enough. There is also a moment of frame drop/lag right at the beginning.

Here's my log: (last log) https://hastebin.com/movuhejusi
(current) https://hastebin.com/aporanosah

Here are my specs:

Thank you, I hope I can get help in setting up OBS better.

 

[Osiris]

You need to post a log that contains a streaming session.

 

[blinkytracer]

You need to post a log that contains a streaming session.

I updated the thread. It's the current log file. There is nothing else?

 

[blinkytracer]

You need to post a log that contains a streaming session.

Try now? I uploaded it as I was streaming for a second.

 

[Harold]

You need to provide a log with a COMPLETE streaming session, and you also need to update to current.

 

[blinkytracer]

You need to provide a log with a COMPLETE streaming session, and you also need to update to current.

I posted the last updated log and current from when I just streamed. Is that good?

 

[Osiris]

6000 kbps is not enough for a 1080p@60fps stream, you will always see pixelation, especially when there is a lot of movement going on.

 

[blinkytracer]

6000 kbps is not enough for a 1080p@60fps stream, you will always see pixelation, especially when there is a lot of movement going on.

What would be best then? I tried 3000 and that was worse. I've tried 4000 and 8000 got even worse. 6000 was the best out of all of them. But I'll consider trying anything else.

 

[Harold]

Turn down your resolution.

 

[blinkytracer]

Turn down your resolution.

Alright, I'm gonna try 1280x720 60fps with 8k bitrate. I'll stream and let you know about the quality.

 

[blinkytracer]

Turn down your resolution.

Tried it with a lower quality, scaled to 1280x720 with that bitrate. It still downgrades in quality when in action.

 

[blinkytracer]

Turn down your resolution.

https://hastebin.com/citevuwinu

Just tried 1080p 30fps with 8000 bitrate and quality looks a ton better. ^ that's the last uploaded log file from the stream test. I don't really like the framerate but I'm gonna keep working around it.

 

[Osiris]

What would be best then? I tried 3000 and that was worse. I've tried 4000 and 8000 got even worse. 6000 was the best out of all of them. But I'll consider trying anything else.

That is impossible, the higher the bitrate, the better the quality gets.

 

[blinkytracer]

That is impossible, the higher the bitrate, the better the quality gets.

Well, I'm trying 8000 bitrate with 1280x720p 60fps. :)