Question / Help Opinions/Help With Recording/Streaming Settings

[4_Life_Rage]

I have recently Built my own computer with the best shit you can possibly put inside of a desktop computer, and I was wondering what's the best options for(Mainly CBR) Recording and Streaming Itself. I will give all of my computer specs and my internet speeds listed below.

•(Monitor)~Dell 27" WQHD 2560x1440 GSync Anti-glare Premium Gaming Monitor - NVIDIA G-SYNC for Sharp & Jitter-free Graphics, Fully-Adjustable, 144 Hz Refresh Rate
•(Processor)~ Intel Core i7-8700K Desktop Processor 6 Cores 4.7GHz Turbo Unlocked
•(Graphics Card)~EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB GDDR5, RGB LED
•(Ram Cards)~Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 C16 1.35V - black
•(Cpu Cooler)~be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 - CPU Cooler - 250W TDP
•(Motherboard)~ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING Edition
•(Power Supply)~EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2, 80+ PLATINUM 850W
•(Case)~NZXT H440 Razer Edition Mid Tower ComputerCase, Matte Black
•(SSD)~x2 Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III
•OS~ Windows 7 Home Premium

Here's my speedtest:


I just want to get your opinions because I am new to the Obs Streaming/Recording and would like to mainly focus on my recordings to be in the best possibly quality when I upload them onto youtube. I also use Sony Vegas 14.0 for video editing/rending. So i hope someone gets back to me asap about the recommended settings!

Hope to hear from you. And I would be so thankful if i can get some thoughts or opinions.

 

[koala]

Did you try the autoconfiguration wizard? It's available from the Tools menu. Use it, apply the proposed configuration, play with it, tune it, and find your final configuration from there.

A remark to your "mainly CBR" recording: if you intend to not directly upload your recorded footage but instead postprocess it in a video editor before upload, don't record with CBR but with a constant-quality-based encoder preset like CRF (for x264) or CQP (for nvenc). Use values between 20 and 15 for best quality, although this will produce huge files. If you use simple output mode with "indistinguishable quality, large file size", you get about the same. You will not detect any difference to the original with these settings. In your video editor, the footage is recoded anyway and can be saved in CBR mode suitable for Youtube.

 

[Boildown]

The only reason CBR is used for streaming video is because of limitations of the IP networking that the internet is based upon. Otherwise we'd all be using VBR all time time, its more efficient. So feel free to use VBR methods for local recording.

Its not possible to tell you the absolute best settings off the rip because there's too many variables and too many of them are unknowns. Use the guides and then refine the settings based on what you actually see in your recordings and the OBS log files. Your best settings will be discovered by yourself experimentally.