Question / Help Quality Issue... (color not sharpned)

WoodiePlays

WoodiePlays

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Hello everyone, i seem to have issues with OBS Quality.
So recently i was trying to record Minecraft.. (Don't talk Sh*t About me playing this game lol)
I have the exact same settings on OBS studio with a friend. her video quality are amazing, but mine seems to be a bit weird and blurry the colors are sharpned at all.. the whole thing just looks terrible.

The thing is she have a 970 Graphics card and i have a 1060 graphics card which means i should have better quality than her.. but that don't seem to be the thing. can anyone help me? :(

Video of my settings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCJ-1lUkJKc&t=82s

Example of the quality of my videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvsU190Kdo4&feature=em-upload_owner

Quality of my friend's video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpEDx7nSknQ&lc=z13bhnjwmlydefamd223ylzzkojtvxlax04.1497742217101372
 
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SumDim

Member
Yeah, I get this also. Things tend to look washed out.

Go to your Advanced category and fiddle with the Video settings to see if that helps:
- Color Format
- YUV Color Space
- YUV Color Range

One thing that I did was fuss with the settings of my video capture device. It helped a little.

My best guess is that there is some incompatibility in color spaces from the source to OBS to the streaming service.
 
WoodiePlays

WoodiePlays

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I messed around with
- Color Format
- YUV Color Space
- YUV Color Range
it seems to get better, but just.. not as good as my friend with a GTX 970 card...
I still think the quality can still get better but i just don't know how
Since i have a Geforce GTX 1060 Graphics card...
 
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SumDim

Member
So I went to Nvidia Control panel. I changed the color settings for one of my monitors in a multi monitor setup. In particular, a digital vibrance setting that I cranked down to 0%. The result of that made the screen change to a grayish tone. Wonderful.

However, when I look at the OBS preview window for that screen, the result is still with full color. Same goes when I record that screen. To make sure it wasn't this particular setting only, I also tested this changing the contrast, brightness, gamma other properties. I even closed down OBS Studio and opened it again. OBS still only showed me the full color screen without the changes.

I know this principle works with my TV and OBS. If I fudge some properties, say the saturation value on my TV, this is reflected back in my OBS streams and recordings.

Its hard to tell if these property setting changes are actual commands sent to a smart TV or that the GPU buffers are transformed into the property settings. If the latter, why isn't OBS Studio picking up the post processing of the GPU frame buffer? Or is it hooked in too early in the processing pipeline?

If we can get this to work, we can tweak properties through the Nvidia Control panel to effect what it looks like in our streams and recordings.
 
WoodiePlays

WoodiePlays

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Suslik V said:
YUVColor - 709/Full Recording Performance Impact? Actually, you don't need Color Range: Full. Partial - is well enough in OBS Studio. At least, range will be converted by YouTube to partial. But it is not the case. The case is - you are moving FASTER, slow down a bit... (almost similar to: Bad YouTube quality with nearly lossless OBS recordings)

Just in case, OBS Studio: Color Space, Color Format, Color Range settings Guide. Test charts.
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So.. What should i change :P the quality have gone 2% better than the video i showned you i messed with some quality settings on obs.
 
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SumDim

Member
We've tried all those YUV parameters and they don't do anything.

The only thing that makes sense to me is to make color changes using Nvidia control panel to talk directly to the card.

For example, change the brightness or contrast settings. While I can do that to affect the screen, OBS for some reasons is not capturing those changes at all and reflecting that in the recordings.

One of the settings, Digital Vibrancy solves our washed out look problem. But I just cant get OBS to get it to take.

I thought I had it fixed, but realized I was watching the video on the same monitor with the color change. If you watch it on another monitor you will see it didn't take.
 
WoodiePlays

WoodiePlays

New Member
SumDim said:
We've tried all those YUV parameters and they don't do anything.

The only thing that makes sense to me is to make color changes using Nvidia control panel to talk directly to the card.

For example, change the brightness or contrast settings. While I can do that to affect the screen, OBS for some reasons is not capturing those changes at all and reflecting that in the recordings.

One of the settings, Digital Vibrancy solves our washed out look problem. But I just cant get OBS to get it to take.

I thought I had it fixed, but realized I was watching the video on the same monitor with the color change. If you watch it on another monitor you will see it didn't take.
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;(
is there like an OBS help center or live chat thing?
 
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SumDim

Member
Ok, here's how to fix it.

Right click on the scene you are using to capture/stream.
Add Effect Filter, Color Correction
Change the Saturation setting by increasing it. That will get rid of the washed out look.
 
WoodiePlays

WoodiePlays

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hey! SumDim I fixed it in the community chat with some amazing people! thanks for helping tho SumDim You are also really helpful and kind <3
 
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NitroNerd

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WoodiePlays said:
hey! SumDim I fixed it in the community chat with some amazing people! thanks for helping tho SumDim You are also really helpful and kind <3
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Ik this is kinda late but please could you tell me how you fixed it? It would be really helpful and i would really appreciate it.
 
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