Question / Help Recording at 1080p at 60fps

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R4NKEDNUB

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These are my computer specs (Falcon Northwest Tiki):
GTX 1080
Intel Core i7-6700k 4.2gHz
1TB SSD
4K monitor 60Hz refresh rate

I use OBS studio to record fps gaming videos for YouTube. What settings do I need to set for recording so that I can get extremely smooth frames and really good quality? I run my games at 2560 x 1440 at Ultra for Rainbow Six Siege and maxed out on everything for Black Ops III. My settings for OBS is downscaled to 1980 x 1080 at 60fps, and output to MP4 indistinguishable quality. I've tried lossless quality and the quality is amazing but I feel like the frame rate isn't as smooth as it can be. I have a GTX 1080, and I'm pretty sure that I can run games well and record them at a really high quality.

A YouTuber named jackfrags even posted a tutorial and I adjusted all my settings (especially nitrate). My current bittate is 70000. Can I record at higher than 60 fps because I feel like my videos aren't always that smooth and the quality can't be as good as they can be. I choose NVIDIA Gnec or something instead of x264 or the CPU.

I would appreciate any help! I've bought such an expensive gaming PC and I really want to record top notch videos.

Thanks!
 
Harold

Harold

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don't output to mp4, it's about as reliable as a house of cards in a Richter 9 quake
and use software low cpu use or one of the hardware encoders with indistinguishable recording quality.
 
Harold

Harold

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No, you should use flv and then remux to mp4 afterwards if your editing software requires it.
If you're just uploading to youtube straight without editing, you don't need to remux.
 
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R4NKEDNUB

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What are the benefits of flv? I genuinely hope that this fixes my problem because a GTX 1080 should definitely be able to record and game both at high quality if it can run Oculus.
 
Harold

Harold

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flv and mkv are bordering on impossible to ruin by way of a non-graceful shutdown of the recording process.
mp4, if ANYTHING prevents the file from finalizing properly, the file is ruined.
 
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R4NKEDNUB

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Harold, you are a good sir. Any suggestions regarding the bit rate and advanced recording settings and using CQR or whatever it's called? Apparently jackfrags uses that and sets it at 12 or 18.
 
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Trichael Man

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Harold said:
No, you should use flv and then remux to mp4 afterwards if your editing software requires it.
If you're just uploading to youtube straight without editing, you don't need to remux.
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Would recording at FLV and then remuxing it to mp4 still allow me to utilize multiple audio tracks?
 
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Trichael Man

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Just to clarify:

If I needed multiple audio tracks:
  1. Record VoD in MKV
  2. Remux to MP4
  3. Edit my multiple audio tracks
If I did not need multiple audio tracks:
  1. Record VoD in FLV
  2. Remux to MP4
Did I get these sequences correct?
 
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R4NKEDNUB

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DamageInc

DamageInc

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Dude, im not seeing the settings for the encoder (rather important) in your log. it stops just before you get to the good bit!

I record locally at 1440p 60fps.

i have figured out settings (through long and boring testing over and over and over) for:
NVENC using CQP rate control
x264 using CRF rate control.

Happy to share my findings.

An interesting observation for me though is that i actually get worse results, and poorer quality output by using OBS to scale from 1440p to 1080p than just sucking it up and recording native. Perhaps its because there is an overhead associated with the Lanczoz downscale filter.
 
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