I'm using OBS Studio to stream (low bitrate) to Twitch and also make a separate, higher-quality recording for YouTube. So far, I'm quite happy with the settings I've been able to feel out (I've learned a lot!), but I still want what I can't have: a higher-quality recording for YouTube that uses less of my CPU (leaving more for my game and my stream encoder).
[EDIT: For instance, even if I could get my existing perceived 'video quality' at a lower CPU cost but higher file size, that'd be great.]
Is there some setting that I can use that would, I don't know, slim down the recording process at the cost of larger (less compressed?) video files? I have plenty of storage on the separate, solid-state drive that I'm recording to, and I don't mind waiting for files to upload to YouTube.
Of course, there are a bunch of ways to increase the video quality of the output file, but the quality is better because h.264 is making more intelligent computations (eating up more CPU). Is there some way to just... spit out the uncompressed video -- and, even if I could, would the file be so huge that writing to the drive would use up just as much or more CPU cycles, anyway?
Thanks for your help! I'm still learning all of this, but it's very interesting.
[EDIT: For instance, even if I could get my existing perceived 'video quality' at a lower CPU cost but higher file size, that'd be great.]
Is there some setting that I can use that would, I don't know, slim down the recording process at the cost of larger (less compressed?) video files? I have plenty of storage on the separate, solid-state drive that I'm recording to, and I don't mind waiting for files to upload to YouTube.
Of course, there are a bunch of ways to increase the video quality of the output file, but the quality is better because h.264 is making more intelligent computations (eating up more CPU). Is there some way to just... spit out the uncompressed video -- and, even if I could, would the file be so huge that writing to the drive would use up just as much or more CPU cycles, anyway?
Thanks for your help! I'm still learning all of this, but it's very interesting.