Question / Help Video grain issue

[UltraMadBoomer]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me why my videos are grainy when recorded in 1080p 60fps, at a bitrate of 60000 on CBR. This minor issue is something of which I have been researching for several months to no avail. I apologize if I am lacking proper forum structure, or, if I have posted this in the wrong thread, however, I am completely lost.

Here is my log

If you need additional information, just let me know and I will provide it.

Thank you all,
UltraMadBoomer

 

[Narcogen]

There's no recording attempt in the log, so it's hard to tell.

In general, though, I'd say if you're doing local recordings, don't use CBR, use CRF.

Do a test in simple mode and choose "indistinguishable quality" and see how that goes.

 

[UltraMadBoomer]

There's no recording attempt in the log, so it's hard to tell.

In general, though, I'd say if you're doing local recordings, don't use CBR, use CRF.

Do a test in simple mode and choose "indistinguishable quality" and see how that goes.

Please excuse my ignorance, but, where do I find CRF?

As for simple mode, I tested it and it seems to be better (difficult to spot graininess)
Should I stick with 'indistinguishable quality' or should I attempt using CRF?

EDIT: I realized that CRF is only for the x264 encoder. The issue is that I am using my GPU's encoder [H264/AVC Encoder (AMD Advanced Media Framework)]. Should I resort to using x264?

 

[koala]

With the AMD AMF encoder, you will always get a tiny bit of grain, even with settings that should produce the highest possible quality.

Unfortunately, this hardware encoder cannot do perfect recordings even if given plenty bandwidth/file size. The other hardware encoders (Nvidia's nvenc and Intel's Quicksync) and of course the software x264 encoder are able to do this.