Video Recordings coming out blurry

[JetnreadyBoogy]

Heya folks, so I have been reacking my head for the past 3 days wondering why my videos when recordings with OBS keep coming out blurry
However I have a plugin that I use to capture video separately when Im doing other activities, but those videos come out absolutely clean.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled
Changed various settings
and have overall had the biggest headache when it comes to whatever the hell is happening

I attached a log to this post so anyone who comes along this can be able to help in any way they can.

 

[rockbottom]

Your Color Range is set @ Full, should be Partial. Your recordings are over-saturated.

HAGS should be disabled.

Try recording without B Frames, they're the lowest quality frame type. Uncheck Lookahead & Visual Tuning.

P5 is the recommended Preset, if you get any encoding lag with P7, use it instead.

 

[rockbottom]

Check your Scenes too, there's at least 1 of them that has multi game/window captures. Only 1 per Scene to avoid capture interference.

 

[rockbottom]

Use CQP rate control instead of CBR. The encoder will have the ability to maintain quality instead of maintaining a set bit-rate. Adjust the CQ Level as needed.

 

[JetnreadyBoogy]

Unfournately after trying all of these, it is still... Blurry
Would a test video be able to help see what the problem woudl be at all?

 

[rockbottom]

I need to see a new log.

 

[JetnreadyBoogy]

Here ya go ^^

 

[rockbottom]

That log is messy, you finally got fairly close to the correct settings at the very end of it. Looks like that Scene still needs attention.

Re-start OBS. Create a new Profile with 1 Scene/Source & run a test recording. Close/re-open OBS & then upload the log. (Previous)

 

[rockbottom]

Have you tried recording 2160p? The downscaling alone could be playing a part here, especially if you're comparing them side by side..

 

[JetnreadyBoogy]

Well- you might be on to something with the downscaling, as I just did my native and a 2160 videoand they came out alot better looking
I guess I might have found my answer
How to improve it from here is beyond me

 

[JetnreadyBoogy]

As for what that scene is
Its for all my audio

 

[rockbottom]

Yeah, I record the base resolution I'm running OBS & only downscale outgoing streams.

 

[qhobbes]

When you are viewing these recordings, at they at 1920x1080 (taking up 1/4 of your screen) or are you viewing them full-screen, up-scaled to 3840x2160?

 

[JetnreadyBoogy]

Yeah- that would be the case
Wow do I feel dumb

 

[qhobbes]

It's OK. I had to think outside of the rectangle on this one.

Kinda related, next version of OBS has GPU rescaling options for streaming and recording outputs. See https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/30.1.0-rc1 . I haven't tried it at all but may provide better downscale than Lanczos.

 

[rockbottom]

It won't make a difference. It only changes where the scaling is done. GPU vs CPU. It's already done on the GPU in the Video settings.

Best to avoid scaling altogether, especially if quality matters.

 

[JetnreadyBoogy]

You know, one question I have at this point is why Source Record ( A Plugin that I use for recording footage separately from stuff like streams), records at a pretty good quality without causing an encoder overload?