Question / Help What is the best settings for sharpener and higher picture quality?

[Abdulrahman Alamoudi]

Hi all

I have been testing OBS for last days and I believe it’s the best among the open sources recorders, so I am thankful for its developers.

The thing I faced that whatever setting I try to make the recording picture sharpener and higher quality, simply, it does not do well.

Here is my setting:

Here is a comparison between OBS pic and another software:

OBS sample:

another software sample:

I also wished that OBS has a mouse pointer option on its settings. However, I found a software called PenAttention will do the job.

Finally, just to let you know that my purpose of OBS is to record my screen for making tutorials.

Thanks for you all

 

[Harold]

Use simple output mode, recording profile of indistinguishable.

 

[Abdulrahman Alamoudi]

Thanks Harold for your fast replaying.

Those are the settings you mentioned:

OBS sample:

Another software:

** when I say another software, I mean all another software will do the same result, but particularly I mean software such as Bandicam or
Debut Video Capture. I believe OBS is more powerful than those software, but just it needs some tweaks.

Now, I will start testing FFmpeg and I am still waiting for further suggestions.

 

[Harold]

Try lossless recording quality then.

 

[Abdulrahman Alamoudi]

Here is a comparison:

OBS sample (Lossless):

another software:

The quality still low. I don't know wheather the problem is in OBS MP (itself), OBS MP (settings), My laptop, or Windows 10.

Thanks Harold. I still looking for further suggestions.

 

[Abdulrahman Alamoudi]

I also tried this suggestion, but stil does not do well.

http://www.helping-squad.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/obs-mp_output_recording_basic.png

 

[Harold]

That suggestion is basically identical settings to the indistinguishable recording profile

 

[Anatoliy]

I have Crystal clear text like you want in OBS-MP only on 1080p resolution. if I downscale it, it looks like in your example.

 

[vestiges]

with a Ryzen 5 1600 w/ 1060 6gb this is good settings for obs less cpu and it gives more to rendering
can see gameplay at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kqkhd8Epc

 

[BK-Morpheus]

The screenshot looks, like there was some bad scaling, although I see base and scale resolution are the same (1366x768).
Is the screenshot from the recording done on another computer with a different (maybe even higher) resolution?
In that case, the video player might scale the video up, which results in less sharpness.
Or is the recording edited in anyway (cut and rendered in an video editor maybe)?
Or the video player is handling the OBS recording in a strange way.

I did a short test with OBS and my Icons and fonts are looking perfect, when I record with my desktop resolution.

 

[Boom123]

I encounter the same problem as OP (with the text looking not so sharp) if my screen/desktop resolution is not the same as the Output (Scaled) Resolution in the OBS Video tab. If scaled resolution is 1366x768, make sure your desktop's resolution is set to that too while watching the recording. Posting my solution in case it helps other users.

 

[BornDownUnder]

What is your hardware configuration?

The best and most basic guide for quickly setting up OBS Studio is:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...lity-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/

Also mp4 file format is bad for recording. If OBS, your game or your PC crashes the entire recording will be unusable whilst other formats will record up to or very close to the point where the recording stopped abruptly.

- flv file format if you are looking to upload to YouTube/Other VoD providers you will not have to remux (Convert to another file format that YouTube supports) or just use a single audio track for simplicity.
- mkv file format will allow you to use multiple audio tracks in the recording, though you will have to remux to combine the audio tracks into a single one before uploading to YouTube/Other VoD providers.

For custom ffmpeg options, take a look at Beandog's x264 preset list:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120814041026/http://dev.gentoo.org/~beandog/x264_preset_reference.html
You will find a lot of the options are inter-twined, if you don't know what they do and a quick google search turns up nothing then the Doom9 forums are a great wealth of knowledge:
https://forum.doom9.org/