Question / Help Why does my text look bad?

[Savage Orc]

I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but I just downloaded OBS yesterday and tried it. I'm not at all familiar with any of this.

I am doing a monitor capture to file (not streaming) so I can record and edit my footage and load it to youtube when I'm finished. But the text of the software menus etc... that I am using looks blocky and unreadable. The text is white, the background behind the text is grey, but I get dark blocks in parts of the text as well.

My monitor resolution is 1920X1080 and I have my video setting in OBS 1920X1080 and downscaling to none (1920X1080)


https://gist.github.com/ad45b09532ddcfce19e0

 

[Xphome]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

 

[Savage Orc]

Thank you for the link. I tried those settings and still the text looks bad. I wish I could post a picture of what I'm talking about. But I've had no luck. I just get an X when I try the image button above. Maybe I will try the link

http://postimg.org/image/6euh7bp33/

 

[Xphome]

Please post a new log

 

[Savage Orc]

Please post a new log

https://gist.github.com/d70fa8b45ebdf6409812

I think this was the log from after I changed the settings. I hope I got it right

 

[Xphome]

https://gist.github.com/d70fa8b45ebdf6409812

I think this was the log from after I changed the settings. I hope I got it right

Looks like you got the settings right, does it still look like your image above if you play the video in VLC?

 

[Savage Orc]

I will check. Had to go to work.

 

[Savage Orc]

Looks like you got the settings right, does it still look like your image above if you play the video in VLC?

https://gist.github.com/0f8ac4b3685129f28140

above is a new log file when I just recorded another sample clip.

Below is a screen capture of the video playback in Microsoft Movie Maker in full screen. Not sure what you mean by "play the video in VLC" I'm totally new to video capture/editing etc...

http://postimg.org/image/sh8ngtqdb/

 

[FerretBomb]

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
It's a video player that's actually decent, unlike Windows Media Player.

Windows Movie Maker may suffer from the same issues WMP does. A real NLE suite would do much better... even the rudimentary one in Blender, or a freemium like Hitfilm or Lightworks.

 

[Savage Orc]

so if I get this VLC and play back my video the text might not look bad like it does in movie maker? I just assumed all playback software would be the same no matter what kind it is as long as it supported the file format.

If I edit it in movie maker and upload to YouTube will it look like it does in VLC, if that looks better? That's the endgame here, posting it on YouTube, so If it looks like crap in movie maker but fine on YouTube then I can live with it.

I will have to download VLC and give it a try, but it's too late tonight and probably won't get back to it until Monday.

Thanks to both of you for your help.

Any other advice is welcome.

 

[FerretBomb]

No idea. You could always grab VLC, watch the source video in VLC, then edit and export in WMM and watch the output from that in VLC to check.

That said, just not using WMM would be a very good idea. Blender is free, and its editor is better (and the results look less like a cheesy corporate slideshow).

 

[Savage Orc]

Downloaded VLC and the video played fine. No funky text. Guess it was just how Movie Maker and Media Player handled the .flv format, maybe?

Since I have no experience editing video via software (years ago I edited actual 16mm film on a Steenbeck flatbed, LOL) I may give Blender a try. Wonder if I would have the same playback text issue with Blender?

Thank you all for your help.