Why your OBS Recordings look so BAD

Why your OBS Recordings look so BAD.
A lot of people say their OBS recording look bad. Today I walk through the setting to help you fix your recording quality in OBS.
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[@blakepace]

Michael, once again I have to thank you a lot for your detailed-yet-easy-to-understand tutorials. Among other things, I especially like the fact you try to emphasize my favorite flavor, FREE. Beyond that, I love how you deep dive without trying to sound like a snooty professor geek. Yer a real guy! Thank you, again!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Thanks. Glad to help

[@CoiledDracca]

I wish I could just download everything on your channel directly into my brain. I very much enjoy your content! You explain things better than most people I have tried to learn from. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@diaryofawimpycam]

Super simple solution: Open your OBS settings, go to output, select output mode and click 'advanced', in the preset drop down, select 'Near lossless recording'. If you're laggy or something, it most likely has to do with your computer. This worked best for me and took a few seconds rather than watching an 11 minute long video.

[@Gunter_Severloh_RDR2]

For the laymen whom dont have any idea what "Near lossless recording" is What is lossless in OBS? “Lossless” or “Uncompressed” video footage refers to saving as much quality from the source as possible, typically at the cost of storage space. This is usually done by recording with an encoder or codec that minimizes the compression it does before saving to a file.

[@ImOlegnaOrg]

Exactly what I needed to know, thank you. I have storage to spare so just want to maximize quality

[@redelement5634]

When I went down to the preset tab on recording the only options I get are balanced and speed which one do I pick?

[@feszanicz]

Bs. Its not There...

[@diaryofawimpycam]

@@feszanicz Yeah because they moved it. Look harder before you call bullshit on me. It’s under simple mode now, not advanced. It isn’t that hard to figure out yourself.

[@JohnEnergy2012]

60-50000 = 4K and insane for 1080. Higher bitrate LOWERS the CPU/GPU usage as there is less to compress, hence less work. Jacking up the quality, makes the most difference in CPU/GPU usage...

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Thanks for the feedback

[@RedPilledGamerTV]

What should we set it at instead then?

[@heimbad]

JohnEnergy2012 is right: lowering the Recording bitrate will actually *increase* the CPU/GPU usage; on the other hand, what it will reduce is the file size and, thus, hard drive usage. If your CPU/GPU usage is too high at a lower bitrate, going with a 60k bitrate will help. If your CPU/GPU has no problems with a 30k bitrate, then you can use that and enjoy smaller video files without really sacrificing quality (for HD anyway). Personally, I don't mind larger file sizes and prefer 60k anyway.

[@rch3290]

@@heimbad i have hp 17 i didnt upgrade and its slow what should i put the birate at

[@heimbad]

@@rch3290 I'm sorry I wish I could tell you, but I can't know just like that without trying it out.. ;) You should try with 60k and if it works well, trying lowering it at 45k, then 30k. If it's slow at 60k, then the problem is likely somewhere else, or you have too high expectations for your laptop. ;-) Make sure to use the AMD encoder (not CPU). For some reason HP doesn't want to specify which AMD Radeon card is included in the laptop, which to me sounds like it's quite low end, so you might even not be able to properly record using OBS on that laptop. I know I gave up trying to record video from my Canon camera through OBS on my Microsoft Surface Pro 6, as it was just not powerful enough, despite being among the higher end of the Pro 6 series. I now record using my smartphone instead (without going through the Surface Pro) and I'm getting much, much better results! Hope this helped a little -- if you need more help, maybe I can help a little more, but I would need more info from you.. :) Cheers!

[@MCP12121]

Thank you for everything you do for the community Mike!

[@Meck90]

Dear Michael! Regarding the recording file type you can use MKV that is a recoverable file and ObS it self has a converter to MP4 going to file and remux! Cheers and keep up the awesome work!

[@Meck90]

@@Braydaft once they’re converted to MP4 they have all the audio files separated and OBS has that converter to MP4 built in. Cheers

[@Meck90]

@@Braydaft yup, I’ve been doing that for the last year with no issues at all and i agree the multiple audio tracks are the best thing around regarding editing! Cheers men

[@TV4ELP]

@@Braydaft i used OBS with MKV recordings and multiple audio tracks. Works perfectly fine in something like Davincy resolve. Displays all the video tracks. But you can easily remux it to to an mp4 with obs directly, while keeping the multitrack

[@Accurize2]

@@Braydaft I had an issue with FLV not having multiple tracks even when converted to MP4. Perhaps that was what you were thinking of?

[@TheSeeking2know]

I use MKV and remixing as well. A great case of having your cake and eating it.

[@legen_dary42]

Thanks for trying. I nerfed everything as much as possible, deleted every source except my webcam and mic, and still get absolutely terrible unusable recordings. I have an RTX 3060, 32GB Ram and a Ryzen 5 3600. When I had a 980ti and half the RAM, it worked flawlessly. I haven't been able to stream or upload recordings in over a month now and it sucks.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

So something is wrong…. Maybe a virus running in the background. Submit your log to the obs forums and figure it out.

[@legen_dary42]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr Fixed! I just got rid of Windoze and used Garuda Arch Linux instead. Smooth as 🧈

[@Benouzu]

yo tysm bro it helped me a lot keep it up :)

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[@bobcantputt]

Hi Michael. Great, detailed video. I've been experimenting because my movie recordings look a bit choppy. Like a slight studder. It only happens when recording. CPU use averages 28% and my only dropped frames were a few due to lag from my satellite inet. Seemed a bit better when I changed from 5000 to 3000 bitrate. Changing from veryfast to medium didn't seem to affect much. Any guess as to which setting would affect it the most?

[@dannypoo3281]

Hey Michael, if you have an AMD or Nvidia card, do you have a Variable Refresh Rate enabled? That caused weird stutters for me until I disabled it.

[@iixxion]

just gonna summarize your entire video by only including the one item that contributes to 90% of your problem: go buy an nvidia card (1660 or better) and use NVENC. The End.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

It makes life easier for sure. And I have a much older card. A 970.

[@urstrulyjosiah]

thank you so much this helped me and my brother out so much thx.😃😃😃😃

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Glad I could help!

[@realmazurex]

hello, i followed your steps and now when i finish recording, my recording doesn't save!

[@phoenixjedi9889]

okay so: iv matched most of your settings plus or minus very unimortant ones. in my stats window it looks almost identical. 60555kb/s, low cpu usage, ect. however when i look at the recording i cant even make out the words on my desktop its so blurry and looks deep fried almost

[@yeezuthespirit]

Excuse me, Can I ask why the recording quality of my videos uploaded to KZbin are much worse than the original file? I set bitrate to 60000 Kbps too. How can I fix it? (Sorry for the bad English...)

[@Random_Osc]

I’m crying a lot I’ve spent almost 2 weeks trying to fix my obs nothing will work not even this I’ve tried everything even redownloading the app itself but its still bad quality.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

If that’s the case and all the settings are correct I’d say it’s the power of the machine you are trying to do it on that is the problem.

[@narutog98]

Were/are you using a gopro at all w/the webcam app? 😂

[@jimlastname]

Looks like Skipper from Gilligan's Island has technologies

[@CustomTaylor]

Do a video on how to live stream record guitar at best quality please ?

[@SilentFlame]

Very cool thanks for another amazing tutorial!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Glad to help

[@Ararad_Sarkissian]

Is it only me or this video is low quality even on 4K?

[@nFPS868]

Youre Videos are so amazing!

[@OriginallyGiGi]

OMG THIS DID WONDERS I CHANGED MY BITRATE FROM 3000 TO 60000 AND THE QAULITY LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Glad to help. Recording is a lot different than streaming. :-)

[@VRDynamite]

my MacBook pro M1 Max didn't have all the options your settings pannel showed. Latest version of OBS too

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Be sure to change it from simple to advanced at the top.

[@cold_dabs]

Keep it up Michael! Your clear and concise videos do wonders for the streaming community!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Glad to help

[@alexandriabrangwin]

After 20 years digital media experience.....8000-16000kbps...keyframe at 10 seconds....4 b-frames...psycho & look ahead on! Also If you don't have a famous KZbin channel, record at 1440...then it gets published as VP09 like if you right click your video and choose "stats for nerds"...1080 on a small channel gets AVC1.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Thanks for the feedback and information.

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

Ok i really know why i dod weitd settings there

[@lainwakura]

This made a MASSIVE difference. Everything I record looks great, now! Thank you so much!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Awesome! Glad to help.

[@SayehAvaPazouki]

Is there any way to change color profile something else instead of default ones like 709, 609, sRGB and yuv?! For example Log or even custom profiles?

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Not that I am aware of. You can however use luts in the filters section.

[@SayehAvaPazouki]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr many thanks for the answer, also I have a rtx3080 and an i9 11th so there is no problem about processing power, I just tried to find apple ProRes codec to buy as you said you bought it but cannot find it :( also Im not sure if my MB pro M1 have enough power to handle that specially for 4K videos! So is there any way to record ProRes in windows?

[@MrGrizzB]

@@SayehAvaPazouki download streamfx and prores will be an option in the recording tab of obs

[@WraithDesignz]

Profile set does make a difference is your going higher then 1080p. Main is for 1080, 720 and below, but once you get to 1440p or 4K, you will notice a difference, that is what HIGH is meant for :) As for Rate Control, you want to be careful on that setting as it can increase file size dramatically even if the video being recorded does not need a constant 60,000kb a second. VBR at 60,000kb is good as when it does not need the full 60,000kb a second, it will only drop to the point it needs, keeping the highest quality possible without increasing file size. At least, that is what I have noticed time and time again. The Psycho Visual Tuning helps with motion, but the real culprit when it comes to blocky artifacts and blurring during motion is the AVC codec of which x264 and H.264 cause as that is the codec that encodes when recording by default. This will not occur with H.265 or x265, and can be achieve if you get the StreamFX plugin as it will give you more options to record with. You seem to have that here already so :P. The reason is H.265 is way better at compression and encoding then H.264. It is also better at the file size, as many videos of the same quality can and may be lower then x264/H.264. There are videos on KZbin that will explain this better then me. :P Another good tip is that KZbin will encode your video into AVC format, regardless how you recorded your video, if you do not upload in the minimum of 1440p. So no need to use H.265 on 108op or lower, as KZbin will use the AVC codec on them instead of the VP9 codec you will see with any video 1440p and above. Just right click on a KZbin video, go to "Stats for Nerds" and it will show you in the small window that pops up over the video. Another awesome plugin you can get for pretty much all big video production programs out there is "Voukoder". It's completely free, and works with VEGAS PRO, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe After Effects and more. It alone, speeds up your rendering by 2 to 4 times! It's insane! :D It also allows you to render out again, using formats like ProRez, H.265/x265, BlackMagic, and many others and gives you a few menus to customize the render. It is even faster when you use GPU Acceleration to render, so imagine this. 4x faster with just GPU alone, then another 2 to 4x faster with Voukoder! That's almost 8x the speed of a normal CPU render! And the quality is amazing! I just made a video about this on my channel if you want to take a gander. Another good tip is that I myself, tend to give my videos some head room, and it seems your doing the same here. 60,000kb a second is good for 1440p and below as the compression KZbin uses will go a bit too far if you upload say 1080p with 30,000kb making the video even worse then it would otherwise be intended, and same for 1440p, if you use say 45,000kb a second or less, the compression will great effect the video quality. They have recommended settings for what everyone's uploads file sizes should be for resolution and frame rate, but I tend to up the bitrate to about 10,000 or 15,000 above that when I can. I also recommend, that if your going to say use a lower resolution and then upscale it, you should use what VEGAS PRO calls "Smart Upscale". What this does, and what other programs do not do, is that it will upscale the footage to your desired resolution, but it ADDS pixels to the video as it does, so it won't just stretch the image, it actually gives it more pixels to work with like a native recording. It will never look as good as a native recording, but it comes very close. Later versions of VEGAS PRO like 19, got rid of this for some odd reason and replaced it with another FX plugin, but that plugin either doesn't work have the time, or you have to eyeball the results prior to actually render. So "smart Upscale is better in the sense you know EXACTLY how many times the resolution will be upscaled, and then you know how many pixels will be added. For example: 1080p to 1440p: Smart Upscale setting of 2.000 with a 200.00 noise sensitivity, will add twice the amount of pixels to the video to make it look more sharp and use more colors around the edges. 1080p, 1440p, to 4K: Smart upscale setting of 4.000 with a 200.00 noise sensitivity setting will add 4 times the amount of pixels, or 2 times from 1440p, to the video to make it look more sharp and use more colors around the edges. I also tend to use the Sharpen FX plugin at about .025 to 0.35. Depending on the footage, game or video, you may want to practice with this. Same goes for the noise sensitivity setting for Smart Upscale. Premiere Pro has this thing called "Fit to Scale" or "Fit to Frame" when upscaling videos, problem is, it does not use extra pixels to do this, so it is much blurrier then it should be. This is why I chose VEGAS PRO to do most of my renders as it will properly upscale and add pixels to secure as much detail from the original as possible. You can even compare the two and you will see what I mean. I use a 4K monitor so I'm able to see the little details, artifacts, and blocky artifacts, as well as blurring from movement a bit better then I normally would, but this is how I keep my videos the highest quality possible, at least I think, for what I'm trying to pull off, and even after the KZbin algorithm compresses my videos down. Handbrake, a nice free program is good too, but given that it gets rid of any undesired data to drop file size that it sees fit, it sometimes dulls colors too, even if video quality looks fine. So I'd say fiddle with it, test it out, obviously match as close as possible the same render settings from the to steps prior, recording and rendering out of the video editing program, and see how it looks. Sometimes I noticed even when framerate is set properly, it can drop frames. I guess all in all it is a balancing act with that program. This is just some info I learned from trial and error over the past years or so, and hopefully it can help you and others achieve the best possible quality for recordings. Some of this should also work well with streaming, but I have yet to try it as my internet here is not the greatest to stream with. I'd say record in h.265 with the NVIDIA NVENC HEVC H.265 setting as much as possible, if you can handle it on your system, use Voukoder whenever possible for your video editing programs, to keep in line with the original recording settings and encoder, and then again, if you use Handbrake. Again the major issue with usually stems from AVC codecs, which sadly H.264/x264 uses. Even if you render out using H.265 afterwards, it will still capture the blurring and artifacts from the AVC codec. :D

[@SkyYukiGuy]

Very useful but maybe consider making a video post about it or blog post rather than this wall of texts lol.

[@WraithDesignz]

@@SkyYukiGuy I already have, just giving input. I'm not forcing anybody to read it, and if that is too much to read then I guess the info is not that important to the one who can't. Most people don't have that issue though.

[@C2OOK]

@@WraithDesignz wrote a damn book.. but a very good one… I’m gonna go check out ur vid in a sec

[@harorudo0816]

This is one useful wall of texts 😂 thanks for this tho

[@DriftZonebyIfti]

Bitrate matters a lot when it comes to good quality recording or stream

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

It does

[@DriftZonebyIfti]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr Yessir!

[@ajvenix4079]

actually your recording is Bad to me, it's blurry and lost its quality once you zoomed. Is it just me!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Is that a question? It should have one of these ? Thingies if it is. I appreciate the feedback. I use a lens with a manual focus and sometimes if I don’t sit in the exact right spot I can be slightly out of focus. Bad camera work more so than bad quality. Maybe one in the same I guess.

[@ALlixior]

In obs settings put mkv not mp4 and in the advanced settings in obs scroll down and select remux mkv to mp4 so that when obs crashes you wont loose anything and then it will remux your mkv to mp4 so you can edit it still 😊

[@WarMomPT]

You shouldn't be using Constant Bit Rate for local recordings, at all. It's excessive when it's unnecessary (eg a loading screen). The other options - CRF (for x264) and CQP (for h264 and h265) exist for local recordings. They take the Rate Factor or Quantization Parameter respectively and consequently make OBS use however many kbps it needs to maintain a given level of quality. CRF 14 is generally considered visually lossless (speed preset only adjusts file size when using non-CBR settings), with CQP 18 being the 'generally considered visually lossless' equivalent for nvenc.

[@SkyYukiGuy]

Yeah, Nvidia recommend using variable bit rate in their own guide.

[@alexandriabrangwin]

Not really an issue, the 60000kbps is!

[@EboyPlaysMurderDrones]

A lot of my viewers ask me for OBS, but horrible lag and audio when on Windows 10 computer

[@Gam3rC4m]

My situation is weird that I can record crystal clear video in 720 but when I upload it to YT, then it looks half as good. I also find that I have a great webcam, but when recording it doesn't look good at all compared to gameplay and its definitely visible when put on YT. Local play on my PC is fine, once it hits YT, the quality takes a hit. Also, when livestreaming the quality of my replays on YT are ok yet Twitch and DLive replays are clear and look great. I have no idea why that is.....

[@Gunter_Severloh_RDR2]

Has to do with the quality of the video in terms of 1080, 2k and 4k and utube's encoder. If you go on any utube video who is running only 1080p, utube uses an encoder av01 4k uses vp09 as the video here does. You can find this out by right clicking the video and go to the bottom "stats for nerds" then go towards middle and look for the word "codecs" So upload in 2k or better and you will get a vp09 codec being used on your vids which will make the quality on utube itself be greater, only drawback with doing vids in 4k is it takes longer to process so i'd suggest plan your vids and time to release. Longer vids will take longer, shorter vids take less time.

[@ft.abhinavsanthosh]

i was waiting for your videos

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Thanks

[@3DJapan]

My recordings look flawless from both of my computers. I'm always thrilled with it compared to other screen capture software I used in the past like BB Flashback.

[@sidthegamingsquid]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Jstacksjones]

Thanks 🙏 wow I’ve been watching and looking at videos for two years now trying to get my OBS clear and your video did it. Thank you so much.❤

[@dighawaii1]

CBR for recording? That's a hard "no". Anyone who catches this comment- do not use CBR for recording. If you're using an AMD or NVENC encoder, use CPQ or VBR for recording. If you're cpu encoding, use CRF. CBR is best for streaming.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Thanks for the feedback. I am wondering why?

[@MrGrizzB]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr you are targeting a quality level with OP method and not a set bitrate that may be to much or to little for what is happening. I think they meant CQP btw

[@DanielEriksson1972]

CBR should only be used for streaming. For recording you want the best possible quality without wasting disk space. That means you want some kind of variable bitrate. It is my understanding that VBR has a delay between when high movement happens and when the encoder adjusts the bitrate (but I might be wrong, not sure where I read this). Personally I use CQP at level 15 which gives amazing quality but also very big files. I've tried using 20 and it looks almost as good with much smaller files.

[@DanielEriksson1972]

With CQP you specify a quality target, and with VBR you specify a bitrate target. If you use CQP it does not matter if you record an intense FPS game or a talking-head-segment, you can use the same setting and be sure that the result is good without wasting too much space.

[@yigamooo]

man the recording bitrate was really messing with me because other guides say 20k is enough and stuff but ITS NOT. 60k finally looks like other peoples vids, im so excited for my new content

[@kevOzilla]

cqb is the best for recording cbr is for streaming! cp lvl 14 2 b frames

[@arsenal_412]

ty it helped a lot !!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Glad to help!

[@ignorantboxing]

What kind of camera do you use? I like the quality

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Sony a6500.

[@AiringAustin]

My stats are perfectly fine with no dropped frames, but my recordings are still VERY choppy. I've messed with every setting and nothing seems to fix the issue. I've tried lowering and upping bitrate and changing the formate and encoder. Amongst many other things. Anyone able to help?

[@schron01]

congrats for 100k subs

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

Bro for real you are a saviour I set both stream and recording settings te same low kbps that's why I was loosing quality. I was thinking my GPU has problem.

[@alanahendy3210]

Michael, you have solved a months-long problem of mine! I kept wondering why my frame rate kept dropping during recordings and it was due to the bitrate! You are amazing and I will be naming my first born after you.

[@nailz2758]

what if my recordings tab doesnt have nvidia nvenc H.264 (new) but my streaming tab does. i dont understand why. and every video i look up you all have a different looking menu for the recording tab. i downloaded it a month ago so you'd think it would be the same. i downloaded my obs thru obs streamelements. can you help me

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Change to advanced menu.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Btw streamelements obs is not OBS.

[@nailz2758]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr i figured it, i was under advanced but typed was not on standard, it was on custom. now i see whats on here. i appreciate the reply!

[@Jackary-Christian]

I just built a brand new computer with really good hardware, I record at 30fps and 60000 bit rate and my video still looks terrible even after doing everything in this video, I go into my files to watch a video I just recorded and it still looks pixilated. PLEASE HELP

[@KT-ed8hj]

the only option im seeing under "encoder" is "software x264" i changed bit rate to 60,000 and high quality. the recording is still very laggy

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

That means the encoder can’t keep up and you don’t have a dedicated one on a graphics card.

[@KT-ed8hj]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr so my laptop isnt good enough?

[@C2OOK]

@@KT-ed8hj damn

[@Dutch-linux]

there are no nvidia cards available anywhere are you aware of the shortage and the scalpers ???????

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Very aware. You don’t need a new card. Mine is a 970 dude.

[@Dutch-linux]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr dude !!!! the fact that you got one dont matter shite .. others can't get them of shortage DUDE !!!!!

[@chrismoore4568]

Thanks this helped me. But I’m expecting future problems that are designed to have me not find it on the web eventually, if you felt that you’re actually a real human and not a bot AI

[@CNMesker]

doing good thank you

[@Djnap]

Very informative, your tutorial will help me a lot on my OBS recording. Thank you very much.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Glad to help

[@molotovctail6972]

Make sure you haven't scaled your source !!! Right click and go to Transform > Transform reset. Now I'm good on a fast Ryzen that has a 12 year old Nvidia card and no NVENC

[@abdinasirhassan7529]

you very smart to train us. Very appriciation. I am bigginer and did not go to school for IT, and never used such softwar or any kind softwar for videos or social media, but I easily understand you. thanks

[@xxLegendaryVikingxx]

I checked my stats what does it mean when it says that I missed 0/4920 games due to rendering lag and encoding lag? And 0.4 ms average time to render frame

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

It means your machine is encoding properly.

[@xxLegendaryVikingxx]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr my biggest problem is finding the right bitrate and I’ve tried everything

[@xxLegendaryVikingxx]

Is there an easy way to find the bitrate?

[@narutog98]

Could you do a video about this w/ the gopro+the webcam app maybe? 🤔 Cause it's been causing straight ISSUES! I shouldn't have any issues recording since the gopro records great by itself. I'd like to stream & record at the same time if possible. Thank you in advance for your time bro, much love! 😁👊☯️🤟

[@tyrannicalgaming8750]

Thank you for making great tutorials! You're awesome!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Thanks.

[@Silly_bics_journal]

Chuck Mcguille shows you how to use OBS

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Great! Can I stop doing it now?

[@OohSorrow]

I had a question. Why the recorded file is so big? 10 minutes of Recording gives me 5gb....

[@heybos4640]

1080p here OBS or even AMD's caputre software nothing really will make a change. Base and output resolution is the same, Using amd's H.265 , 16000 Kbps bitrate- video quality is grainy. Higher bitrate - makes the footage choppy in obs. Improves on the quality but its choppy and i have a decent rig.. Amd's capture software - same deal. HEVC. 30 mbps bitrate - crap quality, 50 bitrate -a slight difference but still noticable grain and low res image. Ive gone through so many videos and forums and nothing. Capture software has been a thing forever yet we cant get a nice looking 1080p crisp video footage. Why do simple things have to be difficult for no reason?

[@Dossay27]

Thank you SO MUCH no other videos i could find explained that streaming bitrate and video bitrate were different but you did! thanks again :D

[@flizzycat]

Using CBR with 60mbps bitrate for recording is absurd! It's a big waste of storage. Because it will always use that much data whether there's lots of movement or you're just recording static image. Instead, you should use CRF. It will adapt the bitrate to the current needs and save a lot of space while keeping the quality almost same. A value of 21-23 will be enough (lower value=higher quality). There's also a VBR, which is the same as CRF except you can set a soft limit for the bitrate. Next thing which can make your recording look bad is if you have weird resolution (1366x768). Encoder needs resolutions that are divisible by 4, so real resolution will be scaled down to 1364x768 which makes image look blurry. Solution is to crop 1 pixel on the left and 1 on the right of your display source. And another thing is color format. I had problem where colors would look washed out on recording. It's because the color format was set to NV12. It is the most compatible format, but will reduce color depth (subsampling is 4:2:0) . To fix this set format to I444 (subsampling 4:4:4)

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

There will always be video Phil’s who know a lot more than I do. I’m just giving my experience with settings that work for me. With your knowledge you should create content that reaches us all. People would watch.

[@leolembo]

He don't know what is he talking about, this video it's absurd

[@leolembo]

​@@MichaelFeyrerJrit seems that you don't have a good experience

[@ActionBrother]

Do people still realize what 60000 Kbps or 60 Mbps is? That would be 7.5 MegaBytes per second (MB/s) or for 1 minute 450MB and for 1 hour 27 Gigabyte (GB)!

[@Spanu96]

Hi, my problem with OBS is the sound of my own voice, it sounds very different and quite bad when recording, testing sound pretty decent, the problem is after recording. I kept messing with the settings and looked on KZbin for other KZbinrs, but I still can't get it right. Do you know why that happens by any chance?

[@tamseaman]

I've troubleshooted with all your methods and still have skipped frames coming up in red. Also have a lag on my videos! :( Is the Nvidia Card the same as a video capture card? I'm not good at these IT stuff so don't know all the terminology. I need help! I live in NZ...what would you suggest Thanks.

[@degeneralgodisking3045]

Any time I record church programs the videos pause and the sound will be work and sometimes it’s delayed when previews on the tv I have been using obs and phone and internet to do the church programs And my laptop to RAM 8GB HD 500GB So I want to know what will be the main problem boss

[@braithwitchard3729]

I am very late to this video but I am here to say thank you for your help, this video has truly improved what my recording looks like and I hope people coming across this video see this comment and know this is an informative and useful video

[@thizis_midoriya2660]

mike i hope you hit 500k this year! your energy is next level and your always sharing the knowledge.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Thanks!

[@totallytony3058]

I have found out that my obs was set to 720p instead of 1080p Thank you so much 🙇‍♂🙇‍♂🙇‍♂🙇‍♂

[@FlockersDesign]

When recording dont use obs if u use a Nvdia GPU will even reccoment streaming with notting other than Shadowplay Its beter then obs and any other software And way beter quality and preformance increase by a mile You have a game you cant stream try it with shadowplay problem solved Not going in to detail why tjats to mutch to type the only problem is the limitations with overlays (The reason i dont use it for streaming) ALSO KEEP IN MIND HIS GAMEPLAY MP4 WILL NOT GIVE U THE SAME OUTPUT WHEN PLAYING A GAME AND THIS IS FALSE INFORMATION THIS SHUT NOT EVEN BE HERE IN THIS VIDEO

[@swiss6253]

I give up. I have a 1070ti and it records like garbage compared to your... 970? Jittery frames, not smooth at all. Tried every setting. 60,000 bit rate is insane, can't even do 4,000.

[@charisma426]

my problem is weird actually everything used to work so fine with my rtx 3060ti , R5 5600x , 32 GB ram 3600 now its lagging , is internet speed has anything to do with recording performance i am not streaming i am recording

[@zaidalmymoni6902]

I'm using OBS for recording only no need for streaming, but as soon as open the OBS start streaming or message show up : "could not access the specificed channel or stream key, double check your stream key....... .to the server". Can I disable streaming so that no message appears ?

[@MarshallSetUps]

OBS, regardless of your wonderful content cannot record synced audio and video. Huge bummer. It simply cannot process audio, and video acurately enough for them to sync. Free software is awesome, and I'm grateful for it, but the shortfalls haven't been dealt with adequately. I'd love to be able to buy a program, and then have the financial obligation of said business to require them to do what they advertise. OBS has zero obligation to me, and that is a shame.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Ever single videos I’ve ever released was recorded in obs. So I’d hate to say it but it’s not obs. It’s your machine or your setup. Without question. My videos are in sync right?

[@zaclaplant3001]

Wait, OBS has an encoder? I don't see that option. Is it compatible with AMD? EDIT: nvm, i found a plugin

[@kodahae]

For 2k screens personally i recomend from 18000-25000 perfect quality and no difference with more bitrate

[@rahbeat9785]

THE REAL SOLUTION: make sure your Base(canvas) resolution is the SAME as the Output (scaled) resolution This instantly fixed the quality for me. found it on another video

[@SaltyMaud]

I crash OBS a lot when recording because streamfx and ffmpeg. Lost a couple lengths of footage because of it. Changing to .mkv didn't come to mind.

[@A-AronGamer]

I have in NVIDIA CARD but I don't see it in the list norepinephrine the Bit Rate nor do I see x624 :( Every thing is up to date

[@mialarssen2627]

Everything works good for me, except after checking the video recorded, the quality of the audio is awful, I can only hear noise and clicks.... please what`s the issue ?

[@stainpain77]

Let’s talk about your frame rate. I know you’re trying to help out, and I know there’s previous frame standards but… I believe 30 and 60 on the way to go

[@Fluffytiger-qp4xo]

So this is random but here we go Ive tried several different recording softwares I'm using adrenaline currently as is the best for me but all of them have looked shitty and pixelated and blocky especially in darker areas in a game and I've tried every setting in the software and in my computer that you could think of and nothing worked well I tried run as admin just to eliminate every option not expecting it to actually do anything ... But it actually worked and I'm not sure why could someone help me or maybe try explaining ive only tried run on admin on adrenalin by the way

[@rynsart]

thanks, the problem with mine was that the bitrate was at 2.5 thousand kilobytes which is very low.

[@nickblaster6184]

what would a high CPU usage be? my is around 4-6% when recording

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

60% or more.

[@nickblaster6184]

@@MichaelFeyrerJr ok thank you

[@LittleBigDebbie]

man, you saved me. all my recordings looked horrible no matter how much i tweaked. after hours i was almost giving up. turns out the video output resolution was messed up. id never have looked for that part of the configs if not for your video. now im gonna try to figure out how to make the files lighter, huahuauaha... thank you so much. youre doing a cool job!

[@riveroflife-alamosaco.395]

I just started live steaming to KZbin and I am having a problem. I am using OBS trying to live I used to live stream to Facebook but switched over to You Tube 2022. when I hit the "Start Steaming" on OBS it never tells me on KZbin studio that I am live eventhough I am live steaming. Can you help me please

[@Eeeeeeeeee-u3b]

They look good when in then file but when I publish it to KZbin it looks terrible.

[@uniteddetinu]

Can someone help please!! My stats aren't showing any frame loss, cpu load, etc. but i can't record in 60 fps even when i put the recording option at 60fps.

[@JackJack-bq6cv]

I have intel integrated iris Xe graphics , what setting on obs studio should i have, my 1080p recordings looks blurry and has dull colour compared to the orginal

[@disschool5633]

thank you sir issue solved, I changed the bitrate in video settings not in output

[@drtomrountree]

Awesome video, thanks man!

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

Glad to help.

[@kevin_m]

I didn’t see an option in my OBS to manual set 60000 kbps. There are four drop down options for me. Maybe they changed something.

[@glenblessing1536]

My video and audio don't work on OBS the game and sound for the game works. Just can't see my ugly face or hear me. (Maybe that's a good thing?)

[@ThePirateHistory]

What if i have much darkers colors, and also bad colors, i try using everythong in obs, all that setting also in advantages, also use dispaly windows setings, also use nvidia settings, everythin also mix try to fix, but on every tutorial it stays the same. how to fix?

[@playeractivity3094]

OMG thank you so much now my minecraft recording looks like 1080p not 144 tysm

[@bjaydubya]

Videos uploaded to YT are encoded to a maximum of 12kbps, so recording at 60kbps may be a little overkill. I'd certainly recommend recording at a higher bit rate, but after editing it consider exporting at a bitrate recommended by YT. I typically will export at 2x the recommended up load bitrate. So, 60 MIGHT be a little high, particularly if your computer is struggling. Also, twitch has some excellent broadcast guidelines for bitrates and other setting for a variety of encoding types, resolutions, and frame rates. For instance, and NVENC encoded 1080p at 60fps should be 6000 bitrate, CBR, 2 second keyframe interval, 2 B-frames, etc. It's a good place to start and then tweak from there based on your upload speeds and computer specs.

[@qensetsu]

man if you have a vp9 or 09 codec youtube can give you like 50mbps