OBS bad quality

Jul 8, 2018
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Hi there.

I heard that obs is better than fraps... Idk if thats true but.. When I record gameplay with OBS (no matter the settings) its so blurry... Fraps tho - I could say its perfect, almost identical. I wonder why?
 
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What resolution, codec, bitrate and compression method (CBR, VBR) are you using, and when you say blurry, do you mean before or after uploading it to YouTube? YouTube recommends 12,000 bitrate for 1080p vids, but the real problem is it uses 1/3rd to 1/4th the bitrate for 1080p vids it does for 1440p when processing your capture after uploading it, despite 1440p being only 78% more pixels.

What I've been doing lately is resizing my 50mb/s 1080p ShadowPlay captures to 2560x1440 when I compress them down to 30 or 20Mb/s. YouTube recommends 30,000 bitrate for 1440p captures, which is what I use in games like Ghost Recon Wildlands that has a lot of ground detail you're often moving quickly over, plus I use VBR (Variable Bitrate) to make...
What resolution, codec, bitrate and compression method (CBR, VBR) are you using, and when you say blurry, do you mean before or after uploading it to YouTube? YouTube recommends 12,000 bitrate for 1080p vids, but the real problem is it uses 1/3rd to 1/4th the bitrate for 1080p vids it does for 1440p when processing your capture after uploading it, despite 1440p being only 78% more pixels.

What I've been doing lately is resizing my 50mb/s 1080p ShadowPlay captures to 2560x1440 when I compress them down to 30 or 20Mb/s. YouTube recommends 30,000 bitrate for 1440p captures, which is what I use in games like Ghost Recon Wildlands that has a lot of ground detail you're often moving quickly over, plus I use VBR (Variable Bitrate) to make sure more bitrate is devoted to such scenes that have a lot of motion. Games like The Evil Within that are slower movement and have less texture detail, I use 20,000 bitrate with CBR.
 
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