** Official Recording/Streaming Tips & Tricks Exchange **

Stoner81 said:
The video ended up about 1.2GB in size recording at 1440p so it could be worse, it just took me ages to upload it to Youtube lol!
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Halfmad said:
Stoner I usually just upload mine whilst playing single player games or off doing something else
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Most of our videos end up around the ~3Gb mark... takes about 15-20 mins to upload depending on the time of day ;) (the one good thing about our new-build house - FTTP internet!)

ArchAnGeL said:
I tried Virtual dub but the smart render option is greyed out when using lagarith codec and from the length of the export I am guessing it is doing some form of reencoding (even with direct stream copy). It also just takes the first audio stream for the new file
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Ahh, that's a shame... In that case I'm not sure; perhaps Lagarith can't just be chopped up like that at all
 
tcfreer said:
If anyone has a few minutes - I'd really like some feedback on my Youtube Channel / Videos

I'm not using a super fancy set up or Mic as there my first efforts really

I'm currently using my PC as detailed below +
H1500i headset
OBS with 1080p streaming set up, cbr maxed at 10, and saving to a set ssd.

I then use Window's Movie Maker to add the three parts togther with a transition.

I'm not yet in a postion to spend any money on new items but I am putting a list together for later on when I can

I now a new graphic's card is a must as the 660 OEM is not really up there (it's fine for my choosen games etc, but I want to improve that any way)

Any help and advice would be brill :)

Channel link is here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yqMF9N5Vhpz5cbaLEowqw
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I like your commentary and think the image quality is pretty fair / good. I used WMM to make my videos up to around a couple of months ago, and personally I don't think it does a bad job at all - all considered.

I'm not sure if the GTX 660 can use ShadowPlay, however the GTX 670 can - albeit at a lower bit rate when recording, so you might be okay and be able to use it. :)

What I've started doing very recently is to record with ShadowPlay, but render at a very high bit rate - especially for games like Stalker or Fallout 4 (outdoor foliage can really highlight any blockiness). I liked using other game recording software too and have happily bought a few just to experiment, but for now at least, I'll continue to rely on ShadowPlay.

That said, I'll be starting commentary very soon, so things may change. :rolleyes: :D
 
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Thanks very much :)

Yeah I have got the details updated as much as I can through OBS - I'll try Shadow Play if I can through Geforce Exeperiance
 
tcfreer said:
If anyone has a few minutes - I'd really like some feedback on my Youtube Channel / Videos

I'm not using a super fancy set up or Mic as there my first efforts really

I'm currently using my PC as detailed below +
H1500i headset
OBS with 1080p streaming set up, cbr maxed at 10, and saving to a set ssd.

I then use Window's Movie Maker to add the three parts togther with a transition.

I'm not yet in a postion to spend any money on new items but I am putting a list together for later on when I can

I now a new graphic's card is a must as the 660 OEM is not really up there (it's fine for my choosen games etc, but I want to improve that any way)

Any help and advice would be brill :)

Channel link is here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yqMF9N5Vhpz5cbaLEowqw
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Nice one. I watched one of your vids but not had time to watch others but will do and you make the game look fun. I like raw footage as well and you get to see honest gameplay and I find that can win me over on buying a game or not.

The free windows studio does a decent enough job as well and quite a few options for spicing up vids, so worth having a look and play on that but all my vids are done with Sony Vegas, although I am encoding a 9 minute video at the mo and it will take 90 minutes to complete :eek:

ShadowPlay is fantastic as well and although the quality isn't the best, performance drain makes it worth while. I will subscribe as well :)

arc@css said:
That said, I'll be starting commentary very soon, so things may change. :rolleyes: :D
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:eek:

Nice one Steve and look forward to that :)
 
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Thanks bud and deffo look to Vegas for the future. I am sure there are alternatives but I kind of grew up with that and know my way round it well, so I don't fancy learning new tricks :)
 
Gregster said:
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Nice one Steve and look forward to that :)
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No idea what I'll sound like, but worth the plunge in the long run, hopefully. It's uncommon that I watch videos without commentary, so it's about time I had a go doing some of my own. :D


@ tcfreer +1 for Vegas.
 
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tcfreer said:
If anyone has a few minutes - I'd really like some feedback on my Youtube Channel / Videos

I'm not using a super fancy set up or Mic as there my first efforts really

I'm currently using my PC as detailed below +
H1500i headset
OBS with 1080p streaming set up, cbr maxed at 10, and saving to a set ssd.

I then use Window's Movie Maker to add the three parts togther with a transition.

I'm not yet in a postion to spend any money on new items but I am putting a list together for later on when I can

I now a new graphic's card is a must as the 660 OEM is not really up there (it's fine for my choosen games etc, but I want to improve that any way)

Any help and advice would be brill :)

Channel link is here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3yqMF9N5Vhpz5cbaLEowqw
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Looks absolutely fine to me, wouldn't have been able to tell you'd used movie maker to be honest, I see plenty of people with expensive stuff doing a far less polished video :D

You've got a good voice for clips by the way, at least for me. Nothing worse than screechy voices and yours has a good level to it.

Also + 1 again for Sony Vegas (don't have to spend more than £40 or so on it). I moved to it from Adobe Premier about a year ago after rebuilding my uncle's PC for him and him cheekily wanting to use his own software again. Vegas was very easy to pick up and there are TONS of help videos about it on youtube. :D
 
arc@css said:
No idea what I'll sound like, but worth the plunge in the long run, hopefully. It's uncommon that I watch videos without commentary, so it's about time I had a go doing some of my own. :D


@ tcfreer +1 for Vegas.
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I try to but hate the sound of my voice so typically try to avoid it :p
 
Halfmad said:
Looks absolutely fine to me, wouldn't have been able to tell you'd used movie maker to be honest, I see plenty of people with expensive stuff doing a far less polished video :D

You've got a good voice for clips by the way, at least for me. Nothing worse than screechy voices and yours has a good level to it.

Also + 1 again for Sony Vegas (don't have to spend more than £40 or so on it). I moved to it from Adobe Premier about a year ago after rebuilding my uncle's PC for him and him cheekily wanting to use his own software again. Vegas was very easy to pick up and there are TONS of help videos about it on youtube. :D
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Brill thanks so much :)

Definatley looking into Sony Vega then when I get some more cash :)
 
An update on my comment about rough trimming clips without re-encode.

I captured in AMD's Raptr/Gaming Evolved app last night. I put the bitrate up to 50 Mb/s at 1080/30fps and the quality looked pretty good.

I managed to trim this without re-encode in avidemux

The issue is this Raptr only captures as a single audio stream. Next investigations is if this or a similar codec is available in DXtory. The X264vfw codec couldn't be trimmed in the same way and would not import directly to vegas
 
I use dxtory to record game, team speak and my Mic audio but only a 1 pixel 1fps vid. At the same time I record the game footage and audio on shadowplay. I did try to do it all on dxtory but audio would always go out of sync with the video after ten minutes or so regardless of the codec I used. Then add the audio channels to the clip in vegas after running the video through handbrake to get constant 60fps, not variable as vegas doesn't like raw shadowplay clips.
 
Halfmad said:
Stoner I usually just upload mine whilst playing single player games or off doing something else, maybe make 1 a week and typically it's edited/rendered and uploaded within the same evening. Think the largest upload I did was around 16Gb but that was when I was recording at 4K lol
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I get about 100KB per second upload speed so it takes forever and day for me to upload anything!

Stoner81.
 
I've noticed that occasionally I'm getting audio crackling in my videos. I believe my audio settings pre-render are fine, so should I point the finger at on-board audio and a cheap but in theory well made set of Logitech 2.0 speakers? I can't think of anything else.

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arc@css said:
I've noticed that occasionally I'm getting audio crackling in my videos. I believe my audio settings pre-render are fine, so should I point the finger at on-board audio and a cheap but in theory well made set of Logitech 2.0 speakers? I can't think of anything else.
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What does it sound like through headphones? That at least eliminates the speakers from the equation... Does anything else sound crackly or is it purely your videos?
 
uncle_rufus said:
What does it sound like through headphones? That at least eliminates the speakers from the equation... Does anything else sound crackly or is it purely your videos?
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I don't have headphones / earphones.

No, nothing else sounds odd. Funnily enough, what prompted my query was when listening to a Doom video I'd just uploaded. It had finished processing, but at least six or seven times I could hear audio fizzing / crackling. As of late, due to rendering with a very high bit rate, I don't make a video public until at least several hours after YouTube says it's 'ready' as I find the quality improves considerably. So, lo and behold after some hours later when I play it again, there are no audio problems.

On a few other occasions (e.g. during my SS2 playthrough) there has been crackles which I've noted (as did a viewer) which didn't sort themselves out during processing. I've wondered if using mods / older games and poorer recording quality / software could possibly be responsible. That would at least go some way to explain older videos.

Thankfully, it rarely happens now, but I did automatically think if I was asking too much of the on-board audio processor.
 
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arc@css said:
Thankfully, it rarely happens now, but I did automatically think if I was asking too much of the on-board audio processor.
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Maybe, but unless I'm mistaken when you record audio direct from the PC it isn't actually going through the sound-card/on-board audio at all... The job of those components is to convert the digital sound signal from the PC to an analogue signal to be sent to an analogue device (speakers/headphones)... But when you're recording game footage all you're doing is capturing the digital sound signal; no need for it to pass through the sound-card at all

When you're also recording a mic you are relying on the sound-card (but usually if it's a USB mic it's built into the mic itself) to do the opposite conversion for the mic signal (analogue -> digital) at which point the quality of that processing becomes important

This makes your crackling a little bit of a mystery - I wonder if it could actually be an artefact of the rendering somehow?
 
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