Improving recording with shadowplay

Rroff · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:22

If you aren't doing much editing then even a bit over 30Mbit/s is fine at 1440p/60fps - if you are doing a bit of editing through the quality quickly degrades :S

Same problem with the sound capture - its fine if you aren't doing much remixing but if you start processing it a bit and recompressing it quickly drops below ideal.

Raumarik · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:25

Klunt Bumskrint said:
But why is it only 1080p, is the issue I have.

I honestly don't understand why Youtube isn't converting it. I stopped recording at 1440p purely as I found rendering was taking so much longer and most people I care about view my stuff on small screens now so 1080p is fine (at least for now).

I did chuck a few up at 1440p and they converted fine but it took a lot longer so if I was scheduling a new video I'd add in 24 hours. It did work though, every time so I can't see why your clips wouldn't unless it was to do with the dimension - Youtube not recognising it as a 1440p video somehow.

Klunt Bumskrint · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:38

Halfmad said:
I honestly don't understand why Youtube isn't converting it. I stopped recording at 1440p purely as I found rendering was taking so much longer and most people I care about view my stuff on small screens now so 1080p is fine (at least for now).

I did chuck a few up at 1440p and they converted fine but it took a lot longer so if I was scheduling a new video I'd add in 24 hours. It did work though, every time so I can't see why your clips wouldn't unless it was to do with the dimension - Youtube not recognising it as a 1440p video somehow.

Us this video as an example

Recorded with these settings

File is right

Yet only uploads at 1080p

arc@css · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:49

^^ When I clicked on the video, it was available at 1440p 60fps.

I tried using Dxtory for a Deus Ex video last night, and oh my word the file size!

Well, it was to be expected. I think it does look better than previous ShadowPlay recordings, though whether it's really worth it to me for the long term, I don't know. Once all my stored footage has run out, I'll try using Dxtory for each playthrough and compare.

Klunt Bumskrint · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:56

arc@css said:
^^ When I clicked on the video, it was available at 1440p 60fps.

WTF?

Why ham I not allowed then

could you look through some of my other videos and tell me if they show at 1440?

arc@css · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:57

Sure.

Here you go :

Klunt Bumskrint · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:00

I FOUND MY PROBLEM!!!! I've had this issue for like a YEAR!!!. It's firefox. They work fine in google chrome.

I clicked on this video in the description it says use chrome for 1440 60!!

OMFG!!! All this time.

Raumarik · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:01

Well at least you know it works now lol

Klunt Bumskrint · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:03

I'm so excited!! Why the fudge is Firefox limited?!?!

arc@css · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:04

I haven't used FF in quite a while now. I used to like it, but then I found it started to perform poorly. Consistently poorly.

SuperG · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:16

uncle_rufus said:
It's certainly something you could do if you wanted to... personally I just use my snowball for TS as well as recording.

I think the key to recording TS though is to get a virtual audio cable type program (VAC - virtual audio cable isn't free but there are some free alternatives)... it will allow you to separate the game sound and your friend's voices on TS (which at times will be very important - to make sure they can be heard okay or even to temporarily silence the track, say if they say something super racist or whatever)

I thought the Snowball sounded worse (on TS) than a normal headset microphone due to all the ambient noise it captures?

uncle_rufus · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:28

SuperG said:
I thought the Snowball sounded worse (on TS) than a normal headset microphone due to all the ambient noise it captures?

Have you tweaked the sensitivity? It's a very sensitive mic so you elminate a lot of the background noise by dropping the sensitivity down and making sure you are nice and close...

Also what's behind you? If it's a big empty room or a lot of hard surfaces (or both) the mic will pick up the sound bouncing about. We hang a massive faux-fur blanket behind ourselves when recording so it deadens any stray sound-waves

uncle_rufus · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:29

Admiral Huddy said:
Sound like a good idea. Put something together and maybe we'll get it stickied

Sorry for the double post but I created a thread - hopefully the title etc. are okay?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18716554

Maybe we can start moving the discussions over that way?

Pete63 · 11 Feb 2016 at 14:52

I came here looking for an answer as to why I can't get shadowplay to work at all. Things I've read here are way over my head. I was trying to use it in GTA5 but it doesn't seem to start on the manual record on\off. Is something supposed to display on screen when you start stop? There's no visual aid that I can see.

Sin_Chase · 11 Feb 2016 at 16:23

arc@css said:
Do I need to use DSR to achieve that?

No.

If you game at 1920x1080 and record at 1920x1080 the trick is, at the final post edit encoding stage, to render at 2560x1440.

YouTube allows for a higher bitrate on 2560x1440 videos and will translate into higher bitrate 1920x1080 footage.

arc@css · 11 Feb 2016 at 16:27

Sin_Chase said:
No.

If you game at 1920x1080 and record at 1920x1080 the trick is, at the final post edit encoding stage, to render at 2560x1440.

YouTube allows for a higher bitrate on 2560x1440 videos and will translate into higher bitrate 1920x1080 footage.

Thanks.

arc@css · 11 Feb 2016 at 16:33

Pete63 said:
I came here looking for an answer as to why I can't get shadowplay to work at all. Things I've read here are way over my head. I was trying to use it in GTA5 but it doesn't seem to start on the manual record on\off. Is something supposed to display on screen when you start stop? There's no visual aid that I can see.

I've not got GTAV but have found the odd game that ShadowPlay won't record, though these seem to be quite uncommon exceptions. However, in my case they've all been very old games like one of the versions of Doom.

Rroff · 11 Feb 2016 at 17:36

While a bit of a pain they will probably work if you temporarily enable desktop capture while playing.

Pete63 · 11 Feb 2016 at 17:53

Sort of got it to work. It was awful at first, made the game to stuttery but that turned out to be because I was saving it to the D drive. Changed the location to C drive and it was better but I stupidly let nvidea optimise the game. Put that right and it recorded fine, but only once. Every time after that, just froze the game while it thought about it, then saved the nothing it recorded. Will keep on trying but it seems to work sort of OK.