Shadowplay Youtube Quality

[Dirk Diggler]

I'm messing around with Shadowplay recording, and the interface is quite good. However, I'm struggling with video quality once uploaded to Youtube.

Any tips?

Here's an example video, you can see the playback is blocky and the text barely readable when I view fullscreen.

 

[Disco_P]

What bitrate are you recording at?

1080p60 on youtube is still not great quality, regardless of the source.

 

[Disco_P]

For reference here is a game of Titanfall 2 that I recorded at 1440p60 30Mbit/s

(very minor swears and my friend had a terrible microphone)

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Bitrate is 50 and I've got resolution set to "in-game". I wonder, is it because I'm on 3440*1440?

I notice your video looks gash like mine for the first 10 seconds and then clarifies perfectly.

 

[arc@css]

You want the bitrate to be 130.

 

[Disco_P]

Manually set the resolution to 4K or 1440p.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I tried it with 4K @ 130 but it still looks poor.

 

[arc@css]

One thing I've observed that people don't do - which they should, is to let it fully process. This takes time, especially at higher resolutions like 1440p +. Just because it allows you to release the video, it doesn't mean that it's 'ready'. If you've recorded that at 130, it should, in time, start to look better. It can take quite a while, though. It also depends on how things are going the other end, too (e.g. Google's side of things).

I've known one of my 1440p videos to take as little as an hour or two to properly process, or in some rare instances, over a day.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

One thing I've observed that people don't do - which they should, is to let it fully process. This takes time, especially at higher resolutions like 1440p +. Just because it allows you to release the video, it doesn't mean that it's 'ready'. If you've recorded that at 130, it should, in time, start to look better. It can take quite a while, though. It also depends on how things are going the other end, too (e.g. Google's side of things).

I've known one of my 1440p videos to take as little as an hour or two to properly process, or in some rare instances, over a day.

You're spot on, it's playing perfect 4K now.

Thanks!

 

[arc@css]

Looks much better.

 

[Smffy]

What are you rendering with or that’s the raw footage? Multiple pass and playing with settings can massively impact the file size whilst still getting good quality.

YouTube takes forever to process these days, I scheduled videos to go live an hour later so it’s available for people in high res immediately when live not 360p for 10 mins. Upload as scheduled, then it will have processed before it’s findable.

 

[yashiro]

These batman clips are captured at 58fps. Bit odd.

 

[Gregster]

They look ok to me (assuming you haven't use anything like Sony Vegas) Youtube does tend to lower things down from the original but SP isn't the best for recording quality. I record at 3440x1440 and when I watch back, I put it to 2160P and it is perfect. The 4K deffo looks much better.

That is a vid uploaded straight to Youtube with SP and no fancy editing. Watch at 1440P and then at 2160P and see the difference.