Vbr, Cbr, cqb or lossless for gamplay recording at 1080p 60

[rahul srivastava]

What would be the best choice to record gameplay with obs on 1080p 60fps.

So far ive tried all and found that cqb 10 and lossless provide almost similar result, but as soon as i upload that to youtube the quality got ruined away...

Im using obs studio, adobe premier pro

 

[Frag Maniac]

Nothing you can do in compression method or bitrate will help if you upload 1080p vids to YouTube. Even if you use super high bitrate it will look like crap after YouTube dumbs it down. You used to be able to use a trick where if you slightly resized the video during compression to 2048x1152, it would trick YouTube into using higher bitrate when it converts the file.

Now YouTube only uses a higher bitrate if you upload a 1440p vid. The thing that's strange is 1440p is roughly 78% more pixels than 1080p, yet YouTube uses somewhere between 3-4 times the bitrate for it. They recommend you compress at 12,000 Mb/s on a 1080p 60 FPS vid. For a 1440p 60 FPS vid they recommend 30,000 Mb/s.

What I do is capture at 1080p 60 using 50 Mb/s in ShadowPlay, then I load the file into Avidemux and edit and compress it to 30 Mb/s AVB (VBR). I use a resize filter set to 2560x1440 with Lanczos3.

Here is the difference in quality.

This is 1080p 60 using 12,000 bitrate
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCy8LUiY6Tg"][/video]

This is resized to 1440p using 30,000 bitrate
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlmHhh_Wtsg"][/video]

If I had a 1440p display and captured at 1440 it would look even better, but unfortunately I don't. Quite frankly I'm surprised how well it looks considering it started from a 1080 capture. And btw, if you're wondering whether capturing in 1440p DSR or VSR helps, it doesn't. It looks better while you're playing, but YouTube still sees it as a 1080p upload, and gives it crap bitrate.