MP 1,1-5,1 Recording Settings

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Hello!

I have had my Mac Pro 5,1 for almost a year now. I have wanted to record gaming videos using OBS, but the OBS settings I'm using or have tried are recording blurry video quality. I have an RX 580, 2 x 3.1 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeons, 16GB of ram, and a 24" Apple LED Cinema Display. Can anyone share OBS or other screen capture settings that record clear quality from a video game, such as Minecraft or Rocket League?

Settings Attached Below:

 

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I assume you activated HWAccel and use GPU hardware encoding to record the screen. Otherwise, it's almost impossible to record video games smoothly and clearly at that resolution on the cMP.

Anyway, please try 8000kbps. 2500 is way too low for that resolution.

Hardware encoding can only do single pass, and use the preset parameters. 2500 is too low to record everything clearly.

If you want good quality video capture. You better increase that bitrate as much as possible (for 1920x1200, there is little to no difference once above 12000kbps). This can ensure the captured video's quality.

If you really need to lower the file size for something else. You can use some very demanding parameters and 2 pass CPU encoding via X264 to further compress the video without significant quality lost (AFTER you finished the capture. This process is extremely slow and time consuming. It's impossible for the cMP to do that in real time).

P.S. I am not OBS user. If I want to make screen capture, I mainly use QuickTime to do that. But since software won't change the video quality of GPU encoding, that's why I suggest you go for higher bitrate even I have zero experience of OBS.