Need Help With Youtube Video Quality

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helpmesirmrs

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Okay so I use and Elgato Game Capture HD to record gameplay on my xbox 360. Now the software i use to record the gameplay is Open Broadcaster software. My settings are displayed in the pictures. I have a fairly good computer and my internet is a, 30MB Download and a 5MB Upload. I also use Freemake Video Converter to convert my videos into a FLV file to upload to youtube. So why do my youtube videos come out so grainy? It says 720p but its not like that really clear 720p like the famous youtubers where they have that crispy clear quality. My videos are really grainy even when my bitrate is set at 10000? Can someone please help me!?

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Why do you use another program to record your games when there is a program that comes with the Elgato?
 
You know the official Elgato software will record the gameplay for you and you can upload it straight to YT in HD right?
 
Freemake is wonderfull software, but upload BEFORE you freemake it. Because freemake will lower your bitrate to about 4.5-7.5Mbit/s which can lower your quality a lot.

You record in 10Mbit/s, which is actually quite low. It's high for streaming, but directly recording, then it's low. I recommend trying to record at a higher bitrate. Elgato and AverMedia Live Gamer Portable (which I use) can output just around the same max quality and for me that is at 60Mbit/s.

If you still wanna use freemake, then make sure, when you render your video after editing that it'll be in h.264 codec and .mp4/.flv/.f4v which is containers that usually use the specified codec and that it's not a lower bitrate than freemake is converting to.

TL;DR: Record as high quality as possible and consider your usage of freemake before you upload, and only compress the video after uploading for space saving. This should keep your quality higher.

ADDITIONS: Record in 60FPS in most games, 50 will do aswell. 30 can make the video seem stuttering in some games. And you don't need such a high audio bitrate. Lower it to under 200. 300+ is plain overkill ;-)
 
Marcus "Rediche" Geil said:
Freemake is wonderfull software, but upload BEFORE you freemake it. Because freemake will lower your bitrate to about 4.5-7.5Mbit/s which can lower your quality a lot.

You record in 10Mbit/s, which is actually quite low. It's high for streaming, but directly recording, then it's low. I recommend trying to record at a higher bitrate. Elgato and AverMedia Live Gamer Portable (which I use) can output just around the same max quality and for me that is at 60Mbit/s.

If you still wanna use freemake, then make sure, when you render your video after editing that it'll be in h.264 codec and .mp4/.flv/.f4v which is containers that usually use the specified codec and that it's not a lower bitrate than freemake is converting to.

TL;DR: Record as high quality as possible and consider your usage of freemake before you upload, and only compress the video after uploading for space saving. This should keep your quality higher.

ADDITIONS: Record in 60FPS in most games, 50 will do aswell. 30 can make the video seem stuttering in some games. And you don't need such a high audio bitrate. Lower it to under 200. 300+ is plain overkill ;-)
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This is not entirely true. Even if he is recording at a high quality bitrate and fps. Youtube will cap all that down to their standards...so if he is recording at 10,000 bitrate, that is still a higher quality than he will upload too. So basically a youtube video would be no different in recording it at 10k bitrate or a 100k bitrate, because it will be downgraded so much. Same goes with the fps.
 
Wrice4 said:
This is not entirely true. Even if he is recording at a high quality bitrate and fps. Youtube will cap all that down to their standards...so if he is recording at 10,000 bitrate, that is still a higher quality than he will upload too. So basically a youtube video would be no different in recording it at 10k bitrate or a 100k bitrate, because it will be downgraded so much. Same goes with the fps.
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YouTube got miximum quality and FPS, true. That was not what I meant though.

Record in 60 FPS and render out in 30 FPS. This will still make your video seem smoother since you can render a better 30 FPS from video software than on-the-fly while gaming.

Reason for high quality footage: If you record at a higher bitrate, you get higher quality footage. When editing you can scale this down by when rendering and this will give a much better result at that lower bitrate. YouTube videos can atleast be 50Mbit/s without getting raped by the YouTube processing according to their recommendations for bitrates on video.

Reference: Google Support YouTube Answer 1722171 - "Advanced encoding settings" (Can't link it)
 
Marcus "Rediche" Geil said:
YouTube got miximum quality and FPS, true. That was not what I meant though.

Record in 60 FPS and render out in 30 FPS. This will still make your video seem smoother since you can render a better 30 FPS from video software than on-the-fly while gaming.

Reason for high quality footage: If you record at a higher bitrate, you get higher quality footage. When editing you can scale this down by when rendering and this will give a much better result at that lower bitrate. YouTube videos can atleast be 50Mbit/s without getting raped by the YouTube processing according to their recommendations for bitrates on video.

Reference: Google Support YouTube Answer 1722171 - "Advanced encoding settings" (Can't link it)
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Oh okay, I misunderstood you then. I was not arguing with you, just stating my opinion. Thanks for clarifying.
 
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