OBS Recordings have Massive File Sizes

[SkyeRangerDelta]

Hello all,

I love OBS Studio, I have it setup so that it utilizes my GTX 1070 as part of the encoding process and my recordings look gorgeous, 1080p at 60fps, but my file sizes are insanely large. I dont have the best internet which is why I won't stream, so I record and upload to YouTube what I want. But I don't have 5 days to wait for a video to upload. I recorded a 23 minute video of some work in Revit 2018 and it came out to be a frickin' 8.3GB video.

I compress in MP4, and if you're interested here are my output settings: http://prntscr.com/fkon5o

My PC specs are under "view more info" on my profile.

If anyone has any advice on working with this file size, that'd be much appreciated.

[UNSTOPPABLE ALBOMENTUM]

İlk olarak †<ȻȻ><SᴋʏᴇRᴀɴɢᴇʀ tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍 tarafından gönderildi:

Uh. Recording software records in an uncompressed form. You need to take the files to task with proper editing software.

Got any recommendations?

İlk olarak Tyrrazhi tarafından gönderildi:

5000 bitrate looks like trash on a 1080p60fps settings. If you mean 40000, maybe, but it's not great.

OP, just do what I do. Roughly 30000 bitrate, 50fps. It'll drop the file size immensely.

Never have I agreed to 5,000 bitrate. Look closer, 50,000 bitrate.

I have tested in 50k, 20k, and now 13k. 13 doesn't look as pristine, but it's alright. I'll see what I can do on 50 fps.

You look closer. I was talking to the person who said "Try 10% of that", that being 5000. Wasn't talking to you there.

Anyway, 8.3GB for an MP4 file is nuts. That's your editing software I would say. It's not compressing correctly. The largest file I've ever had was about 2-3GB for a 1 hour video which I then cut down to about 8 minutes and it turned out about 1GB. 2-3GB on 50k bitrate 1080p60fps settings. Which I then edit for best 50fps optimization.

Keep in mind editing software does not nearly compress as well as recording in general.

[SkyeRangerDelta]

30-60 minutes only a GB? Shoot me a friend request because you've got yourself an apprentice.

I did play around with Adobe After Effects CC for a while, but that was a trial and I was on unfamiliar ground.

[SkyeRangerDelta]

@Tyrrazhi, apologies mate, I thought that was aimed at me. But looking at your statement there, I only use OBS, I dont run it through an editor.

[UNSTOPPABLE ALBOMENTUM]

İlk olarak †<ȻȻ><SᴋʏᴇRᴀɴɢᴇʀ tarafından gönderildi:

@Tyrrazhi, apologies mate, I thought that was aimed at me. But looking at your statement there, I only use OBS, I dont run it through an editor.

Ah. I don't use OBS. I used to, but errors in the way it captures (Sometimes holds up with Youtube's silly compression, which causes blurry moments) made me switch to shadowplay.

You have the same video card, GTX 1070, as I do. You should try to get Shadowplay working.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

İlk olarak †<ȻȻ><SᴋʏᴇRᴀɴɢᴇʀ tarafından gönderildi:

30-60 minutes only a GB? Shoot me a friend request because you've got yourself an apprentice.

I did play around with Adobe After Effects CC for a while, but that was a trial and I was on unfamiliar ground.

Oh, if I get fancy, yea, it gets larger.
Straight up video to compression, easy peasy.

Who does that though. I though Op was just looking for YouTube friendly direct record post stuff. Unedited data is super easy to compress.

[BossGalaga]

If you want to archive your video, then after recording, export it out to a h264/mp4 then delete the original files.

[SkyeRangerDelta]

Yea, it's raw unedited stuff, straight from the recorder. (I dont have any actually good editing software).

Shadowplay...is that the Nvidia thing that pops up when I fire up a game? Near the top right?

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

İlk olarak †<ȻȻ><SᴋʏᴇRᴀɴɢᴇʀ tarafından gönderildi:

Yea, it's raw unedited stuff, straight from the recorder. (I dont have any actually good editing software).

Shadowplay...is that the Nvidia thing that pops up when I fire up a game? Near the top right?

You need a good editing suite, just to compress files for you.

[pipagao]

İlk olarak †<ȻȻ><SᴋʏᴇRᴀɴɢᴇʀ tarafından gönderildi:

Hello all,

I love OBS Studio, I have it setup so that it utilizes my GTX 1070 as part of the encoding process and my recordings look gorgeous, 1080p at 60fps, but my file sizes are insanely large. I dont have the best internet which is why I won't stream, so I record and upload to YouTube what I want. But I don't have 5 days to wait for a video to upload. I recorded a 23 minute video of some work in Revit 2018 and it came out to be a frickin' 8.3GB video.

I compress in MP4, and if you're interested here are my output settings: http://prntscr.com/fkon5o

My PC specs are under "view more info" on my profile.

If anyone has any advice on working with this file size, that'd be much appreciated.

No one can help you if you don't do a little reading on how video formats work

[AbedsBrother]

OP, here's YouTube's recommended bitrates for uploaded videos.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en
(Click the "Bitrate" section for more information)

1080p 60fps video is recommended to be around 12 mbps (12,000 kbps). Even if you try uploading in a higher bitrate (like 50 mbps or so), YouTube will compress it to a lower bitrate.

I use Handbrake on an almost daily basis. It's a great piece of software for compressing video, and it's free. Definitely recommended.

Personally I'd recommend MSI Afterburner instead of OBS if you're not streaming, OBS has been buggy every time I've tried it (Afterburner is also free software).

For my own videos, I try to have as little compression as possible, then compress with Handbrake - so there's only one major file compression happening in the creation of the video. If you compress a video, then compress it again for any reason, you're going to lose visual quality. This does require a lot of hard drive space (I record with Fraps, which records raw video in 150 Mbps). Two hours of 1080p, 60fps video is about 450GB. Then I edit and render in AVI at 150 Mbps (atm I use Magix Movie Edit 15), before using Handbrake to compress to ~12 Mbps (in Mp4 container). A 30 minute, 1080p 60fps video compressed to 12Mbps is ~2.5GB.

[SkyeRangerDelta]

Yea I have afterburner, I really enjoy it. Not sure if I have set it up since I built my new system though.

I'll go grab handbrake now.

[SkyeRangerDelta]

Just recorded a decent size video, 99.3GB AVI file (MSI Afterburner) and I'm going to crank it in Handbrake to see what happens. Changed the framerate to 50 and left everything else default.

[SkyeRangerDelta]

Handbrake took my 100GB video and made it about 500Mb. I am impressed. However I need to get either MSI configured correctly, or get OBS to not record so incredibly largly.

MSI records into an AVI, while OBS records into an MP4.