Video Editing

Jogort

Alex 15GB 😱😱

Alex

Maybe I’m doing something wrong but the quality on YouTube is really poor with more compressed files. I’d love to have smaller files to upload!

GassyHaggis

Yeah that video I made last night was just over 10GB. YouTube decided to throw a hissy fit so it hasn’t uploaded yet and I have a race in forty minutes so that won’t be happening until later or tomorrow now.

GassyHaggis

Oddly, I selected ‘Low’ under quality in the last few videos I uploaded and I think the quality seemed fine. It saved a good few GB too. Half hour races at Kyalami and one file was 5GB, the other 4GB.

Unless I’m mistaken about the quality. If anyone has had a look can you let me know how it looks to you?

Alex

I think it might be to do with the quality you’re recording the videos at. I have shadowplay set to high (50kbps) and I find that in Davinci medium quality and high encoding profile works best. It might vary for you. I find that any lower and when uploaded to YouTube the compression artefacts are too noticeable. I literally have no idea what I’m doing though, it’s all trial and error for me.

GassyHaggis

Makes two of us then!

Shadowplay seems to be set at high here too. Possibly game dependant too as a recent Assetto Corsa video came out at just over 10GB on those same settings but a few minutes shorter. Who knows.

GassyHaggis

@Alex Have you ever recorded anything with ShadowPlay and when playing it back there is no sound at all? Seems to have done that for the races I captured tonight and I’m not sure what has changed. Too late to fiddle with it tonight but I’ll have a nosey tomorrow. It was just in case you had came across it before.

Edit - Actually, all the captures I’ve ever done have no sound even the ones that did a few days ago. Must be something else rather than ShadowPlay.

Alex

Yeah this happens to me too. Normally if I start iRacing before enabling the Shadowplay Overlay, or if I’ve been using a different output device (like bluetooth headphones). I find either restarting the game or setting Windows output device to system fixes it.

GassyHaggis

So this is weird. I loaded everything this morning and it is doing the same thing. In fact, all captures since the beginning of August when using media player or the films and video (?) option don’t have sound. The ones before that date do.

Drag it into resolve and the sound is there for everything.

I’m so confused.

Edit - I expect I’m being a fud.

Brave

Ah… Now that’s a guid Scots word 😄

Gordon

Brave Yesterday I saw the car with number plate ending in FUD. They must have been overjoyed when they picked it up from the showroom 🤣

Brave

Gordon I remember being in Derby uni, living with good English mates and there was a really camp BBC comedy set in the air industry. Alan Cumming was one of the air hosts and he used the phrase “fud features” in an argument with another character.

I took a sharp intake of breath, and then fell about laughing because it had got through the BBC censors. None of my mates had a clue what I was laughing about. 🙂

DrDamn

A quick google and it’s not what I would assume. 😃

I guessed in @GassyHaggis context it meant something like fuddy-duddy maybe? A bit elderly. Clearly not!

I’ve also seen it used as the acronym meaning “Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt” as in “that’s a load of FUD” in response to console warring posts.

Brave “The High Life”

GassyHaggis

Great word. Has to be used at a particular time for full effect right enough.

GassyHaggis

DrDamn Well it is also ‘slang for referring to someone as a foolish person’. Apparently. 😆

Gordon

Speaking of number plates, I once saw one in San Francisco that said “BELL END” and laughed so much I nearly crashed my car.

Alex

It’s one of the annoying things about Shadowplay the audio recording is really buggy. Just recorded an iRacing race there and no audio for some reason. No idea why. You can record a replay and use the audio from that but it’s a pain in the arse.

Edit: Ah I had bluetooth headphones connected, that must be why. 😑

GassyHaggis

Alex Had a look around and someone mentioned that Windows cannot cope with separate audio tracks in some of the media players. All the captures I’ve had in the past month or two have no sound when you open them directly but stick them in Resolve and the audio file is there along with the video. It’s really odd. I wonder if that was when I started using the headset exclusively (maybe when I adjusted settings when I was trying to stop Discord recording together with the game audio). Also, I plugged in my old Playstation Platinum wireless headset a week or so ago with the bluetooth dongle and I’m wondering if that’s where all these issues have stemmed from.

I happened to come across a video on YouTube about splitting the audio so Discord is not recorded because going back in to do another recording just for the audio track as you say is annoying. Not tried this yet but hope to at some point this week.

Alex

That didn’t work for me, the audio track isn’t there in DaVinci. Although it’s a good tip, will remember to check in future.

I’ve not tried that tool to separate discord voice from in game, but people in the Missed Apex swarm use it. Apparently it’s a big performance hog. Definitely worth checking out though.

Brave

I think this might be where it’s worth getting to grips with OBS.

It’s daunting and the interface is… well… let’s just say it’s open source, but it can do a lot. You can treat every audio source as a separate input (and separate audio track) with its own values like volume and even have it come in at a slightly different time if you have voice sync issues. For example, I have mine come in at -133 milliseconds (essentially it actually delays the video by 133 ms) because running my mic through RTX noise removal causes that much delay with my mic input.

Take some time to learn it. And admittedly it’ll be a fair bit of time, and you can do some really cool things with it.

Just start very simple, would be my main advice.

GassyHaggis

Brave I might have another crack at it. What was the name of that YouTube channel you said was a good resource that you used?