what presets do I render with for the best video quality?

[mxk]

Heyo,

 

I'm editing with this free program called Shotcut, and it's pretty cool but the only thing is, I don't know what presets to render with for the best possible quality. When I'm recording my clips in csgo I want to get as close as possible to the raw shadowplay clip, but my past renders look pretty bad. I'm doing 1080p 60fps. if anyone knows, that would be great!

 

Thanks!

[emosun]

it should have the option for a raw avi which should be 100% uncompressed

[mxk]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

it should have the option for a raw avi which should be 100% uncompressed

I'll look, thx.

[emosun]

either that or just export h.264 and set the bitrate overly high

[Jurrunio]

You could push encoder quality all the way up, basically the CPU spends more time doing the compression so it gets better. The effect really drops off at about medium settings though

[mxk]

5 minutes ago, emosun said:

either that or just export h.264 and set the bitrate overly high

 

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

You could push encoder quality all the way up, basically the CPU spends more time doing the compression so it gets better. The effect really drops off at about medium settings though

Thats what I did in my last render, but It still looked kinda fuzzy so I guess I'll just push it really high and see how it goes.

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 minutes ago, mxk. said:

 

Thats what I did in my last render, but It still looked kinda fuzzy so I guess I'll just push it really high and see how it goes.

what was your bitrate? Can you post a screenshot of settings?

 

What quality is mlt set to for rendering?

[mxk]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what was your bitrate? Can you post a screenshot of settings?

 

What quality is mlt set to for rendering?

hold up. The video is rendering right now, lemme get a screenshot. If you can point me to my best option I will happily use those settings even if my poopy CPU takes forever to render it.

[mxk]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

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This is what I'm rendering with right now. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, mxk. said:

This is what I'm rendering with right now. 

Try changing from nvenc to x264, nvenc isn't known for the best quality.

[mxk]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try changing from nvenc to x264, nvenc isn't known for the best quality.

okie dokie. I'll try that and compare to my original render.

[mxk]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try changing from nvenc to x264, nvenc isn't known for the best quality.

I'm not seeing an x264 option... I watched my video and it didn't look that bad, to be honest. Pretty good for a free software, but I can get vegas or premiere pro in the near future for more options and such. Thanks for telling me, I will make sure to use x264 when I start using paid software.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, mxk. said:

I'm not seeing an x264 option... I watched my video and it didn't look that bad, to be honest. Pretty good for a free software, but I can get vegas or premiere pro in the near future for more options and such. Thanks for telling me, I will make sure to use x264 when I start using paid software.

The quality of premiere should be about the same as shotcut. Its mainly features your getting. Can you show a screenshot of your footage output?

[mxk]

12 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The quality of premiere should be about the same as shotcut. Its mainly features your getting. Can you show a screenshot of your footage output?

What do you mean footage output? Like the video itself? Sorry, I'm a little confused.

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 hours ago, mxk. said:

What do you mean footage output? Like the video itself? Sorry, I'm a little confused.

yea, what does the input vs output files look like?

[mxk]

6 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yea, what does the input vs output files look like?

Oh, i get it. The output with h264 nvenc doesn't look really that bad, it seems to be youtube that's killing my video quality. I found x264, it was marked as libx264 and I had a brain fart and passed over it in the options.. Heres screenshots of about the same spot in the video. 1.png is the file from my PC, and 2.png is the video from youtube.