How to Improve Recording Quality in OBS Studio - Fix Blurry Recordings

In this video I show you how to improve recording quality in OBS Studio. There are a few reasons why you may have poor recording quality. One of the more common reasons being that the output resolution is set too low. If your output resolution is set low then you will have bad recording quality as there isn’t enough pixels to create a high quality image.

Another way that you can improve recording quality in OBS is to increase your bitrate. Your bitrate controls how much used to make every second of the video. Having the bitrate set too low will cause bad recording quality as there isn’t enough information being saved. Using a bitrate of at least 10000 for 1080p recordings will give better quality recording without having the file size be too large. If you have a good PC you can always increase the bitrate further to improve recording quality even more.

If you’re using the CQP rate control option then you can adjust the video quality through the CQ level. The lower the CQ level the better quality your OBS recording will be. Typically using a CQ level of 18 will work fine, providing a decent file size and good recording quality.

Another option is to reduce your frame rate, however, this isn’t recommended for gameplay. The frame rate or FPS controls how many times the video is updated per second. Setting the FPS to 30 means your bitrate is being used across 30 different images, not 60. This allows you to improve recording quality without increasing the bitrate.

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[mystofn]

Thank you so much! I never thought i could get better quality and i always thought it was my pc! now the quality is great!

[EvilPhantom]

Thank you for the video, it seems to have fixed the blurry recordings I was getting now let’s just hope it stays that way

[callmemk]

Dang I actually owe you one bro. I jumped when I saw my screen recording was just as good as my gameplay. TYSMM <33

[Kkingcastle]

this helped so much! thanks a lot now i can start making quality videos!

[ZOOM_BOI_YT]

didnt expected it will work this good:) thxxx

[CellularPengu]

Well this helped a ton, my pc is literally build for gaming/streaming and recording, and my obs quality was super low for some reason, Thank you

[EloyMF]

Bro God BLESS YOU because it was much helpful and again, GOD BLESS YOU! THANK YOU

[GospodinStanoje]

This worked as of [7. April 2024]

Thanks!

[Cocoyasui]

i ve seen so many videos but nothing seems to work for me, might be a problem with pc/internet at this point idk
i have an amd cpu 5600x and amd gpu 6650xt .. internet upload speed is 10 mb/s
not sure if these are enough for 1080p 60fps recordings

[MrFraxels]

this is to work Thanks for that tutorial

[jheli]

Come on. That simple. Excellent video, short and it worked

[Cheesykid]

I can’t find the encoder menu? I am genuinely considering giving up on obs because I have spent the whole day trying to fix I need some help!

[uzvugid]

Mine doesn't have preset, tuning multipass mode how do I navigate that?

[AndGaming-kmys]

i dont have bit rate option in settings

[tgotthekeyss]

my encoder settings under rate control says says ABR?

[Ragest]

Can i set both base and output resolutions to 1440p?

[PoltergeistClassics]

for some, the encoder settings might be in a diff section

[mukhtarabdi]

Thanks for the video. I was wondering what king of magnifier/zoom in tool are you using?

[LuJoGamer]

You get the best qualaty when you cgo to encoder setting and go to rate control and click CQP, then clik the CQ level, so lower that level so higher is your qualaty, i have 14
Theats best