Gaming clips export settings

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This article is going to help you get the best looking video clips from either NVIDIA's ShadowPlay, AMD's ReLive, or via OBS Studio.

Open ShadowPlay and change the following settings:

Video Capture
Resolution: change it from In Game (or 1080p) to 2160p 4k - because of the dedicated NVENC chip, it won't affect your in-game performance at all
Framerate: I'm gonna assume you already have that set to 60 FPS
Bit Rate: 50 Mbps (minimum!) this is very important! Lower bit rate saves on hard drive space but then you get potato quality video.

YouTube claims a maximum 50 Mbps bit rate, but I always do 100 Mbps uploads.

Open ReLive, then click on the Record & Stream tab. On the bottom left, click on Advanced Settings, and then change the following items:

Left column:

Record Desktop: Enabled
Recording Resolution: 2160p - (even if you're NOT playing at 4k, ALL of your video clips will be in native 4k resolution
Recording FPS: 60
Video Encoding Type: HEVC (or AVC if you don't have the h265 codec installed)
Video Bit Rate (Mb/s): 50 (if HEVC) / 100 (if AVC) - yes this is high, but on your final render you can drop it in the video editor
Audio Bit Rate (Kb/s): 192 - YouTube maxes out at 192, so no real point in going any higher
Audio Channels: Automatic
Separate Microphone Track: Enabled - this is so you can filter out your breathing or loud AC or computer fans your microphone picks up on. If it's part of the game audio, it becomes much harder to do so
Record Microphone: Enabled
Microphone Level (%): 50 - you can always boost your microphone audio if need be, but you wont need to unless you have a potato microphone
Push to talk: the choice is your
Audio boost: Off

Right column:

Media save location: I suggest saving to an SSD/NVMe drive instead of an HDD, simply because you're going to dump a potential 1 GB video file and SSD's handle that way better than an HDD
Instant Replay: Enabled
Instant Replay Duration (sec): 90 - the default is 30, and is good for saving space. 90 seconds at the above settings nets you 1 GB video clip
Instant Replay Buffer: Disk Storage (use System Memory if you have 16 GB of RAM or MORE)
Audio Capture Device: make sure you choose your actual microphone here