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.

ShadowPlay settings

Open ShadowPlay, turn Instant Replay to Off if it's enabled, then click the gear icon on the right side of the screen,

and change the following items:

Recordings

• Temporary files: 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
• Videos: 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

click Back

Audio

• System sounds: 100
• Microphone:
  • Source: make sure your actual microphone is selected here in case you have multiple
  • Volume: 100 (you can lower the volume in post)
  • Boost: leave at default
• Audio tracks: Separate both tracks (this will create a video clip with 2 audio tracks - VLC will only play one at a time, but video editors will play back both tracks)

Click Back

Video Capture

• Instant Replay length: 90 - the default is 30, and is good for saving space. 90 seconds at the above settings nets you 1 GB video clip
• Quality: Custom
  • Resolution: 2160p 4K - (even if you're NOT playing at 4k, ALL of your video clips will be in native 4k resolution
  • Frame rate: 60 FPS (this should be the default setting)
  • Bit rate: 100 Mbps - yes this is high, but on your final render you can lower it in the video editor

Click Back, then click Done to save the settings, and finally, enable Instant Replay either via the drop down menu, or the keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+F10

AMD Adrenaline settings

Open Adrenaline, 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 lower 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

YouTube upload personal notes

YouTube claims a maximum 50 Mbps bit rate, but I always do 100 Mbps uploads. 1440p and higher quality video YouTube re-encodes with its VP9 encoder which gives better 1080p and lower resolution video quality