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April 16, 2020
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Better quality

  • April 16, 2020
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I am using Cinegy 2 codec (H.264),  2560x1440 with 60fps, Bitrate: 60 Mb/s VBR, and my edited video quality is worst than my video recorded in OBS Studio (1920x1080, VBR 40000-60000Kbps). How can i improve my quality after rendering?

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Legend
April 16, 2020

Actually, it's not the codec. You are actually upconverting your video to a higher resolution. That will actually degrade video quality because not only will the original 1920x1080 video limit the image quality to begin with, but upscaling will damage video quality even further. Your original video is only 1080p but you're exporting as 1440p. You're not going to improve video quality one bit, but will actually worsen video quality, when you do that.

 

And VBR actually works best at bitrates below 20 Mb/s. If you're going 40 Mb/s and above, you should be doing CBR, not VBR.

Gray770Author
Participant
April 17, 2020

Well, i was upscaling resolution because i wanted to get VP9 for better quality on Youtube, and it turn out that it's destroying my video quality 😄 Thanks for advice with VBR, i already changed it to CBR.

Edit: I forgot that Youtube is automatically re-encoding videos to VP9 if you are larger channel, i have to wait haha 😄

Jeff Bugbee
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 16, 2020

Any reason you are recording in VBR? Premiere is notoriously bad at handling VBR footage.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 16, 2020

Use a different codec.

Gray770Author
Participant
April 16, 2020

I used built-in H.264, and nothing changed. Same resolution, same Bitrate, same fps. I tried 60Mbps and 120Mbps and i didn't noticed any improvements except higher file size.