Trying to upgrade camera quality

[Just Push record Studios]

Hi all! I run a podcast studio and it took us about a year to figure out the flow (with some OBS help) so that it's pretty much fully automated and works every single time without fail.

We have 3 cameras and 4 mics and everything is flawless. The one issue is that we're shooting in 4K, which makes all 3 camera angles end up being 1080 so it's all recorded on one screen.

I'm trying to improve the video quality to 5K so then we'll have a higher resolution on each camera. However, my tv isn't a 5K tv so I have no idea how to do this. Is there some kind of work around? I really don't care what it looks like on the tv itself, just as long as it ends up being 5K when being recorded.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I don't understand what you mean by
> The one issue is that we're shooting in 4K, which makes all 3 camera angles end up being 1080 so it's all recorded on one screen.
Maybe others will follow, but I don't .. sorry, no idea what you mean by the above

You could have 4K cameras as Video Sources at 4K resolution, resized accordingly. Or is that what you are doing? or are you cropping the 4K video input?
Is your OBS Studio computer capable of handling real-time encoding at camera native (higher?) resolution? or is camera input already 4K?
You don't mention what you are streaming at? 1080p30?
What is your OBS Studio Base Canvas and Output resolution?
all of this would be visible if you posted OBS Studio log per pinned post in this forum (or link in my .sig)

 

[khaver]

Your monitor size doesn't matter but having a powerful GPU will. In the "Video" settings, make sure your "Base (Canvas) Resolution" and "Output (Scaled) Resolution" are both set to 5120x2880 (you'll need to type those in). In your scene, resize each camera to 2560x1440 and place them how you want (for more accurate sizing and placement of each camera, use the Transform->Edit popup). For 5k resolution you will most likely need to use GPU hardware encoding for recording.

 

[Just Push record Studios]

Your monitor size doesn't matter but having a powerful GPU will. In the "Video" settings, make sure your "Base (Canvas) Resolution" and "Output (Scaled) Resolution" are both set to 5120x2880 (you'll need to type those in). In your scene, resize each camera to 2560x1440 and place them how you want (for more accurate sizing and placement of each camera, use the Transform->Edit popup). For 5k resolution you will most likely need to use GPU hardware encoding for recording.

Thank you for this! I get this error (screenshot below) when I try to go above 4500X2300 (or something like that - not near our pod computer right now). Does that mean I need to upgrade my computer or is there some setting I'm missing?

I also tried to increase FPS to 60 today and it completely glitched out an episode so I brought that down to 48. I'm at the point now we're all of our episodes are slightly grainey and it's driving me crazy.

I'm willing to pay whatever at this point, I just want each camera to be a higher quality than 1080 or as close to 4K as possible + be consistent.

 

[khaver]

The NVENC h264 encoder has a resolution limit of 4k. Try HEVC or AV1. If those don't work you may need to use the CPU with the x264 encoder. On my system the x264 encoder works but the CPU runs at around 50% for 30fps recording. A newer Nvidia GPU card may also work.

 

[Just Push record Studios]

The NVENC h264 encoder has a resolution limit of 4k. Try HEVC or AV1. If those don't work you may need to use the CPU with the x264 encoder. On my system the x264 encoder works but the CPU runs at around 50% for 30fps recording. A newer Nvidia GPU card may also work.

Yeah we checked the report and saw that our GPU was basically dying while the CPU was doing just fine. Just bought a brand new GPU and hoping that helps!