It only has fade in/fade out for effects, but being streamlined it's faster at compressing. I also use a simple tool to compress and edit called Avidemux. You may even be able to use less with something as simple as Minecraft. In simpler graphics games with slower motion like The Evil Within, 20,000 bitrate has worked fine. That's only necessary for a highly detailed game like Ghost Recon Wildlands though, where you're often moving fast over detailed foliage. I get around that problem on YouTube by resizing to 1440p as I compress, but also use 30,000 bitrate, which is what YouTube recommends for 1440p. If you only have a 1080p display like me and can't capture at 1440p, it's a problem.

They literally use 3 - 4 times the bitrate for 1440p, even though it's only 78% more pixels. If it's only noticeable after uploading, it's often due to the hosting site, especially YouTube, using a disproportionately low conversion bitrate for 1080p uploads compared to 1440p uploads. Another thing you didn't mention is if the graininess only appears after uploading to a hosting site (YouTube, etc), or is noticeable right after capture before doing so. And on that note, you also didn't even mention whether this is a manual recording, or an Instant Replay cached recording.Ĥ5Mb is also an odd setting to use, most would just bump it to the max 50Mb. What I'm saying is any capture tool can yield poor results if your struggling to get good performance while capturing. You also gave no mention of what spec you're playing on, what FPS you're getting while playing, or if you're experiencing any lag. It looks to be Minecraft you're playing, but from chat I've seen that game can get fairly bogged down if you use a lot of mods, especially if playing the latest version with enhanced lighting and HDR. Click to expand.Whole lot of info left out there.

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