Finally a guide that also cared to include the encoder settings, thanks a lot! Now i get smoothly recorded HDR videos :D Settings i use for OBS 28.1.1, under "Output --> Advanced --> Recording": - Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC HEVC - Rate control: CQ P - CQ level: 20 - Keyframe interval: 0 - Preset: P7: Slowest (Best Quality) - Tuning: High quality - Multipass mode: Single pass - Profile: main10 - Look-ahead: Unchecked - Psychi visual tuning: Checked - GPU: 0 - Max B-frames: 2 NOTE: I have a RTX 4090 card, and the above settings worked very well for me when recording 1440p HDR from Forza Horizon 5 with max ingame graphics settings. The resulting HDR video looked beatiful when opened in "Media Player" in Windows 11.
But when you play in HDR and record in SDR following your settings the colours are all blown out on end video. Sunlight looks ridiculous covering a large part of screen in white light and dark areas appear darker than they should be. Playing in HDR recording in SDR produces a far worse image than just playing and recording in SDR. Is there a fix for this?
Watching your HDR youtube video on my HDR monitor, my eyes are screaming of happiness !!! p.s. After 3 hours of searching, I found you, thank you soooo much!
I’ve been struggling with this exact issue recently. I switched out my multi monitor setup to have a single 42” OLED screen for HDR, it’s stunning to game and work on etc. I can record HDR footage in OBS by changing settings as EposVox showed etc. However, as this is a single PC and single monitor setup, I then can’t simply load said HDR footage into DaVinci Resolve - from what I understand I have to have another monitor and pass it through the PCIE card to the OLED, which sucks.
I saw that one of the Davince Resolve beta builds now will including hdr on the windows GUI! Glad they are trying to add it!!!🎉👏 Even Capcut desktop free version has hdr windows gui and other features.
Thank you! I was slamming my head against the proverbial wall trying to game in HDR while outputting SDR for ease in post and this helped immensely! Subbed. o7
Hey man since u mentioned youtube processing, when I upload sdr video 4k60 like 10-15 hours. It is taking days and days even its sdr. My video format is mov hevc aac audio. Is there anything that I should do to let youtube process it faster? And sometimes it processes but 4k doesnt show up and video stucks at 360p and never gets fixed, so I have to reupload it. I use around 30.000 bitrate and quailty is good enough.
I want to dispel the myth that HDR400 and HDR600 isn't valuable. I have a Gigabyte M27Q, an IPS display with measly HDR400 (measured to 440), and I KNOW It's nowhere near an OLED in terms of brightness and color pop... Enabling HDR in games however, DOES allow for a FAR wider range of exposure. In Cyberpunk or FFVII:Remake the in-game camera doesn't need to do anywhere near as much virtual exposure adjustments as it does in SDR, which is a godsend for both of those titles. I feel confident to argue that HDR400 is ACTUALLY valuable once you stop comparing it to OLED, and copare it to SDR instead. What I do to combat the reduced vibrancy in HDR is to adjust it by +20% in Radeon Software. That way the color pop from SDR remain, but the display can handle a wider range of exposure levels. Although it isn't OLED by any stretch of the imagination, it's far better than SDR.
Less about the number itself being significant as much as being a usual indicator that it’s not a great display with good HDR support. Countless LCD displays with HDR400 rating where the HDR looks like dogshit. The HDR spec itself isn’t the main problem, HDR400 on a OLED is amazing
update there's still issues with obs 28 with gtx gpu apparently you still will have to use nv12 and srgb to record but that's fine till i can get my hands on a rtx gpu.
@@EposVox It was H.264 before then I changed to hevc. I am not a streamer, just wanted to record games. After I did that, now obs taking too much memory from GPU like 50%
I've been trying to follow the guide to get HDR recording with my 4K60 Mk.2 capture card, but OBS only shows me 1 video format vs the 3 different ones shown on the video... I've got the softwares + firmwares up to date. Any idea of what I can do here, in order to get the P010 Video Format?
ere's my question tho. Im playing games, windows set, games set all HDR. If I wanna stream in regular SDR...but keep playing my games all setup in HDR, do I need to adjust anything? Or can I play my games in HDR while stream come out streamed in SDR, and look just fine and dandy?
This video said there is a part 3 in this series, but I was having a hard time trying to figure out which video that was, this series has been pretty good and I was definitely interested in the one on editing HDR videos.
im slightly confused in the (play hdr rec sdr) section we set up the capture device as hdr but not the video settings in the advanced menu. then in the (play/rec hdr) section we set both up for hdr the capture device and the video settings but when i do this it absolutly blows out the colors everything is to bright and over saturated on my hdr monitor in the preview window
I'm having a problem, so i'm trying to record (in HDR or SDR doesnt really matter) the game on pc running with HDR, but each time i rec it just puts a sort of grey filter on top of the clip. On the OBS preview it shows the normal game, but on every clip and every format I try the colors are just gray-ish
It is tricky to dual PC stream in HDR with SDR tonemapping because you cannot duplicate an HDR display. Presently what I have been doing, and I think is working, is running OBS on each PC and using the full screen output projector to the capture device. Basically I set the capture device to appear as its own monitor.
I've followed this guide and my video on my computer recorded perfectly in HDR. However, when I upload it on youtube, HDR version is not showing, and the colors are washed on SDR version. What can be the problem? I use AMD HW H.265 (HEVC) codec on OBS.
mesmo depois das configurações eu ainda estou tendo uma camada acinzentada por cima da minha gravação, tanto do shadowplay quanto no obs, não sei mais o que fazer, queria jogar e gravar em HDR.. :( Does any1 know what to do pls?
Can confirm the Avermedia Live Gamer Duo works. ONLY Input 1, input 2* doesn't support HDR. Just in case was anyone was wondering. *Edit corrected input 2 instead of output 2
Hello when i select colour space 2100 PQ its show me black screen, default work but not same quality like ps5 what i need to do monitor its samsung G7 AG700 144hz Gtx 3060Ti and i record with Elgato HD60X?
Hi! Thanks for the video, can you please clarify one thing: 1 - i'm playing on a console (PS5) with a monitor that has HDR. 2 - I'm straming using the Elgado HD 60x using a monitor to monitor the recording / streaming that's not HDR. is it possible to still play on HDR and stream /Record on HDR as well? Thank you!
Ok so once i change the color space to Rec. 2100(PQ) i get a black screen in obs I have an elgato 4k60 pro mk2 and using ps5 along with hdr10 TV, i tried recording using all the settings you said but the video is washed out, and also the video format is blank i dont see anything in there EDIT : Ok now its working BUT as soon as i put the video format to P010 the frames drop to 13-15 FPS , is my rtx 3060 ti can't handle it? I have a ryzen 7 3700x as well with 16 gb of ram at speed 3600
I followed the "HDR Recording GUIDE" and tried to stream HDR game from OBS to RUclips HLS server. The live video looks washed out in PC browser (Edge). But looks totally fine on iPhone RUclips app. Dunno what's wrong :(
I know you already made a video about "Color Space (RGB Full vs Limited) does HDR change anything on that front on what we should be setting RGB Full or Limited to on consoles for example?
Does the "HDR Nominal Peak Level" setting in obs add peak nits level to the video metadata? so that a display can properly tone map or roll-off hdr content that has higher peak nits than the display itself? For exsample, lets say i master my gameplay for led based tv's with lets say 2000nits peak but most oled "only" handle ~900nits, but if the right metadata is present like in movies that are Mastered at 4000 or even at 10000nits, then the tv can tonemap the video instead off just hard clipping everything above 900nits. i hope my question is understandable, english is not my first language :D
Awesome question! I would also like to know the answer. My *guess* is that I highly doubt it, and even if it did, many displays still can't interpret that metadata, which is part of the reason why HLG (which doesn't require metadata) adoption is more accelerated in the video broadcast world rather than PQ. *Following*
Update: HDR Streaming No longer possible. OBS: Failed to connect HDR Output is currently disabled for this output. I didn’t change anything except update my Nvidia, drivers and update OBS and I’ve tried everything to fix this …
Just came across this and i have finally got some colour in OBS in HDR thank you. Only thing is my audio has slipped out of time since putting these settings in, is there anything in there that could cause this please ?
Please help. I did setup OBS for HDR recording. But sometimes i want to record gameplay of SDR game. Will the colours look right or do i have to change some OBS settings to SDR, if yes, which ones i have to change back?
This is awesome - Thank you for taking the time to research, create, and post this video! You answered so many questions I had... like what if you are recording in HDR but don't have an HDR monitor. Keep up the awesome work! Side note - Curious on what software you use for post-capture video editing?
Hey Epos! Great video! As an aspriing gameplay content creator I look forward to your follow up video on editing HDR gameplay :) (hopefully with Davinci Resolve **fingers crossed***) But I have one question: Is there a reason to do HDR PQ and not HDR HLG settings?
6:09 It should be noted, on my EVGA XR1 Pro, when I choose any res other than 1920x1080 on the Video Capture Device in OBS, my preview screen goes black. Even though in the little window it is still visible. Switching to 2560x1440 which is what I am feeding it, blacks out the preview window. And as far as I can tell, it records a black screen as well. Bug? Or just the way it is? 1080p60 only?
Yeah just tested, P010 only available in 1080p. Now I’m very curious about testing all this, as I’m pretty sure one of the avermedias could do HDR in 4k30 originally
If my other monitor where OBS is opend doesn't have HDR can I get OBS to show it like it really looks? In the preview the image looks so flat and not really colorfull And I need to activate SDR to look it like HDR right?
Amazing video! Thank you for all the information. One question tho: Is it possible to stream in SDR to twitch while simultaneously record in HDR, for later upload to youtube? or is it an all or nothing situation. Since I dont see twitch adding hdr support any time soon, and being able to upload hdr gaming videos to youtube sounds great.
@@kivychan Kinda late here but it woks, I was testing it today with the virtual camera to pass the HDR Recording OBS to the SDR Streaming OBS, works well, but as expected, it hits harder the PC, as it needs to double the work basically. If you have spare cpu/gpu horsepower maybe you'll be fine, but a second machine would be ideal for that.
Fantastic video -- your content is accurate, succinct, entertaining, and overall very helpful! I am curious about your comment that "PQ is that what everyone prefers as the way to go, and should get the best results most quickly." I am a broadcast engineer & I lead product & engineering for a large streaming company. We work with thousands of organizations around the world. Most of our customers are not streaming in HDR yet. However, in at-least the live video world (specifically, the professional video market - like Sony broadcast cameras, the largest audio/video integrators in the United States, and the largest broadcast networks like the BBC, for example), the industry is moving towards HLG rather than PQ. There are many reasons for this including workflow simplicity.., but the most important factor comes down to the actual-viewing experience (aesthetics) for the majority of viewers. In short, HLG works better on SDR monitors (monitors that do not support HDR), and HLG is more complimentary to uncontrolled light-contaminated viewing environments (the most common viewing environments). This is because PQ is a standard that uses an 'absolute' interpretation of reference white (nominal diffuse white) at 203 nits, whereas HLG is a standard that uses a 'relative' interpretation. The result is that - like SDR, HLG can display peak white at higher peak luma levels for daytime/higher-ambient light viewing environments (as in the case of most home viewing environments).., whereas PQ has no way to increase the display's light output to overcome surrounding room light levels. With PQ, the peak brightness cannot be increased and neither can the fixed gamma (EOTF) curve. Therefore, in the majority of viewing environments, the majority of the PQ HDR image will appear very dark with shadow detail potentially becoming very difficult to see. If the broadcaster (streamer's) streaming platform does not support HDR --> SDR transformation (providing both HDR and SDR versions) - and a broadcaster is only sending HDR, the viewer will get the HDR feed, and HLG will look significantly better than PQ in these cases. Just to be totally clear, to be able to view PQ-based 'absolute' HDR video, a user has to have an HDR monitor AND environmental light levels have to be very carefully controlled. Yes, some people have movie/cinema rooms, but this is not the norm for home viewing. Comparatively, HLG includes a system gamma variable based on surround illuminance specifically aimed at overcoming environmental lighting issues, and so the HLG HDR standard can be scaled in exactly the same way as traditional SDR TVs and will be a better overall result for most people. Yes, PQ can provide a better looking image with the right equipment and viewing environments, but it will be worse for the majority of people. Your observation (from another one of your videos) that the OBS devs are recommending PQ rather than HLG is concerning to me because it seems like a split/disconnect between where the video industry is headed vs where the OBS/gaming world is headed, and this will lead to less-than-ideal compatibility down the line; so I'm hoping I might find the right audience to talk about this with. Reference 1: www.lightillusion.com/what_is_hdr.html Reference 2: www.veneratech.com/hdr-transfer-functions-hlg-pq/
@EposVox, thanks for amazing content! The one thing is still unclear for me - is it really necessary to have a HDR-monitor to record gameplay in HDR? For instance - to set HDR in graphics settings and record it, though not seeing HDR with my eyes?
@@EposVox, thanks! BTW, I do love the way you manage your channel. It seems like freedom of choise of research topics is way more important for you than fame or money. You're really like some kind of media/hardware scientist, and it's great! I'm with you, sir! 🙂
"play games in HDR, but record in SDR" yields much inferior recording results compared to "recording while playing games, all in SDR". It cannot match the quality of recordings produced in a fully SDR environment. Perhaps my expectations were too high, I would caution against having high expectations. The colors appear darker, initially I thought OBS failed to automatically map the colors correctly, but it's possible that OBS succeeded? I'm not quite certain. It doesn't look very good, but perhaps it is better than incorrect tonemapping of HDR onto SDR?
I have a EVGA XR1 Pro. I put the PO10 and 2100(PQ) but it's not recorded the HDR, I pass the video to my phone to test if the video is on HDR but it's not
If the video file isn’t seen by your phone as HDR, either the phone media player isn’t reading it correctly or OBS is not set to HDR correctly. Capture card settings are irrelevant to that as the file metadata is only affected by the OBS settings
Games like God of War Ragnarok and Harry Potter Hogwart Legacy does not have fullscreen support. (Only windowed/Borderless) How do you enable Rec2100 PQ in Window Capture? The option is only available in Game capture.
A question if I may. Does the release of this new OBS version mean that OBS NDI Plugin will not work anymore? Beacuse as far as I know it has not been updated in a while. I am using a 2 PC setup with NDI and not Capture Card because I don't want to lock my 4K120hz screen to 4k60hz. However without using OBS NDI plugin I am unable to get the correct colour from my gaming PC on the Streaming PC(when gaming in HDR mode). Since using normal NDI via Screen Capture(and HX) results in overblown image. Using OBS NDI plugin I get that normal washed out image that I expect comes from HDR(I can then use a LUT from your awesomeHDR pack to get OK ish SDR on stream)
@@EposVox I tried it again. It didn't work from a custom path. I reinstalled it on the C drive, but in SDR, it only recorded audio, not video. I changed a lot of presets (codecs, settings, tried a compatibility mode, etc.) Nothing happens. Bandicam worked right away, but it couldn't record HDR; there isn't even an HDR setting in it, despite it being advertised as HDR recorder. Truthfully, it couldn't record HDR (due to a custom resolution or something else, it doesn't matter; for my case, it didn't work, only SDR). OBS Studio couldn't even record in SDR. I thought that ShadowPlay was buggy (sometimes it doesn't record and the PC must be reloaded), but this software is even worse. Not recommended. ShadowPlay works automatically recording HDR but it's buggy.
@@EposVox PotPlayer. The file is very small, it seems that it records only the audio. It chose NVidia codec (a special version of it?). If it uses a very rare codec, that's very strange. I suspect it can't work either when Experience is installed or because of the latest version of Windows (Google search). It can't even work from other disks in my configuration, if it is installed on them apart from C. It's senseless to search for a reason just at the beginning of its use; what will happen in the future?
@@EposVox I tried to uninstall Experience and changed a lot of settings in NVidia Control Panel (Program Settings), even tried changing Power Saving Settings (reddit advice). Only audio. I'm quite disappointed that this software doesn't work at all for my configuration (I tried to change resolutions and turned off DSR, Image Scaling etc). It simply doesn't work.
It seems I can't get this to work due to overload as I am recording 4K HDR at 60fps. I have a 4090 and I thought I would be able to do it but I was wrong. Would this only be possible with something like an elgato card? Lowering to 30 FPS it works fine but I would like to be able to record at 60 FPS. 30 ruins the experience.
The colors are better but now the FPS is bad. I'm using those cheap fake 4k capture card with PS4 pro to laptop. Before I changed settings the FPS and resolution was good but the colors were bad. On video format I only had the option to change to YUY2 which fixed the colors but now the FPS is bad. I'm trying to play HDR games and record in SDR. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
i followd your instruction but after uploading to yourube, it read as rec.709 color space. i try software and hardware encoding but both still change to rec.709 after uploading. any tips for it? i use elgato 4k pro as video capture.
@@EposVox so you mean, youtube will upload and show sdr 4k and later hdr 4k? Is there any notification from youtube for how long they will process 4K HDR? In my case, after uploading my video, there isnt notification about hdr process. Only 4k process.
Thanks for the video! I tried capturing game footage both with a Display Capture and Game Capture source, but all I get is black video. I'm using an rx 6800xt with the h265/HEVC encoder, and set the color space according to your guide. Could you give some pointers?
Finally a guide that also cared to include the encoder settings, thanks a lot! Now i get smoothly recorded HDR videos :D
Settings i use for OBS 28.1.1, under "Output --> Advanced --> Recording":
- Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC HEVC
- Rate control: CQ P
- CQ level: 20
- Keyframe interval: 0
- Preset: P7: Slowest (Best Quality)
- Tuning: High quality
- Multipass mode: Single pass
- Profile: main10
- Look-ahead: Unchecked
- Psychi visual tuning: Checked
- GPU: 0
- Max B-frames: 2
NOTE: I have a RTX 4090 card, and the above settings worked very well for me when recording 1440p HDR from Forza Horizon 5 with max ingame graphics settings. The resulting HDR video looked beatiful when opened in "Media Player" in Windows 11.
@Jekalxg i recorded with MP4
I also have RTX 4090. i'm trying to find the best setting to record 4K 60FPS HDR with preset slowest. Wish me luck!
Hey can use Av1 with these settings
This video is amazing. So clear and concise and doesn’t waste time! You have a new sub!
Thanks for subscribing!
Thank you and we appreciate that you actually recorded this video in HDR and edited in HDR to show which ones are showing in SDR or HDR
But when you play in HDR and record in SDR following your settings the colours are all blown out on end video. Sunlight looks ridiculous covering a large part of screen in white light and dark areas appear darker than they should be. Playing in HDR recording in SDR produces a far worse image than just playing and recording in SDR. Is there a fix for this?
use display capture and use the option "force sdr" in display capture properties
@@tuhinfragsI run a dual pc set up sadly this won’t work
Watching your HDR youtube video on my HDR monitor, my eyes are screaming of happiness !!!
p.s. After 3 hours of searching, I found you, thank you soooo much!
The fact that DaVinci Resolve won't let you view HDR in the Windows GUI without a BMD pcie card is kinda... At least it works on Mac.
ITS BEEN THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE
Same for Photoshop 2023. Only MacOS for RAW images.
I’ve been struggling with this exact issue recently. I switched out my multi monitor setup to have a single 42” OLED screen for HDR, it’s stunning to game and work on etc. I can record HDR footage in OBS by changing settings as EposVox showed etc. However, as this is a single PC and single monitor setup, I then can’t simply load said HDR footage into DaVinci Resolve - from what I understand I have to have another monitor and pass it through the PCIE card to the OLED, which sucks.
I saw that one of the Davince Resolve beta builds now will including hdr on the windows GUI! Glad they are trying to add it!!!🎉👏 Even Capcut desktop free version has hdr windows gui and other features.
@@YellowBoltGaming Good, it's about time given how long OBS of all things has had support.
Thank you! I was slamming my head against the proverbial wall trying to game in HDR while outputting SDR for ease in post and this helped immensely! Subbed. o7
Hey man since u mentioned youtube processing, when I upload sdr video 4k60 like 10-15 hours. It is taking days and days even its sdr. My video format is mov hevc aac audio. Is there anything that I should do to let youtube process it faster? And sometimes it processes but 4k doesnt show up and video stucks at 360p and never gets fixed, so I have to reupload it. I use around 30.000 bitrate and quailty is good enough.
Awesome video! This was big help on the HDR front and super straight forward to get to the end goal. Cheers!
Wow this is really helpful!! I will be referencing this video. Thanks!
Thank you so much. SO easy to follow. I subscribed! keep up the girnd my man.
You are the man! I can finally rock the Elgato 4k X in glorious HDR! Thanks ✨
I want to dispel the myth that HDR400 and HDR600 isn't valuable. I have a Gigabyte M27Q, an IPS display with measly HDR400 (measured to 440), and I KNOW It's nowhere near an OLED in terms of brightness and color pop... Enabling HDR in games however, DOES allow for a FAR wider range of exposure. In Cyberpunk or FFVII:Remake the in-game camera doesn't need to do anywhere near as much virtual exposure adjustments as it does in SDR, which is a godsend for both of those titles. I feel confident to argue that HDR400 is ACTUALLY valuable once you stop comparing it to OLED, and copare it to SDR instead. What I do to combat the reduced vibrancy in HDR is to adjust it by +20% in Radeon Software. That way the color pop from SDR remain, but the display can handle a wider range of exposure levels. Although it isn't OLED by any stretch of the imagination, it's far better than SDR.
Less about the number itself being significant as much as being a usual indicator that it’s not a great display with good HDR support. Countless LCD displays with HDR400 rating where the HDR looks like dogshit. The HDR spec itself isn’t the main problem, HDR400 on a OLED is amazing
update there's still issues with obs 28 with gtx gpu apparently you still will have to use nv12 and srgb to record but that's fine till i can get my hands on a rtx gpu.
after applying the settings when I click on recording this error showing,
''cannot perform 10-bit encode on this encoder''
Did you choose hevc?
@@EposVox It was H.264 before then I changed to hevc. I am not a streamer, just wanted to record games. After I did that, now obs taking too much memory from GPU like 50%
I've been trying to follow the guide to get HDR recording with my 4K60 Mk.2 capture card, but OBS only shows me 1 video format vs the 3 different ones shown on the video... I've got the softwares + firmwares up to date. Any idea of what I can do here, in order to get the P010 Video Format?
I’m having the same problem
Needed this too! Bro you cover EVERYTHING! You're truly my hero for getting started in recording/streaming...again THANK YOU
ere's my question tho. Im playing games, windows set, games set all HDR. If I wanna stream in regular SDR...but keep playing my games all setup in HDR, do I need to adjust anything? Or can I play my games in HDR while stream come out streamed in SDR, and look just fine and dandy?
Don't need to adjust anything, covered the "play in HDR record in SDR" use case first.
@@EposVox OK thought so...just making sure I understood that correctly. Thanks again buddy! Appreciate your time.
Thank you thank you thank you! This video was sop perfectly specific to my situation! You are a god send!
Anyone have any idea how to eliminate micro stutter while recording in 4k/60 HDR ?, is it just the HEVC codec that has an issue or is if fixable ?
finally! i couldnt figure out why my elden ring videos were coming out so washed and blurry. thanks for your help!
This video said there is a part 3 in this series, but I was having a hard time trying to figure out which video that was, this series has been pretty good and I was definitely interested in the one on editing HDR videos.
I don't believe EposVox how can you reference something that doesn't even exist over a year later.
Thank dude video fixed my problem.
im slightly confused in the (play hdr rec sdr) section we set up the capture device as hdr but not the video settings in the advanced menu. then in the (play/rec hdr) section we set both up for hdr the capture device and the video settings but when i do this it absolutly blows out the colors everything is to bright and over saturated on my hdr monitor in the preview window
I'm having a problem, so i'm trying to record (in HDR or SDR doesnt really matter) the game on pc running with HDR, but each time i rec it just puts a sort of grey filter on top of the clip. On the OBS preview it shows the normal game, but on every clip and every format I try the colors are just gray-ish
Is it possible to play in SDR and record in HDR?
It is tricky to dual PC stream in HDR with SDR tonemapping because you cannot duplicate an HDR display. Presently what I have been doing, and I think is working, is running OBS on each PC and using the full screen output projector to the capture device. Basically I set the capture device to appear as its own monitor.
Have you found a way to not use OBS on both pcs?
@@tekmaniacstreams nope.
So the capture card is extended from gaming PC or streaming PC?
I've followed this guide and my video on my computer recorded perfectly in HDR. However, when I upload it on youtube, HDR version is not showing, and the colors are washed on SDR version. What can be the problem? I use AMD HW H.265 (HEVC) codec on OBS.
For some reason I cannot figure out how to get video recorded with these settings to not be super washed out in Davinci Resolve Studio. UGH.
mesmo depois das configurações eu ainda estou tendo uma camada acinzentada por cima da minha gravação, tanto do shadowplay quanto no obs, não sei mais o que fazer, queria jogar e gravar em HDR.. :( Does any1 know what to do pls?
WOWW THIS VIDEO IS 2160HDR and I’m on my iPhone 11 Pro Max
great video man, everything was white with HDR on my stream, now I am able to stream while I am playing in HDR
Can rtx 3050 handle HDR10+?
For the color format what is the difference if I chose I010 (10-bit, 4:2:0, 3 planes) instead of P010 (10-bit, 4:2:0, 2 planes)?
I want to know this too, as well as why not use full color range instead of limited.
At 4:59, you should've set the "Color Range" to Full, not Limited though?
No, you still use Limited.
thanks changing the properties of the game worked for me
My preview looks mostly normal, but upon reviewing final videos, they are desaturated and darker, unsure what Im missing
Can confirm the Avermedia Live Gamer Duo works. ONLY Input 1, input 2* doesn't support HDR. Just in case was anyone was wondering.
*Edit corrected input 2 instead of output 2
My HDR recordings have colors washed out, they are unsaturated with these settings from this video.
This video turned my floppy into a solid state
I get an error message saying "NVENC ERROR: Cannot perform 10 bit encode on this encoder."
I think I've hit every step .. am I missing something?
Are you using H264 or HEVC?
Also post in their Discord, where the actual tech support is, lol
@@EposVox Lol fair. And I was using HEVC - but thanks for your reply!
Could not perform 10 bit encode on this encoder...
Hello when i select colour space 2100 PQ its show me black screen, default work but not same quality like ps5 what i need to do monitor its samsung G7 AG700 144hz Gtx 3060Ti and i record with Elgato HD60X?
Hi! Thanks for the video, can you please clarify one thing:
1 - i'm playing on a console (PS5) with a monitor that has HDR.
2 - I'm straming using the Elgado HD 60x using a monitor to monitor the recording / streaming that's not HDR.
is it possible to still play on HDR and stream /Record on HDR as well?
Thank you!
my usb video card needs to be replaced, thanks for the information it helped me a lot!
Ok so once i change the color space to Rec. 2100(PQ) i get a black screen in obs
I have an elgato 4k60 pro mk2 and using ps5 along with hdr10 TV, i tried recording using all the settings you said but the video is washed out, and also the video format is blank i dont see anything in there
EDIT : Ok now its working BUT as soon as i put the video format to P010 the frames drop to 13-15 FPS , is my rtx 3060 ti can't handle it? I have a ryzen 7 3700x as well with 16 gb of ram at speed 3600
Seems like hdr is very demanding on gpu
I followed the "HDR Recording GUIDE" and tried to stream HDR game from OBS to RUclips HLS server. The live video looks washed out in PC browser (Edge). But looks totally fine on iPhone RUclips app. Dunno what's wrong :(
I know you already made a video about "Color Space (RGB Full vs Limited) does HDR change anything on that front on what we should be setting RGB Full or Limited to on consoles for example?
The quality of this video is looking a lot better. The video noise is gone and the lighting looks better. =D
Does the "HDR Nominal Peak Level" setting in obs add peak nits level to the video metadata? so that a display can properly tone map or roll-off hdr content that has higher peak nits than the display itself? For exsample, lets say i master my gameplay for led based tv's with lets say 2000nits peak but most oled "only" handle ~900nits, but if the right metadata is present like in movies that are Mastered at 4000 or even at 10000nits, then the tv can tonemap the video instead off just hard clipping everything above 900nits.
i hope my question is understandable, english is not my first language :D
Awesome question! I would also like to know the answer.
My *guess* is that I highly doubt it, and even if it did, many displays still can't interpret that metadata, which is part of the reason why HLG (which doesn't require metadata) adoption is more accelerated in the video broadcast world rather than PQ. *Following*
Yes I just got the update today and you can change the stream white levels and you can change hdr nominal peak nit levels
Thanks for the information!
Update: HDR Streaming No longer possible.
OBS: Failed to connect
HDR Output is currently disabled for this output.
I didn’t change anything except update my Nvidia, drivers and update OBS and I’ve tried everything to fix this …
You just don't know how to do it right
@@Virtual.Window this was four months ago bro, keep up.
Just came across this and i have finally got some colour in OBS in HDR thank you.
Only thing is my audio has slipped out of time since putting these settings in, is there anything in there that could cause this please ?
Please help. I did setup OBS for HDR recording. But sometimes i want to record gameplay of SDR game. Will the colours look right or do i have to change some OBS settings to SDR, if yes, which ones i have to change back?
This is awesome - Thank you for taking the time to research, create, and post this video! You answered so many questions I had... like what if you are recording in HDR but don't have an HDR monitor. Keep up the awesome work!
Side note - Curious on what software you use for post-capture video editing?
DaVinci Resolve!
@@EposVox Thanks!
If you don’t mind telling me why my streams and videos are still pixelated with my hd60x?
Hey Epos! Great video! As an aspriing gameplay content creator I look forward to your follow up video on editing HDR gameplay :) (hopefully with Davinci Resolve **fingers crossed***)
But I have one question: Is there a reason to do HDR PQ and not HDR HLG settings?
i hope this works with my gtx 1660 super oc i do have a asus tuf 4k 60 fps monitor with hdr
It keeps telling me HDR output is currently disables for this output
What about Mac? Does this work on macOS?
Thank you VERY much goodman!
6:09 It should be noted, on my EVGA XR1 Pro, when I choose any res other than 1920x1080 on the Video Capture Device in OBS, my preview screen goes black. Even though in the little window it is still visible. Switching to 2560x1440 which is what I am feeding it, blacks out the preview window. And as far as I can tell, it records a black screen as well. Bug? Or just the way it is? 1080p60 only?
Yeah just tested, P010 only available in 1080p. Now I’m very curious about testing all this, as I’m pretty sure one of the avermedias could do HDR in 4k30 originally
Is there a wayvto record gameplay in hdr with these 4k webcams from elgato and razer?
I follow your instructions, thank you...but what about NDI HDR transmission (thought OBS plugin)
If my other monitor where OBS is opend doesn't have HDR can I get OBS to show it like it really looks?
In the preview the image looks so flat and not really colorfull
And I need to activate SDR to look it like HDR right?
Amazing video! Thank you for all the information.
One question tho: Is it possible to stream in SDR to twitch while simultaneously record in HDR, for later upload to youtube? or is it an all or nothing situation. Since I dont see twitch adding hdr support any time soon, and being able to upload hdr gaming videos to youtube sounds great.
actually i just thought of an option... would this be a great situation to run a 2nd instance of obs in portable mode?
@@kivychan Kinda late here but it woks, I was testing it today with the virtual camera to pass the HDR Recording OBS to the SDR Streaming OBS, works well, but as expected, it hits harder the PC, as it needs to double the work basically. If you have spare cpu/gpu horsepower maybe you'll be fine, but a second machine would be ideal for that.
Under video Format, I only show "ANY" and YUY2? RTX 4070,Elgato 4k MK.2, on stream rig.... dual PC setup
Same here, I only have YUY2.
We Prolly wont get an answer butI did seem to get rid of the issue, but im on a dual PC setup
@@kornboy8262
Fantastic video -- your content is accurate, succinct, entertaining, and overall very helpful!
I am curious about your comment that "PQ is that what everyone prefers as the way to go, and should get the best results most quickly." I am a broadcast engineer & I lead product & engineering for a large streaming company. We work with thousands of organizations around the world. Most of our customers are not streaming in HDR yet. However, in at-least the live video world (specifically, the professional video market - like Sony broadcast cameras, the largest audio/video integrators in the United States, and the largest broadcast networks like the BBC, for example), the industry is moving towards HLG rather than PQ. There are many reasons for this including workflow simplicity.., but the most important factor comes down to the actual-viewing experience (aesthetics) for the majority of viewers. In short, HLG works better on SDR monitors (monitors that do not support HDR), and HLG is more complimentary to uncontrolled light-contaminated viewing environments (the most common viewing environments).
This is because PQ is a standard that uses an 'absolute' interpretation of reference white (nominal diffuse white) at 203 nits, whereas HLG is a standard that uses a 'relative' interpretation. The result is that - like SDR, HLG can display peak white at higher peak luma levels for daytime/higher-ambient light viewing environments (as in the case of most home viewing environments).., whereas PQ has no way to increase the display's light output to overcome surrounding room light levels. With PQ, the peak brightness cannot be increased and neither can the fixed gamma (EOTF) curve. Therefore, in the majority of viewing environments, the majority of the PQ HDR image will appear very dark with shadow detail potentially becoming very difficult to see.
If the broadcaster (streamer's) streaming platform does not support HDR --> SDR transformation (providing both HDR and SDR versions) - and a broadcaster is only sending HDR, the viewer will get the HDR feed, and HLG will look significantly better than PQ in these cases.
Just to be totally clear, to be able to view PQ-based 'absolute' HDR video, a user has to have an HDR monitor AND environmental light levels have to be very carefully controlled. Yes, some people have movie/cinema rooms, but this is not the norm for home viewing. Comparatively, HLG includes a system gamma variable based on surround illuminance specifically aimed at overcoming environmental lighting issues, and so the HLG HDR standard can be scaled in exactly the same way as traditional SDR TVs and will be a better overall result for most people. Yes, PQ can provide a better looking image with the right equipment and viewing environments, but it will be worse for the majority of people.
Your observation (from another one of your videos) that the OBS devs are recommending PQ rather than HLG is concerning to me because it seems like a split/disconnect between where the video industry is headed vs where the OBS/gaming world is headed, and this will lead to less-than-ideal compatibility down the line; so I'm hoping I might find the right audience to talk about this with.
Reference 1: www.lightillusion.com/what_is_hdr.html
Reference 2: www.veneratech.com/hdr-transfer-functions-hlg-pq/
Thanks for clearing that up I’ve heard the same. RUclips recommends HLG too.
Idk why my video is still not uploading as hdr in youtube even though i did every step you said uhmm help
oddly the preview doesn't change colors unless I do it through the advance settings as well... Is that suppose to happen?
Yes because then OBS is tonemapping it to SDR for you, as the first section covered
@EposVox, thanks for amazing content!
The one thing is still unclear for me - is it really necessary to have a HDR-monitor to record gameplay in HDR? For instance - to set HDR in graphics settings and record it, though not seeing HDR with my eyes?
You won’t be able to turn on HDR without a HDR monitor
@@EposVox, thanks! BTW, I do love the way you manage your channel. It seems like freedom of choise of research topics is way more important for you than fame or money. You're really like some kind of media/hardware scientist, and it's great! I'm with you, sir! 🙂
i want to apply colour correction filters into HDR source, is there any way to do this?
My GPU is Intel Arc A770. I have an issue recording in HDR!
Hi, great video !
Can you tell me what would be the best capture card (that is usable without a pc) with a good quality/price ratio?
Thank you !
"play games in HDR, but record in SDR" yields much inferior recording results compared to "recording while playing games, all in SDR". It cannot match the quality of recordings produced in a fully SDR environment. Perhaps my expectations were too high, I would caution against having high expectations. The colors appear darker, initially I thought OBS failed to automatically map the colors correctly, but it's possible that OBS succeeded? I'm not quite certain. It doesn't look very good, but perhaps it is better than incorrect tonemapping of HDR onto SDR?
6:47 where do I acess this window?
There is no Video Format "P010"?!
Nice this video is HDR
how did he get to that menu at 5:50
doesn't work with NDI unfortunately
I have a EVGA XR1 Pro. I put the PO10 and 2100(PQ) but it's not recorded the HDR, I pass the video to my phone to test if the video is on HDR but it's not
If the video file isn’t seen by your phone as HDR, either the phone media player isn’t reading it correctly or OBS is not set to HDR correctly. Capture card settings are irrelevant to that as the file metadata is only affected by the OBS settings
@@EposVox I fix it. I had to change the OBS encoder to make it work, I put (NVENC, HEVC), the (H.264) gaves me error
Yep, one of the first things covered in the video :)
What if I don't have an HDR monitor, can I still record in HDR?
No
Thanks!
Games like God of War Ragnarok and Harry Potter Hogwart Legacy does not have fullscreen support. (Only windowed/Borderless) How do you enable Rec2100 PQ in Window Capture? The option is only available in Game capture.
A question if I may. Does the release of this new OBS version mean that OBS NDI Plugin will not work anymore? Beacuse as far as I know it has not been updated in a while.
I am using a 2 PC setup with NDI and not Capture Card because I don't want to lock my 4K120hz screen to 4k60hz.
However without using OBS NDI plugin I am unable to get the correct colour from my gaming PC on the Streaming PC(when gaming in HDR mode). Since using normal NDI via Screen Capture(and HX) results in overblown image.
Using OBS NDI plugin I get that normal washed out image that I expect comes from HDR(I can then use a LUT from your awesomeHDR pack to get OK ish SDR on stream)
Thank you so much u saved me
What about STREAMLABS OBS? Are the settings the same?
I'm using a AMD RX 6800XT and OBS 28 and I'm not seeing the option in H.265 for changing the profile at all no Main or Main 10 so not sure what to do.
Recording in HDR is sadly not possible with custom ffmpeg options. So currently recording in HDR with lossless audio is impossible.
Cannot performs 10-bit encode on this encoder. It seems that it can't work with AutoHDR or something else.
Works fine with AutoHDR, not the cause
@@EposVox I tried it again. It didn't work from a custom path. I reinstalled it on the C drive, but in SDR, it only recorded audio, not video. I changed a lot of presets (codecs, settings, tried a compatibility mode, etc.) Nothing happens. Bandicam worked right away, but it couldn't record HDR; there isn't even an HDR setting in it, despite it being advertised as HDR recorder. Truthfully, it couldn't record HDR (due to a custom resolution or something else, it doesn't matter; for my case, it didn't work, only SDR). OBS Studio couldn't even record in SDR. I thought that ShadowPlay was buggy (sometimes it doesn't record and the PC must be reloaded), but this software is even worse. Not recommended. ShadowPlay works automatically recording HDR but it's buggy.
If you’re only getting audio, that just means your player can’t play the codec. Download MPV or MPC-HC or something
@@EposVox PotPlayer. The file is very small, it seems that it records only the audio. It chose NVidia codec (a special version of it?). If it uses a very rare codec, that's very strange. I suspect it can't work either when Experience is installed or because of the latest version of Windows (Google search). It can't even work from other disks in my configuration, if it is installed on them apart from C. It's senseless to search for a reason just at the beginning of its use; what will happen in the future?
@@EposVox I tried to uninstall Experience and changed a lot of settings in NVidia Control Panel (Program Settings), even tried changing Power Saving Settings (reddit advice). Only audio. I'm quite disappointed that this software doesn't work at all for my configuration (I tried to change resolutions and turned off DSR, Image Scaling etc). It simply doesn't work.
I have AMD PROCESSOR! tried your settings unfortunately it won't work and record HDR
Well CPU has no impact on this
@@EposVox what happen when I put those settings in is the colours over saturate will post a clip soon
It seems I can't get this to work due to overload as I am recording 4K HDR at 60fps. I have a 4090 and I thought I would be able to do it but I was wrong. Would this only be possible with something like an elgato card? Lowering to 30 FPS it works fine but I would like to be able to record at 60 FPS. 30 ruins the experience.
I have a evga xr1 pro I can't find the color format po10 at all lol
Po10 only show up in 1080p with that capture card
Post watching video: When I record on OBS when I enable HDR on xbox series X my OBS is green on the picture
Tried doing what you were doing and my video in OBS when I enable HDR on Series X still is green and flickers
Do you have any Idea why I get alot of frame drop from with OBS but not with Action! when streaming 2160p60 to youtube?
The colors are better but now the FPS is bad. I'm using those cheap fake 4k capture card with PS4 pro to laptop. Before I changed settings the FPS and resolution was good but the colors were bad. On video format I only had the option to change to YUY2 which fixed the colors but now the FPS is bad. I'm trying to play HDR games and record in SDR. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Set it to NV12
@@EposVox it's still bad. Maybe my capture card or laptop can't handle it idk.
i followd your instruction but after uploading to yourube, it read as rec.709 color space. i try software and hardware encoding but both still change to rec.709 after uploading. any tips for it? i use elgato 4k pro as video capture.
HDR can take a few days to process on RUclips. You get a SDR copy first, HDR later
@@EposVox so you mean, youtube will upload and show sdr 4k and later hdr 4k?
Is there any notification from youtube for how long they will process 4K HDR? In my case, after uploading my video, there isnt notification about hdr process. Only 4k process.
Nope! No notification, no ETA, nothing! It's wonderful@@gogo0913
@@EposVox you’re right. I tested it and no notif no eta nothing.
Thanks for replying man. Really appreciate it.
Thanks for the video! I tried capturing game footage both with a Display Capture and Game Capture source, but all I get is black video. I'm using an rx 6800xt with the h265/HEVC encoder, and set the color space according to your guide. Could you give some pointers?
Is intel quicksync not yet available HEVC on OBS?
heart like?
first time i was ever this early :3
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