Hello,

I am still getting used to Vmix after using OBS and Wirecast for quite a few years. I recorded an American football game last night using h.264HIGH at 8mbps using the hardware encoder on my RTX4060.

I am disappointed in the resulting video quality. I see quite a bit of blocking artifacts on fade transitions and a general smudgy look to portions of the frame. 8mbps with my older 1660TI Nvidia card using Wirecast or OBS resulted in very nice recordings with no blocking artifacts.

The recording settings are kind of sparce in comparison to the streaming settings where one can choose P7 for the highest quality. Is there anything I am missing? Vmix seems like such well put together software I would not expect sub-par quality recordings. I need to keep the recordings in MP4 as they are sometimes deliverables and file sizes need to be kept on the low side.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I did not mention it is at 1080p60.

But I did mention that I have been using 8mbps with Nvenc for years without any of the artifacting I am seeing in this week's recoding. While less compression is always better, 8mbps is plenty of bitrate to avoid macro blocking on cross fade transitions.

I am hoping to equal the quality of my previous software/hardware with Vmix and hoping that there are some more settings in the record area to achieve this.