Xmedia Recode question: What options do you use for game captures?

[Guernsey]

I ehard some good things about this program in the gaming community. I wanted to find another methods for my game captures other than Virtualdub2 but I what want to know what preset works for that? I want to upload to YouTube but I want to know what CRF and other options will work for those captures?

[davexnet]

I ehard some good things about this program in the gaming community. I wanted to find another methods for my game captures other than Virtualdub2 but I what want to know what preset works for that? I want to upload to YouTube but I want to know what CRF and other options will work for those captures?

This program, as well countless others use x264/x265 under the covers for the actual encode. The controls and results are basically the same,
only the GUI is different

[Guernsey]

So I can use crf 18, x264, .mp4 and the YouTube preset?

[davexnet]

Are you talking about the youtube profile on the format tab??
This preset sets a number of video specifics on the video tab, you can override them with the setting you propose.

Nothing magic about the youtube preset

[Guernsey]

So it is somewhat similar to Virtualdub with its PointResize/Nearest Neighbor upscale, right? I just need to make sure before I do anything.

[davexnet]

So it is somewhat similar to Virtualdub with its PointResize/Nearest Neighbor upscale, right? I just need to make sure before I do anything.

resize is handled in the resolution filter on the filters tab

[Guernsey]

Okay. I just need to make sure. I guess the only thing left to do is to go through with my conversion. I usually use two filters in Virtualdub2 but I guess I just need one filter. The second filter was mostly for aspect ratio correction. The CRF was there to make sure things ran smoothly. Compression is usually on slower. I still have one last question, can you do all those things in Xmedia REcode?

[davexnet]

I'm pretty sure it can, however, I find the the filter system in XMR
convoluted and less intuituve. You'll have to try it and see

[Guernsey]

I will do just that. Thanks for the help.

[Guernsey]

Bump. I was planning to to use XMedia Recode to upscale my pixelated game captures but I still have some questions. I was about to upscale only to learn that the methods as used only apply to Archive.org and not YouTube. I want to use its nearest neighbor upscale but how do I set it up to match YouTube's encoding settings?