Best exporting settings for clips from original footage

[eriko45542384]

Good day everyone,

I've been recently saving clips from Shadowplay Recordings because I want to have them for later use instead of having the whole recording take up my hard drive space. My question is, for the bitrate settings, should I export it at the total bitrate my recording was from Shadowplay and set a maximum to be just a little higher than the total bitrate of the recording so it has room for any high action frames? Or does it not matter what bitrate settings I set for the export of the clip(s)?

[Grigor_Poghosyan]

You may use CBR 1 pass with12bitrate which won't take all your HDD space, and will give you good quality,

[eriko45542384]

Thank you for your response.

I used VBR 2 pass with 35 target and 45 maximum as I really don't mind the clips being so big as long as they aren't as big as the original, longer recordings. I came out pretty well, but will try your method and compare quality!

[Grigor_Poghosyan]

If you are not really mind of clips being even bigger then the original, then set the target bitrate 72 and maximum 78

[eriko45542384]

If I were to use those bitrate settings, what passage would you use? CBR 1 pass or VBR 1 pass or 2 pass?

Thanks for the response!

[SAFEHARBOR11]

It would be helpful to know what resolution and frame rate we are even discussing here, makes a difference. Is the footage 1080p or 4K or what?

Thanks

Jeff

[eriko45542384]

This is what I am working with, all of my recordings come from Shadwoplay recordings at the moment, sometimes from OBS, but about the same bitrate all around

[Grigor_Poghosyan]

vbr 2 pass