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category: "OBS"
title: "High Quality Recordings with AMD AMF (in OBS® Studio)"
comments: true
date: "2022-01-13"
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{% capture content %}For the unfortunate souls who bought an AMD GPU on the belief that AMD can fix their encoder via Drivers, unfortunately "Fine Wine™" only goes so far. AMDs encoder lacks features that other vendors had for years, and simply do not hold a candle to Intels and NVIDIAs encoder. Still, you're not quite out of luck, as you still have NV12 recording as an option, which limits you to High or Acceptable Quality.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}

{% include blocks/heading.liquid level=2 content="True Lossless" %}
{% capture content %}At the time of writing this, AMD does not have an encoder capable of 4:4:4 encoding.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}

{% include blocks/heading.liquid level=2 content="Effective Lossless" %}
{% capture content %}At the time of writing this, AMD does not have an encoder capable of 4:4:4 encoding.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}

{% include blocks/heading.liquid level=2 content="Visually Lossless" %}
{% capture content %}At the time of writing this, AMD does not have an encoder capable of 4:4:4 encoding.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}

{% include blocks/heading.liquid level=2 content="High Quality" %}
{% capture content %}As no AMD encoder supports 4:4:4, you're free to use NV12 here. Ensure your Color Format is set to NV12, Color Range to Full, and that your Color Space matches the content.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}
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		{% include blocks/media.liquid type="image" url="https://cdn.xaymar.com/blog/2022/01/obs64_PnMKEZtZck.png" caption="H.265 CQP"  %}
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{% include blocks/heading.liquid level=2 content="Acceptable Quality" %}
{% capture content %}As no AMD encoder supports 4:4:4, you're free to use NV12 here. Ensure your Color Format is set to NV12, Color Range to Full, and that your Color Space matches the content.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}
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		{% include blocks/media.liquid type="image" url="https://cdn.xaymar.com/blog/2022/01/obs64_cz9EQNZQmB.png" caption="H.264 CQP" %}
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		{% include blocks/media.liquid type="image" url="https://cdn.xaymar.com/blog/2022/01/obs64_TXnfMbeCF2.png" caption="H.265 CQP"  %}
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