**The Latest Update from AMD: Instant GIF Feature and More**

AMD has recently released an exciting update that is set to revolutionize the way we interact with our graphics cards. One of the most significant features announced is the instant GIF feature, which allows users to create GIFs from their gameplay videos in a matter of seconds. This feature is perfect for those who want to capture and share memorable moments from their gaming sessions on social media platforms like Twitter or Discord.

The instant GIF feature can be accessed through the AMD Radeon Software, and users can set up hotkeys to save clips ranging from 5 seconds to 30 seconds in length. The quality of the GIFs can also be adjusted, allowing users to choose between high-quality settings that may result in file size issues when uploading to certain platforms. This feature is a game-changer for gamers who want to showcase their gaming highlights to a wider audience.

Another exciting feature announced by AMD is the ability to set up an in-game replay system. This allows users to save their instant replays and play them back over top of their screen during live streams, giving their viewers a thrilling experience. The in-game replay system also offers customization options, including the size and dimensions of the replay, as well as where it will appear on the screen.

The AMD Radeon Software has been updated with a range of new features that aim to improve the overall gaming experience. One of the most notable additions is the ability to set up hotkeys for toggling recording, turning on and off the camera, selecting specific regions, push-to-talk functionality, and scene switching. These hotkeys can be accessed through the Hotkey section in the Advanced settings.

While AMD's latest update has generated a lot of excitement among gamers, there are still some features that users would like to see implemented in the future. One such feature is the ability to rotate displays using hotkeys. This was a common prank among high school students who used control-alt-left and control-down hotkeys to turn their screens upside down. AMD has acknowledged this request and plans to implement it in future updates.

To further enhance the gaming experience, AMD has partnered with Backing Track, a music service that offers a wide range of royalty-free tracks for streaming and video content creators. The service features a diverse selection of genres, including metal, rock, grunge, synthrock, and more. Backing Track also offers free downloads in their Discord channel.

In addition to the new features and updates, AMD has also sent over an 7900 XD graphics card for review purposes. This is exciting news for gamers who are eager to see how AMD's latest offerings stack up against NVIDIA's latest generation. In the coming days, expect to see more coverage of AMD's graphics cards, including encoding capabilities and a head-to-head comparison with NVIDIA's RTX 4000 series.

For those interested in learning more about AMD's encoding capabilities, look out for an upcoming video that will dive into the details of how they stack up against NVIDIA's offerings. This article will provide a comprehensive overview of AMD's latest update, including the instant GIF feature, in-game replay system, and other exciting new features.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enAMD is just embarrassing Nvidia at this point with a a program a service that Nvidia was the one to innovate on and introduced to the world amd's relive or re-live I prefer the name relive because live streaming and recording is a challenger to nvidia's shadowplay or GeForce experience share and is kicking nvidia's butt these days I last looked at it in 2019 back when shadowplay was the king shadowplay introduced the ability to not only easily record your gameplay and take screenshots and things like that but in the shadowplay name it allowed you to go back in time and record moments that already happened that you weren't actively recording for that way you didn't have to keep recording just an ongoing recording of everything that happened you could just capture the highlights the moments the cool things that happened from a buffer without needing you know to waste a lot of space see-through Clips things that someone like myself just doesn't have the time for and also let you take screenshots and they've added in some features but overall while shadowplay was Innovative and game changing for so many content creators it's something that has gone sorely under developed and just kind of ignored by Nvidia over the years it it has many long-staining bugs and quirks about it that people don't want that they've just not fixed over time and it just hasn't gotten a whole lot of new features when during the RTX 2000 and 3000 Series launch they did add in the ability to record HDR but the hebc codec but you could only use hevc with HDR and then later on they ended up adding for the RTX 4000 series launch 8k60 recording with hebc as well but overall it has gotten very few updates it still looks pretty old just like nvidia's control panel their control panel looks like the same as it did in Windows XP days shadowplay is in dire need of updates and feature fixes and things like that and AMD is kicking their butt with this whenever you first start up the AMD relive a relive section of the AMD adrenaline software you may get presented with this pop-up that's a first time launcher kind of window that shows you how to set up recording or streaming or whichever you want to optimize for and this is pretty cool but otherwise if you you've already launched it before this is the new home view compared to last time I looked at it back in 2019 or whenever it was it's pretty sweet the homepage is full of these modular windows that they can add to and ideally at some point let you customize over time you can see here I have a driver update that released during the time of filming this video you can connect to AMD link to game stream to your phone or other device you've got lots of advertisements you've got information about the games you've played most recently including the average FPS which is pretty sick how long you played for your session and you can go in and adjust your game Graphics so we can click here on say Battlefield and you can see here it says that my performance grade for the game itself you know given what limitation it might have and whatever is it's optimal I don't necessarily need to change anything but here I could enable super resolution if I want to hurt my performance or I could enable Andy lag which I have on reduces input lag if you're on a laptop you can enable Radeon chill to limit your frame rate to save on battery power you don't want this on a desktop apparently Radeon image sharpening is enabled by default I'm not sure I like that but it's there you can enable enhanced sync which will help with tearing and input latency you've got freesync options scaling modes ifinity if you somehow still use that lots of things there and then you can even click the button to tune game performance and actually change your or it can crash on me that didn't happen during my original take of this recording but the software has crashed a couple times it's AMD software isn't always the most stable anyway you can change Global tuning or per game tuning for your graphics card to change how it runs if you have specific clock you know overclocks or other clocks you want to run on a per game basis which is wild that's all the normal stuff we're going to skip over most the normal stuff we're focused on the record and stream dab here at the top which presents you with a very interesting layout you actually get a preview of Clips you've recorded before you've got tabs for recording live streaming editing scenes because this program is now a fully featured OBS alternative when it comes to building live streaming scenes as well as viewing more of your Clips so you can set it to record just a region or full screen of your whole screen which is what most people will want region would work for like window capture but also you get to specify whether you want the active window or specific displays this is huge it gives you a little border to indicate which monitor so you can identify them this is huge because one of the big shadowplay bugs is that it will just randomly record your side monitor even though nothing's going on on it instead of the game you have featured I cannot tell you the number of times I had awesome clips and games and instead of having them I just get a blank desktop view of my desktop or a blank desktop view of my vertical side monitor for no apparent reason obviously you have a start recording button but you can assign a hotkey to it which we'll check out in a moment you can enable or disable your microphone from being recorded or your camera as an overlay you can set your microphone level here I recommend keeping it most the way up but you may want to tone it down just a teeny tiny bit so you don't clip just in case you know just in case you can enable push to talk if you wish you have an indicator to show when you're recording and when your mic is active I recommend turning this on because otherwise it's very confusing you don't know whether it's on or not and you can enable or disable recording the desktop itself separate from your game capture hooks if you're wanting to record tutorials like I did for part of this video then you would enable record desktop but otherwise I'd keep it off just to make sure you avoid the possibility of that blank desktop recording as can happen at least with Shadow blight I haven't gotten it with relive so far but better safe than sorry next we can go over here to live streaming here you get a preview from the specific service that you're streaming to you can again choose your options for full screen region monitors microphone camera all of that goodness but you also get scenes so first you can you can choose your service which it supports twitch Facebook restream for multi-streaming whatever the hell stage 10 is Twitch YouTube or custom rtmps you can choose your specific twitch server and that's about it from this window but you can also view your live chat if you want to pull this up in another monitor now you do have multiple scenes that you can create and choose between so if you go over here to the scene editor tab now you can enable a lot of different stuff by default it's setup kind of like this with a streaming indicator a camera and your chat kind of like the the console streaming windows I feel like they learned a lot from their PlayStation and Xbox Integrations I don't know how much the software team honestly had any involvement with them could be none you can name it you can set hotkeys for your individual scenes you can make new scenes from this menu right here and click the plus can delete whatever then you have your elements that you can choose from so you have those kinds of things camera blah blah you can also add in other elements so you can add browser sources images gifs and videos so you can add in your overlays your alerts everything this is a fully featured effectively OBS alternative built into the driver software for free absolutely wild you may notice however a lot of some kind of basic settings are missing because we're we're entering a a scenario that I'm worried about which is layered menus in that you have to go over here to advanced settings just to choose which camera and microphone it uses that's not an advanced setting it's just a basic setting because otherwise you're not going to get what you want because the defaults at least in my experience have never been accurate now the advanced settings menu brings you to a whole separate Sub menu with a lot of tabs here and this more resembles the original AMD re-live that I took a look at a few years back that's why I'm concerned because it feels like Legacy menus being layered on top of each other which is something that say Windows 10 and 11 kind of struggles with so I'd hate to see that continue to get layered upon over the years but down here at the very bottom you can choose your microphone and your video capture device so we have the Razer Keo Pro Ultra as our webcam phenomenal webcam have a bunch more coming to the studio I like it so much and then we're using the rode xcm50 as our mic at the moment that you're hearing now in the settings menu though you have lots of Glorious options so you have the normal stuff of recording desktop indicators ranging capture but then you can choose your quality and oh boy do they have so many more options than Nvidia does first and foremost they do have some quality presets I'm not a fan of them but they do low medium and high by default on my AMD 7900 XT graphics card which is amd's latest and greatest well I guess the XTX would be the greatest it auto selected the av-1 codec which is a new open source video Codec it is absurdly high quality uh and is the way to go for the future for recording DaVinci Resolve currently supports it I'm not sure about Adobe Premiere Pro overall it's fantastic however if you're using older video editors or platforms that don't support this codec you might want to use hebc there is virtually no scenario that I'd recommend recording in the AVC which is h.264 your MP4 format I I would never recommend using that unless you're just using some weird esoteric beginners video editor or something that doesn't support virtually everything's going to support hebc these days av1 is still hit or miss but you know whatever either way ab1 was the default for my graphics card Choice here and whether you use av1 or AVC you will have to go in and add in the video extension codex in the Microsoft store it'll actually pop up and tell you that the av1 is free which is another advantage of using it the hevc one at least used to cost like 99 Cents or something I do recommend just go ahead and buying it and then it's licensed for every Windows computer you sign into your Microsoft account with so just just pay the 99 Cents and don't worry about it not a big deal if you want to use hebc hevc is another high efficiency video Codec but it's not as good as av1 these days so you have those profiles but you can set custom and then you can choose manually choose your resolution or you can just choose to record whatever your game is running at then you can choose between 30 or 60fps I would love to see more frame rate options 24 FPS if I'm sinking into a 24fps camera feed for instance or even higher like these newer graphics cards can record crazy things which I have coming in an upcoming video you should get subscribed for I would love to see 120 FPS as an option especially for the replay buffer we'll talk about in a moment I would love to see that not currently an option now what is awesome is you have video bitrate options from one megabit per second all the way up to 100 megabits per second and that's regardless of what codec you're using and regardless of what resolution you use so I could record 360p video at 100 megabits per second just because there's no real advantage to doing this but I could I'm gonna set it back up to 4K which should just be limited by your in-game resolution there there was a workaround in Nvidia shadowplay where you had to set it to 4K or even 8K to get the higher bit rate allocations this isn't necessary in real life which I love uh audio bitrate goes down from 32 kilobits per second to 320. just crank it up to the max I would love to see either PCM wave audio support because I'm pretty sure that's you don't need a license for that so just let us do it it's supported well actually it's not supported in the MP4 container that is the problem regardless I would love to see higher bit rates supported because the AAC codec it uses can support higher bit rates I would love to see that you can choose stereo or if you have surround sound setup you can actually record surround sound and then if you're recording your microphone track you have the option to record that to a separate audio file unlike Nvidia shadowplay the audio is recorded to a literal separate m4a audio file in shadowplay it's just slapped on a second track in the video file which is much more convenient for editing in most video editors but some people will have problems at which point you can use the separate track and relive is actually going to work better for you but you may run into more syncing issues sometimes that way you don't have the option of just recording it in the file as a separate track however here you also get an audio boost option for your mic you probably don't need it now when choosing your encoder and your video bitrate 100 megabits per second is completely Overkill at all resolutions for hevc and av1 and especially av1 now I'm doing it because I don't care I have tons of hard drive space I want to record the best quality possible so I want to get squished down repeatedly through editing because you know your your videos first compressed when you record it then it's compressed again when you export your video when you export your video to upload and then it's compressed Again by YouTube when you upload it so that's three stages of compression you want your first stage to be as lossless or as uncompressed as possible so by time it makes it to YouTube it looks fantastic still whereas if you record a crappy bitrate it's gonna look even worse by time I mix it up to YouTube for a three minute nine second video we are looking at 2.3 gigabytes in file size for the 100 megabits per second you can do the math yourself not a huge deal but for av1 again 100 megabits per second is way overkill for 4K and 1440p I'd say you could stick to around 25 to 30 megabits per second probably for 1080P and lower I do like 15 to 18 megabits per second and that's still slightly Overkill but again you want to be higher quality than you need to be so you get the best results at the end if you're at hevc I would bump that up a little bit so 20-ish megabits per second to 25 for 1080P and lower and then 30 to 50 for 1440p and 4K respectively ABC just don't record that just just don't do it live streaming you again get a bunch of quality profiles including an Adaptive One if you have internet fluctuation issues which is nice to see you don't even set a manual bitrate just adapts which is neat or you set custom again you get to choose your resolution you get to choose 30 or 60 FPS you get to choose your bit rate for twitch you're looking at 6 to 7.5 if you include audio megabits per second which is awesome unfortunately you cannot send the full 320 kilobits per second in the live streaming even though twitch supports it I hope AMD introduces that you have the option to Archive your stream to a local recording which you want to do in most cases so you have a copy and then they have a new Advanced or enhanced filtering section rather which uses some sort of AI machine learning thing that they've trained on it to just make better filtering in the encoding for this sounds so stupid because there's no real technical explanation that I can give you at this point in time I could get one from AMD at some point but you're not going to care about the minute details basically it's just a it's a finely trained way to to filter the video encoding to make it look better at low bit rates it's only supported on AVC which is why you don't see it over here unless you choose AVC and it's only really useful at lower bit rates so not really relevant to recording anyway now I have done some testing with this at both 1080P and 720p at six megabits per second and you can look at the side by sides now I'm going to play them in slow-mo and we can punch in and whatever when you really pixel beep and you stop and you look frame by frame I can confidently say that the enhanced filtering does actually look better but it's as I mentioned with my last encoding update video we are splitting hairs it is minute differences you're not going to notice if it's off however if you are not running your GPU completely maxed out for your game and recording and you're wishing you had additional performance it's free quality bump might as well turn it on but it does use more Graphics power from the 3D side that your game actually runs on so if you are running into performance issues turn it off your viewers won't care I really hope we are so close to either higher bit rate or av1 streaming on Twitch this year I really hope it happens this year down here you can choose where your videos save you can set up the instant replay buffer which is awesome you get to choose a wide variety of arbitrary timings from 15 seconds all the way up to 1200 seconds if you want which is awesome I just usually set it to a minute you can choose whether it buffers to memory or storage which is pretty cool because OBS replay buffer buffers to memory and if you're low on memory you're not going to be able to buffer that much if you have fast ssds like most Gamers do these days you can buffer it to your SSD instead a really cool feature that Nvidia doesn't have anything close to is the instant GIF feature instead of just saving Clips you can create GIFs from your videos from your gameplay so if something really really really awesome happened you can set up a hotkey to save a gif from 5 Seconds to 30 seconds in length of whatever just happened and you can change quality if you do high quality you'll probably have file size issues when uploading to Twitter or Discord or what have you but you can create GIFs from your gameplay which is just freaking awesome like I what a cool feature between this and some of the other features like shadowplay is lagging really far behind you can also set up an in-game replay which is actually going to take your instant replay you saved and play it back over top of your screen for your live stream so if something really really awesome happened in game while you're streaming and you want your viewers to be able to see it you have a very quick option to just save the replay and call it back up for your viewers to see it either you know you get cut a little bit of customization over the size and dimensions here and you also get to choose where it goes on your screen this is really cool doing this in OBS is actually really difficult so the fact that they have it built in is freaking awesome I have my complaints I would like to see better frame rate Sports better audio bitrate support on streaming whatever but this rules honestly like it yeah I love it and of course for doing any of this you would need to go to the hotkeys section here in this Advanced setting and then you can set up hotkeys for toggling recording turning on and off your camera selecting a specific region on or off you got your push to talk hotkeys and then you can set up once you've set up your scenes you can set up your scene swishing hotkeys here as well I would love to see AMD or the broader Community I think AMD would have to implement oh you got hotkeys that you could use to rotate your display I don't know if any of you all did this back in my school days like high school we would always use the control alt left control down hotkeys they were enabled on like all the school computers by default to turn people's screens upside down and it would make them so mad and they didn't know how to fix it it was a hilarious harmless prank it's cool that that's still built in somewhere anyway I would love to see AMD open up an API of some sort to allow the community or Elgato or AMD themselves to develop a stream deck plug-in for the Elgato stream deck or touch portal or whatever solution all of them ideally for switching scenes and recording and stuff without having to rely on hotkeys because system hotkeys can sometimes be finicky this is where you would set all this don't forget to do that thank you while you're deciding which graphics card you want to get and optimizing your stream I'm going to go ahead and give you a free upgrade to your stream and that is backing track our stream safe video Safe royalty-free music service that doesn't just provide low-fi beats in the generic crap everyone else has we have metal we have Rock we've got grunge we've got uh the the Slayer Wars track coming up sounds like straight out of Doom Eternal we've also got synthrock which was in so popular that we ended up doing two albums and a little baby album with because you all loved it so much we have a Halo themed album when it's Christmas time again we have a Christmas album it's a it's a music service that myself and my community manager will wanted to provide to you all so that you can have high quality real music for your streams and videos and not rely on what everyone else has so that's backing track.gg you can stream it for free and we have free downloads in our Discord all of those links are in the description below shout out to AMD for sending on over the 7900 XD for me to cover and review more in depth I've been starved for AMD graphics cards the past few years and AMD is really coming back they have a video team that is kicking butt taking names and trying to get caught up the David and Goliath battle is back AMD is competitive again and I cannot wait to continue covering this and showing you because there's a lot of cool stuff this is the tip of the iceberg like I said before in previous videos I had some delays at the start of the year a lot of cool coverage coming and you need to check out this video right here talking about nvidia's RTX 4000 series encoding capabilities because I have a video coming next that will talk about amd's encoding capabilities and how it Stacks up with this latest generation and you you want to be informed so you can see the head to head because it's going to get wild Remember To Be Kind RewindAMD is just embarrassing Nvidia at this point with a a program a service that Nvidia was the one to innovate on and introduced to the world amd's relive or re-live I prefer the name relive because live streaming and recording is a challenger to nvidia's shadowplay or GeForce experience share and is kicking nvidia's butt these days I last looked at it in 2019 back when shadowplay was the king shadowplay introduced the ability to not only easily record your gameplay and take screenshots and things like that but in the shadowplay name it allowed you to go back in time and record moments that already happened that you weren't actively recording for that way you didn't have to keep recording just an ongoing recording of everything that happened you could just capture the highlights the moments the cool things that happened from a buffer without needing you know to waste a lot of space see-through Clips things that someone like myself just doesn't have the time for and also let you take screenshots and they've added in some features but overall while shadowplay was Innovative and game changing for so many content creators it's something that has gone sorely under developed and just kind of ignored by Nvidia over the years it it has many long-staining bugs and quirks about it that people don't want that they've just not fixed over time and it just hasn't gotten a whole lot of new features when during the RTX 2000 and 3000 Series launch they did add in the ability to record HDR but the hebc codec but you could only use hevc with HDR and then later on they ended up adding for the RTX 4000 series launch 8k60 recording with hebc as well but overall it has gotten very few updates it still looks pretty old just like nvidia's control panel their control panel looks like the same as it did in Windows XP days shadowplay is in dire need of updates and feature fixes and things like that and AMD is kicking their butt with this whenever you first start up the AMD relive a relive section of the AMD adrenaline software you may get presented with this pop-up that's a first time launcher kind of window that shows you how to set up recording or streaming or whichever you want to optimize for and this is pretty cool but otherwise if you you've already launched it before this is the new home view compared to last time I looked at it back in 2019 or whenever it was it's pretty sweet the homepage is full of these modular windows that they can add to and ideally at some point let you customize over time you can see here I have a driver update that released during the time of filming this video you can connect to AMD link to game stream to your phone or other device you've got lots of advertisements you've got information about the games you've played most recently including the average FPS which is pretty sick how long you played for your session and you can go in and adjust your game Graphics so we can click here on say Battlefield and you can see here it says that my performance grade for the game itself you know given what limitation it might have and whatever is it's optimal I don't necessarily need to change anything but here I could enable super resolution if I want to hurt my performance or I could enable Andy lag which I have on reduces input lag if you're on a laptop you can enable Radeon chill to limit your frame rate to save on battery power you don't want this on a desktop apparently Radeon image sharpening is enabled by default I'm not sure I like that but it's there you can enable enhanced sync which will help with tearing and input latency you've got freesync options scaling modes ifinity if you somehow still use that lots of things there and then you can even click the button to tune game performance and actually change your or it can crash on me that didn't happen during my original take of this recording but the software has crashed a couple times it's AMD software isn't always the most stable anyway you can change Global tuning or per game tuning for your graphics card to change how it runs if you have specific clock you know overclocks or other clocks you want to run on a per game basis which is wild that's all the normal stuff we're going to skip over most the normal stuff we're focused on the record and stream dab here at the top which presents you with a very interesting layout you actually get a preview of Clips you've recorded before you've got tabs for recording live streaming editing scenes because this program is now a fully featured OBS alternative when it comes to building live streaming scenes as well as viewing more of your Clips so you can set it to record just a region or full screen of your whole screen which is what most people will want region would work for like window capture but also you get to specify whether you want the active window or specific displays this is huge it gives you a little border to indicate which monitor so you can identify them this is huge because one of the big shadowplay bugs is that it will just randomly record your side monitor even though nothing's going on on it instead of the game you have featured I cannot tell you the number of times I had awesome clips and games and instead of having them I just get a blank desktop view of my desktop or a blank desktop view of my vertical side monitor for no apparent reason obviously you have a start recording button but you can assign a hotkey to it which we'll check out in a moment you can enable or disable your microphone from being recorded or your camera as an overlay you can set your microphone level here I recommend keeping it most the way up but you may want to tone it down just a teeny tiny bit so you don't clip just in case you know just in case you can enable push to talk if you wish you have an indicator to show when you're recording and when your mic is active I recommend turning this on because otherwise it's very confusing you don't know whether it's on or not and you can enable or disable recording the desktop itself separate from your game capture hooks if you're wanting to record tutorials like I did for part of this video then you would enable record desktop but otherwise I'd keep it off just to make sure you avoid the possibility of that blank desktop recording as can happen at least with Shadow blight I haven't gotten it with relive so far but better safe than sorry next we can go over here to live streaming here you get a preview from the specific service that you're streaming to you can again choose your options for full screen region monitors microphone camera all of that goodness but you also get scenes so first you can you can choose your service which it supports twitch Facebook restream for multi-streaming whatever the hell stage 10 is Twitch YouTube or custom rtmps you can choose your specific twitch server and that's about it from this window but you can also view your live chat if you want to pull this up in another monitor now you do have multiple scenes that you can create and choose between so if you go over here to the scene editor tab now you can enable a lot of different stuff by default it's setup kind of like this with a streaming indicator a camera and your chat kind of like the the console streaming windows I feel like they learned a lot from their PlayStation and Xbox Integrations I don't know how much the software team honestly had any involvement with them could be none you can name it you can set hotkeys for your individual scenes you can make new scenes from this menu right here and click the plus can delete whatever then you have your elements that you can choose from so you have those kinds of things camera blah blah you can also add in other elements so you can add browser sources images gifs and videos so you can add in your overlays your alerts everything this is a fully featured effectively OBS alternative built into the driver software for free absolutely wild you may notice however a lot of some kind of basic settings are missing because we're we're entering a a scenario that I'm worried about which is layered menus in that you have to go over here to advanced settings just to choose which camera and microphone it uses that's not an advanced setting it's just a basic setting because otherwise you're not going to get what you want because the defaults at least in my experience have never been accurate now the advanced settings menu brings you to a whole separate Sub menu with a lot of tabs here and this more resembles the original AMD re-live that I took a look at a few years back that's why I'm concerned because it feels like Legacy menus being layered on top of each other which is something that say Windows 10 and 11 kind of struggles with so I'd hate to see that continue to get layered upon over the years but down here at the very bottom you can choose your microphone and your video capture device so we have the Razer Keo Pro Ultra as our webcam phenomenal webcam have a bunch more coming to the studio I like it so much and then we're using the rode xcm50 as our mic at the moment that you're hearing now in the settings menu though you have lots of Glorious options so you have the normal stuff of recording desktop indicators ranging capture but then you can choose your quality and oh boy do they have so many more options than Nvidia does first and foremost they do have some quality presets I'm not a fan of them but they do low medium and high by default on my AMD 7900 XT graphics card which is amd's latest and greatest well I guess the XTX would be the greatest it auto selected the av-1 codec which is a new open source video Codec it is absurdly high quality uh and is the way to go for the future for recording DaVinci Resolve currently supports it I'm not sure about Adobe Premiere Pro overall it's fantastic however if you're using older video editors or platforms that don't support this codec you might want to use hebc there is virtually no scenario that I'd recommend recording in the AVC which is h.264 your MP4 format I I would never recommend using that unless you're just using some weird esoteric beginners video editor or something that doesn't support virtually everything's going to support hebc these days av1 is still hit or miss but you know whatever either way ab1 was the default for my graphics card Choice here and whether you use av1 or AVC you will have to go in and add in the video extension codex in the Microsoft store it'll actually pop up and tell you that the av1 is free which is another advantage of using it the hevc one at least used to cost like 99 Cents or something I do recommend just go ahead and buying it and then it's licensed for every Windows computer you sign into your Microsoft account with so just just pay the 99 Cents and don't worry about it not a big deal if you want to use hebc hevc is another high efficiency video Codec but it's not as good as av1 these days so you have those profiles but you can set custom and then you can choose manually choose your resolution or you can just choose to record whatever your game is running at then you can choose between 30 or 60fps I would love to see more frame rate options 24 FPS if I'm sinking into a 24fps camera feed for instance or even higher like these newer graphics cards can record crazy things which I have coming in an upcoming video you should get subscribed for I would love to see 120 FPS as an option especially for the replay buffer we'll talk about in a moment I would love to see that not currently an option now what is awesome is you have video bitrate options from one megabit per second all the way up to 100 megabits per second and that's regardless of what codec you're using and regardless of what resolution you use so I could record 360p video at 100 megabits per second just because there's no real advantage to doing this but I could I'm gonna set it back up to 4K which should just be limited by your in-game resolution there there was a workaround in Nvidia shadowplay where you had to set it to 4K or even 8K to get the higher bit rate allocations this isn't necessary in real life which I love uh audio bitrate goes down from 32 kilobits per second to 320. just crank it up to the max I would love to see either PCM wave audio support because I'm pretty sure that's you don't need a license for that so just let us do it it's supported well actually it's not supported in the MP4 container that is the problem regardless I would love to see higher bit rates supported because the AAC codec it uses can support higher bit rates I would love to see that you can choose stereo or if you have surround sound setup you can actually record surround sound and then if you're recording your microphone track you have the option to record that to a separate audio file unlike Nvidia shadowplay the audio is recorded to a literal separate m4a audio file in shadowplay it's just slapped on a second track in the video file which is much more convenient for editing in most video editors but some people will have problems at which point you can use the separate track and relive is actually going to work better for you but you may run into more syncing issues sometimes that way you don't have the option of just recording it in the file as a separate track however here you also get an audio boost option for your mic you probably don't need it now when choosing your encoder and your video bitrate 100 megabits per second is completely Overkill at all resolutions for hevc and av1 and especially av1 now I'm doing it because I don't care I have tons of hard drive space I want to record the best quality possible so I want to get squished down repeatedly through editing because you know your your videos first compressed when you record it then it's compressed again when you export your video when you export your video to upload and then it's compressed Again by YouTube when you upload it so that's three stages of compression you want your first stage to be as lossless or as uncompressed as possible so by time it makes it to YouTube it looks fantastic still whereas if you record a crappy bitrate it's gonna look even worse by time I mix it up to YouTube for a three minute nine second video we are looking at 2.3 gigabytes in file size for the 100 megabits per second you can do the math yourself not a huge deal but for av1 again 100 megabits per second is way overkill for 4K and 1440p I'd say you could stick to around 25 to 30 megabits per second probably for 1080P and lower I do like 15 to 18 megabits per second and that's still slightly Overkill but again you want to be higher quality than you need to be so you get the best results at the end if you're at hevc I would bump that up a little bit so 20-ish megabits per second to 25 for 1080P and lower and then 30 to 50 for 1440p and 4K respectively ABC just don't record that just just don't do it live streaming you again get a bunch of quality profiles including an Adaptive One if you have internet fluctuation issues which is nice to see you don't even set a manual bitrate just adapts which is neat or you set custom again you get to choose your resolution you get to choose 30 or 60 FPS you get to choose your bit rate for twitch you're looking at 6 to 7.5 if you include audio megabits per second which is awesome unfortunately you cannot send the full 320 kilobits per second in the live streaming even though twitch supports it I hope AMD introduces that you have the option to Archive your stream to a local recording which you want to do in most cases so you have a copy and then they have a new Advanced or enhanced filtering section rather which uses some sort of AI machine learning thing that they've trained on it to just make better filtering in the encoding for this sounds so stupid because there's no real technical explanation that I can give you at this point in time I could get one from AMD at some point but you're not going to care about the minute details basically it's just a it's a finely trained way to to filter the video encoding to make it look better at low bit rates it's only supported on AVC which is why you don't see it over here unless you choose AVC and it's only really useful at lower bit rates so not really relevant to recording anyway now I have done some testing with this at both 1080P and 720p at six megabits per second and you can look at the side by sides now I'm going to play them in slow-mo and we can punch in and whatever when you really pixel beep and you stop and you look frame by frame I can confidently say that the enhanced filtering does actually look better but it's as I mentioned with my last encoding update video we are splitting hairs it is minute differences you're not going to notice if it's off however if you are not running your GPU completely maxed out for your game and recording and you're wishing you had additional performance it's free quality bump might as well turn it on but it does use more Graphics power from the 3D side that your game actually runs on so if you are running into performance issues turn it off your viewers won't care I really hope we are so close to either higher bit rate or av1 streaming on Twitch this year I really hope it happens this year down here you can choose where your videos save you can set up the instant replay buffer which is awesome you get to choose a wide variety of arbitrary timings from 15 seconds all the way up to 1200 seconds if you want which is awesome I just usually set it to a minute you can choose whether it buffers to memory or storage which is pretty cool because OBS replay buffer buffers to memory and if you're low on memory you're not going to be able to buffer that much if you have fast ssds like most Gamers do these days you can buffer it to your SSD instead a really cool feature that Nvidia doesn't have anything close to is the instant GIF feature instead of just saving Clips you can create GIFs from your videos from your gameplay so if something really really really awesome happened you can set up a hotkey to save a gif from 5 Seconds to 30 seconds in length of whatever just happened and you can change quality if you do high quality you'll probably have file size issues when uploading to Twitter or Discord or what have you but you can create GIFs from your gameplay which is just freaking awesome like I what a cool feature between this and some of the other features like shadowplay is lagging really far behind you can also set up an in-game replay which is actually going to take your instant replay you saved and play it back over top of your screen for your live stream so if something really really awesome happened in game while you're streaming and you want your viewers to be able to see it you have a very quick option to just save the replay and call it back up for your viewers to see it either you know you get cut a little bit of customization over the size and dimensions here and you also get to choose where it goes on your screen this is really cool doing this in OBS is actually really difficult so the fact that they have it built in is freaking awesome I have my complaints I would like to see better frame rate Sports better audio bitrate support on streaming whatever but this rules honestly like it yeah I love it and of course for doing any of this you would need to go to the hotkeys section here in this Advanced setting and then you can set up hotkeys for toggling recording turning on and off your camera selecting a specific region on or off you got your push to talk hotkeys and then you can set up once you've set up your scenes you can set up your scene swishing hotkeys here as well I would love to see AMD or the broader Community I think AMD would have to implement oh you got hotkeys that you could use to rotate your display I don't know if any of you all did this back in my school days like high school we would always use the control alt left control down hotkeys they were enabled on like all the school computers by default to turn people's screens upside down and it would make them so mad and they didn't know how to fix it it was a hilarious harmless prank it's cool that that's still built in somewhere anyway I would love to see AMD open up an API of some sort to allow the community or Elgato or AMD themselves to develop a stream deck plug-in for the Elgato stream deck or touch portal or whatever solution all of them ideally for switching scenes and recording and stuff without having to rely on hotkeys because system hotkeys can sometimes be finicky this is where you would set all this don't forget to do that thank you while you're deciding which graphics card you want to get and optimizing your stream I'm going to go ahead and give you a free upgrade to your stream and that is backing track our stream safe video Safe royalty-free music service that doesn't just provide low-fi beats in the generic crap everyone else has we have metal we have Rock we've got grunge we've got uh the the Slayer Wars track coming up sounds like straight out of Doom Eternal we've also got synthrock which was in so popular that we ended up doing two albums and a little baby album with because you all loved it so much we have a Halo themed album when it's Christmas time again we have a Christmas album it's a it's a music service that myself and my community manager will wanted to provide to you all so that you can have high quality real music for your streams and videos and not rely on what everyone else has so that's backing track.gg you can stream it for free and we have free downloads in our Discord all of those links are in the description below shout out to AMD for sending on over the 7900 XD for me to cover and review more in depth I've been starved for AMD graphics cards the past few years and AMD is really coming back they have a video team that is kicking butt taking names and trying to get caught up the David and Goliath battle is back AMD is competitive again and I cannot wait to continue covering this and showing you because there's a lot of cool stuff this is the tip of the iceberg like I said before in previous videos I had some delays at the start of the year a lot of cool coverage coming and you need to check out this video right here talking about nvidia's RTX 4000 series encoding capabilities because I have a video coming next that will talk about amd's encoding capabilities and how it Stacks up with this latest generation and you you want to be informed so you can see the head to head because it's going to get wild Remember To Be Kind Rewind\n"