**Game-Changing Video Recording and Streaming with NVIDIA's AV1 Technology**

I've been experimenting with NVIDIA's latest technology, AV1, and I'm blown away by its potential to revolutionize video recording and streaming. In my setup, I'm using a 40-series card, which is capable of delivering impressive performance and quality. With DaVinci Resolve supporting AV1 out of the box, I've made the switch to this new format for all my recordings, and the results are nothing short of amazing.

The first thing that struck me was how much smaller the file sizes become when using AV1 compared to traditional formats like 444 chroma subsampling. This means I can now record high-quality video without the bloated files that used to be a major issue. It's genuinely like magic, and I'm excited to explore all the possibilities this technology offers.

But what really gets me excited is the potential for performance improvements. With AV1, I've noticed a significant reduction in rendering times, making it easier to switch between scenes or adjust settings during recording. This means I can focus on creating high-quality content without being bogged down by processing power limitations.

Another feature that's been making waves is the virtual camera feature, which allows me to send my OBS feed out to other programs like Discord or Skype as a video source. This is incredibly useful for presentations, video calls, and even interviews where I want to stream myself but still have a separate feed going to the person I'm interacting with.

The settings cog for this feature is incredibly intuitive, allowing me to choose which scene should be sent out as my virtual cam. I can also select individual scenes to send out separately, making it easier to manage complex productions or presentations. This is especially useful when working on multiple projects simultaneously – I can set up one scene for Twitch and YouTube, while another goes out to Discord or Skype.

I recently had the opportunity to test AV1 streaming in Discord using a development build of their platform. The difference between h.264 and AV1 was night and day, with the latter offering significantly better compression and quality. This is going to be a game-changer for video calls and small-form private streaming – no longer will I have to worry about excessive bitrate or compromised quality.

As someone who's passionate about creating high-quality content, I'm excited to explore all the possibilities that AV1 offers. And with my own streaming service, Nebula, users can now access these features without breaking the bank. Our bundle deal with CuriosityStream includes a year's subscription to both services for under $15 – an unbeatable value.

**Nebula: A Streaming Service for Creators**

As a creator myself, I know how hard it can be to find platforms that support our unique needs. That's why I built Nebula, a streaming service designed specifically with creators like myself in mind. With access to thousands of documentary and non-fiction titles from CuriosityStream, users can enjoy high-quality content while also supporting independent creators.

By joining Nebula, you'll get exclusive access to original content that showcases the latest trends and technologies in video creation. And as a special bonus, I'm including samples of my own work for your enjoyment – including upcoming documentary series that tackle topics like AI, social justice, and more.

If you're interested in exploring the world of AV1 recording and streaming, be sure to join us on Discord at discord.gg/slash-a, where we'll continue the conversation about this exciting new technology. Remember: Be Kind Rewind!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enav1 is here like for real this time you can use it right now if you have an Nvidia 40 series graphics card OBS just released a new update which contains a ton of stuff we're actually going to have two videos about it because one includes updates two h.264 and h265 for NVIDIA graphics card users but this one we're talking about av1 because it also introduces the av-1 encoder for you the end user to use since 4090s will be arriving into homes very shortly after the launch here I also want to touch on what it looks like in Discord because Discord av1 sport is coming very soon and it's going to seriously change the game for streaming on Discord and video calls and things like that which has kind of a preview of what the future of video calling looks like this is a beta to OBS so I don't recommend just installing it over your existing installation I recommend just downloading the zip and it creating a shortcut adding dash dash portable to it and running it portably so you can test it if you want to encode with av1 right now from this beta you and run that go into your output settings this is available both this is only available for recording mind you as streaming services aren't accepting it yet but you know we're getting we're rapidly getting all the steps up to that point but go into your recording settings this works both in the simple and the advanced output mode you do need an Nvidia 40 series graphics card I'm just going to keep disclaiming that because people are going to keep asking 30 series only had decode 40 series heads decode and encode it works in both the simple and advanced output modes meaning if you just use the simple mode and you don't want to have to worry about things both the high quality and the indistinguishable quality options now give you encoder Choice options so you can actually choose in Vang h264 and Link hevc if you'd rather use that or if you're on a older graphics card like the 30 series or 20 series or you can now choose av1 test it out give feedback to the devs in the forums on GitHub or in their Discord and then in the advanced tab again under encoder for recording you can choose invinc av1 and then you have the usual control option so rate control your cqp is typically what I recommend everyone use for recording you got CBR if you want to record stuff closer to what your stream might look like there's CQ levels 20 is a great place to start for more kind of static shots like this you have to play around with it for what you want for a high quality video I have found 50 actually to be good enough for a video like this but once you start getting action it starts to get a little blocky so I'd say 35 to 40 is my unofficial you know this just came out kind of play with and go from their answer and then there is now presets and these presets are available for all encoders and this is pretty incredible again we're going to talk about them in application to h.264 in a future video but you have basically like the x264 software running on your processor your CPU usage presets up very slow very fast you have slowest up to fastest and in my testing here since this is a 49 and 40 90 exclusive thing at 1080P and even 1440p and lower I was able to use p7 all the way up to P1 p7 being the highest quality the hardest run I was able to use p7 while recording gameplay on the same computer without any significant performance penalty and it ran just fine which is pretty awesome now what these presets actually control is What's called the bitrate efficiency effectively how much quality you can get for your bit so for example if I have a cqp value of 20 if I set it to slowest then it's going to use the least amount of bitrate to maintain that quality level assigned by the number of 20 with the lowest number being the highest quality the highest number being the worst quality plenty is kind of somewhere in the middle it will setting the preset to highest quality slowest will maintain that quality but use the least amount of data and thus a smaller file size to do it and I did show a a showcase where I did an entire one hour interview at full 4K 30 and it took up enough space to fit on a CD which is pretty wild I posted that on Twitter now if you bump it all the way up to fastest it will still maintain for the most part the same quality because it's still set to cqp of 20 but it will use significantly more data in order to do so but it'll be less impact on your game like I said for the av1 encoder as I covered in my main video I found no reason to turn it off as P6 maybe p7 is a little rough if you're at 1440p or lower E7 and B6 are fine if you are at 4K while gaming on the same PC you're gonna have to start bumping it up uh before or P3 probably if you're at 8K you absolutely have to use uh P3 or P1 as that uses the Dual encoders and splits it up and runs a lot more efficiently but you have that option available to you there's also now a tuning option this has kind of been there before it's it looks like it's worded a little differently I do not recommend touching this quality is all you need low latency is more what they use for Discord so that you have that low latency Discord call but it doesn't help you with your latency on Twitch or YouTube or anything like that that's always been a misconception it does not help those scenarios and then there's a multi-pass mode you have two passes at quarter or full resolution I usually turn this off this is equivalent to the max quality mode that was available previously on h264 and h265 in the encoder settings in OBS Max quality uses two pass encoding which can get you higher bit rate efficiency so if you're using a dedicated recording computer it can kind of help but in most streaming scenarios most people recommended turning it off because it could actually hurt quality and at worst it definitely hurts record performance so I use single pass you can play with it from there and then you still have psycho visual tuning which is just going to help your motion quality and then look ahead which I leave off most the time these days so that is how to use the av1 encoder and then like I said you're able to get really high quality video obviously I'm not moving a ton in this video but setting it to a quality that would typically take up a ton of space for h.264 even for this just sitting still shot we have been recording for six minutes and we are at 143 megabytes this 4K video is using under four megabits per second average to record that is insane so I'll have some gameplay showing on screen and the video itself will be in 60fps so you can see the gameplay but it is absolutely wild and if you have a 40 series card especially now that DaVinci Resolve supports it and Premiere Pro support will be coming soon I've seen YouTube uploads already supported I see no reason not to do all of your recordings in av1 like I am moving everything that I don't need to be in the 444 chroma sub sampling that I talked about in the previous video everything that I'm recording otherwise is being recorded in av1 because this is absolutely game changing both in terms of performance and quality but also in terms of file sizes I don't need incredibly bloated files anymore it's genuinely like magic the update also improved the virtual camera feature weirdly enough where you have the ability to send your OBS feed out to another program like Discord or Skype or whatever as a video a webcam thing so you can do presentations or a device that doesn't work in those programs you now have finally have the ability without the plugin that I showcased before there's a little settings Cog here you can choose either for it to be the internal sources which are either going to be the main program output the main scene that you see or your preview scene if you're in studio mode where you can have a scene pulled up as preview you can have that one go out as your virtual cam you can choose individual scenes and so you can just send a dedicated scene out to Virtual cam while you're broadcasting and recording a normal scene and now you can send out individual sources as well this is useful for just managing your presentations or video calls more effectively while you're doing other things or doing an interview where you're streaming yourself but you just want your you know your webcam feed to go to the person you're podcasting with interviewing with whatever you can send that out dedicated on its own or if you're wanting to record mult or stream in multiple OBS instances at a time let's say you're setting up one scene to do twitch YouTube all of that and then you have another one that is set up to do Tick Tock or something and you need to composite it into a vertical frame you can now send out an individual source to do so you only get one at a time so it's still kind of limiting in that regard you may still need plugins to work around that but that's pretty big now I also wanted to touch on that I did get access to with this review of the 4090 a development build of Discord which allows me to test out av1 streaming in Discord I don't have a ton of time or the computers with the cards required to stream it myself but they do have sample feeds going of h.264 just using the normal video call streaming within Discord and av1 so you can see them side by side and the difference is night and day this is going to be such an amazing world of video calls and even just small form little private streaming like we you know you do sometimes in Discord for your game nights or your presentations or just sharing your screen whatever this changes a lot and again it requires a lot less bitrate and now you can start spending a lot higher resolution if you are a nebula subscriber you will have access to the samples I recorded here for you to download for yourself nebula is my own streaming service I built with my Creator friends it allows creators like myself to continue to do crazy dedicated work that YouTube just doesn't provide the ROI for as well as make cool things like my upcoming documentary series print screen to sign up for nebula I recommend doing the bundle we have with curiosity stream where you get access to curiositystream's Library of thousands of documentary and non-fiction titles as well as nebula thrown in for the price of one and that price is super low at just under 15 per year I recommend going and watching if you have kids The Secret Life of four five six year olds because that that gets some weird stuff my kids two turning three next year I'm not ready there's a lot that's coming up that these kinds of shows you know really poke at and start to make you feel things but I recommend going and checking it out and you'll get access to nebula by signing up at the link below curiositystream.com epos best deal in streaming plus you get access to my samples and things like that provided for you all av1 is officially here I'm not gonna shut up about it we have a ton to talk about but my next episode get subscribed will be about Ace 264 as I show you how to get the best possible quality on Twitch with this new beta update so get subscribed for that otherwise join us on Discord discord.gg slash a chat about this and remember to Be Kind Rewindav1 is here like for real this time you can use it right now if you have an Nvidia 40 series graphics card OBS just released a new update which contains a ton of stuff we're actually going to have two videos about it because one includes updates two h.264 and h265 for NVIDIA graphics card users but this one we're talking about av1 because it also introduces the av-1 encoder for you the end user to use since 4090s will be arriving into homes very shortly after the launch here I also want to touch on what it looks like in Discord because Discord av1 sport is coming very soon and it's going to seriously change the game for streaming on Discord and video calls and things like that which has kind of a preview of what the future of video calling looks like this is a beta to OBS so I don't recommend just installing it over your existing installation I recommend just downloading the zip and it creating a shortcut adding dash dash portable to it and running it portably so you can test it if you want to encode with av1 right now from this beta you and run that go into your output settings this is available both this is only available for recording mind you as streaming services aren't accepting it yet but you know we're getting we're rapidly getting all the steps up to that point but go into your recording settings this works both in the simple and the advanced output mode you do need an Nvidia 40 series graphics card I'm just going to keep disclaiming that because people are going to keep asking 30 series only had decode 40 series heads decode and encode it works in both the simple and advanced output modes meaning if you just use the simple mode and you don't want to have to worry about things both the high quality and the indistinguishable quality options now give you encoder Choice options so you can actually choose in Vang h264 and Link hevc if you'd rather use that or if you're on a older graphics card like the 30 series or 20 series or you can now choose av1 test it out give feedback to the devs in the forums on GitHub or in their Discord and then in the advanced tab again under encoder for recording you can choose invinc av1 and then you have the usual control option so rate control your cqp is typically what I recommend everyone use for recording you got CBR if you want to record stuff closer to what your stream might look like there's CQ levels 20 is a great place to start for more kind of static shots like this you have to play around with it for what you want for a high quality video I have found 50 actually to be good enough for a video like this but once you start getting action it starts to get a little blocky so I'd say 35 to 40 is my unofficial you know this just came out kind of play with and go from their answer and then there is now presets and these presets are available for all encoders and this is pretty incredible again we're going to talk about them in application to h.264 in a future video but you have basically like the x264 software running on your processor your CPU usage presets up very slow very fast you have slowest up to fastest and in my testing here since this is a 49 and 40 90 exclusive thing at 1080P and even 1440p and lower I was able to use p7 all the way up to P1 p7 being the highest quality the hardest run I was able to use p7 while recording gameplay on the same computer without any significant performance penalty and it ran just fine which is pretty awesome now what these presets actually control is What's called the bitrate efficiency effectively how much quality you can get for your bit so for example if I have a cqp value of 20 if I set it to slowest then it's going to use the least amount of bitrate to maintain that quality level assigned by the number of 20 with the lowest number being the highest quality the highest number being the worst quality plenty is kind of somewhere in the middle it will setting the preset to highest quality slowest will maintain that quality but use the least amount of data and thus a smaller file size to do it and I did show a a showcase where I did an entire one hour interview at full 4K 30 and it took up enough space to fit on a CD which is pretty wild I posted that on Twitter now if you bump it all the way up to fastest it will still maintain for the most part the same quality because it's still set to cqp of 20 but it will use significantly more data in order to do so but it'll be less impact on your game like I said for the av1 encoder as I covered in my main video I found no reason to turn it off as P6 maybe p7 is a little rough if you're at 1440p or lower E7 and B6 are fine if you are at 4K while gaming on the same PC you're gonna have to start bumping it up uh before or P3 probably if you're at 8K you absolutely have to use uh P3 or P1 as that uses the Dual encoders and splits it up and runs a lot more efficiently but you have that option available to you there's also now a tuning option this has kind of been there before it's it looks like it's worded a little differently I do not recommend touching this quality is all you need low latency is more what they use for Discord so that you have that low latency Discord call but it doesn't help you with your latency on Twitch or YouTube or anything like that that's always been a misconception it does not help those scenarios and then there's a multi-pass mode you have two passes at quarter or full resolution I usually turn this off this is equivalent to the max quality mode that was available previously on h264 and h265 in the encoder settings in OBS Max quality uses two pass encoding which can get you higher bit rate efficiency so if you're using a dedicated recording computer it can kind of help but in most streaming scenarios most people recommended turning it off because it could actually hurt quality and at worst it definitely hurts record performance so I use single pass you can play with it from there and then you still have psycho visual tuning which is just going to help your motion quality and then look ahead which I leave off most the time these days so that is how to use the av1 encoder and then like I said you're able to get really high quality video obviously I'm not moving a ton in this video but setting it to a quality that would typically take up a ton of space for h.264 even for this just sitting still shot we have been recording for six minutes and we are at 143 megabytes this 4K video is using under four megabits per second average to record that is insane so I'll have some gameplay showing on screen and the video itself will be in 60fps so you can see the gameplay but it is absolutely wild and if you have a 40 series card especially now that DaVinci Resolve supports it and Premiere Pro support will be coming soon I've seen YouTube uploads already supported I see no reason not to do all of your recordings in av1 like I am moving everything that I don't need to be in the 444 chroma sub sampling that I talked about in the previous video everything that I'm recording otherwise is being recorded in av1 because this is absolutely game changing both in terms of performance and quality but also in terms of file sizes I don't need incredibly bloated files anymore it's genuinely like magic the update also improved the virtual camera feature weirdly enough where you have the ability to send your OBS feed out to another program like Discord or Skype or whatever as a video a webcam thing so you can do presentations or a device that doesn't work in those programs you now have finally have the ability without the plugin that I showcased before there's a little settings Cog here you can choose either for it to be the internal sources which are either going to be the main program output the main scene that you see or your preview scene if you're in studio mode where you can have a scene pulled up as preview you can have that one go out as your virtual cam you can choose individual scenes and so you can just send a dedicated scene out to Virtual cam while you're broadcasting and recording a normal scene and now you can send out individual sources as well this is useful for just managing your presentations or video calls more effectively while you're doing other things or doing an interview where you're streaming yourself but you just want your you know your webcam feed to go to the person you're podcasting with interviewing with whatever you can send that out dedicated on its own or if you're wanting to record mult or stream in multiple OBS instances at a time let's say you're setting up one scene to do twitch YouTube all of that and then you have another one that is set up to do Tick Tock or something and you need to composite it into a vertical frame you can now send out an individual source to do so you only get one at a time so it's still kind of limiting in that regard you may still need plugins to work around that but that's pretty big now I also wanted to touch on that I did get access to with this review of the 4090 a development build of Discord which allows me to test out av1 streaming in Discord I don't have a ton of time or the computers with the cards required to stream it myself but they do have sample feeds going of h.264 just using the normal video call streaming within Discord and av1 so you can see them side by side and the difference is night and day this is going to be such an amazing world of video calls and even just small form little private streaming like we you know you do sometimes in Discord for your game nights or your presentations or just sharing your screen whatever this changes a lot and again it requires a lot less bitrate and now you can start spending a lot higher resolution if you are a nebula subscriber you will have access to the samples I recorded here for you to download for yourself nebula is my own streaming service I built with my Creator friends it allows creators like myself to continue to do crazy dedicated work that YouTube just doesn't provide the ROI for as well as make cool things like my upcoming documentary series print screen to sign up for nebula I recommend doing the bundle we have with curiosity stream where you get access to curiositystream's Library of thousands of documentary and non-fiction titles as well as nebula thrown in for the price of one and that price is super low at just under 15 per year I recommend going and watching if you have kids The Secret Life of four five six year olds because that that gets some weird stuff my kids two turning three next year I'm not ready there's a lot that's coming up that these kinds of shows you know really poke at and start to make you feel things but I recommend going and checking it out and you'll get access to nebula by signing up at the link below curiositystream.com epos best deal in streaming plus you get access to my samples and things like that provided for you all av1 is officially here I'm not gonna shut up about it we have a ton to talk about but my next episode get subscribed will be about Ace 264 as I show you how to get the best possible quality on Twitch with this new beta update so get subscribed for that otherwise join us on Discord discord.gg slash a chat about this and remember to Be Kind Rewind\n"