Smash Wii U How to get the best looking video from recordings

[Pudgetalks]

Recently my Locals have started recording, but it seems the quality of our videos is very very low.
For Example this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jux1DmnQZRY
Btw we are using an Avermedia Live Gamer Xtreme through OBS to record the videos.
I don't know why it has these massive black bars around it and why it's so pixelated
I am Self admittedly horrible with this sort of stuff but am willing to learn, if anyone has any useful videos/guides please send them my way. I have found lots of videos but none in specifics about recording for tournaments.

 

[Gamesfreak13563]

Recording high quality, non-artifacted footage means having a large hard drive and cranking up the bitrate. Make sure you are recording at a high bitrate using a fast enough hard drive to prevent dropped frames due to the USB bus being saturated.

Make sure your input settings are correct. You should be recording at a resolution of 1920x1080p. Straight recordings should never have this issue unless something is configured incorrectly. You may also be introducing the problem in post, when you composite the footage with the status bar at the top.

I'm not familiar with your specific capture card. Customer support is a great resource though.

 

[Pudgetalks]

Recording high quality, non-artifacted footage means having a large hard drive and cranking up the bitrate. Make sure you are recording at a high bitrate using a fast enough hard drive to prevent dropped frames due to the USB bus being saturated.

Make sure your input settings are correct. You should be recording at a resolution of 1920x1080p. Straight recordings should never have this issue unless something is configured incorrectly. You may also be introducing the problem in post, when you composite the footage with the status bar at the top.

I'm not familiar with your specific capture card. Customer support is a great resource though.

Thanks for all of the good info man, I'll have a fiddle around tonight with the settings you said.
Should I save to my SSD if Harddrive probes problematic?

 

[Gamesfreak13563]

Thanks for all of the good info man, I'll have a fiddle around tonight with the settings you said.
Should I save to my SSD if Harddrive probes problematic?

Yes. Also, make sure you're connected through a USB 3.0 port (USB 3.1 if you have it), as that is the only interface with the amount of bandwidth that can transfer high quality video.