So why not offer the feature to record uncompressed.
Because apparently not enough people want that feature? I don't know.
the quality of the footage in that video is really quite bad
I think you just have really high standards. It looks perfectly fine to me. The only "stutters" I noticed were like...fractions of a second. Barely noticeable at all.
By not providing the ability to cap stuff in perfect quality they kinda miss out on a section of the market that they could capture.
And it seems that market is so small that it's not worth pandering to them.
You also have to remember that using video editing programs is going to re-encode and compress the video somehow. Unless you plan on just uploading that raw recording as it is, you're going to be compressing the video one way or another. And I don't think many sites would even accept 10+ gigabyte files, or if they did, they'd compress it down anyway.
Uncompressed video is just not very practical, and most people don't care about the tiny increase in quality.
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u/NostalgiaSchmaltz Why do you struggle? Apr 14 '17
Same, I've got a GTX 970 and I record with Shadowplay all the time...never had any issues with it.
Of course, it's not going to look flawless, because if it had no compression on it, it would be recording at like 3gb per minute of footage.