How to Set OBS Studio for Recording or Streaming
Hi, are you confused about how to set up OBS studio to start a recording or live broadcast project?. Don't worry, we'll find out how to set up OBS Studio, whether it's for recording or live broadcasting on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook Gaming, and others.
Here are steps you can try in adjusting some of its settings, such as audio, video, and visuals.
How to Set Up OBS Studio for Early Users
As a new user, it will be difficult to understand some of the functions of the tools provided, for that, you can try configuring the basic settings as a first step:
- Please install OBS first on your PC device, if you haven't got the application for free on the Obs project web.
- Open the OBS studio software, and prepare the content materials that will be made into a video.
- Make adjustments to the output settings first by selecting file >> settings
- First, Select Audio to adjust Voice Input, there are several menu functions that you can pay attention to, General settings, Device input/output, to hotkeys.
- In the General menu, you can adjust the stereo level and rate, for that the system on obs has adjusted it to the state of the device.
- Furthermore, on the device menu you can change the sound input on the Desktop audio, and the audio mic if you add an additional microphone
- Video There is a resolution menu from the canvas and the part of the Desktop screen that you want to display along with the FPS (frames per second), the settings will be filled automatically according to the state of the hardware, so the default settings are recommended.
How to add media source in OBS
Adding a Screen Display window
How to Setting OBS Studio for Media source
Showing the source media, for example, we will try the Google Chrome web browser window. The method is almost similar to adding source >> select “+” >> windows capture >> Create New >> Name it >> Ok >> Find the chrome resource >> ok
Note: So that the Media Source you want to display is in the options, please open the media first. For example, first, open the Chrome browser application so that the source can be read in OBS.
How to Show Camera source
The view of a recorder or streamer can be captured with a screen camera on a laptop device or an additional webcam. To add to obs is quite easy, Add Source >> select “+” >> Video capture device >> Name it >> ok >> Select the device used >> ok
If you have a green screen, you can remove the background or replace it by right-clicking on the media camera that was added earlier >> filter >> chroma key >> adjust >> ok
Media sources can be combined with scans that can be added unlimitedly. For example, we want to make the 1st scan contains the camera source, and the second only display the screen display.
How to set OBS for recording
After the basic settings are appropriate, then adjust the settings for record requirements to record video projects with some adjustments, in order to produce output as expected.
- Specify the storage location of the file so that it is easy to find. Pay close attention to the needs of the video file you want to create, for example MKV, MP4, Fly and other video file extensions. Don't arrive after it's finished, you still have to convert because it doesn't match the file.
In addition, the video quality can be set, for example, low or high quality, in the recording quality menu. After making sure all the recording process can be done by clicking start recording on the front page.
How To Activating Pause Mode in OBS Studio
In simple settings, the recording process will be done once, because pause mode is not included. Maybe if you're good at video editing you can trim some parts and get rid of unnecessary frames, what if you don't?
Solving this problem, we can adjust the settings to a more advanced level by changing the output mode from simple to advanced, there will find some more detailed ingredients. Changing it is very easy by visiting settings > output > output mode.
This advanced customization prioritizes workspaces to get the device function allocation from the user's eye. Please make adjustments when changing modes such as end-level storage, file extension, and bitrate indicating quality.
Find the appropriate bitrate setting, in the next description.
How to Set OBS Studio for Streaming
To do a live broadcast, you can do the standard settings first like the steps above, after you finish you can adjust several settings such as Video quality settings that will be displayed on the output menu >> Streaming
You can set the bitrate and encoder level, if your PC device uses VGA like NVIDIA you can switch it to Hardware QSV for better performance.
Next, you can go to stream settings >> then choose which platform you want to stream on, let's take youtube as an example >> enter the stream key
To get the stream key, please visit the YouTube live studio dashboard on your channel, if you use the new control room, you can schedule the broadcast. If the old series is available directly on the live panel page, just access youtube.com/live_dashboard
Secrets of Smooth Streaming (Secrets)
There are several problems that occur while streaming, such as broken video stream quality or buffering due to unstable internet access. For that we can adjust the settings so that the video quality can be enjoyed by the audience smoothly even though the internet streamer is less stable.
The key is there is a bitrate setting for the display of video and audio quality, pay attention to the table below which is the best bitrate setting I've ever tried based on references best obs setting:
We can use High or low, for example, we will lower it to medium quality to get stable performance while streaming.
The internet quality is not very good but the video results are still good with a resolution of 360p and audio bitrate of 96. to change it please go to Settings >> Output
How to Set OBS Studio for Powerpoint
There are some problems when you start recording, such as displaying a full-screen application, for example, a PowerPoint slide show.
Oklah if we have two monitors, can do duplicate screens, but what if one. Answering the problem, the key is that we adjust the appearance of the application, by displaying a slide show with frame windows instead of full screen.
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| Select slide show >> Custom Slide show >> select settings to window |
There are things that need to be considered in setting OBS studio for streaming and recording purposes. Not too complicated, because OBS itself has provided recommended default settings.
Good manufacturing such as adding a VGA card will produce better video quality. You can change it if the resulting video is still lacking, so there's no harm in trying.
Suggestion, If the recording process has been done and forgot to change the output file extension, there is no need to re-record, please convert it with the help of Handbrake Software which can be used easily.
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