Fix AUDIO DELAY in OBS | How to Sync Audio and Video

[@lonr373]

hey guys I finally found why my desktop audio was lagging behind. Everywhere I looked, nothing seemed to work, and even a few articles online suggested matching the Hz in OBS settings, which was set to 48Hz. What worked for me was going into the Windows sound settings, clicking on my speakers, then selecting 'Properties,' followed by 'Advanced.' In the dropdown menu, I chose '24 bit, 48000 Hz.' I always had it set to '32 bit, 48000Hz,' thinking it was the correct configuration based on advice to match it with OBS's 48hz option. It turns out, that was the issue - I had no idea I needed the 24-bit option instead of the 32-bit version.

[@BeckiLea]

Thanks so much for sharing this. Hopefully it also helps others with the same issue. Always worth a try for sure! Really glad your got it sorted 🎉

[@JoeProGO_]

Thank you!!!! This helped!!

[@BARF_FACE_9000]

Thank you. This helped me. I'm laughing right now cause I was testing Deus Ex sound effects to see if it was working or not (and your profile pic lol..) but hallelujah man that was driving me nuts. Basically I had a mega delay between sound effects / output from games feeding through the mic "early" on my end and then replaying through stream a bit later. For whatever reason your suggestion resolved the issue though after beating my head against many other ideas (noise gates, offset, delay blablabla.. this was the easy fix) Thanks again.

[@TheWordWalkCast]

You just saved my buns three years later. Thank you so much. 🙏🏾

[@RainbwSpctrm]

This video helped me for a little while, however this can become ineffective if your PC is in a situation where the audio delay gets worse over time like mine did. For me, it quickly got to a point where even setting the maximum allowed audio delay in OBS wasn't syncing the audio to video. If this is happening to you, my own solution was to update audio drivers. In particular, if you have Realtek HD Audio as one of your sound devices in Device Manager, try updating the drivers for it. That solved the audio delay entirely for me.

[@fernandobarrientos8326]

Your channel is way underrated

[@BeckiLea]

Thank you, that’s super kind 💜

[@everyfortnite3408]

How do i fix the audio from my gameplay if it is delayed compared to the actual gameplay?

[@lonr373]

change your sound settings to 24 bit 48000hz. the 32 bit 48000 option will always be delayed. only do this if your obs settings is also set to 48hz because i believe there is another option like 44.1 or something like that. in which case Idk so just use the 48 option in obs

[@philspecialmeter]

Thank you. So helpful!

[@paulwright205]

Thanks for this video fixed my audio delay. Just wanted to ask if you are using an elgato external camlink? There are so many choices including intenal cards it hard to be sure. Many thanks.

[@cynh8315]

THANK YOU! This was so useful I appreciate it! With your help got mine fixed on the first try! 😍

[@Aswitchten55]

My audio is synced up fine but randomly for like 1-2 mins it will be a second behind then it fixes itself and I cant find any solutions or even anyone experiencing the same issue

[@dylanj950]

I have a weird problem where I use OBS to display my Switch to my PC monitor, and when I set OBS' refresh rate to 60fps and start playing my Switch there's no delay until a few minutes after I begin playing, then there's a delay that gets worse and worse every few minutes. Any idea how I'd go about fixing that?

[@Kewickviper]

Mine is only delayed some of the time so this doesn't really fix it for me. Sometimes its really delayed, sometimes it plays perfectly and I don't know what causes it. Theres no sound delay at all through my speakers.

[@adamparsons9507]

What do you do if your video and audio are perfectly synced but your headphones have latency as you record? Is that an odd question?

[@KindredPhantom]

I didn't delay in giving this video a like!

[@BeckiLea]

That gets a pin 😂🙈💜

[@rustictuntuqtv7725]

I am having the issue that my ps5 streams over just fine but when I switch to my dual pc setupbit has audio drift. How would I check that all framerates and audio frequency line up?

[@drhimanshubharwad]

my obs recordings audio delaying over time, for example nearly about 14 minites!! tehn i need to stop recording and start again and its in sync for another 14 minutes... !! tried both mac and pc samw problem

[@xerathyn]

This was very helpful and this video should have more views! Thank you! :)

[@BeckiLea]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cloudstrife3767]

great advice, will definitely use this when i eventually start streaming again! great vid :)

[@BeckiLea]

That audio is gonna be crisp on your return!!!

[@aslimeyking1491]

my question is why did this issue just randomly happened. I've been streaming for years and now i just got this issue. could i just reboot my computer?

[@BeckiLea]

Always worth a try especially if it just happened for no reason. This usually happens if there has been an update or there has been changed to how you capture audio, such as using a new capture card with a different latency. It can also been if your OBS audio frequency is set to different than that on your PC, which can happen if you install new audio software. Lots of reasons but no real reason I know of is absolutely nothing has changed.

[@Calplay_]

I loved your video, ask how do I put the rgb on the edge of the webcam with the shape it has?

[@BeckiLea]

Thanks Caltech 🙏 I made the border in OBS using a combination of plugins, the colour is added using StreamFX (I’ve done a video on that already), the shape is done using OBS Shaderfilter by Surn and the animation is with Move Transition by Exeldro. I do plan to make a tutorial showing all of these things soon :)

[@Calplay_]

@@BeckiLea I would like to put it into practice, I hope to see more of your content soon, you are incredible. thank you ♥

[@dennislopez3126]

Liked and subbed, very informative thank you

[@TerryMinorJr]

Hey my problem is not solved, hmm, the GAME audio is like 1-2sec behind in OBS, like say I am on the menu screen on my gaming console, and when moving to different tabs, you then hear the clicks 1-2sec late in obs, this is the same with actual in-game audio too. Hope you can help, great video!

[@BeckiLea]

Hi Terry. Try adding a filter to your game source (the visual not audio) and choose Render Delay. You may have to stack a few of these as I think they max out at 500ms so you would need 4 if you have a 2 second delay. As you can’t speed up audio, you need to drop the visual back a second or two.

[@jeremiahbullfrog226]

@@BeckiLea Glad I saw this. Idk if I got it perfectly, but it's better than it was. My Elgato video and audio were in sync but going out faster than my mic, and I noticed that when I was humming to the music of my game I was off beat in the recording. I'll tinker with it a little more, but this helped a lot.

[@KevinBreal4U]

Works! Thank you!

[@BeckiLea]

Glad it helped!

[@Heimburg]

amazing, thank you so much!

[@zulanova1209]

Thing is, I don't need it to be further behind I need the audio to be earlier than it is currenly. And putting it at -100 seemed to do nothing at all, going further didnt do anything either.. I can only make the delay worse...

[@BeckiLea]

Hiya. Firstly check in your audio settings what HZ it is set to. If this is mismatched to your windows audio settings then there will be a delay. If these already match then you can try the following: Try adding a filter to your game source (the visual not audio) and choose Render Delay. You may have to stack a few of these as I think they max out at 500ms so you would need 4 if you have a 2 second delay. As you can’t speed up audio, you need to drop the visual back a second or two. Hope this helps.

[@zulanova1209]

@@BeckiLea Thanks for the tips! Unfortunately I had tried most of this, but I found out what the problem was, in properties I had my audio output mode set to desktop audio, and not capture audio only Instantly fixed all my problems 😂😭

[@BeckiLea]

@@zulanova1209 oh no 🙈So glad to hear you found and fixed the problem. Appreciate you letting me know as this comment may also help others with the same issue :)

[@BeckiLea]

@Ms Moon Boo I replied to your other comment too but you can use the render delay filter for this.

[@bequiet568]

Thank you lady for fix. and you have a nice eyes

[@BeckiLea]

Your are most welcome and very kind 💜

[@Its_MnD]

so i stumbled upon this video when looking for a solve. my issue is the video is showing before the audio so kinda the opposite issue any ideas? xD

[@BeckiLea]

Try adding a filter to your game source (the visual not audio) and choose Render Delay. You may have to stack a few of these as I think they max out at 500ms so you would need 4 if you have a 2 second delay. As you can’t speed up audio, you need to drop the visual back a second or two.

[@Its_MnD]

@@BeckiLea turns out if I set audio sample to 44.1 it fixed it haha

[@BeckiLea]

@@Its_MnD brilliant. Glad you solved the issue. 🎉

[@Its_MnD]

@@BeckiLea thank you for the great video too :D

[@shiloheaston9839]

My game audio always shifts throughout the time of my recording. Like it will be in sync and then off then further off. Then if I close OBS and start over it does it again and all my clips are off. I tried using SLOBS too and had the same issue. I changed the time but it only helps initially and then it starts sliding off again. If anyone knows how to fix this it would mean the world I've been trying to fix this for weeks now.

[@BeckiLea]

Hey Shiloh. First thing to check is that everything you are using to capture and edit are all running on the same frame rate and the same audio frequency. I actually had this issue as I was using Voicemeeter Banana and it was set to 48kHz but OBS was 44.1kHz. I’ve also seen this happen when importing OBs footage into video editors when the frame rates are slightly different.

[@shiloheaston9839]

@@BeckiLea Thank-You! I went and checked and I had them set to the same before but I guess at some point the windows output changed back to 48.1 . It must have after updating or something. Thank-You!!! :)

[@BeckiLea]

Brilliant news!! Glad to help 💜

[@gustavobonato]

Excellent

[@BeckiLea]

Thank you so much 😀

[@180Aurelius]

thank you! this video was so useful

[@kieranhicken3964]

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[@robinn57]

well this did nothing for me......

[@BeckiLea]

Hope you manage to find a fix for your issue! Impossible to diagnose with no info given unfortunately.

[@moosedraw3731]

Sorry, but... Is that a rainbow poop floating around your webcam lmao

[@dooshmasta]

Why not just use an Audio Video Sync Test like the kind you find on KZbin? Just browse to it on your console or plug your computer HDMI into the capture card and headphones out into your audio mixer and record, then open in a video editing software to figure out how many frames the video is behind the audio, then calculate how many milliseconds you need to delay your audio. This will be much more accurate than relying on your vocal performance to sync up the video game audio.