How To Record A YouTube Video With OBS - This Tutorial Uses 1080p BUT YOU CAN GO HIGHER!

[@hikikostudios]

2 years later, and this video is still applicable and extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@TylerMFerris]

Lol I’m just watching this now too

[@GeneralBuckles]

3 years later.... still at it

[@jectrack]

about to say that too@@GeneralBuckles

[@DomoSkyy]

Yo, trap phone weak get yo muscle up.

[@elijahbieniek]

3.5 years later still great

[@wesleypryce3733]

All the advice here is great. Thanks for the tutorial, Scott! One thing I would add is that recording in lossless will make your file size very large. 80-100 megabytes for well under a minute of video. If you plan on recording 30+ minute videos to your channel, as I do mine, then I'd suggest learning more about the CQP rate control setting, and setting the CQ option between 15-20. Especially so if you have a slower internet speed. This video assumes that you have the storage space and the internet speed to store and upload massive file sizes. That rate control setting can slim down some of those files without any discernible loss in quality at 1080p, depending on your unique use case. The only way to find out is to play with the settings and see what looks best to your eye. Good luck!

[@ScottFichter]

Very true Dustin. Great post.

[@xPorsum]

Are there any videos out there that prioritize things like this with the settings over quality loss? I live in an area with slower internet so if I'm going to upload a video to youtube it takes forever... even if I lose out on quality I'd like to be able to upload something watchable without waiting a year for it to happen lol.

[@johnedsongo3615]

@@ScottFichter Hi I am John Edson Go, I am a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines and I am interested to create youtube content about History. My questions are what should I select from Mic/ Auxiliary if I will use the headset in youtube blogging and how to edit the videos in OBS?

[@Breadification_YT]

after even 4 years later, this is still applicable and extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@TheSusieChannel]

awesome Scott.... you know all the cool tricks... keep up the good work... everytime I come to your channel I learn something

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks Susie.

[@dawsflix2282]

This is so helpful! I'm setting up OBS so my son can record his Nintendo switch gameplay for KZbin and this has made life a whole lot easier lol. Thank you 👍

[@JChristopherWestland]

Great video! W.r.t.the GPU and Max B-Frame settings, under Output->Advanced->Encoder (Nvidia)->GPU if you have multiple GPUs (common with gamers), you can choose the less used and more powerful. For example, I have a wimpy Nvidia GTX710 to drive my screen (GPU=2) and two GTX1080s (GPUs=0,1) for machine learning applications (TensorFlow). I want my GPU to be either 1 or 0. You can run nvidia-smi on command line to find the numbers of the physical device, and to find their specs and usage. B-Frames are Nvidia specific too, and are set between none and 4, and I believe are designed to smooth out the video under certain conditions. Streamers encounter latency problems if B-Frames are used, because these consume a lot of the GPU's bandwidth. I'd just take the OBS defaults, as I believe that these are mainly provided for streaming/recording software like OBS.

[@ScottFichter]

Excellent Christopher, I'm not sure I understand what B-Frames are. Do you think you could make a video about this concept. You have my interest on this topic.

[@iainwong]

It's odd and comical how ML and mining nowadays have so much familiarity with GPU specs and how to use them!

[@ShinyTechThings]

What reverb affect did you use in the beginning?

[@ScottFichter]

All i do is extract the audio and then I double it and the second track is delayed by literally 1/10 of a second. That's it.

[@Soldier4Christ96]

Do you have an updated version since obs change a bit

[@mentalformetalinterviews9363]

What is Max B frames? Max Consecutive: This setting controls the maximum number of consecutive B-Frames. B-Frames refer to both, the previous and the following I-Frame (or P-Frame). This way B-Frames can compress even more efficient than P-Frames. B-Frames can significantly improve the visual quality of the video at the same file size.Dec 30, 2011

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks Mental. I need to make a video about this.

[@Sheraytv]

This helped a lot, I have a MacBook Air laptop so hopefully when I get a camera I can start doing that

[@thebigskunk8946]

one problem I did the advanced and when i finished recording a video i looked at the footage and it was just a blank screen with no sound and i went back to simple and it fixed the problem

[@iainwong]

Thanks Scott - great video!

[@ScottFichter]

Glad you liked it!

[@TheBlakeBauer]

3 years later, and this video is still the best out there.

[@tammilee4840]

Thank you for this tutorial! Need to record class lessons from my computer and this will help!

[@ScottFichter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@floridaprepper7543]

Hey Scott, great video but how do I get KZbin videos into the Capture method to begin with? Thanks

[@krishnasrivatsa4204]

This has to be the most underrated video for OBS recording. This tutorial is *amazing* , thank you so much!

[@ScottFichter]

Your comment convinced me to rewatch this video and I almost fell out of my chair laughing at this part. 7:18. Thanks Krishna!

[@krishnasrivatsa4204]

@@ScottFichter glad you had a good laugh! Here's hoping the video gets more than a million views 🔥

[@ARL-LifesLessons.-nk4fd]

You are the only person who really makes understanding OBS less daunting, thank you.

[@leontalton784]

3 years later.. still so helpful 🙌🏾

[@sunilkirloskar3844]

fantastic informative video. thanks bro

[@ScottFichter]

My pleasure

[@9onnight314]

Thank you very much Scott! It helped me out since I'm starting KZbin Tomorrow!

[@AirborneSapper82]

Thank you very much. This worked for me to record a part of a video for a school presentation. Thanks again !!! :D.

[@PugChugz]

Thank you for this video very helpful

[@ScottFichter]

You are welcome!

[@denpadream]

omg thank you!! this stuff was confusing as heck

[@An.D]

Awesome Tutorial as usual Scott, Good work my friend 👍✌️

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks Andy! I hope your doing well.

[@Thebeautifulgame210]

Thank you so much, this was exactly what I was looking for!

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Thanks, Scott. I'm just starting out recording material for lessons related to my info. business, this is a GREAT way to get started. Thanks again.

[@ScottFichter]

Great to hear Frankincensed. Keep those Black Napkins close man.

[@itsyaboibigeazy1056]

Great advice I will be playing around with obs tonorrow

[@AUPackmule]

Great ideas and corrections

[@ScottFichter]

I owned up to my mistakes and turned it into humor. HA!

[@AUPackmule]

Scott Fichter love it brother! Your the master.

[@MrTruffle_]

this will definitely help my channel!

[@addisonbeverly8406]

Awesome video. Thank you!

[@2facelegion]

Just wanted to say thank you for showing me how to set it up

[@Soldier4Christ96]

You’re the best I watch so many videos on how to but they always missing the crucial point

[@PaulMichaelDavidBain]

I swear you look younger each year Scott! Thanks for sharing, I struggle with OBS and give up on it too quick!

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks bud. Here's a funny video that expresses my emotion when you wrote this. media.giphy.com/media/deCFoL65Sip0SvXlZ2/giphy.mp4

[@ScottFichter]

The wifey make me dye my hair. HA HA

[@PaulMichaelDavidBain]

@@ScottFichter lol well looks good on you mate!

[@ScottFichter]

@@PaulMichaelDavidBain HA! Cheers.

[@chrisc4843]

Great video thank you!

[@ScottFichter]

Glad you liked it!

[@TheAugustineExperience]

thank you bro, this was so educative

[@leontalton784]

Perfect video. Helped me so much ‼️🙏🏽

[@themrreepodcast4201]

Excellent video. I love the humor and you explain things really well. This video is helping me out so much!!! : )

[@ScottFichter]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@49Macman]

GREAT JOB SCOTT! THANKS!

[@ScottFichter]

You're welcome!

[@adamnealis]

3.5 years later, and this video helped me out.

[@christophedesmarest3646]

Hi Scott, you are in a punchy mood and your explanation are great. If outputs could give large files, each of us can set according to his need because of your excellent topic. Excellent :)

[@sebastiancastelliano1692]

Just starded obs, a good tutorial to start.

[@arturomedina8332]

Thank you! Very useful!

[@ScottFichter]

GETSUM!

[@jhamod556]

Okay I love all the detailed and analysis you give but I cannot figure out how to play a KZbin on the OSB screen. When I go to select the display captions in the options for the KZbin tabs that I have pulled up on my computer. How do I get a KZbin video inside the the OSb box?

[@Yeguzo_Mastawosha]

Interesting and very helpful

[@jimmywheelo]

great video thank you

[@wojciechglanc]

Hi! Thanks for all your helpful videos! I have one question - do you have a video showing how to add a small frame showing YT video of someone else??? I would love to make a live comment to existing video of someone else

[@ScottFichter]

That's very easy to do BUT! Beware you might get a ding at your channel for using other creators content.

[@therandomgamer8628]

THANK YOU, THIS HELP'D, SO MUCH I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jamesm766]

Cheers mate, really appreciated.

[@Punkbustrd]

Unreal tournament is a classic, good taste!

[@damienr3086]

new subscriber thank you for helping me create content through your tutorials. You have a new sub.

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks for the sub!

[@savagebullrider4648]

Oh that's freaking cool

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks Sav!

[@lucymuiruri1862]

Excellent Tutorial on OBS, thank you.

[@ScottFichter]

Glad it helped!

[@damienr3086]

i have plugged in speakers and the video i am reacting to. Obs is recording the sound through the mic and it sounds crappy. My voice is flawless but the audio from the video doesn't sound great. My speakers are below my computer desk. Do speakers need to be next to the microphone to record video sound?

[@ScottFichter]

No, what you talking about is "Desktop Audio" this is your system audio. Take a look under your "Audio Mixer" You should see it listed at the top. Play a sound file and make sure you can see active levels moving. If you don't see it click on one of the white gears and click "Unhide All" Make sure The speaker next to Desktop Audio is not red. If it is click it and unmute

[@lespuryear]

When I go into my Desktop Audio, my only choice is Disabled. I don't have Default? What should I do?

[@JoseEncarnacao]

Man, I've been using OBS for some personalized videos I've been doing by Trial-and-error. You videos have been incisive and simple to learn. Subscribed!!! And too should OBS developers colab with you to teach how to use it :) Cheers from Portugal, and stay safe.

[@ScottFichter]

Cheers, thanks José, many developers have found and used my videos for their software. More is coming that's for sure. Best wishes man.

[@sourpuss1776]

@@ScottFichter I am looking to make a video for my church on how to live stream (for those that want to learn) and I cannot figure out how to get the OBS on my desktop in the video using OBS. The same way you show us on how to do things.

[@sandokan1578]

First of all thank you for the video. Two questions ... The micro should be connected to th pc or the video card? And if a record from a ps4 the sound does not "shows"?

[@5poundsofpresha]

WHAT CAMERA ARE YOU USING TO MAKE THIS VIDEO... ITS VERY CLEAR....

[@ScottFichter]

FDR AX53 and the video signal is converted with a Camlink4k.

[@WillDanceAlone2U]

Great work. You know the app and know how to teach it! Thanks!

[@ScottFichter]

Glad you liked it!

[@TSPH1992]

I learned a lot from this

[@ScottFichter]

Awesome

[@NorfolknStealth]

Thanks. Helpful.

[@BenderDaOffenda]

Thanks this was very helpful. Was trying to record a wiki page of top selling PS4 games, but the text was too blurry to see on the video. So this helped out a lot.

[@OfficialxFaris]

ty this helped me so much

[@flipinfin]

Great video very educational easy to follow along. Only thing you left out was Audio Tracks, where you can separate tracks for better mixing in post.

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks Fin! Best wishes.

[@miplev]

Any advice, pls..? When seeing up 'audio' I don't have any option to set desktop audio. It only say 'Disabled". I can't change it. I'm using MacBook 2020, Do I miss any internal hardware?

[@goodvibrations429]

do I need a microphone for this or can I use the mic on my laptop?

[@ScottFichter]

Yes, if you looking to record your voice.

[@DerekJFiedler]

Sweet, thank you! I will use this for my next video.

[@ScottFichter]

Great!

[@crocoytv4125]

hi sir thank you for this amazing tutorial sir I would like to ask what is the off key ?? where you can manage to change the size of the side of the video screen without shrinking the whole video???

[@ScottFichter]

Hi Croco, can you remember where in the video I mention this?

[@tedstrand4610]

Your videos are great! As a 66 year old gamer I have been trying to get OBS to record my game play, as bad as it is!. I am sure this question has been asked many times before, but I can't figure out why my game suddenly becomes laggy when trying to record? I am a 67 year old noob on this stuff.Upload time looks ok, us a Radeon 580 graphics card, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz, and 16.0 GB of ram.....thanks in advance!!!!!

[@tinasmith1391]

This is one way to get a video. Although I'm not sure why you wouldn't use a free app that shows you a list of all available formats and just download the file you want. With OBS do you have to let the video play through completely? That seems a bit time consuming. I prefer downloading the file I want instead of video capturing what's on the screen.

[@theskipper12ky]

I loved your tutorial, Unfortunately you never explained the procedure for downloading u-tube videos. please try to help. thank you.

[@daneo617]

One issue with following along in this video that I've had multiple times is when you go to click to change the setting to advanced on the output mode from simple, if you have input sources running it won't allow you to change that it asks you to turn them off 🤦🏻‍♂️so that you can change the setting I don't know how to turn inputs off so I had to delete everything from my sources box just so I could go in and tweek the setting if you know and easier way to be able to change that setting without having to delete everything, all of the sources that would be a great place to start this video Thx 👍🏼✌🏼

[@MoussaKHALFI-zt8kr]

Perfect, thnx sir.

[@ScottFichter]

Most welcome

[@eckankar7756]

how do you get the KZbin video selected to record it??

[@x-bit_asmr_scripts]

Scott Fichter hey the audio sounds distorted any help?

[@glenfoxh]

There is new video editing programs, that will upscale the frame rate and smooth out a low frame rate video. Some of them work good, if you are going from 30 fps to 60 fps. My suggestion is to record at 30 fps for performance when recording. Then use a video editor to turn it into a 60 fps video. You get basically the same thing in the end. A nice smooth looking 60 fps video.

[@MrTruffle_]

thx so much

[@BlindAndBehind]

Ty helps a lot

[@ScottFichter]

GETSUM Szymon Gugala you're super welcome

[@neddyf00]

Thanks for making it. I don't speak english well. But you make me understand everything.

[@ScottFichter]

You're welcome 😊 Best wishes

[@madforit9661]

how did you capture the video off youtube?

[@perfectionrecordz7535]

Having trouble adjusting what I am recording. Do you have to set the button for cutting? Heard you using alt.

[@ScottFichter]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpfYZ3mFZa6Yqqs

[@badassfroslass]

So I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but when I try to record the videos from KZbin to talk over it, it whites out the videos when they are playing, is there a step I'm missing?

[@ScottFichter]

To be clear, does the video go white when you talk over it or is the video white regardless of the voice track? This is a weird issue.

[@badassfroslass]

@@ScottFichter do I need to be talking over the video for it to remain playing? I was hoping to get a bunch of clips to chop up and put together so that I could talk over it after editing together but I can make it work if it’s just a requirement that I need to be recording my voice as I do it

[@ScottFichter]

@@badassfroslass You should have no issues playing an edited video (a media source) and talking over it (with a mic) live in your livestream. What you telling me should be easy, and doable.

[@ScottFichter]

You should have two sources 1) is your edited video and 2) is your mic. That's it.

[@PlanetGamz]

I try to create a source & go to window capture & when I try to click on the window drop down box to choose one the whole thing starts glitching & I can't click the drop down.

[@OlympiaMarketing]

This doesn't record the audio of the window though... I've been trying to get this setup for weeks lol. I'm on a mac. Any suggestions?

[@SerKris]

Are you related to the Gasol Brother's? You look like Pau Gasol 😁

[@Kashy_o]

I have a few problems here. First, the video encoder I'm using is x264 but when I scroll down to rate control, I don't see lossless. Second, I can't see Psycho Visual Tuning or is just tune right now. What do I do now?

[@jamesonjohnson5057]

Why can’t I choose on my description audio, only disabled is available

[@Fightarcade]

Does it work on KZbin Movies to record on OBS?

[@utube521]

8:35 - i don't see the window I want. i see obs on top of it. why? thanks

[@lanceryderwilson8618]

When i finish recording and watch the clip, there is only audio. The display is just black. Am i doing something wrong?

[@ScottFichter]

This is usually the result of your video card drivers not being up to date.

[@lanceryderwilson8618]

@@ScottFichter im using an RTX 3060 pc that i just built and all the drivers are upto date

[@ScottFichter]

@@lanceryderwilson8618 Check this thread obsproject.com/forum/threads/solution-for-black-screen-display-capture-even-after-performing-the-steps-on-obs-forum.112109/

[@PaulPeck]

I'm going to be using this Scott!🔥 Thank you brother!💪 #GetSum

[@ScottFichter]

Thanks Paul! Rock on brother.

[@Krestor1]

B-frames means the number of frames the GPU will predict that is going to come next and according prepare. I suggest you keep this to 1 like me unless you have a really good GPU. I kinda have a trash GPU so can't really say most people should keep this to the minimum GPU in that settings is basically for people those who have multiple GPUs For example, if they have 3 GPUs 1st GPU = 0 2nd GPU = 1 3rd GPU = 2 It basically means which GPU you want to use for this video editting thing. I suggest you keep this to 0 if you don't exactly know what it is and most people only have 1 GPU

[@gigifixture8242]

That John Grolin gif is great. Makes me love him. You too.

[@ScottFichter]

HA HA !

[@tcunleashed-unleashyou9351]

Thank you!

[@ScottFichter]

You're welcome!

[@gyhembree]

I only record from a prerecorded you tube video mostly of Switzerland alps, etc. Using windows 10 screen recorder I get an excellent picture much like orig. using obs it is sort of blury with noise lines looking like heat waves on freeway. I have tried several different settings cannot remove the blurry issue. there must be a solution for this

[@Chicago_Clout]

Work for blocked zoom?

[@snehajounkani5659]

Hello Scott, Could you please help me, I want to translate English KZbin preaching videos to Hindi in my own voice along with the English Video's original voice then i will pause and translate the preaching in my own voice

[@jr808tv5]

Thanks bruh🤝

[@ScottFichter]

🤝 ROCK ON DeathSalt. (love the name)

[@bren.nan_]

Whenever I try and record my game (destiny 2) and put it into the scene, the recording just shows up as a black screen even after I hit record. Any help?

[@scottbowling58]

How do you just get the You Tube video to appear on the OSB screen??? How??

[@SpeedyReelemFishing]

When you went to browser to hit play, does it have to stay on the browser page to record the reaction, or can you switch back to jobs and record reaction from there?

[@ScottFichter]

Sure, you can bounce around to different windows.

[@SpeedyReelemFishing]

@@ScottFichter How do I do the software recording on my laptop and use the browser from my desktop? Or are you using only 1 computer?

[@BestJelq]

Hey, I know how to do the rest, but how do you start and stop recording?

[@ScottFichter]

There's a button on the left that says "Start Recording" do you not see it?