OBS Studio: How to Record in 2K QHD 1440p in 30fps & 60fps -- Best Settings (OBS Studio Tutorial)

Recording in 2K QHD 1440p in either 30fps or 60fps is simple in OBS Studio, and in this tutorial I show you the best settings, bitrate and encoder to use.
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[@gabrielagencheva8952]

Had to pause just to comment how refreshing it is to hear someone speak so clear and concise, no irrelevant speech, straight to the point just flawless

[@Adrians_Stories]

I was amazed as well. No pointless introductions, no fluff, straight to the important bits, concise and precise, this guy is the standard for explanation videos!

[@WutangchickeN]

Thank you for not only showing the configuration for all these settings, but also explaining WHY these settings are important. I've been using OBS for years but I feel I understand the program much better thanks to this video. Cheers!

[@michaelpants]

A most helpful video. None of the fluff. Straight to the point. GREAT results. THANK YOU!

[@thejewtron8971]

dude, thank you. I lost about 3 hours worth of recording because I couldn't fix the quality unless I put in tons of manual work with clips I already spent hours editing. I watched other videos and not a single one told me i'd have to do everything manually if I didn't already record in 2k you are a beautiful person and you didn't take 80 years to get to the point thank you!

[@fatchicken69tv30]

Dude, I love your personality and explanation of everything. Hopefully you have more videos on OBS and Twitch stuff.

[@JustHarrison]

This is an incredibly helpful video, thanks for making it!

[@BaamMMA]

hey was curious and maybe you could help me ive been trying to do this method for a while, it seems i change almost all the other settings like output and video to 1440p but when i try change the resolution on my elgato to 1440p its capped at 1080 do you know how to fix this? it also caps my monitor to 1080p when its a 1440p res mon

[@sakoraii]

straight to the point! thank you!

[@thatsrich944]

I prefer CQP to CBR. Since I am recording gameplay and action videos, it scales bitrate to achieve desired quality depending upon motion. The look ahead feature plays a big part. Storage is much more efficient at around a gigabyte per minute with the settings I use. During scenes with fast movement the bitrate will typically go over 100,000 kbps, while scenes with little to no movement drop to around 20,000 or less and there is no discernable change in quality. Cheers!

[@whyisfunimmortal3312]

Ay thank you am going to try that out

[@Hyacsho]

The best creator for this on youtube, still using this video 2 years later.

[@brettvormkopf5026]

Not sure if you keep checking your comments anyways I just wanted to let you know that your vids helped me like a lot. Honestly you are a true life saver. Its not like I cant figure stuff out myself im just a lazy bastard... Keep up the good work mate !👍

[@casulatgame]

Amazing video, completely foolproof, perfect.

[@MrComplainer]

Honestly, I probably wouldn't have figured this without you, thank you

[@MelBellatrix]

No chit-chat, just facts. Perfect 👍

[@BugCrush3r]

Love your videos they are extremely helpful. I just wanted to clarify that when you set the bitrate for 16Mbps(16000kbps) this is not recording 16MB/sec to your harddrive as you mentioned in this video. 1 byte = 8 bits therefore you have to divide 16MB/sec by 8 which works out to 2MB/sec written to your hard drive. Its about 120MB for every minute of recording.

[@danieljavellana]

I just wondering if I can set the output scale higher than the base canvas? for example, i have native 1440x900 monitor and I want to record at 2k so I will set the output scale at 2560x1440, is it okay to do? please reply thank you!

[@KingG13]

You inspire me for my own channel, sir.

[@TheAbulletAway]

Thank you, new to recording gaming from my pc. Set OBS to record gameplay last week and the quality has been horrible. Just did a test run heading to the tower in Destiny 2, ran around, CPU usage never got above 0.8% and the recorded movement is so much better. Thanks again.

[@pleasurewasmine3173]

I have watched several videos now of yours and they are truly helpful and I appreciate them all. Thank you. I did want to mention something though, maybe I am wrong but I believe you have been referring to the bit rates such as 16k or 24k bit rates as being 16,000 kilobytes instead of the actual 16,000 kilobits. Usually when the symbol or abbreviation is Kb it is kilobit and KB is kilobyte. So to sum up, when you mentioned that 24,000 is 24MB or 24 megabytes per second it is actually about 3 MB/s or 3 megabytes per second. For those who do not know anyways and may never really need to know I guess all will be fine, but on a professional level I thought you may be interested in knowing this. Cheers mate and keep up the quality videos, I have learned much from them.

[@Pneumatic_Productions]

Very clear and useful. Thank you.

[@slayerofroaches]

this guy gets straight to the point absolutely amazing

[@essencefn]

Does this work even if you don't have a 1440p monitor?

[@fpsFAMOUS]

This fixed my PROBLEMS! subbed!!!

[@BillBilly-hy6px]

I made it 1090x1080 res and the uploaded video on KZbin was 1080p,now i am gonna try to 1440p (2560x1440)setting on obs , i believe youtube res will up to 1440p now in my videos cause i want that res and my pc is new .I think OBS is a very good programm.ty so much for help.

[@abileneharperlafilm]

I was super excited to finnaly have permission to hit OK! Awesome tutorial and amazing results - thank you so much!

[@EspenFrafalne]

Im not able to paste anything into the output video resolution. Only getting the drop down menu, and 1080p is max... I tried both "right clicking" and "CTRL+V", and ive tried both with the dropdown menu open and closed, but nothing happens...

[@BasseFiend89]

i just started getting into recording and thanks to your videos i'm learning at an incredible rate thank you for your effort and i just subbed

[@86ajmn]

Great video, thanks my guy. That BR info was exactly what I was looking for. Also learned something from you about the encoding. THanks again

[@originalmetalhead73]

Super informative tutorial. Very good!! Thanks. Concise and to the point without extraneous chatter..

[@GamingForTheRecentlyDeceased]

why are you setting the downscalling when you are recording and saving in the same resolution.? On my OBS it says no downscalling necessary

[@redsetup4433]

the most helpful obs video ive actually watched before

[@RealBadKarma]

When I heard 24,000 kbps. I instantly knew my pc will have a stroke 😂

[@ProMentalStudios]

Thanks!

[@ProMentalStudios]

Hey thanks for getting me on the right track with this vid. Endless information, gold.

[@RadmanUltra]

thanks SO MUCH. i swear my videos looked like they were recorded in a fricking toaster until i saw this. thx SO MUCH dude now people don't have to watch my toaster gameplay. unfortunately my pc has amd graphics card not nvidia so i gotta fork over 400 bucks to nvidia for the nvenc encoder 😑

[@Fellow_Gamer]

4:53 You mention if you don't have NVIDIA NVENC that you need to upgrade your computer, but then shortly after you reference a $2k laptop that has an AMD GPU 😂 do you have any idea what you're talking about? NVIDIA NVENC is the encoder for Nvidia GPUs, by not having NVIDIA NVENC as a listed option, it just means you may not have Nvidia hardware. AMD has its own encoder and viewers of this will assume it's ok to have AMD hardware with NVIDIA NVENC which isn't the case.

[@Na1denCounterStrike]

If you have monitor like 1080p 60fps you can upgrade the setting for record in 2k? Or I’m need another monitor like 2k resolution?

[@Joe_I_Hadley]

thanks for the video . I think the latest OBS version has changed some of the settings / menus

[@limyize]

Thank you so much for this man.

[@mippymoo069]

amazing video i cant believe its so easy , thank you

[@mippymoo069]

i cant get audio now tho but the video setting are fire :)

[@Puff_Chady]

I have R9 3900X and 2080Ti. I wonder which I should use for recording.

[@iBOAZ]

Before I do all this, can the Mac book Pro handle this I got the 16” 10 g of ram. 1TB version.

[@joelpallares3846]

This was actually good

[@CrimzenLaww]

This helped me so much for 2k recording thank you so much!

[@PatriotJedi]

I am having an issue recording skyrim modded and I have a a very on par PC. When I start recording I get a message at bottom mentioning encoding and the end result is very framy choppy footage

[@KbIPbIL0]

thank you for the video, my recordings seem to be more high quality after this change (also had to make my mic audio recording mono, bc i have an XLR mono microphone) the picture looks prettier with 24000 kHz sample rate and i love how i now understand what's happening in the mixer part of OBS

[@Daily_Blast]

You received a like and a subscribe, great video

[@rubenscheer]

Oh wow, thank you soooo much. Typing the resolution was a saver!!

[@kingoftheducks5202]

the resolution, on top of everything else is grayed out and i cannot change it, anyone know why?

[@rarebit4430]

I do this, but then when I compress the video in handbrake and then upload it to KZbin, it only uploads in 1080p😥

[@SurenDC]

Thanks ! great helpful

[@Apocryphate]

Thank you sir, exactly what I needed.

[@YTD33]

Will a ryzen 5 with a 2060 and 16g ram but good enough to stream and record 2k?

[@nicholasdipietro7199]

So underrated

[@housetraitor4806]

Thank you so much for this

[@panda8trueno6]

Thank you for the clear explanation, i liked it

[@aka_plays2840]

Works on my alienware laptop , thanks bro

[@kulmanenracing4763]

Amazing.. This was so easy way. Thank's!!!

[@ychighlights2303]

What are the settings to put it at 4k?

[@TacticatGaming]

This video is awesome, thank you. Helped me out a ton.

[@cyoung6127]

Fantastic!!! THanks

[@jgamer516]

u helped me so much tysm :DDD

[@faibrox-gaming]

I wanna stream from a ps5 in 1440p can i do it with Elgato 4k 60+ ????

[@MrXchaos]

Hi sir, i'm still having lag issue when recording 2k 60fps. My GPU is 3060

[@Jon-yy7oo]

thank you so much, i was over here freaking out thinking this would destroy my pc but it turns out it only uses 0.6% of my CPU when i record valorant

[@leon6013]

Hey,I Have an 1650 super is it ok to use NVENC??

[@knezivan1]

dont know if its the same.but 11:20 i used your settings and cpu usage is 0.1% ryzen 3800x edit changed wrong. after recording change 4.2% with peaks to 5.2%

[@GaborBekkerbboytr1ck2g]

why CBR over CQP? Especially for 1440p?

[@TheRealOAFs]

Always go for CQP if you don't care about space

[@MitchMolly]

So what do you say to people who argue CQP over CBR specifically for recording? I've hear people argue for both.

[@TheRealOAFs]

If you don't care about space, do CQP or Lossless. For me lossless at 4K 60fps was 30Gb for 10 minutes

[@xxSanjoxx]

Just started a gaming youtube channel and am trying to upload my first video. I tried everything in your video but unfortunatily it does not work for me. When I upload the video to youtube, my videos only have 360p, 720p and 1080p 60fps but no 1440p allthough my I record in 1440p (it´s my monitors native resolution). Do I have to have a minimum number of subscribers for 1440p uploads or something?

[@genjishima8607]

hey man nice video, btw, i have a r7 3700x and a rtx 3060 for 2k apex legends streaming, which should i select as encoder? thanks :)

[@fpsFAMOUS]

Also, curious about what the max bitrate would be? You said 24,000 kbps was the minimum for 60fps, then what would be the maximum bitrate?

[@cavourmonte5714]

So much better, thanks!

[@jessemurdock2406]

frikken fantastic!

[@DesmondWulfGaming]

Love the video bro! Straight to the point and love your personality! Quick Question: when I look back at the recording, it is a little choppy. Is that because the bit rate was too high and my computer couldn't process it fast enough? I had it up to 40,000 based on what someone else said for recording 2k gaming videos. I figured it was too high but tried it and got a laggy recording. I see you say to use 16 to 24,000. This should help with that and still get a good picture right?

[@KasimCR7]

Thank YOU so much, this will help me ALOT with my fortnite videos!

[@FunHavr-_-]

Beautiful tutorial! thanks bud

[@papaevolve1305]

I tried your setting but with x264, 60 fp 2k. I'm on Ryzen 9 and it used 5.1% recording overwatch.

[@AliUchiha94]

you helped me a lot man thanks

[@KeremYurtsevenOfficial]

That is a great help video mate congrats. I hope you earn more.

[@awalldigital]

Thanks man!

[@splitsec6760]

400 views? you deserve much much more! i watched just 2 of your videos and learned something from both! take my sub! but i now have some issue with streaming with OBS. it works from good to ok to really bad between games. is that normal?

[@splitsec6760]

oh i just got a bigger issue... OBS suddenly stop sending signal for stream. i mean like the green box at the bottom right next to the fps, literally showing 0 obs would start the stream in youtube and in like 5 seconds, the stream would end because the signal from obs stopped. hope you could help me

[@Underhills]

I just wanna record what I do inside an application in 1440p. When I hit +sign to add source and then choose Window capture and then choose the application I then hit record. The result is actually worse than what I get with Screen Recorder Pro that runs on a lowres setting generating a fraction of the file size. 9mb vs 55mb with OBS. The OBS recording struggles with color reproduction, especially borders in an UI. The colors wanders between different hues within the same color and it's quite off. All the OBS settings are correct based on the tutorial. I'm using Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 on a stationary build.

[@uhsizz]

can u do this with a 1080p monitor?

[@griftingnightmares]

Dude thank you

[@upsilongame5809]

Thank you.

[@Fellow_Gamer]

7:22 You said "16 megabytes per second", that was not only the wrong unit of data, but the wrong conversion as well. 16,000 Kbps is 16,000 kiloBITS per second, not kiloBYTES per second. Streaming at 16,000 kilobits per second would convert to 2,000 kilobytes per second. You are off by 14,000 kilobytes per second, and as a self proclaimed "digital marketing executive" who apparently consults 'multi-million dollar deals and streamers making six-figures' as you put it, you are erroneously consulting them incorrect information and making them plan their business/go-to-market strategy by 14,000 kilobytes, which is really, really bad if you quantify it.

[@MortisCorpus]

Thank you SO much. This is the only 1080p 30 fps video tutorial I can find. This helped a TON!

[@atomiic39]

how is this shit 1080p 💀

[@CyberCam1969]

How do you do the pointers in your video? Is there a separate app or hardware to do it?

[@awalldigital]

+Cam Alliance epic pen

[@ryanwood9288]

Thanks for the video! What software do you use to zoom and make the arrows?

[@jeffgorrie]

Great video my friend!

[@1999skyline]

thanks bro!

[@tanjungledangteknologi6448]

Wow amazing

[@EddieBello]

Sick tutorials brother

[@burakdeniz5760]

coolest teacher

[@votic6270]

THANK YOU

[@themechanic8643]

so is that the computer you use? Just wondering, as a PC with More cores and... well... I guess just newer, would probably be able to handle that load. I record Forza at 4K on my 5950x, and it seems to run just fine. EDIT: Yeah Just Double checked with RE3:Remake, and it maxes out at like 44.2% when in game, shooting at zombies, plenty of stuff on screen, in the menus it drops to like 25%. And its Crispy!

[@Creamatlon]

I've been searching for a way to fix my screen; it just records a tiny part of it. It's great quality but the actual display is very small and the rest is black. can you please help me with this?

[@ziusplays4165]

so, I have my main pc that I gam on and then my server that I record with. I wonder what encoder sohuld I use on the server. The server has dual cpu total of 48cores

[@KayelCalleja]

Thanks for the help especially the encoder, I have a ryzen 9 5900x and a recording eats up 50% CPU Usage if I use x264. With the nvidia graphics card is another story, thanks for the help.

[@cariyaputta]

It sucks that we have to manually enter the resolution

[@tianjohn.gaming]

Overall a very good and easy to understand guide. But I have a problem - The image is just blurry (and I am not talking about the low bitrate thing) it relates to the video preview-Image as well as to the recording image as well as when I stream. The image is just not sharp. I have set all the resolutions in the settings to 2560x1440p. The only setting where I can not choose this is in the presets for the source, there I can only choose between a 4k resolution (in which case I don't get a signal because my monitor is not capable) or I can choose 1920x1080p which works. There is also an option to choose "high" but I don't know what that means exactly. Tried everything anyway, but nothing seems to change the blurriness of the image. Do you know how I could fix that?

[@tianjohn.gaming]

I was able to fix it, I don't know why I didn't see this before, but there was a check-box in the source-preset window that says "use presets". When I disabled this, I was able to manually choose a different preset-resolution - in my case 2560x1440. So now that really ALL resolutions are set to the same size, the image is crisp and clear!

[@RadmanUltra]

do you have nvidia card or amd card? if its amd, make sure you have latest radeon drivers installed and updated. in my case its amd radeon vega 3 card and drivers are version 31.0

[@tianjohn.gaming]

@@RadmanUltra I have a MacBook Air M1