Check your mic audio with all filters enabled as it will show up in your OBS recordings before you start recording or streaming.

When you record in OBS, you can have a much more interesting setup than simply recording one simple video on your screen. You can add images, your webcam, or even record multiple windows from your computer inside of one video recording. In order to have everything fit properly on your screen, you'll also have to use the edit scene functionality in order to control their size in positioning. In this video, we'll be discussing those subjects so that you can incorporate new sources into each scene you want to record.

It's all well and good to have multiple sources within your scene but in some instances you will need to have one source overlap another. To make the right object show on top, you'll need to know about ordering your source objects for every scene. A perfect example of this would be when you have a chroma keyed out webcam showing on top of a video game when recording a let's play series.

Color Key (Referred to as Chroma Key when incorporating webcam / camera video sources) is where you take an image/video source and remove a certain color from the shot. Most commonly, this is used to knock out a solid colored background from video - Professionals in video create a solid background color via a green screen and then remove it within their live control or video editing systems. You can produce the same effect within OBS and we'll be discussing how to do it in this video lecture.

In some instances, you don't actually want to display a full window or monitor when recording through OBS. Through sub-regions, you can selectively show only a portion of window source in your final video or stream. In this video, we'll discuss how to do that.

With a green screen you can use a webcam to show only your talking head in OBS. Here's the theory

and OBS setup behind how it works.

Green Screen Setup Example: http://amzn.to/2tkj3Ig

In this video, we'll start talking about the settings tabs within Open Broadcaster Software.

Topics

• Saving, Renaming, Adding, Removing Setting Profiles
• Notification Area Icons / Minimization
• Cursor over Projector (Shows during a full screen preview on 2nd monitor)
• Log Window

The encoding tab is where you control how a video and its audio is processed as it's recording.

Topics

• Video Encoders
• Constant Bit Rate (CBR)
• Max Bit Rate
• Quality Balance
• Audio Encoding

The video and audio tabs allow you to control more aspects of what your recording will look and sound like.

Topics

• Video Resolution
• Video Adapters
• Frames per Second (FPS)
• Aero Themes and their OBS Interraction
• Selecting Audio Devices
• Push to Talk
• Audio Source Boosts
• Mic Offset

Hotkeys are a staple to almost any computer application and Open Broadcaster Software is no exception. By setting up hotkeys on your keyboard, you'll be able to easily activated certain functions while recording by simply pressing a key or two on your keyboard.

Topics

• Audio Hotkeys
  • Push to Talk
  • Microphone and Desktop Mute / Unmute
• Broadcast Hotkeys
  • Start / Stop Stream
  • Start / Stop Recording
  • Start / Stop / Save Replay Buffer
  • Record from Replay Buffer

The microphone noise gate allows OBS to automatically limit the amount of background noise that makes it into your recording by muting the microphone when you're not talking and opening it up when you are.

Topics

• How Microphone Noise Gate works
• How to Setup Microphone Noise Gate
• Attack, Hold, and Release Time Settings

This will show you how to cut out background noises like city sounds with the Reaper Filter in OBS while you record and stream.

An incredibly useful trick you can use to separate your microphone audio from your other audio sources. When you go to edit your video, you will have multiple audio tracks that you can change separately!

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If you're going to stream any kind of video to an online website such as Youtube or Twitch.tv then you need to know your upload speed and how to choose your max bitrate based on that speed.

Upload Speed Test: http://testmy.net/upload

Topics

• Measuring your upload speed
• Setting up and testing your max bitrate

YouTube's live streaming service has become a lot more full featured in recent years and has become a strong contender for those looking to do live video. In this video, we'll go through the process of setting up a live YouTube stream.

Topics

• Optimizing OBS Settings for YouTube
• Preparing a YouTube Live stream
• Connecting OBS to YouTube

If you're going to be streaming a video game, then the place you're most likely going to do it is Twitch.tv. Twitch has thousands of people streaming live video games to their service each day gaining followers, accepting donations, and interracting with their audience. We'll go through the process of getting OBS streaming live to Twitch.tv in this video.

Topics

• Optimizing OBS Settings for Twitch
• Preparing a Twitch Live stream
• Connecting OBS to Twitch

Like many kinds of open source software, Open Broadcaster Software's feature set can be extended by integrating community created plugins. In this video, we'll go through the process of installing a plugin so that you can use it the next time you start up Open Broadcaster Software.

The simple scene switcher plugin allows OBS to automatically switch between different scenes in OBS as you switch between different selected windows on your computer monitors. In this video, we'll discuss how to set it up for use and demonstrate it in action.

Classic vs Studio OBS. Which do you like better

Talking about the Main UI of Studio in More Depth

How to Perform Transitions inside of OBS Studio

Changing video formats of previously recorded videos

Managing Recording Output Settings in a Nutshell

Keeping your scenes seperate for each recording with Scene Collections

Steps to Get Setup in OBS for Recording / Streaming 2018

1. Open OBS
2. Add a Scene (Bottom Left)
3. Add Source with the Plus on the Right - Window Capture (Specific Window), Game Capture (Auto Fullscreen App or Specific Window), or Display Capture (Full Desktop) depending on needs
4. Scale source with corners of red border when you click on source in the preview window. You probably want your game or window to be the full width/height with no black.
5. (Optional) Add Video Capture Source for Webcam. Make sure it gets video.
6. (Optional) To filter background - right click the webcam source ►► Filters. Add a Chroma Key filter in effect filters and set it to your background color. Only works if you have a suitable green screen.
7. In the mixer section to the right of sources, select a mic if needed. If enabled, you should see green audio levels even while it's not recording. Reduce desktop sound if you want mic to overpower game volume.
8. (Optional) Reduce background noise ►► click the settings icon for mic/aux input. Choose filters, add a noise suppression filter and move it to the left to reduce background noise.
8. (Optional) Go up to profile and create a new profile if you want custom recording settings for each project.
9. Go to File ►► Options
10. For Streaming. Go to Stream Tab, choose the service you want to stream to. Copy Paste your Stream Key from your twitch / youtube streaming dashboard page.
11. Output Tab - Set your video bitrate to what your computer can handle. Higher bitrate = higher quality but more data. For streamers, test your upload bandwidth with a tool online.
11.b. http://testmy.net/upload For streaming it is important that your video bitrate is set to 70-80% of your max upload bitrate as max. It's measured in kbps in OBS. To convert from mbps to kbps multiply by 1000.
11.c. You can set the recording path to wherever you want video outputs to be. Make sure you create the folder manually first. I usually set recording format to mp4 for highest compatibility with editing software.
12. Video Tab - Make sure your output (scaled) resolution is what you want the final video to look like. You can set this as high as your base canvas resolution. Higher video resolutions should have higher video bitrate settings for quality purposes.
13. (Optional) Hotkeys Tab - Set hotkeys that you might like. I usually only have Start / Stop recording or streaming set. Click a box and input the key combination you want that hotkey to have.
14. When ready to test, leave options. Hit start recording (or start streaming if you want to be live). I highly recommend you record a quick test video then stop, find the video, and load it in a video player to see the audio / video sound levels and quality.

In this video we'll discuss how we can use Audacity to get improved noise removal in video post production.

How to setup your phone as a viable microphone.

Get streaming video data straight from your phone as you record in Open Broadcaster Software. You can do it well with audio too if you add in WO Mic (Lecture 29)

How to have your phone connected to your PC and being able to record the screen with Air Droid at decent speeds. This tutorial uses OBS as the final recorder app.

Good settings to use for when you want to use OBS recordings in conjunction with DaVinci Resolve 15 as your video editor.

Change Timeline / Output Frames Per Seconds to 60 (or any other setting) in OBS.

If you want to jump in and start recording videos, this course video shows you the basics for getting started with recording content.