Hi friends - today I'm going to show you how I use OBS. I'm primarily a laptop user so all my tips are designed to optimize use for
OBS while using a laptop. if you only own a laptop or say you want to use your
laptop as well for making videos you can use OBS for streaming to your favorite
platform and that includes Facebook gaming YouTube gaming twitch Dlive
I don't know pretty much any live streaming service
that you can think of you can use OBS and stream to whichever service you
prefer OBS i
s the broadcasting software that you'll use to pick up a stream of
your camera desktop or your game whatever you're trying to stream and
either record that and just make a recording that you can edit or that can
become a live stream and I totally turned up the cut off on my microphone
but there's some sirens going off outside it's like only 8:20 in the
morning but everyone's up an at it committing crimes out there I'm sure
running some red lights and stuff maybe some petty theft I don't know spe
eding. What is OBS ? OBS is a broadcasting software that can be used to record or
livestream your content to your favorite platform if you want to make youtube
videos OBS is a great way to capture your screen say you're an artist and you
want to screen capture your art while you're making art you can use OBS
for that. Playing games then you can screen capture your game depending on
what type of game you want to be screen capturing then you might need extra
software or hardware for example if yo
u want to play ps4 games or Xbox one games
then you're gonna have to probably get a capture card and use that in combination
with OBS and OBS is a broadcasting software that is used on your computer
so whether it's a laptop computer or a desktop computer OBS will work great for
either depending on the power of your computer that you're using OBS on then
you may or may not be able to run your games at full strength for example I use a Lenovo Legion y520 gaming laptop and it definitely gets the jo
b done but
there are some times when I've had to turn down the setting is on my favorite game or
whatever I'm playing like I think Bioshock the most recent Bioshock was the
last one that I had to turn down all the settings and i was really depressed
about it because everyone was raving about how awesome the graphics were in
the new Bioshock and the water you know the game started off where you're like
in the water and it's supposed to be a transformational experience but actually
if you're tryin
g to stream from a laptop whether it's a gaming laptop or in
general like any type of laptop you may have found out that you're faced with
challenges such as limitation most of the tips that I have are based on
getting the most out of what's possible when streaming or gaming on a laptop the
laptop that I use everyday for streaming and content creation is a lenovo legion
y520 gaming labs hub and there's a lot of great things about it that i would
love to go in some more details about later I had
a Dell laptop added Toshiba
laptop and I thought those were good enough to stream from and it was not it
was not good enough finally the Lenovo lijing gaming laptop is good enough for
me to stream most of the games that I want to be able to stream even though
sometimes I do have to turn down the settings and then I cry a little bit but
the fact that we can manage to have a successful stream or at least a decent
quality stream for the most part is more than I could ask for I'm very happy and
sati
sfied about that I figured what I would do is go through OBS the software
and show you what I know about the settings and when I go through it just
keep in mind they I'll be telling you the best setting is for if you have a
laptop or if you're on a budget you're on a budget gaming laptop or desktop or
whatever it is if you happen to be working with limitation and I know the
feeling then this video is definitely for you because I'll do my best to give
you the tips and tricks that I have learned t
o successfully stream or
capture whatever I'm trying to get so what is OBS and what is it used for it's a one of the cool unique features
about OBS is that it stands for open broadcasting software which means that
it's open source and that anybody can contribute to the broadcasting software
OBS pretty much you can just go to get and download all the source code and add
to it or tweak it however you like it can be really fun challenge for people
who are into coding or learning how to customise th
eir software whether it's
OBS or other software is like blender you can use Python and you can use
Python scripting to make add-ons for blender I just learned that recently
maybe you don't know how to do any type of coding and that's okay because you
definitely do not need to know how to do any type of coding to use OBS however if
you do know some code like CSS then you can in fact add some custom code and CSS
to your sources in OBS and that can become an extra fun bonus so I'll show
you what my
OBS overlay looks like first and then I'll show you how to like start
from scratch something that's really fun about OBS is that you can have different
scenes and if you've ever done a type of presentation or a report where you've
had to show different slides or different pages or you know PDF file or
something like that for work or school then you may be familiar with PDF files
or slideshows with OBS you can have different scenes and you can design each
scene to have each thing that you're gon
na talk about on each of these scenes
and then you can have seamless transitions between those scenes and
really nice customized transitions they can be a seamless they can be customized
they can be discrete or they can be really flamboyant transitions you can
choose exactly how long the transitions are between your scenes and it can be as
simple or as complex as you like so whether you're a noob and you've never
done OBS or streaming or screen capture whether you even never done it before or
yo
u're a seasoned pro OBS has a lot of cool options in add-ons you don't really
need to get the add-ons and everything you can get going just right off the bat
I'll just start at the top left corner and we'll work our way down okay so once
you have OBS installed and open on your computer you can go to the file tab and
that will give you these options shown right here show recording is pretty much
if you forget where to find your recordings just go up here to show
recordings and that'll take you to
wherever you have designated for your
recordings to be that's where I told mind
is under D Drive projects videos OBS so every time I press record or I do a
stream so long as you have save recording enabled then it'll
automatically go into that folder you can go to a file and then choose
settings right here but this is the same option as choosing setting us down here
so setting is up here takes a second to load is the same exact wanna settings
down here so if you forget where to find this stuff
you can find it from multiple
places within the software which is a good thing in my opinion needs to have
multiple ways to get where you're going and also you know if you're just trying
to get shit done anyway so once you're in the settings tab this is where all
the magic will begin is you want to make sure that you have the correct settings
and if you don't then you might not be able to do anything you might not be
able to record properly and you especially might have problems going
live if yo
u don't have the settings correct under the general settings tab
right here you can just leave a lot of the default settings just the way they
are and like here under the general settings tab you got regular stuff like
language theme of course I love dark theme I prefer dark theme pretty much in
all cases when it comes to software I will always try to get the dark theme
whenever possible if I don't use dark theme I feel like I'm burning my eyes
the last thing I need to do is get punished for try
ing to just be
productive you can decide whether or not you want to check this stuff
automatically check for updates on startup open stats dialog on startup a
lot of this stuff may take up a little bit extra CPU so I personally will
uncheck anything that I know for a fact I don't need show confirmation dialog
when starting streams I'm a woman that knows what I want so I don't need all
this confirmation situation a lot of this stuff I just unchecked because
otherwise it'll just like give me all t
hese warnings when I'm just trying to
go live and I have it set up on my stream deck for whenever I do actually
go live on to twitch usually is where I'll be going live is I'll have my
stream deck set up with a multi action so it'll do like five things at once
those things on multi-action include everything that's
necessary like turning off certain things and making sure that my mic is
muted before it go I go live so these other options here are like
automatically start replay buffer when stream
ing I believe that the buffers
will take a little bit more CPU some people have a choice between using the
CPU or GPU on your computer and for me I have the Nvidia i7 untill but there are
definitely certain programs on my laptop that I will designate whether or not I
open with the GPU or this versus the CPU most of this stuff just keep it the way
it is I don't even see anything that I would change I don't know what these
cool options for studio mode are exactly except for that I have tried and u
sed
the studio mode and I like studio mode because if you are alive and you were
trying to edit the next scene that's going to come up and you are sure that
you know how to use studio mode you don't accidentally switch your scenes
while you're live you can manage to use studio mode and actually edit them
before you go live and switch scenes or before you switch scenes while you're
live you might have to try things out and see what works best for you and I've
just left it the way it works for me
I don't even want to end like mess with it
too much if you change anything just make sure to hit apply okay so under
stream this is where you choose what output your stream is going to go to you
as you can see there's lots of different default options here like twitch YouTube
mixer Facebook live restream Twitter don't forget that once you get something
like twitch affiliate status you cannot use restream IO and basically you can
still stream to different platforms but when you sign on to become
a twitch
affiliate and accept all those wonderful twitch subscriptions and twitch bits and
whatnot then you're also agreeing to not use like a restreaming service that will
stream to different platforms the exact same time the exact same stream there
may be loopholes or ways around that but you would have to talk to like a partner
manager like if you are a twitch partner I bet that they have ways that you can
like work with the system so streams multiple platforms at once
I did try restream IO b
efore I was a twitch affiliate and that was a really
long time ago OBS is awesome because it's free it's open source
if you no any type of coding or CSS and you can
add customization to your OBS both the interface as well as the sources you add
to your cool presentations here in OBS so yeah you want to make sure that you
choose whichever services here there's more services available and of course
you can always add a custom service but OBS I find to be the best way to stream
from the computer th
ere's also ways to stream from OBS on your phone well if
you go to the Google Play Store on your Android device like I am just search for
OBS and you'll see that there's OBS studio you can choose OBS remote which
gives you options to switch between your scenes and do other cool stuff and
you'll notice that there are clearly other options for screen recording and
streaming that are deviations of OBS like how we were mentioning earlier how
OBS is an open source broadcasting software and they there
's been other
companies like stream labs and stream elements who have made their own
versions of OBS like slobs their stream labs OBS the extreme elements OBS and
their each deviation of the original OBS which is on github which anyone can use
anyway so there's OBS remote which is cool you can install that and then you
can OB s remote we can just install this really quickly it's free as well and
we'll see what the options are once you get this app on your phone this is a
remote for the version o
k so you would have to put the OBS host and haematology
what I would have to say about OBS remote it basically does a lot of the
same stuff the I personally use my Elgato stream tag to do which is like
switching between scenes turning on and off sources and you can do that stuff
with the OBS remote app or I would personally recommend using the stream
deck but that is certainly not free it's a piece of hardware that you can order
off of Amazon and I believe it's like 150 bucks but I am like the l
uckiest
girl in the world because our top supporter like totally gifted me the
stream deck so I'm not worthy the other settings that you have to
choose from here let's just quickly get through this so once you make sure that
you got the correct service liked which you will have to make sure that you got
you know the ingest server correct you can either choose Auto which is the
recommended which will probably just try to find out which is the closest and our
best server for you which will probabl
y be the closest one for me is usually a
Seattle but in case that one's down it would be probably the next closest one
would be like I'm guessing San Francisco or Portland or something anyway just
make sure that the server is either but whatever the recommended is or whatever
you can choose this stuff right here is just add-ons for the twitchchat if
you're not streaming live and you just want to use OBS for recording software
then don't even worry about this but you will want to take a look at t
hese
options if you're trying to stream the other most important thing if you're
trying to stream or if you're trying to record and especially if you're using a
laptop for OBS is to come over here to the output section under settings output
and then output mode I mean I just have it it simple I've heard a lot of people
say that if you are trying to turn down your MB your kilobytes per second if
you're trying to turn down your video bitrate to maximize or optimize your CPU
and if you say you're n
oticing drop frames or you're not picking up your
screen capture the way you want or you're having problems go here to the
output and try turning down the video bitrate and I've heard some tutorials
they turn it down as far as 2500 and I did try that in the past and I just have
said it all the way down to 2000 which sounds super miserable and depressing
but it works for me and he actually has been fine because when I'm streaming I
usually stream at 1280 by 720 at 30 frames per second at 2,000 ki
lobytes per
second as the bitrate for the video bitrate and the audio bitrate I turn all
the way down to 160 I'm telling you if I had a regular PC I would definitely not
be turning it all the way down this far and if you
have a more powerful gaming laptop it has a more powerful gaming laptop he has
the Acer predator and that one is I wouldn't say twice as powerful as the
one that I'm using but it is noticeably faster and more powerful than mine so if
I was streaming from his I probably wouldn't
turn down the video bitrate
lower than 3000 on his you know but if you have to turn it all the way down to
2,000 video beery honestly any less and I is probably
gonna look like seriously though there's probably gonna look pretty bad if you
try to turn him down any less than this so that's why I have it as far down as I
can without making it look absolutely terrible so if you're trying to stream
or record your laptop these are some good settings to try especially if
you're trying to stream from y
our laptop and you're already having problems these
are the settings that I would recommend trying is turning your video bitrate to
2,000 kilobytes per second under the encoder depending on what your
laptop is you may want to check the encoder and see which one works best for
you some people say the the x264 is the best and I was using that one for the
longest time and then more recently as someone was like you should really try
this one because they had some updates if you've got a laptop or a
computer
using Nvidia I would definitely recommend making sure that all your
drivers and software and hardware like are up-to-date and also just go ahead
and make sure they you know OBS is optimized so work along with in video
because that's why we got here with the Lenovo Legion gaming laptop one of the
coolest things about this laptop is that it does use nvidia graphics cards and
you don't want to let that go to waste under output is also where you'll choose
where your video recording is will
go if you're saving a recording of your
streams and or just your video recording is if you're not streaming this is where
you choose where that path will go don't forget where you put this cuz you might
be like oh oh where did I put it setting us output brows and this is where you
can designate where it goes and if you are doubtful about where you should put
this or you might forget you know first of all I would recommend
using somewhere to put your videos sometimes you might have a faster
exter
nal hard drive like me I use a solid-state hard drive I'll
usually save a lot of my stuff on my solid-state external hard drive but that
thing is totally filled up right now so lately I have particular videos folder
on my D Drive but you know you could put it on your desktop if that's gonna be
the easiest thing for you to remember but don't forget that videos will will
take up a lot of space on your computer so if you do save every damn recording
that you make on OBS don't forget where you save
them because you'll want to go
back and delete them later and especially delete the ones that you're
not even gonna use and save the ones that you are gonna use somewhere that
you can remember where you put them try to be mindful of your organization early
on and trust me on that one because you will save yourself a lot of the future
stay organized if you can make a designated folder for your videos and
organize your projects accordingly so that you can just spare yourself you can
choose if the
recording quality is even better or you know maybe less I don't
know anyways so maybe the recording is going to be better quality than your
stream depending on your internet quality you may only be able to deliver
a certain quality stream anyway so you may have to turn down the settings of
your stream recording but here you can make sure the recording is better
quality you can use the better quality recording for editing and uploading to
YouTube I personally love mp4 files they seem to be pretty
Universal MOV files
work great as well depending on what your favorite video editing software is
you may or may not need a certain type of file and before it works great for me
I use DaVinci Resolve for editing videos and a lot of people say can you edit
videos in OBS and I would say they not exactly as far as I know I did see like
I had a sneaking suspicion that there is some type of add-on where you can do
some type of trimming this output tab is actually one of the most important
things that
you'll need to look for just don't forget this is where you go to set
the quality and also to remember where you saved all your output videos right
under the Audio tab you may or may not need to adjust anything here just
depends on how complicated you want to make
audio life you may just want to have all the default settings like your default
audio system for your computer but for me I will end up using a software called
voice meter banana and I do not recommend this unless you are trying to
se
parate different audio tracks and if you don't have like an audio mixer this
is what voice meter banana looks like and it's basically a way to separate
your audio tracks so they you know it may be like right now I'm listening to
music but it's not being recorded on the screen capture so you can do stuff like
that with this extra software voice meter banana but I definitely don't
recommend it unless you specifically need something like that but if you're
streaming then aid is something that is fu
n to use it is really useful
especially if you're doing discord chat with your friends and if you're doing
voice chie on discord and overlaying that with your video or your stream then
where spinor is great because then you can adjust the volume levels of your
friends voices it's just another level of security if you need to quickly mute
or something as we all know if something is said or done on your stream even if
it's someone else then you're still the one who's liable because it's your
strea
ms so if you're on voice chat with somebody who's saying some very
inappropriate things then that's still your channel or whatever that's gonna be
liable you kiddy just hopped over and like sat down in my lab under devices
that it has the Kreg desktop audio selected and for you it'll probably be
default for me I've just got a voice meter input and that's what I want and
for your mic you're gonna want to choose whatever microphone you're using so if
you have a headset that has a microphone on it
like this like a headset mic a USB
headset mic or something you might be using that mic or you might have even I
have a believe to youth headphones in and these have a mic on them too this is
a condenser microphone than ever recording room right now so usually a
laptop microphone might be okay except I would say that usually a laptop
microphone is gonna be the worst option that you could possibly have because the
microphone basically will pick up all the noise from your laptop so if you're
tryin
g to use your laptop do you fault mic it's also gonna pick up
the fan or whatever other noises are right there
by your computer like your clickety-clacking of your fingers on the
keyboard or the fan frigerator you know anyway you're probably gonna want to try
to get a decent microphone and there are definitely some decent microphones out
there this is the one I've been using for the longest time you can't really
see it's like right off the screen it's covered by a sock so even if I showed
you it
's still pretty hard to see this mic the microphone that I use is an AKG
condenser microphone that's actually meant for recording music so it's not
exactly meant as a voice recording mic but you know I kind of just deal with
what I have and this one we already had it's pretty good microphone if anything
it's too good for recording for stream if your audio is not working in OBS just
come over to under settings lose audio and make sure that you have the correct
desktop audio and the correct microp
hone audio is selected here that's usually
where the problem is with the audio another thing is that if you have
problems with your audio you're gonna want to have to check your default
computer settings with the audio if you can't remember whatever okay so here's
your some more advanced sound settings so you can get an idea of like how loud
is yours are your system sounds compared to your OBS a lot of this stuff are
things that we would be adjusting in voice meter banana which is one reason
why
I like usually wish me turpentine even though it can be a pain in the butt
to use voice muted banana it does offer more control and that's why I choose to
use it all the time let me know if you happen to have a particular audio
problem because sometimes there's ways to figure out what the problem is and
whether it's on desktop or laptop sometimes the audio problems are the
same issue so let me know if you ever if you ever and let me know if you ever
have a particular problem with OBS and just b
e as detailed in specific with
your problem as possible and I'll do my best to let you know what I think you
can do to fix it under video is where you can choose what size the bass canvas
is for your scene here so right here is the bass canvas it's 1920 by 1080 and
then the output is going to be 1280 by 720
and I have to turn it down just because my internet is not the best and I'm
still kind of working with limitation so boring you know I'm like I'm ready to
like not have to think about limitat
ion anymore
but until then we are optimizing our experience with limitation and I would
say you can experiment if you are experiencing drop frames it could be
because your internet it's not fast enough or if you're just doing screen
recordings a screen capture recordings and you're experiencing dropped frames
or some other problem you might want to just try adjusting some of these
different settings like 1920 by 1080 tried turning that down
for me this is just what I found to work the best with
the Lenovo lรฉgion usually
when I'm playing a game where I'm streaming I'm also doing something else
that is a little bit GPU / CPU intensive so that's why I'll normally turn stuff
down in OBS because I want to preserve some of the quality and whatever else
I'm doing right down here under hotkey is is something that's really useful if
you don't have a stream deck then the hotkeys section right here is really
helpful you can choose like a hot key on your keyboard to start recording stop
recording
or start and pause recording that way if you don't want to have to
trim or edit or do any video editing later you can do a hotkey so every time
you're ready to start recording again you can pause or unpause the or your
screen capture so yeah start streaming I personally don't use any of these right
now because I'm just using my stream tech for that type of shortcut but these
are really helpful and I was using these before I got the stream tag and it was
honestly it's just way more convenient to
have the stream deck in my opinion I
just really like it's got the visual buttons you know these are also really
helpful and I would recommend this basically for each scene you have
different options for hotkeys and you can turn on or off different sources in
each scene all my different scenes have the different sources here and you can
make hotkeys so when you add a different source to your scene then you can have a
hotkey for it down here under the advanced tab are more options that you
probab
ly don't want to swith unless you know what you're doing
and/or you're going for something specific I personally wouldn't touch any
of this stuff so yeah we pretty much went through all the settings we've got
the general tab the stream tab is really important this is where you're streaming
to and you may have to set up the stream key you have to make sure that you set
up the stream key properly which is a little bit different let me know if you
want a particular video on setting up stream key an
d if so to which platform
because there's like a hundred different platforms we could be talking about how
to stream and set that up output the output we did this really quick and this
is basically where you turn down all your settings before crying yourself to
sleep and everything else is pretty much self-explanatory so what's the good the
settings the way you want them then you are ready to screen capture or record
and you may or may not want to set up different scenes quickly show you why
why
I have things basically so when you're streaming to for example twitch
like this is my regular scenes format for streaming to twitch I got my
starting scene I've got three different chatting scenes I've got the one that
we're at right now I was like seeing number one and you can choose to go
between these and the way to choose the transitions one thing that I really love
about OBS is they it's really easy to move the windows around and you can
minimize the window and then you can you can even p
op these out I wish that I
could do this with DaVinci Resolve like pop out these little windows like you
totally don't need to pop these out but you can so here's the scene transitions
this is freakin brilliant by the way OBS it whoever's in charge of the popping
these sections out is just brilliant thank you for that I like to add the
scene transitions right here between scenes and whatever the sources are I
guess you can adjust the layout however is most comfortable for you and this
does get m
ore important like the more you do this stuff like you're probably
gonna find out that you're gonna wish that you were as organized as possible
like if you're just getting into your streaming or making videos for YouTube
you'll find out that the more seamless and the more efficient you are with
everything that you do then the more time you'll save and the more time
you'll have for other things there more important so if you can find a way
of organizing your workspace that works for you then by a
ll means go with that
and do the best that you can with all those options so here on OBS we've got
this is basically the display and I've got my different themes that look you
know like this is my starting a scene normally it'll have a good timer here as
well if you add a timer that is separate you know you can add different things
like a timer countdown this thing looks crazy but this is what I use for
countdown timer when I press start then the timer will pop up here on OBS and
start counting
down this is called snazz but you know what there's just so many
different ways to do things there may be better ways to do things these days but
that in particular is the way that I do countdown timer so there's a just
chatting scene this would normally have like my face cam on it but I got my face
camera for the recording at the moment this whatever you want you know you can
add anything you want I have like three different options for just chatting
scenes I got my be right back screen which i
s just like the starting one and
then I'll have my ending soon scene and this will also sometimes have ending
credits that we can run that basically give us like neat people's names they
subscribed or followed during the stream there's a lot of really cool sources
that you can add to your stream or your recording and here in OBS I have added
basically in OBS you can add different sources and right here I have a glitch
transitions so whenever I go between my my scenes you'll see the glitch
transi
tion and you can upload whatever you want as a different alternate
transition over here or there's different default ones that you have you
can add different ones default singer transitions fade to color whatever you
want for the scene transitions these are really fun if you do scene transitions
there's this one type of scene transition called a slider transition
and sometimes it takes a bit of extra effort to get the adjusting the time the
slider transitions are based on milliseconds you
usuall
y get it perfected with some effort basically you can make different
profiles for obs and I have just a few different profiles here
you can also make different scene collections and so I made a new untitled
scene collection them with nothing in it just yet and I'll just give you a quick
example of what is it like when you have a brand new scene collection in OBS oh
god that made OBS crash okay cool let's try to reopen it if you've never used
OBS before all you gotta do is go to the OBS website a
nd download it install it
alright cool so just go over here to OBS project comm and you can download it
whether you're on Windows Mac or Linux just download it and it's really easy to
install make sure you install it where you want it on your computer here's a
brand new OBS project you've installed you've opened it up and you're ready to
add your first source so we have our very first scene here we could rename
this by right-clicking and saying rename is kinda like right behind my face wait
you
can right-click on a scene and go to rename and say our first scene and then
you can add your very first source by going over here to source and clicking
the plus button and you can choose whatever you want here so if you have a
collection of videos photos backgrounds or whatever you need for your profile
but I what I recommend is if you have some art for your overlays and whatnot
just put it all in one folder that way it's really easy to find when you go to
add your sources first thing you migh
t want to do is add an image source we'll
just leave it it saying image and this will be our first image projects
broadcasting and then here's my one folder and here I got my background
video and things but I got we're going for image right here so this will be my
background image and say you open up an image as your source and it doesn't fit
well all you gotta do is adjust the transform and you can do that by either
grabbing the corner right here moving it with your mouth by sliding
your mouth
you right-click on it from right here in the viewer and go to
transform and then fit to screen we could have also done that by
right-clicking on image in the sources window here and go to transform and you
can do other stuff like flip horizontal or Center to screen so also if you
accidentally click this lets say you actually drag it all the time you can
right-click on the image source and then go to transform fit to screen and then
you can click on this little lock button and once you lock it th
en you won't
accidentally click on it so then the next thing you might want to add to your
scene and you can choose a browser source and this is basically like adding
a web page to your stream but as an overlay browser source normally it would
not have any type of background and it would probably be something like an
alert so if someone follows you on YouTube or twitch then the alert way go
off and it would be presented as a browser source when the alert happens
you'll see it on the stream I'll
just show you what it looks like really quick
if you're trying to add alerts to your stream and you have something like
stream labs or stream elements then just go to that site and log in bhutesu alert
box and then right here you'll see click to show widget URL but since we're
recording I'm not gonna do that just press copy and it copies the widget URL
to your clipboard and then that's where you can replace this right here in OBS
and anyway that's how you would add your alerts you could remove y
our sources by
clicking the minus button anyway this is basically where you can pretty much
overlay whatever you want if you want to add your camera source that's where you
would add your camera stores this is pretty much where you would add any
source that you want to your stream slash video recording a lot of these
things you don't need to add some of the most common ones they I use all the time
include the browser source the display capture includes anything that you want
captured at like you
r game or your screen there's also game capture which
could be for a separate game window you might use the game capture option for a
steam game or other game where you want to select the
to a game window you can add as many images as you want and you can add gifts
as images you can add an image slideshow which is one of my favorite options
because sometimes I have like a bunch of logos for the teams that I'm on and I
want them to rotate in a slideshow add a new slideshow and then you can say wh
ere
you want this thing to add like you can say add file directory and that's how
you would choose a particular file directory and you could put like a bunch
of different images in here you can't see the images he can only see the
directory is because we're gonna choose that directory and then once it's
selected then you can see this is my team slideshow so you can then kind of
choose like how long does it how long does each image stay on the screen how
long is each transition you know let's bea
d select the folder and press ok so
the cool thing about that is that you can have like multiple images in one
slideshow right there similarly you can add a video slideshow by clicking the
plus button and then going to there are so many settings within OBS that like
it'll really just depend on what exactly you want to use it for and then you'll
want to just Google specifically what you're going for and I promise you that
there's so many really good tutorials out there ones that are way better th
an
mine as well because some people will use OBS with like two computers at once
like people use two desktops at once for streaming sometimes they do a little PC
streaming it is one thing that people do I only have a laptop all the information
is like based on like laptop streaming and specializing with content creation
with a laptop and a mobile device it was my phone pretty much pretty specific you
know one really interesting thing is that you can add scenes within other
scenes video source yo
u can add the VLC video source option and this is how you
can also add a directory for videos and I like to do this I'll actually have
like one folder that has a bunch of my most recent best clips from twitch and
so it'll be like on rotate like playing through those videos so that's an option
another use for that option is I have like rotating background videos so
the background sometimes will rotate between like three different background
videos you can also add individual videos as well but I
found it really
cool you could add the directories because then it can keep it kind of
fresh just like for my be right back scene and my starting scene and I'll
have the directory with all the newest clips so the main takeaway from this
video is if you are trying to stream or do your screen capture recording is from
a laptop you may be faced with the fact that you'll have to turn down settings
and even I'm having a bit of a challenge here trying to show you how it's done
because it seems like it
's a little bit much for my laptop to have two versions
of OBS running at once so I'll just wrap it up by saying the OBS is super fine
you can use OBS for just regular screen recording and by the way it won't let
you just stream to twitch or YouTube without setting things up once you get
everything set up then streaming will work out just fine for you but if you're
just trying to record and you don't need to stream don't even worry about that
and you can just say start recording and then it'll g
ive you the option to stop
you know start and stop recordings and as far as I know there's no way to do
like video editing inside of OBS so what I normally do is I use the Vinci resolve
for video editing after I'm done getting my screen capture with my video overlay
and using my microphone a choice or whatever it is and then I'll just video
edit that in DaVinci Resolve is it perfect for video editing
is it perfect for screen capturing your computer screen and overlaying with
facecam and or other
audio or your microphone then it's perfect for that
and it's also perfect for streaming but I definitely recommend OBS because it's
free and oh yeah I was gonna say why is it better than the other options let me
tell you that one thing that I can vouch for that I've heard other people say is
the OBS does not run very heavy on your system and that's what drew me to it is
that I was basically trying to find the broadcasting software that would take
the least amount of you know effort for my compu
ter and I did actually start off
by using xsplit so I had to use xsplit and then I had moved to stream labs OBS
and I had used both of those before trying OBS and I would have to say the
OBS uses the least amount of CPU and in general it gives me the least amount of
headaches and I really do like using hope yes there's quite a few awesome
features within the other broadcasting software's as well I'm more than happy
to answer more specific questions about broadcasting software's and why certain
f
eatures may be better or worse than others
but I only know my particular experience so I'll just let you know from my
perspective and I'll be honest and let you know if I actually just don't have
the answer because like I said I used with just a gaming laptop and I don't
really have much more experience with OBS except for with my gaming laptop I
have been streaming on Twitch for a while at this point I always wish that I
could be offering my viewers better quality streams not the worst problem
that I could have because there's a lot of people they are not actually able to
watch a stream if it's you know better quality than 1280 then 1280 by 720 so
yeah basically the coolest part about OBS is that you can just do basic screen
capture you can design an entire presentation using the scenes and you
can swap between the scenes with cool transitions and it's really easy to link
up seeing transitions to your stream deck which is what I normally is and
looks a lot like this the stream deck I
should really do a full blown review
about this one day but there's a lot of like really easy ways to link up OBS
with your stream deck and it makes it a lot easier to switch between your scene
and so many fun things to offer on OBS if you were wondering like oh where did
that thing go I can't find my set my status bar or these things just go along
the top here and you can usually find anything that you're looking for like
you might be like oh where did my hat go I personally don't like the chat
but you
might have wind it back Selene closing something and so you can open up your
chat there's the chat be built in right there I could go into why but I usually
use my chat from my dashboard of Twitch so I normally just have that closed but
if you're like oh no I closed that thing and I can't find it just go up here to
view just check under here and you can usually find what you're looking for
there's also scene collection you may have certain points want to save or
export your scene collec
tion if you export your scene collection it's just
like a backup and that way if something happens like OBS crashes or your
computer crashes or something happens like that you've got a
backup you can do an export of your scene collection right here you you know
so duplicate it and then alter your duplicate you mate while a lot of the
same things and just delete certain things like your backgrounds or whatever
then you can duplicate your your scene collection here under tools honestly I
just leav
e all this just the way it is oh yeah this is one of those options on
the remote option on the phone where it's like Elgato remote control for OBS
you could try that some of these things I haven't even
gotten to try yet but I am totally down to optimizing and learning more about
how I can optimize a laptop with OBS so if you have any suggestions let me know
also I'm just always trying to share my knowledge like whatever I have learned
and it feels really good to be able to share what I do actual
ly learn some new
things and OBS I personally watched about a hundred tutorials before
actually streaming so maybe my perspective could add to the hundred
tutorials that someone watches maybe you learned one or two different things that
you didn't learn from all those other tutorials you can go to the OBS discord
for support and ask them questions and sometimes they might ask
for your crash log report and that's where you would find it so yeah those
are the basic main things that you need to kno
w how to do there's more settings
like under audio and stuff like you can adjust the audio volume for each of
these different tracks you can add you know you don't always need voice meteor
banana you can definitely separate your audio here and if you have a stream deck
that's always really helpful too you do not need a stream deck and you can use
hotkeys and so I didn't know that you can do that always on top hello totally
all the time I'm needing to like put that on top when I should just alway
s
been on top well I hope that helps anyone who's just getting started with
OBS or curious about how to get capture of theirs for when they're playing games
or doing vlogs you know sometimes you want to point out things that you're
doing on your computer and while you're doing your overlay with your camera you
can use the built-in camera that came with your you can use your built-in
laptop camera but I personally use a different camera it's a Logitech c920 2
and it's a lot better in my opinion t
han a camera that's built into my gaming
laptop also I'm able to better adjust the angle of the external camera I would
definitely not want to use my default camera unless I absolutely had to
in fact I learned how to use my camera on my phone as an alternate camera
source as an IP camera source and so that's a different option and definitely
a better camera quality than probably your gaming laptop of who knows maybe
your laptop has better camera built-in than mine you got to work with what you
g
ot so just check and see what are your best option and no matter what you were
working with you may find the OBS is the best broadcasting software I've tried
three in particular I've worked with those three that I mentioned xsplit
stream labs OBS and regular OBS and this one has definitely been my favorite and
works faster and more efficiently general it's really intuitive it's open
source it's free so that's why I like to use it and also it seems to be you know
it works the best with my compute
r and you know I always have
to make sure that I'm not pushing my computer to its limits sometimes the CPU
will max out but OBS does not usually cause a problem but programs like xsplit
was noticeably showing higher CPU usage than OBS I'm not exactly gonna do a
compare and contrast but it's at least 10 percent better on the CPU usage say
you want to go ahead and get your previous recordings just remember go to
file and then show recordings and that's where you can find the folder that you
just s
et your recording is alright so it's really that easy to record from
your computer and as long as you got all the settings correct you should be able
to record your desktop and or your microphone just the way you want and
adjust those levels no problem let me know if you have any other questions and
I hope to see your creations soon drop a link in the comments if you wound up
using OBS for something awesome I wanted to point out that with OBS you can use a
green screen and I've been messing arou
nd the green screen a lot lately
trying to get really good lighting and doing some fun stuff with a green screen
so that's just one other cool feature when you and your your camera source to
OBS that you can turn on the chroma key and dance around and do whatever you
want green screen is so much fun you know it used to be reserved for only the
movie is and now anyway and can make a channel and do their own green screen
tricks and have fun yep that's OBS in a nutshell for your
friends alright fri
ends well I hope that that answered all your questions and let
me know if you have any other particular questions about streaming or screen
capture recording have a good one and I'll see you next time bye
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Why you so good at this?
I don't have a Gaming Laptop๐ I got Lenovo Ideapad 3