How To Record Gameplay On PC With OBS (Best Settings, Resolutions, and MORE)
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- Recording gameplay has never been easier, anyone can do it, but not many people can do it right…. Laggy footage, blurry footage, no sound at all! I probably simplify a lot of this, so tech heads I apologise, you'll hate it, but beginners will hopefully be able to start recording.
We’re going to show you how to record game footage in OBS, all the settings to make the quality amazing, crisp, and clear, to make both your microphone and game sound perfect, then I am going to show you the most important thing you will learn, something massive gaming UA-camrs do for every recording, that is how to record both your gameplay, and a webcam at the same time, inside OBS without burning the Webcam over the top of your game.
This gives you clean footage, meaning you can focus on one of the other, edit either without issues, and make your edits more engaging.
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What Video Encoder to Use to Record Gameplay In OBS
To make this straightforward, If you’re using any Nvidia card past the GTX 600, which was released in 2012, so likely any Nvidia card being used on a semi-new PC, you’re going to pick Nvenc H.264. This means you’re using a special chip on your graphics card to encode footage, this chip is separate and just used solely for encoding decoding, so it won’t affect your gameplay performance.
And, If you’re using a graphics card from before that, you’ll likely use x264 which will be using your CPU to encode or decode.
What Bitrate to use to Record Gameplay In OBS
In the Encoder settings, you have Rate control, this will be CBR by default, which means you’re recording at the same bitrate all the time, and below that you set the bitrate of your choice, I found for 1080p 60fps that 16,000 - 18,000 gave me excellent quality for editing my gameplay footage later, but any higher was useless, but 8000 bitrate still gave me useable clean footage so if your PC is struggling, start there.
If you want to get a little more complicated in recordings, instead select CQP, which in short is smarter and will change the bitrate as needed so you’re not wasting data, this does mean rather than setting a bitrate you’re setting a CQ level, in short, low numbers here mean higher quality footage, high numbers mean lower quality, I found recording at 15 gave me footage that was perfect, and indistinguishable to viewers, but 20 will also give you totally useable footage.
🕘 Timestamps:
0:00 How To Record Gameplay in OBS
0:43 How To Install OBS
1:09 Where to download Graphics and assets for OBS
1:40 How To Set Base Canvas Resolution and Output Resolution In OBS
2:23 How are Base Canvas and Output Resolution different in OBS?
2:50 How To Set FPS In OBS
3:15 The Best OBS Settings for Gameplay Recording
3:30 How to change recording path in OBS
3:39 How to change recording format in OBS
4:04 What Video Encoder to use in OBS for recording gameplay?
5:06 How to change Audio Tracks in OBS Settings
5:20 Best OBS Settings for recording Gameplay with NVENC Encoding
5:24 What Bitrate to use for recording gameplay in OBS
5:58 What Bitrate to use to record 1080p Gameplay footage?
6:30 Why you should use CQP instead of CBR in OBS
6:53 What CQ Level to use for recording gameplay in OBS
7:18 OBS Settings for Recording Gameplay - Preset, Tuning, Multipass Mode, Psycho-Visual Tuning, GPU, and B-Frames
8:05 Best OBS Settings for recording Gameplay with x264 Encoding
8:38 How to fix bad footage in OBS
8:50 How to use the OBS Stats Panel
9:07 What are Dropped Frames In OBS
9:20 What are Lagged Frames In OBS
9:32 What are Skipped Frames In OBS
9:45 How To Add Gameplay Audio In OBS
11:20 How To Separate Audio Track Recording In OBS
12:00 How To Use Game Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay
12:45 How To Use Window Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay
13:00 How To Use Display Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay
13:20 How To Add A Webcam Source to OBS
13:40 How To Record Gameplay and Webcam In OBS Separately
14:50 How To Convert or Remux MKV files to Mp4 Files In OBS
15:04 How To Edit Dual Source Recordings In Post
15:46 How To Edit 6 Audio Tracks from OBS In Post
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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I know its not a perfect breakdown, hard to get it perfect for beginners while giving options for people to try go futher! Just hope it gives everyone a starting point to get great footage!
🕘 Timestamps:
0:00 How To Record Gameplay in OBS
0:43 How To Install OBS
1:09 Where to download Graphics and assets for OBS
1:40 How To Set Base Canvas Resolution and Output Resolution In OBS
2:23 How are Base Canvas and Output Resolution different in OBS?
2:50 How To Set FPS In OBS
3:15 The Best OBS Settings for Gameplay Recording
3:30 How to change recording path in OBS
3:39 How to change recording format in OBS
4:04 What Video Encoder to use in OBS for recording gameplay?
5:06 How to change Audio Tracks in OBS Settings
5:20 Best OBS Settings for recording Gameplay with NVENC Encoding
5:24 What Bitrate to use for recording gameplay in OBS
5:58 What Bitrate to use to record 1080p Gameplay footage?
6:30 Why you should use CQP instead of CBR in OBS
6:53 What CQ Level to use for recording gameplay in OBS
7:18 OBS Settings for Recording Gameplay - Preset, Tuning, Multipass Mode, Psycho-Visual Tuning, GPU, and B-Frames
8:05 Best OBS Settings for recording Gameplay with x264 Encoding
8:38 How to fix bad footage in OBS
8:50 How to use the OBS Stats Panel
9:07 What are Dropped Frames In OBS
9:20 What are Lagged Frames In OBS
9:32 What are Skipped Frames In OBS
9:45 How To Add Gameplay Audio In OBS
11:20 How To Separate Audio Track Recording In OBS
12:00 How To Use Game Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay
12:45 How To Use Window Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay
13:00 How To Use Display Capture In OBS To Record Gameplay
13:20 How To Add A Webcam Source to OBS
13:40 How To Record Gameplay and Webcam In OBS Separately
14:50 How To Convert or Remux MKV files to Mp4 Files In OBS
15:04 How To Edit Dual Source Recordings In Post
15:46 How To Edit 6 Audio Tracks from OBS In Post
I'd like to put an addendum on your 'how to fix bad footage' segment. There's also a 4th option which I've found to be exclusive to 2 PC/capture card setups that is none of 1) dropped frames 2) lagged frames or 3) skipped frames.
Your OBS recording/stream looks perfect in the stats window but you watch it back and the footage itself has frames missing for seemingly no reason.
This is something you CAN'T fix in OBS. Something between the capture card and encoder (CPU or GPU) is going wrong. (This could be a hardware issue RAM/Memory, your motherboard or CPU going wrong in some way or another), OR(this is overlooked!!) Your main PC is pushing too much data through its GPU and purely the HDMI in to the capture card is dropping frames. And it is almost impossible to tell which without testing them individually.
In my case it was both! Because shortly after solving the problem OBS suddenly started again, could no longer boot with xmp enabled and it actually looked like one of my ssd's were failing prematurely... As such I pieced together another capture PC, same drives, same GPU, same capture cards, problem solvered.
This was a long, slow fix. Nothing beginner about it.
But driving 2 displays (2560x1440 144hz + 1080p 144hz), a PCVR headset and a HDMI out to the capture card was too much, and even though the main monitor had no dropped frames, the 4th output added to the mix was the issue. And so I absolutely HAD to use passthrough to fix the issue. Even though it's horrible because I don't want to have to have both on at once just to use my main screen :/ passthrough requires the capture PC to be on.
Good vid brother. I have to say that yours and nutty's vids really keep me grounded and seeing things how 'everyone else' does who maybe aren't as experienced.
Here I am with 2 PC's, multiple mics, audio networking to split every sound source for recording on either PC, 2 capture cards, 5 dedicated video sources setup that can switch at a moment's notice... And if anyone asks... it's too complicated to explain >____
id say this is great except for the split video thing if you record at that high ,
it adds extra steps and puts an un necessary load on your hardware recording.
everything else is great . no so sure about the step you use for the separate webcam response.
wouldn't it be smarter to set a smaller camera window making data less and smaller footprint?
@@MR_DOME The increased data is minscule compared to the increased quality you'll get when editing. The ability to cut to just game, just cam, or both of any size is invaluable, I didn't say it was mandatory though, and showed how to do it without doing it, and explained it takes more resources.
The issue is every way to split sources is going to increase your load, mines just the one without plugins, external tools, extra programs, gives highest quality, and takes 5 minutes to setup.
Quick question, would doubling the 1920x1080 work with a greenscreen?
@@kazecadney5625 apply your filter to the webcam source not the whole scene and it'll work fine :)
Pro Tip: Save this video so when you build a new pc and completely forget how obs settings work you can do it again. Helped me set up my obs twice now. Thanks dude!
Unless you get a pc like every month this kinda goofy
@@badjuicefish who gets a new pc every month whaaaat 😂
@@badjuicefishsome people prefer to reinstall Windows when changing/adding parts, hence they need to reconfigure everything, although it's just easier to save the configuration folder on a usb stick or whatever and then copy/paste it when you reinstall it.
I never know what im doing, i have no idea how I've made it as far as i have.🎉
This video looks like its going to solv more then 1 issue ive been having. Thank you
I love tutorials which actually teach you the "why's" and "how's", like you stated at the start of the video. I appreciate it, personally. Thank you!
Dude, this has been the MOST helpful OBS video I've ever seen, and I've seen... A LOT. Thank you so much for making this!
Mate. I'm working on my first partnership video where they want me to submit seperate audio lines, minimum resolutions and all kinds of things as part of the deliverables, rather than the single mashed together audio on a 1080 - 30fps video recording. This was exactly what I needed right when I needed it, thank you so much! Your guides were a huge part of helping me to where I am and once again you deliver in my time of need 👑hope you're keeping well king!
Always love your guides and twitch insights so I would absolutely LOVE to see a stream settings guide.
ive been watching you for a while but realized I wasn't subbed. you have been such an amazing help in fixing my obs settings. i had stuttering and lag spikes for the longest time and I watched like 10 "tutorials" on how to fix it but none of them did until this video. So thank you so much! I appreciate you and your content
thank you so much for taking the time to make this video, im new to using stuff like this and this has helped immensely. very easy to follow throughout the entire video. thanks!
You are a life SAVER!!! 3 hours to figure this out and i stumble across ur video and oh my god everything is PERFECT IN 5 MINS!!!!!
Great video, very informative. Helped me not only with the settings, but to tailor them towards my specific setup too!
Bro I started streaming three years ago and your videos helped me so much to get started. Now you drop some incredibly clever stuff that makes total sense and I never would have thought of myself. Thank you and well done!
Thanks so much for this video! It hit a near perfect sweet spot (95% +) of teaching me what I wanted to know and had a hard time finding. I used this video to record the "intro" to the videos I want to make. (the first minute of sound as a game starts up with dramatic music.)
The only critique I have is to slow down about 10% when you are flashing thru the OBS menus. ;) Off to watch the sound video you have linked in the description. Thanks again!
I love your analogy to explain dropping frames as holes in a tube. Very visual and perfect.
Thanks for the tips. After watching your video, I was able to do my first few recordings. Very helpful.
This is extremely helpful especially the explanation of specific settings. Great one dude !
Thank you for explaining this so well to us new content creators ❤
Just happy to help :)
THANK YOU. Hope content creators are taking notes from your video. This is everything, a tutorial should be. Thank you for your hard work.
Excellent video Solve my all issues related to recording. Thanks, bro for that gem video❤
Grateful to have found you! Probably the best OBS tutotrial video I have come across! Bonus - you're a fellow Aussie 🙌 Thanks so much for your content - I have subscribed cos I know I will definitely be needing help again soon 😅👍
I’ve been wanting to record my gameplay for UA-cam for awhile now but had no idea how, thank you very much for the easy guide!!!
thank you so much the setting on the audio tracks really helps me
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Thank you for putting up the graphics associated with things like "chips" it helps us understand what you are saying. Thank you !
Super super helpful as always- thanks man!
Ty Eljay! This was super helpful and I appreciate that you simplified everything without making me feel dumb hehe
Thank you so much! This tutorial helped boost my quality significantly. I rarely comment on videos however, I owe my gratitude to you because I finally have some decent quality. You've earned a sub! :)
Im glad to help :)
THANK YOU! You are my go to for starting my new content creation journey
Thank you for this!! As always you’ve come in clutch!
Thank you for this video I have been using OBS wrong for so long. I will been checking out the rest of your videos. Thanks again👍👌
Thank you Eljay, I constantly refer to this video to help me get things set up, its been absolutely vital!
you've gained a sub you beautiful human being. thank you for the in depth guide, and it cleared up a lot of the questions I had. when I uploaded my first playthrough episode for BG3 I noticed it was kind of pixelated and lower quality than normal 1080p, especially in darker areas. Now I should be recording in near-perfect HDR and higher bit rate
AMAZING VIDEO! Thank you so much for making this, it helped me out a ton!
Very nice vid mate! So easy to follow along.
Super helpful, thanks man!
I greatly appreciate you man! You explained each setting and configuration for my noob ears. As a new youtuber, this was refreshing. Thanks
I love this video!! this was amazingly done. now i just need a video on how to do this for live Stream.
Awesome video. very helpful! Just earned a sub for sure!
Yo, Australian to Australian I want to thank you for this video. Now recording through OBS has fixed so many sync recording issues with Elgato recordings I can actually make videos and no waste hours fixing Elgato problems.
Bro Shoutout to you. This Video helped me setup my OBS so I can start recording Content.
THE BEST tutorial ever very helpful it solved all of my audio problems and now my computer doesn't overheat.
I absolutely love content like this! It has been incredibly helpful to my use and understanding of OBS. Total game changer! Sincerely appreciate your valuable information and assistance!
You Helped me so much!
really helpfull, thanks mate 👌👌
thank you for the video. Bless you 🙏
thank you for explaining WHY almost every video just says do this do that, and im trying to get actually decent at obs much thanks keep it up!
I learned so much just from skimming certain parts of this video. I appreciate you for this 🙏
Great video! Thank you man!
This is outstandingly helpful. Top tier content, process, production. A+++++
dude you are a legend thank you I subbed.
Yoooo the camera trick is absolutely leggeeenddaaryyy thank you brotha!!!
Amazing Video! Thank you so much
Amazing video this helped a lot
This is an awesome video. Guide on streaming setting would be great
I only got confused by 4 times thank you. I recently got a pc and wanted to record COD and this video was very helpful I was confused at Gaines but I got it so thank you very much
Thanks man! I understand now
Bro, you deserve more like and more subscribers for making this video because you really know what you're talking about.
Thank you. Unbelievable difference
you saved me so much stress thank you for making such a simple video for a noob
i have been strugling for a very long time
you are the best way too far
One thing I want to add is to change the anchor points in your two layers in premiere pro. Change the cam/game anchor point to 960/2880 (depends which is on the left and which is on the right) . So that way if you add any motion movement it actually follows the new cropped resolution rather than the old resolution.
I loved the video! got it all setup had issues with resolution wanting to auto change but i fixed it. Now time to go and find a Free Editing software that dont have watermarks. Thanks for the help!
Hey! Thank you for this video, I’m always wondered why I only saw pictures from my recording, it turned out it was the bitrate 😂 Love from 🇭🇺❤
Damn this is extremely helpful for a newbie like me using obs for retrogaming capture❤
This was extremely helpful. I guess i'm a sicko because I didn't know to change the audio to vertical. but I will now. lol This also helped me know how to split audio, that's awesome. didn't know I could do that.
Nice been trying too use a new software the one I was useing was an jerk so this is helpful
you are really great man
Thank you so much this help me and my gameplay look so smooth on OBS❤❤
What Capture do you use?
Game capture
Would totally love to see guide/advice on streaming settings. =D
As a new Content creator this helped alot👍
You finally explained to me the importance to the audio track numbers in OBS. This actually save a lot of production time when recording. Like what if I want to edit out something I said over the mic, right? Presto, I didn't make that old 9111 joke. 😁😁😎😎
dude. i am so thankful for ur channel holy shit
Thank you. I followed every step and my video and audio quality are a lot less shit now 😂❤❤❤
Thank you G
Finally I found my god damn problem. I was selecting "game capture" instead of "window" on the source, and OBS wasn't recognizing my game. Thank you!
Hi! Firstly, I want to thank you for these videos. I'm just starting out as a streamer and youtuber and all of your advice has been extremely useful! I just downloaded this program and it works GREAT when you're recording PC games. I tested everything out, put it into premiere to see all my tracks, and all was good!
I was curious, however, if you had any knowledge or tips on using this same program to record Game Capture Cards from a console such as a Switch or PS4. I tried doing it today for my stream, but when I went to sonar, I saw absolutely no option for it. My viewers could hear me and could see the game, but they couldn't get any audio from the game itself. When I capture the game card, it pops up in OBS as a USB device. I tried checking for it over in sonar, but nothing was showing itself as my capture card.
Thanks again!
A proper amazing video
Thank you 🎉
Love the video. Thanks man! @StreamScheme, The only question I have are you using a single PC to record and play? Are you using 2 monitors? Thanks!
Really good video, my guy! Helped me optimize my own recordings. And the stream settings video would be very much appreciated, too! Gotta brush up and double check if I'm still using the optimum.
And one thing I may suggest for the future... is maybe have a troubleshooting video for browser sources sometimes not working.
My stream alerts widget from Streamlabs sometimes doesn't work on one scene, but always works in another scene where it's the only source. So I end up having to switch between scenes until it works in the scene I want it to, before streaming.
I've done every troubleshooting thing out there apart from a clean uninstall + reinstall + setup from the ground up, which I fear would take me so long, given I only have free time on weekends. 😢
Streamlabs sucks :) use elements or built in twitch alerts, usually solves the issue
@@StreamScheme Awright my guy, thanks a lot! I'll try and see how I can go about changing them.
10:28 absolutely hilarious. Phenomenal tutorial! Subscriber straight away
sick man!
Great video! I’m all set up, I’m getting about 360/316000 (0.1%) lagged frames. Is there a specific % where I need to think about lowering my settings or is it like ANY value here constitutes a problem?
0.1% seems kinda low; would it be noticeable?
godbless u lad
I'm new to obs, this video help me so much! the only setting i still didn't finish is resolution I have 1366x768 Monitor should i use 1280x720 as output? Or make it same as the base?
amazing video
To record both game and webcam separately I find that the vertical aitum plugin is a good option, you just need to set the resolution in it and boom. Also a good option if you want to record the gameplay without all the stream overlays while keeping them on stream
The Source Record plugin is also rad for these use cases
Thank you 🥹
Good video as always. I do have a question I can't seem to solve, and can't find an answer for. When playing on PC as soon as I activate OBS studio, Obs takes over the game controller and it will not work for the game. Is that something in the settings of obs or am I just missing something. I can't seem to find a video anywhere that addresses this problem
Your the man
Nice exacly what i neadet :)
As someone who needs updated stream settings, please make that video as soon as possible :)
Fun fact: There’s a tick box open within the general settings tab of OBS which’ll allow you to automatically remux MKV recordings to MP4 when recordings finish/stop - you just the box and apply it.
Yep :) but people need to learn how to do it themselves for safety
great tutorials, everything working so fine but every sounds other than my microphone sounds muffled when i playback the records, it so diffrentfrom what i heard, can you help me figure out how to fix my problem?
btw im using logitech pro x for the outpun and the built in mic as my mic.
Thanx alot! :)
would love to see a streaming setup where u also use Steelseries Sonar that u touched on in another video :)
I did an entire video on its setup in full already :)
Thank you
1) Thanks for the tutorial; legit very informative and great for setting things up. 2) Friendly critique: slow down. Yeah replay and changing video speed exists, but main thing for a tutorial outside of info is that it's easy to follow.
You’d be surprised, I talk this speed because when I slowed down nobody watched.
Great video....I would love to see this same video with a dual PC set up with capture care and GoXLR Mini. Thanks
I don't use a dual PC because its overkill, and Capture Cards / GoXLR don't change how this is setup at all.
please do streaming settings that would be awesome
First and foremost, I love your content! I have a quick question, if anyone could help. When I duplicate to make a "wide screen", I followed all of your instructions but some reason my window capture and my webcam are not both equal like in your video (@ 14:35). When I go to resize either window, they will only go so big and leave black space on one side and won't allow me to have an equal window capture and webcam view. What am I doing wrong? All advice is sooo greatly appreciated!!
is there a way to stream one profile and record with the other so that the cam isnt burned into the recording but i can have my camera on screen during a live stream? or would this require 2 recording softwares like running streamlabs and obs at the same time?