[0:00] What's going on, guys? And welcome back
[0:01] to another video. It's that time of the
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[1:43] going to switch over to my split screen
[1:44] view so that you guys can see my screen.
[1:46] Now, this is my OBS, what you guys are
[1:48] seeing on the screen right here. I am
[1:50] recording currently. I have it put in
[1:52] the center of my screen. And we're going
[1:54] to do the first thing, and that's going
[1:56] to be to come down to the bottom right
[1:58] hand corner and click on settings. Now,
[2:00] we have our little settings window. I'm
[2:01] going to put it right here so that you
[2:03] guys can see it. And actually, I can
[2:05] move it over a little bit this way. It's
[2:07] perfect. Yeah, there we go. Okay. So,
[2:09] starting off up here in the top left in
[2:11] the general tab. There's one thing here
[2:12] that'll help you guys set up your
[2:14] stream. And that's going to be source
[2:15] alignment snapping. I want you guys to
[2:17] enable this. And then I have my snap
[2:19] sensitivity set to 9.0. You could kind
[2:21] of set this to whatever you want. It's
[2:22] all personal preference. This is going
[2:24] to help you when it comes to aligning
[2:26] things on, you know, your your stream
[2:27] preview to make everything line up
[2:29] perfectly. That's all this is. So, I
[2:31] would suggest enabling that and then
[2:32] messing around with the sensitivity to
[2:33] get it to what you want. Next, on the
[2:36] left hand side, we're going to go to
[2:37] appearance. Again, this is all personal
[2:38] preference. I use the Yummy theme on
[2:40] default with a font size of 10. And then
[2:43] the density I have set to comfortable.
[2:45] And on the left hand side here, this is
[2:47] where everything starts to, you know,
[2:49] take place with setting up your stream.
[2:51] You are going to come over here and
[2:53] whatever service you're streaming to,
[2:54] whether it's Twitch, Kick, YouTube,
[2:56] multireaming, whatever. If you are
[2:58] multireaming, just pick one. I stream
[3:00] mainly on Twitch and I multiream to Kick
[3:02] and YouTube. So, I have Twitch selected
[3:04] here. right here in this destination
[3:06] box. It's going to have you log into
[3:08] your Twitch account or whatever it is.
[3:09] If you're using Kick, you're going to
[3:10] use a custom uh one right here and put
[3:12] in your stream key. If you're using
[3:13] YouTube, you're going to select YouTube,
[3:15] Facebook, you know, so on and so forth.
[3:17] You're going to set that up. You're
[3:18] going to log in. And then that's all we
[3:20] do in this tab as well. Now, the most
[3:22] important tab is going to be over here
[3:23] in the output section. Come over to
[3:26] output at the top. Output mode. Set this
[3:28] to advanced. Make sure you're on the
[3:30] streaming tab here so that we're not
[3:31] messing with recording audio or replay
[3:33] buffer settings. Make sure you're
[3:34] selecting streaming here. And as you can
[3:36] see, a lot of this stuff is grayed out,
[3:37] but that's just because I'm recording
[3:39] currently, and you can't change these
[3:40] settings while recording or while live.
[3:42] So, in the streaming tab, the first
[3:44] thing you're going to notice over here
[3:45] is your audio encoder. Just leave that
[3:47] as default. For your video encoder, if
[3:50] you're using an Nvidia GPU, you're going
[3:52] to want to use Envank H.264. If you're
[3:54] using an AMD GPU, use the AMD
[3:56] equivalent. Rescale output. Make sure
[3:59] this is disabled and then have this set
[4:00] to whatever. It doesn't really matter
[4:02] because it's disabled anyway. Now coming
[4:04] down your encoder settings. This is
[4:05] where the magic actually does happen,
[4:08] right? This is where, you know, we get
[4:10] that crystal clear quality on our
[4:11] stream. So your bit rate is going to
[4:14] change depending on where you're
[4:15] streaming. If you're streaming on Twitch
[4:16] or Kick, you can't go higher than 8,000
[4:19] bit rate. If you're streaming on
[4:20] YouTube, you can go way higher than
[4:22] that. Uh so, you know, if you're, let's
[4:24] say, I'll give you an example. If you're
[4:25] doing 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps on YouTube,
[4:28] you'll want to set your bit rate to 16K.
[4:31] On Twitch, do not go higher than 8,000
[4:33] because they will nerf your encoder
[4:35] settings and people will only be able to
[4:36] watch your stream in 720p or lower, no
[4:39] matter how high you set it. The max you
[4:41] could set it on Twitch is going to be
[4:43] 8,000 kbps. Make sure your rate control
[4:45] is set to constant bit rate. Your key
[4:47] frame interval set this to 2 seconds.
[4:49] Preset, I have mine set to slowest or
[4:51] best quality. Tuning, I have set to high
[4:54] quality, multipass mode, two passes,
[4:56] full resolution. Profile is set to high.
[4:58] Look ahead is unchecked. Adaptive
[5:00] quantization is checked, B frame set to
[5:02] two, and then no custom encoder options.
[5:04] Now, just so you guys are aware, if you
[5:08] are streaming and getting some encoding
[5:10] overload errors or maybe dropping some
[5:12] frames, you can come in here to this
[5:14] preset and drop this down to like five.
[5:17] It's really going to be a very minimal
[5:18] difference between P5 and P7. You only
[5:21] start to really lose quality once you
[5:23] hit P4, and even then, it's not that
[5:24] much, especially if people are not
[5:26] watching full screen. So, if you don't
[5:28] have the best computer on the market, I
[5:30] suggest just starting at P5 right off
[5:31] the rip here. Uh, and then again, you
[5:33] can also go down to tuning and leave
[5:35] this on high quality. I wouldn't go low
[5:37] latency or ultra low latency. This does
[5:39] does change it quite a bit. But another
[5:41] one that you can tune down a little bit
[5:43] if you are having encoder encoding uh,
[5:45] you know, errors. You can come down here
[5:46] to multipass mode and drop this down to
[5:48] quarter resolution or even single pass.
[5:50] Again, not a setting that affects the
[5:53] quality of your stream that much. It's
[5:55] not going to be, you know, a super crazy
[5:57] amount of of of quality loss by dropping
[6:00] down, you know, those settings by a tiny
[6:03] bit. The preset and the multipass mode.
[6:05] Okay. You're going to come over here to
[6:07] audio on the lefth hand side. And this
[6:08] is where you're going to set up the
[6:10] audio for your stream. If you're using a
[6:12] gaming headset, right, that's just a
[6:13] headset with a microphone. This is going
[6:15] to be very simple. Your desktop audio
[6:17] will just be set to default or your
[6:18] headphones. And then your microphone
[6:20] will be set to the microphone on your
[6:22] headphones. [music] If you're looking at
[6:23] mine and you're a little bit confused as
[6:24] to how mine is set up, it's because I'm
[6:26] using a Go XLR. So, all of my audio is
[6:29] mixed down into the Go XLR and then it's
[6:31] broadcasted through this broadcast
[6:32] stream mix. All of my mixing happens on
[6:35] the Go XLR and then one single output
[6:37] comes out which is my broadcast stream
[6:39] mix. So, general rule of thumb here,
[6:42] depending on what your setup is, if you
[6:44] have a simple setup, like I said, gaming
[6:45] headset, gaming microphone, or even a
[6:47] Blue Yeti, you know, a USB microphone,
[6:49] or even a standalone XLR microphone, you
[6:51] don't if you don't have an audio mixer,
[6:53] set your desktop audio to whatever
[6:55] you're listening to audio on. And then
[6:57] your microphone, whatever your
[6:58] microphone is, set it to that. Uh,
[7:00] scrolling down in here, there's not much
[7:03] else we need to mess with. Nothing in
[7:04] here is going to affect the quality of
[7:06] your stream. So, we're going to go over
[7:08] here to another really important tab,
[7:10] and that's going to be the video tab.
[7:12] So, [music] if you're gaming in 1920 x
[7:14] 1080 or 2560x440
[7:16] or 4K, whatever it is, that is what your
[7:19] base canvas resolution is going to be.
[7:21] Whatever you're staring at, whatever
[7:22] your gaming monitor's resolution is,
[7:24] base canvas resolution is set to that.
[7:27] The output scaled resolution is going to
[7:30] then be um what you want your stream to
[7:34] be at. If you want to stream in 2K, you
[7:36] would have to set your output scaled
[7:37] resolution to 2560 by440p if your base
[7:40] one is the exact same. If you're gaming
[7:43] in 2K and you wanted to scale your
[7:45] stream down to 1080p for Twitch,
[7:48] whatever, whatever you want to do, you
[7:50] would then set your output scaled
[7:52] resolution to 1920x 1080 and that would
[7:55] downscale it. And then that will give
[7:57] you access to these downscale filters.
[7:59] I'm not downscaling right now. I'm
[8:00] recording in 2K. Um, so if I was
[8:03] streaming on Twitch, I downscale to
[8:05] 1080p. That opens up the options here.
[8:07] And you're going to want to choose the
[8:08] Lancos uh downscale filter option. This
[8:10] is going to give you the highest
[8:12] possible quality. And then your common
[8:14] FPS values, you're going to set this to
[8:17] 60fps. [music]
[8:18] Okay, that's all you're going to do. Um,
[8:20] and now you're going to have a nice high
[8:22] quality 60fps stream. And to be
[8:25] completely honest, guys, these settings
[8:26] have been helping people for years. I
[8:28] update my settings here and there a
[8:30] little bit as the years go on. you know,
[8:31] we tweak with things and get it looking
[8:33] even better. OBS does some updates. Uh,
[8:35] you know, graphics card drivers update,
[8:37] so things do change a little bit. So, if
[8:39] you haven't messed with your stream
[8:40] settings in a really long time, now is
[8:43] the time to do it. Uh, definitely go and
[8:45] tweak your settings and you're going to
[8:47] thank me later because your stream is
[8:48] going to look absolutely [music]
[8:50] crystal clear. But anyways guys, that's
[8:53] it. Those are the settings. Again, check
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