--- title: 'Learn How to Do a Professional Live Stream on Twitch' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=7cWxijk1TCI' video_id: '7cWxijk1TCI' date: 2026-07-17 duration_sec: 551 channel: 'Escola Para Streamers' --- # Learn How to Do a Professional Live Stream on Twitch > Source: [Learn How to Do a Professional Live Stream on Twitch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7cWxijk1TCI) ## Summary This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to setting up a professional live stream on Twitch using OBS Studio. It covers everything from account creation and OBS configuration to capturing game footage, adding a webcam, and optimizing stream settings for high-quality broadcasts. ### Key Points - **Getting Started** [00:02] — The video covers everything from the beginning to the first stream. Consoles or mobile phones can be used but need to be connected to a computer via mirroring or capture card. - **Sign Up and OBS Download** [00:29] — Open Twitch website (twit.tv), sign up, then download OBS Studio from Google. Cancel the auto-configuration wizard to learn manual setup. - **Video Settings in OBS** [01:12] — Set base resolution to monitor's resolution (e.g., 1920x1080). Output resolution max is 1080p even for 4K monitors. Set FPS to 60. - **Game Capture Setup** [01:55] — Add Game Capture source, set capture mode to 'Capture specific window', select the game. If black screen appears, click on the game or switch to borderless windowed mode. If issues persist, run OBS as administrator. - **Alternative Capture Method** [03:05] — Use Display Capture to capture everything on screen, avoiding the need to change capture when switching games. Be careful not to show unintended content. - **Camera and Audio Capture** [03:44] — Add Video Capture Device for webcam, console, or phone via capture card. Add Audio Output Capture for game audio and Audio Input Capture for microphone. - **Creating Multiple Scenes** [05:26] — Create separate scenes for game and chat. Reuse sources like webcam and audio across scenes. Rename scenes for clarity. - **Final Stream Settings** [06:22] — Go to Settings > Output, set mode to Advanced. Use NVENC for Nvidia GPUs, similar for AMD, or X264 if no dedicated GPU. For 1080p60, set bitrate to 6000, keyframe interval 2, preset medium, ultra-low latency, max B-frames 2. - **Going Live** [08:04] — Connect Twitch account, set stream title, notification message, category, and privacy (public). Enable chat. Click 'Start Broadcast'. ### Conclusion The video provides a comprehensive guide to setting up a professional Twitch stream with OBS, including advanced settings for optimal performance. Additional resources for overlays and growth tips are mentioned. ## Transcript professional live stream from day one. I'm going to show you everything you need to know from the very beginning until the moment you do your first stream. Remember that you can use a console or mobile phone to stream, but it's important that you have them connected to a computer. So you can mirror your phone or console to your PC, but if you're going to do that, ideally I'll comment on that a bit more later . To get started, you'll open the Twitch website by typing twit.tv, click here in the upper right corner to sign up, and fill in the information. After that, we'll go to Google and type in OBS Studio. Click on this link and use to make your broadcasts. The first time you screen like this to help you make we're going to click cancel, because it's important for you to understand how to problems and need to make adjustments. I'll comment on that later. Now we're going to click on settings, here on the left under video, and first we'll go to base resolution. This is your monitor's resolution. If you click here and more options appear, I recommend you enter your monitor's exact resolution. My resolution here is 1920 by 1080. And the output resolution here will be the resolution that appears on Twitch. Remember that the maximum resolution you can stream on this platform is 1080p. So even if you have a 4K monitor, here in the output resolution, you'll set it to a maximum of 1080p. And in this video, I'm going to configure our live stream with this resolution. And here in the FPS value I'm going to change it to 60. So let's click apply and OK. It's also resolutions. Later I will show some possibilities in more we're going to show in our live stream, we'll go down here to the sources section, click on the plus sign, and then game capture. Here you can change the name if you want. I'll leave it as is and then click OK. And here in capture mode, we're going to switch to capturing the specific window. And here in the window you will choose the game you want to stream. One detail: for the game to appear here it open, okay? If you try to capture the game directly before opening it, it won't appear here in the options. And another thing is that if you change the game on your live stream, you need to come here to OBS and change it as well. So here, we click OK. Even after you take this screenshot, a black screen might appear here. If that happens, just go to the game, click around a bit , and it will appear here in OBS. If that didn't work, go to the game settings and switch to borderless windowed mode. And if the problem persists, close OBS, go to its icon, right-click, go to properties, and in the compatibility window, check the box to run this program as an administrator. Click Apply, OK, and open OS Studio again. But there are some games that, even with all this, will continue to appear here on OBS. In this case, under sources, you click the plus sign and select screenshot. Select the " capture cursor" option and click OK. Therefore, OBS will capture everything you open on your computer screen, including the game. The good thing about this capture method is that, unlike the other one I showed, you never have to worry about changing the capture every time you switch games. But you also have to be careful not to open anything you shouldn't, because everything you open on that screen will appear on your live stream. After that, we're going to capture our camera footage, and for that, we're going to select the video capture device. You will use this same option if you connect a console or a mobile phone to your computer using a capture card. Also, phone, console, or directly from your computer. Here in the device section, you using this one here. And here in the video settings, if your webcam has adjustments. It's normal, in fact, that some don't have them. Below you can change your camera's resolution; just switch to "custom" here and choose the resolution if it has options available . And down here you can change the FPS if it has the option. Once you're finished, just click OK. In my case, my normally, but it might appear down here when you add it, and then see the webcam. In this case, here in OBS Studio, you just need to drag the camera onto the game. Now all you have to do is click here on the edges and adjust the it to be on your screen. Now we're going to click here on the plus sign again and select audio output capture. This is the audio that the people watching your live stream will hear; in other words, it's the same audio you hear in your headset, speakers, etc. Then you can click here, select the device or leave it as default, and then click OK. And now we come back here and this time select the will be our microphone. So here in the device section, we're going to click and select the microphone. Give it an OK. Now, in the audio mixer, you'll see the volume of your game and everything you can hear, and here's the volume of your microphone, which you can lower or raise. But here we only created one screen with the game and the camera. And if you want to have more screens, for example, one for gaming and another where to chat with people in your chat. To do this, here in the scene section, we're going to click on the plus sign and create a new scene. Let's call this scene a chat. Now, here in our sources, just click on the plus sign and we'll add our webcam. Let's reuse what we've already created. Now all that's left is to add the microphone and the audio output. Let's right-click on the other scene here and rename it to "game". And now we have two screens here, one for the camera and the other for the game. And if you want more screen space with a camera border, animated alerts, etc., I recommend using Onet, because they have free overdays that you can configure directly on their website, super easy. OBS as a browser source, meaning it won't even take up much space on your computer. And if you subscribe, you'll get access to over 600 royalty-free overlay and music alerts that you can listen to without worry during your live streams link, it's up here or in the description, to have a pro live stream. Now that we have our scenes ready here in OBS, let's make the final first live stream. To do this, go to settings, output, and change the output mode to advanced. And to keep things simple, we'll use the their website. Here are the specifications for Nvidia, NVENK, and X264. I'll leave the link with that information in the description. NVENK will be for those who have an Nvidia graphics card. And if you have an AMD graphics card, you will use the same settings as Nvent. Now, if you don't have either of those, you 'll use X264. In my case, I have an Nvidia graphics card. So here I'm going to use NVEN. This option will make OBS render your live stream using your graphics card, while the X264 option will render option to render using the graphics card, that's better, because it need a graphics card, processor, to do your live stream, we've included a list of products for streamers in the description, all carefully selected so you don't have to worry about anything. Beauty? So, since we chose to do a live stream in 1080p at 60 fps at the beginning, we're going to use these settings here. Bitrate will be 6000, 1000. Keyframe interval will be 2. We'll keep the preset here at medium. There's no adjustment option there, but we're going to use ultra-low latency, like scrolling down a bit here and setting a maximum of two biframes. Once that's done, just click apply and then OK. After that, we'll go live here . Let's switch the service to Twitch and click connect account. Then you just need to enter your username here and click OK. Then it will open these two windows here that you can place in your OBS wherever you think is best. So here on the left you'll have the title of the live stream, and below that the notification message that your followers will receive when you start your live stream. to remind you to subscribe to the channel, okay? Here's the category or game you're streaming, and here in public, always leave everyone there. Then just click "Done". On the side you have the chat for your live stream, which is very important to be enabled so you can respond as quickly as possible that, just click on "start broadcast" and do your first live stream. But I imagine you're starting to do live streams because you want to gain followers, views, and so on. So, if you want to grow much faster and streamers, take a look at this video over there . 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