[0:00] every gamer wants their recordings to
[0:01] look perfect and clear problem is the
[0:03] settings are confusing as heck so let me
[0:05] show you the exact OBS Studio settings
[0:07] to make your recordings look perfect
[0:09] first we'll go into OBS studio and then
[0:11] we'll go to the bottom right corner
[0:12] where it says settings and then we're
[0:14] going to skip over the general and skip
[0:16] over appearance and skip over stream cuz
[0:18] we don't need that we're going to go
[0:19] directly to the output tab once you're
[0:21] on the output tab we're going to change
[0:23] the output mode from simple to Advanced
[0:25] and that's going to give us more
[0:27] settings to access then we're going to
[0:29] change the Stream tab right here to the
[0:31] recording Tab and this is where the meat
[0:33] and potatoes really are going to hide
[0:34] now I know this looks a little
[0:35] intimidating but I'm going to explain it
[0:36] that anyone can understand even your mom
[0:38] first thing we got to worry about is the
[0:40] recording path this is where all of your
[0:42] recordings are going to save on your
[0:44] computer so you can hit the browse
[0:45] button and choose a location that you
[0:46] want all of your recordings to go to I
[0:48] will say you're going to want to pick an
[0:50] SSD or some kind of good solid state
[0:52] drive because I tried recording directly
[0:54] on a crappy hard drive before and it
[0:56] basically stuttered the recordings and
[0:57] it was bad so pick a nice solid state
[0:59] drive to record this to and then if you
[1:01] want you can transfer it over later and
[1:02] then for the recording format we're
[1:03] actually going to pick MKV and you might
[1:05] be thinking why the heck are we not
[1:06] using something like MP4 well MKV
[1:09] actually has a really useful feature
[1:10] whereas if your recording gets stuttered
[1:12] or your power goes out or for whatever
[1:14] reason it just like loses the progress
[1:16] then your recording file won't actually
[1:18] be corrupted you're actually going to
[1:19] keep all of the recording that you had
[1:21] before that incident happened unlike if
[1:23] you're using like MP4 because that whole
[1:25] file is going to be Mia and the neat
[1:26] thing is is if we actually go directly
[1:28] to the advanced tab here we can scroll
[1:31] down to where it says recording and then
[1:32] we're going to choose automatically
[1:34] remux to MP4 so what this will do after
[1:36] you enable it is when you end your
[1:38] recording it's automatically going to
[1:39] give you the MKV file which you can
[1:41] delete and then it's going to
[1:42] automatically give you the mp4 file as
[1:45] well so that way you can safely record
[1:47] an mp4 without possibly losing your
[1:49] footage if the power goes out or some
[1:50] stupid thing happens so this actually
[1:52] really helpful so highly recommend that
[1:54] well let's go back to the output Tab and
[1:55] we're going to move on to the video
[1:56] encoder a lot of people get confused on
[1:58] this but really there's only two options
[2:01] you have Nvidia enve which is people
[2:03] that have Nvidia cards like myself so
[2:05] you'll be using the Nvidia enve h264 but
[2:07] if you're an AMD user you're just going
[2:08] to pick the AMD equivalent in your video
[2:10] encoder it's that simple and then if you
[2:12] don't have either of those options then
[2:13] chances are your recordings are going to
[2:15] look pretty bad because you don't have a
[2:16] proper graphics card and then you'll
[2:18] have to use x264 which is going to eat
[2:20] up a lot of your CPU and your recordings
[2:22] are going to look really rough so it
[2:23] would highly recommend against using
[2:25] x264 unless you absolutely have to just
[2:27] know you're probably going to run into
[2:28] issues the audio encoder we're going to
[2:29] use FFM Peg fun to say the audio track
[2:32] this is actually really important and
[2:34] very helpful but it is a little complex
[2:36] so I'm going to save this for the very
[2:38] end of the video so stick around to make
[2:39] sure that you use this cuz it's actually
[2:41] a super helpful feature in recordings
[2:43] but there's some other stuff we got to
[2:44] tackle before we do that so we're
[2:45] actually going to scroll down to where
[2:46] it says encoder settings and if you
[2:48] remember the streaming tab we use CBR on
[2:50] here we're actually going to use cqp for
[2:53] the encoder rate control because it's
[2:54] going to be better for our recordings
[2:56] and then for the CQ level you can pick
[2:58] anything between 16 to 20 I prefer 17
[3:01] it's right in the middle but if you're
[3:02] experiencing issues you can lower it to
[3:04] 16 or if you want to go higher then you
[3:06] can go all the way up to 20 but that
[3:07] might be a little Overkill then the key
[3:09] frame interval I have it at two you
[3:11] could also have it at zero you might see
[3:12] both in other videos but either is
[3:14] really fine the preset can be anywhere
[3:16] between P5 and p7 if you got a really
[3:18] good computer I'd use p7 you got a
[3:20] really crap computer I'd pick P5 you got
[3:22] somewhere between P6 you can also switch
[3:25] this up as you go in case you running
[3:26] any issues just like the CQ level and
[3:28] the key for Interval if you need to then
[3:30] for the tuning multipass profile all the
[3:32] rest of the stuff you can just copy high
[3:33] quality two passes High pycho visual
[3:36] tuning zero and two it's really that
[3:37] simple and then you can hit apply and
[3:39] we'll move on to the audio tab at the
[3:41] very top not the one on the left but at
[3:42] the top change all these bad boys to 320
[3:44] to give you the best audio quality for
[3:46] all of them and then we're going to move
[3:48] to the actual audio quality but before
[3:49] we do that quickly hit okay if you're
[3:51] wondering why I got the starting soon
[3:52] screen it's actually my streamer starter
[3:54] pack which is linked in the description
[3:55] down below so you feel free to check
[3:56] that out we'll actually go back to the
[3:58] settings in the bottom right corner then
[3:59] we'll go to the audio tab on the left
[4:01] make sure that you have your desktop
[4:02] audio selected so that's going to be
[4:04] your headphones or your speakers that
[4:06] your audio is coming out of for
[4:07] everything and then pick your microphone
[4:08] from the first list here I'm using the
[4:10] road pod mic USB right there love this
[4:12] mic also linked in the description below
[4:14] simply hit apply make sure that goes in
[4:16] there then we'll go to the video Tab and
[4:18] you're going to change your base canvas
[4:19] resolution to whatever game you're
[4:22] playing I game at 1080P and my monitor
[4:24] is 1080p so my base canvas resolution is
[4:27] 1080 and then for the output you're
[4:28] going to want to change it to whatever
[4:29] you're going to record at I want to
[4:30] record at 1080p 60 frames per second and
[4:33] since these two numbers match here we
[4:35] don't need a downscale filter but if
[4:37] yours do not match you're going to
[4:39] change this downscale filter to lands
[4:41] Coast because it's going to give you the
[4:42] best quality and then the common FPS
[4:43] value we're going to pick 60 cuz I'm
[4:45] recording in 1080P 60 FPS moving on to
[4:48] the next app we got hot keys in case you
[4:49] want to use any of these like start stop
[4:51] recording with if you have an extra key
[4:53] on your keyboard or you got a stream
[4:54] deck or something like that but you can
[4:56] feel free to explore these on your own
[4:57] and also make sure to drop a like on
[4:58] this video if it's been helpful so far
[5:00] so other streamers can find this video
[5:02] so we can now hit okay and these will
[5:04] give you beautiful settings for your
[5:06] recordings but the last thing I wanted
[5:07] to touch on if we go to the settings in
[5:09] the bottom right corner click that go
[5:10] back to Output recording and then the
[5:12] audio tracks you can actually split your
[5:14] audio tracks so you can split your game
[5:16] audio and your mic audio so when you
[5:18] bring it into your video editor after
[5:20] you can actually have more control over
[5:21] both but I have an entire video covering
[5:23] that entire process which is right here
[5:25] to the side of me so give that one a
[5:26] watch my name is Cody and I will see you
[5:28] in the next one