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    Need help with file size and quality settings and more.

    So basically I have an AMD card and my current settings are: AMD HW H.264 CQP 17 And I would like to know what would the best setting be to still have a good quality pref 1080p+ but lower the file size. I'm asking this because me and my friend started a channel where we both record 2 hours of...
  2. PhiDX

    First 3-5 Seconds of Recording Corrupt

    Sometimes, the first 3-5 seconds of my .mp4 recordings are corrupted. My workflow is direct-to-Youtube upload, so ideally I'd like to keep recording in the .mp4 format instead of going to .mkv. My logfile is attached below, and this unlisted video shows the first 4 seconds of a still frame. In...
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    Input lag when recording

    Hi as the title says, I get input lag as soon as I open OBS. I have two monitors. My main is 240hz. 2nd is 60hz. I've tried minimizing everything on the second monitor when I game and there's no difference. I changed my NVCP scaling for both monitors to use GPU scaling which seemed to improve it...
  4. JoLockwood

    OBS Lua Source Visibility Toggle Script for OBS on Record Start/Stop event 1.1

    This script for OBS Studio enables users to automatically toggle the visibility of a selected source when starting or stopping a recording. The script provides a dropdown list containing all sources available in OBS, each prefixed with its respective scene name for easy identification. The...
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    Colours are faded & darker tones crushed

    Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/q26gE6kEWSUQZX2T In-game: https://i.imgur.com/i7H0r6N.jpeg Recorded: https://i.imgur.com/iWeO1gC.jpeg Video recording: https://gofile.io/d/S6IELb As you can see the colours are faded, having lost their boldness, while the darker tones been crushed. My...
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    OBS stops recording at a scene at the beginning of a video(the recording is still active but nothing gets recorded after that)

    I am facing a recent issue where OBS stops recording at a scene in the video. The recording button is still active and when I stop recording & watch the output only the beginning is recorded and video shows still scene for the rest of the duration until the end of recording. I started a...
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    Recordings and streams dont look smooth at all and I'm loosing my mind trying to figure out why

    I've been recording footage in Valorant for about a week before I noticed it's practically unusable due to said footage looking choppy and lacking smoothness. I don't understand why it looks the way it does but no matter what settings I do, it ends up looking more or less the same while others...
  8. githubchr

    No audio recorded on Windows 11? Check this

    Hello everyone, if you suddenly do not have audio anymore on your recordings, check the Soundmixer in Settings: the "OBS" entry must be unmuted and the slider turned up to 100%. It seems this setting controls both audio output and input for this application! I suddenly had no more audio in my...
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    My 3 Hour Long Video Only Has 58 Minutes Of Footage Saved, How Can I get It Back?

    Hello, exactly as the tittle says, I was recording a TTRPG session with one of my friends, in order to post it on yotube, however out of our nearly 3 hour long video, only 1 hour of it got recorded. Is it passible to recover the last 2 hours? And how do I stop this problem from happening again...
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    Av1 Lag when using native widescreen settings

    Hello people! i'll quickly cut to the case When I am recording using AMD HW AV1, my OBS encoder gets overloaded when recoridng my native screen (3440x1440). When I downscale it a little (2752x1152) or use 16:9 ar (2560x1440) everything works fine. attached are the logs. Is this a bug? if not...
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    Cant record at 144 fps

    Hello, i cant seem to be able to record my games at 144 fps, my pc is able to do it ( i know this because i have done it before but now obs seems to be bugging or something) While i play i dont notice any problems with the performance but when i look at the video file it looks like im playing at...
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    Camera Freezing after a few minutes of recording gameplay

    Hey guys i need help. ever since the last few updates on Obs my camera has been freezing during recording gameplay i have a Sony A6000 that has worked properly for a long time without any freezing. lately, it has been freezing with every single video i record and its getting frustrating and i...
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    Problem: Sound in internal recordings can only be heard correctly via some speakers or headphones

    I have the following problem: In some recordings from OBS, the sound is not output correctly or not at all via cell phone or laptop speakers. However, when I use an external speaker or headphones on my cell phone, laptop or PC, the sound is output correctly. This has happened to me for the...
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    Recording to 2 File Destinations

    Hello, I use OBS to record my YouTube videos and I'd like to back my files up to Google Drive automatically with OBS. I use the Google Drive app so it is just a destination in File Explorer. However, I obviously still need to have my recordings saved locally as well. Is there a way to have OBS...
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    OBS Studio records recording twice

    Hello, I have the problem that when I take a recording, there are two identical recordings in the folder. It doesn't matter whether a stream runs in parallel or not. OBS Studion version is 29.1.3 Does anyone know how I can solve the problem? Best regards AlexFragezeichen
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    Screen Capture Resolution Issues for Youtube?

    Hey all, New to recording, I was hoping someone might have a quick answer to my question. My current monitor sucks, it's a 10+ year old Dell laptop. In order to get decent quality, I have BG3 windowed at a 16:10 Aspect Ratio, but only a 1280 x 800 Resolution. It looks decent on my screen...
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    Record & Stream Output and Setup Presets

    Sometimes I record. Sometimes I stream. I need different audio settings for each and would love to save presets for both the Output settings and general Source settings. Example: When I RECORD, I like to have my three audio sources recorded to three separate tracks so I can mix them as I see...
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    Recording Output Issues (Choppy Video)

    Hello, I am experiencing some issues when attempting to record Counter-Strike on my computer. The game itself runs fine and the preview window inside of OBS appears to have no issues but the recording output itself is incredibly stuttery. I have spent the last hour browsing online, and on this...
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    Separate Recording for Both Gameplay and webcam.

    Issue: when recording on two separate instances of OBS the file meshes together and becomes corrupt due to both recordings going to the same file. (I’m assuming) Currently I want to have two separate recordings, one of my gameplay/what on the screen and one of my face cam, so I can edit the...
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    OBS Settings help!

    Spec: CPU-i9-13900K RAM: 64 GB 5200MGhz Motherboard: Asus Z790 Hero GPU: RTX 4090 Phantom --8 TB of SSD and M2. Monitor: Samsung Odysey G8 4k 240Hz Can someone help me with the best quality and best smoothness recording settings please?
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