I need help to set up my obs recording only. I am wanting to do a series of training modules for you tube based on a training manual for Leadership and facilitation of mens groups. Its free on the net and has gone world wide. I need to be able to use two web cams, (I have) and screen for text and images. I need to be able to compose screens with those elements and transition. Have got to basic stage recording with one cam. Have good gear and alien ware desktop i 7 . I am 77 fairly tech smart in Australia. The videos will be offered free on you tube. I have a zoom account and am prepared to pay something for help. Thanks for listening.
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Lawrence_SoCal
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Beware younger/gamer oriented types who may have ideas about putting together a layout far more complex than you need, or inappropriate for your audience.
There are a number of folks here more than capable of helping out. For do-it-yourself, you might want to check out the free PDF eBook from Paul Richards of PTZOPtics/Streamgeeks regarding Getting Started with OBS Studio
beware that saying an i7 is like saying a v6... that could be old, and under-powered, or new and overkill. but as long as PC have 8th gen or newer, you are probably ok (with newer CPU, you can get more sophisticated with possibly chromakey (green screen), noise reduction, etc). If the CPU is older, beware expectations of fancy effects/transitions, etc.
As for the group, is it a local group, or something related to M.A.L.E. (Richard Rohr founded group)?
There are a number of folks here more than capable of helping out. For do-it-yourself, you might want to check out the free PDF eBook from Paul Richards of PTZOPtics/Streamgeeks regarding Getting Started with OBS Studio
beware that saying an i7 is like saying a v6... that could be old, and under-powered, or new and overkill. but as long as PC have 8th gen or newer, you are probably ok (with newer CPU, you can get more sophisticated with possibly chromakey (green screen), noise reduction, etc). If the CPU is older, beware expectations of fancy effects/transitions, etc.
As for the group, is it a local group, or something related to M.A.L.E. (Richard Rohr founded group)?
I checked my i7 is kirby lake 7gen in a dell alienware (with graphics card) desktop which suits my set up lots of ports etc. I have a new laptop with 11 gen i7 and nividia rtx graphics card, which I can use if thats a problem. I will check out the free pdf. I am a fan of Richard Rohr, but part of what is called the mythopoetic style of men's work similar to MALE. I am in Australia, now Tasmania and work remotely on zoom mens groups. I have attached my free manual for your interest. My motivation in doing the video is that many men dont learn abstract concepts very well from text. I have a zoom catch up todaywith an Indian guy from the fiverr network. Will see how that goes. Thanks for the response.
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Lawrence_SoCal
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real-time video rendering is computationally demanding. a Core i7 7th gen CPU is old, but with limited expectations on OBS sophistication, and optimized OS and OBS setups, you should be ok. A graphics card can be used to offload some of the demanding real-time encoding workload from the CPU. AMDs are known to be problematic, and typical nVidia GPUs of that era (GTX 10x0 Pascal) had Gen 6 of NVENC. Turing based NVENC (originally GTX 1660 Super and higher, though later hardware revisions of GTX 1650 might have it??). But for getting started, assuming your current CPU has NVENC support, that should help. The newer NVENC systems will provide (in general) higher end-result video quality for a given bitrate
if performance is sluggish, but close, and you only have a HDD, then a cheap upgrade to a SSD may be advisable (quality 1TB SATA SSDs are well under US$100 right now)
A laptop has to deal with potential thermal throttling issues. so your mileage may varying...
if performance is sluggish, but close, and you only have a HDD, then a cheap upgrade to a SSD may be advisable (quality 1TB SATA SSDs are well under US$100 right now)
A laptop has to deal with potential thermal throttling issues. so your mileage may varying...
I switched to my laptop which is 11 gen i7 as I need to get the alien desktop cleaned up. So when I get it back I have a choice. If I am just recording and not streaming, is nvenc encoding better than software 264 the laptops graphic card is supportive of nvenc, the desktop not. My aim is to max quality of web cam video recording. Paul Richards also has a udemy video course for 20 bucks based on his book I have signe up.
Lawrence_SoCal
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is NVENC better?... sorry, this is InfoTech... so true answers is.. it depends
Whether Recording or Streaming, same/similar encoding workload... actually, Recording has extra Disk I/O compared to streaming, vs Streaming Network I/O (each with their own unique CPU and other impacts)
The reason to use NVENC is to offload encoding away from CPU to free it up for other tasks (or in a laptop scenario, potentially to balance workloads to reduce chance (or time to) thermal throttling). If thermals are under control, and you have plenty of spare CPU cycles (as in a LOT), then you may prefer software x264 encoding... depends on bitrate, etc. in reality, I suspect your goal is to try to maximize video quality with what you have, which is NOT the same as max (possible) quality... which you simply don't have the hardware for, at this point.
Then, truly maximizing quality will require sophisticated Operating System and OBS Studio fine-tuning/optimizations, with fine attention paid to hardware resource utilization. Or, more likely you will try some auto-settings, adjust a little, and say 'good enough'... as gains at the upper end of video quality can be marginal (sometimes)... also depends on other content, motion level, etc
Whether Recording or Streaming, same/similar encoding workload... actually, Recording has extra Disk I/O compared to streaming, vs Streaming Network I/O (each with their own unique CPU and other impacts)
The reason to use NVENC is to offload encoding away from CPU to free it up for other tasks (or in a laptop scenario, potentially to balance workloads to reduce chance (or time to) thermal throttling). If thermals are under control, and you have plenty of spare CPU cycles (as in a LOT), then you may prefer software x264 encoding... depends on bitrate, etc. in reality, I suspect your goal is to try to maximize video quality with what you have, which is NOT the same as max (possible) quality... which you simply don't have the hardware for, at this point.
Then, truly maximizing quality will require sophisticated Operating System and OBS Studio fine-tuning/optimizations, with fine attention paid to hardware resource utilization. Or, more likely you will try some auto-settings, adjust a little, and say 'good enough'... as gains at the upper end of video quality can be marginal (sometimes)... also depends on other content, motion level, etc