Question / Help Record Only Video, Stream Video and Audio?

[UrsaMajor]

I've been editing videos for awhile now and I've learned ways to clean up audio with audacity and make it sound good and remove all the background junk. But I've recently begun streaming and would like to stream/record video with OBS while recording my audio separately on audacity for various reasons.

Is this possible on OBS Multiplatform?

I've been looking through the options and I haven't found anything but I'm sorta blind when it comes to issues like this so it might very well be staring me in the face.

 

[DoAGoldeneye]

First off, I'm curious why it is a problem that your resulting file contains an audio track?
Can your editing software not replace it with your edited audio track?

That said, in the recording tab you can select ffmpeg under Type instead of standard. You can then select a video only container format like m4v. It will then allow you to only select a video encoder.

You can also select a combination-format and disable the audio encoder.

 

[UrsaMajor]

the problems mostly it has my microphone audio as well as the game audio and attempting to do anything to my microphone audio to make it better tends to make the actual game audio sound weird.

I'm looking to just get the game/desktop audio in the video which rules out video only formats.

 

[Adrian Schofield]

You may be better off configuring your recording to have multiple audio tracks. You can then post process your commentary track without having to worry about game audio. I posted some brief instructions on how to do that here
https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...ed-adrian-schofield-helped.36813/#post-166459

 

[Jack0r]

Yep, as explained in our Guide (OBS-MP: High quality recording and multiple Audio Tracks) you can seperate the audio devices using the Advanced Audio Properties. Then you activate recording of the different tracks in the Output Recording settings and the result will be two seperate tracks for your editing.
You can also mix the Desktop Audio with your Microphone for the stream on Track1 for example, while you can save them to Track2 and Track3 seperately. Your stream should then use Track1 (it can only use one track) while your recorded video could have all 3 Tracks saved.

 

[tajobe]

Another option is something like Adobe Audition. I have a few filters applied to level out my voice, reduce background/environment noise, and otherwise enhance vocals. You can set it up so in real-time(with 50ms buffer or so) it will listen to your microphone, apply filters(be careful not to add to many intensive filters, might slow down the output), and send it out on another line(like a Virtual Audio Cable line for instance).