Question / Help Using OBS to Record my Youtube videos.

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John King

New Member
Hello!

I've decided to start doing 'the youtubes'. Just doing lets plays mainly, and I've found out that OBS Studio is really nice to work with....IF I can get these last few things flushed out.

My PC Specs are as follows :

Windows 7 64bit
16gb of Ram
AMD FX 8320 Eight Core Processor 3.51 GHz
GTX 970

Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920
Blue Yeti Mic

Now, I really have no idea about the settings, only what I've looked up on youtube. Only, it seems anytime OBS is brought up, all anyone wants to talk about is the streaming settings. Is OBS going to be good enough just to simply record high quality videos for me to upload to Youtube?

I would LOVE to do super high quality 1080p videos, but if my rig can't cut it then I'll settle for 720p. Or maybe there's another program more suited for video capture?

Thanks a ton!
SpazZ
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Forum Moderator
Go to Settings > Output (Simple mode) and use the recording quality presets. Use NVENC as your encoder and 1080p60 should be no problem.
 
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John King

New Member
Awesome , I will try this. What is the best video format I can use? Also, any tips as far as the Audio bitrate goes? Is a setting too high? Or where is the perfect threshold? Or am I going to have to just "Trial and Error" it?
 
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John King

New Member
So! Did those settings like you suggested. It looks like every 6 or 7 seconds my video freezes, audio continues. Then the video picks back up where the audio is. After doing some digging I found someone with the same problem. Mod asked for them to post an OBS log or something and figured out their computer wasn't able to handle something? I would love to think that my PC could handle recording high quality videos just fine.
 
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Realmistry

Realmistry

New Member
Hello,

I am pretty new to OBS Studio.

I have spent the past 6-7 hours watching tutorials and other videos, and googling my way around to see if there is a fix, and am lost.

I do believe I have a similar setup to John King here.

My computer spec:

Windows 10 64-bit
16 GB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Intel Support say I have 4GB video memory.

I hope that is enough information. I am running into a constant encoding overloaded message, which is dropping frames in my local recordings with my Elgato HD 60S. I am assuming this is the same problem John King is having.

I have changed my video bit rate to 12000 just as YouTube suggests for 1080p 60FPS recordings, which I am certain my computer can handle. I also am using Encoder NVENC H.264 (I am lead to assume this takes a load off my CPU as the Graphics card is rendering the video). I am still dropping frames.

I have no idea what to do.

Any help for John King and I would be nice. I have big plans and would hate to have to keep delaying things.

Thanks in advance!
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Forum Moderator
@Simes YouTube's recommended settings are good for setting up a program like Handbrake for re-compressing but poor for real-time encoding with OBS.

@Realmistry Please make your own thread and include a log file instead of hijacking.
 
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