Uh, having been here for 5 years, and decades of IT experience... I'd say beware latest release (and I say this for all software releases, not just OBS Studio).
- Some older versions of OBS Studio are required for older hardware, or unsupported Operating Systems (which itself is a problem, but I'll skip that rant today)
- Beware of the major change with OBS Studio v28... impacted many plugins
best bet
- real-time video encoding is computationally demanding... so system awareness and bottleneck avoidance at different hardware layers is important... be aware of load balancing potential by using GPU to offload encoding from CPU
- avoid / limit plugins (I love Advanced Scene Switcher, avoid almost all others as I don't need them for my use case, or they are unreliable)
- beware CPU impact of certain filters/effects.
That said, don't record to recording unsafe format (ex MP4, per big warning in OBS Studio)
Beyond that... it depends. Lots of options/considerations and depends on your specific workload, hardware, bandwidth, etc. There is no single 'best way to record'
