**Setting Up Your Streaming Program**

To begin setting up your streaming program, you'll first need to choose a monitor resolution. You can select between 1366 x 766 or 720p, and then downscale to 1280 x 720. If you don't have a 16x9 monitor, you may encounter black bars during playback. Dealing with these black bars is the best option, as stretching them out won't produce a good viewing experience.

Next, navigate to the audio menu. Here, you'll select your desktop audio device. Most people will choose "Default" as their default setting, which should be sufficient for general use. You can also customize this setting if you prefer. The next option is to select your microphone auxiliary device. If you're unsure what to pick, posting in the forums may be helpful.

If you're experiencing issues with mic volume, you can play around with the mic boost settings. Keep in mind that multiplying the mic boost setting too much can result in an overpowering sound. Experiment with different levels until you find a comfortable balance. With these audio settings set up, click "Apply" and then "Okay" to return to the main window.

Now, let's move on to adjusting your desktop audio levels. You'll want to turn down the speaker icon to around 50% or less. This will ensure that your game audio doesn't overpower your mic, which can be unpleasant for both yourself and others listening in. Experiment with different settings until you find a comfortable balance.

**Creating Scenes**

Next, we'll create a scene for your stream. Right-click on the "Scenes" option and select "Add Scene". You can then name this scene whatever you like, such as "Test". To add sources to this scene, right-click under "Sources" and select "Add". This will allow you to customize what's displayed in your scene.

You'll have several options for adding sources to your scene. If you just want to capture your whole monitor for recording or playback, you can choose the default option. However, if you're streaming games, you'll need to use the "Game Capture" option. To do this, right-click under "Sources", select "Add", and then choose "Game Capture". From here, select your game, as it needs to be open in order for the streamer to find it.

**Adding Additional Settings**

Once you've added your sources and scenes, you'll have several additional options to customize your stream. You can use video capture devices such as Elgato or webcams to add these to your scene. However, note that anything not compatible with XSplit will not work in this program.

You'll also see a few buttons at the bottom of the screen: "Preview Stream", "Edit Scenes", and several others. The "Preview Stream" button allows you to test your stream before going live. The "Edit Scenes" option lets you resize and reposition windows, as well as adjust their position in your scene.

You can also use this section to customize additional settings such as overlays, banners, and more. You'll have the ability to add images or image slideshows, capture cards, and webcam feeds to your stream. This is where you can get creative with your stream's visual elements.

**Final Steps**

Once you've customized all of these settings to your liking, you're ready to start streaming! Click "Stop" to preview your stream one last time, and then click "Start Streaming" to go live. With these steps complete, you should now have a fully set up streaming program ready for use.

**Conclusion**

Setting up your streaming program may seem daunting at first, but with patience and practice, it's achievable. Remember to experiment with different settings until you find what works best for you. And don't be afraid to reach out to the support team if you encounter any issues along the way. With these steps complete, you're one step closer to becoming a successful streamer!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone my name is Adam oros Vox and welcome to a quick tutorial on setting up and streaming with OBS in less than 10 minutes OBS is a live streaming and recording software that's completely free but still in beta I'm assuming you at least know a little bit about OBS and live streaming or else you wouldn't really be here I would like to note however that OBS like any streaming or recording software worth using has many complex and finicky parts to it this video will cover the basics of getting your stream up and running with links to expansion videos on various areas provided to help you dig deeper into each section of the software should you run into any problems I suggest watching through the extansion videos as well as other OBS tutorials and over head over to the support forums at OBS projects web page with any specific issues or troubles suting everyone's setup is different I nor other YouTubers are not guaranteed to have the right answer for you but those forums are your best place to get help now let's get started OBS stands for open broadcaster software it is a great software to live stream your games desktop or whatever else it's a handy video recording software if you don't have for apps or DX story and frankly it's going to be a bit less laggy for you now in order to get it you just need to head over to OBS pro.com and download your copy and install it I'd like to note that there are 32-bit and 64-bit versions if you have 64-bit computer it will automatically install the 64-bit version however most plugins only support the 32-bit version so I suggest kind of sticking with that first things first we need a recording or streaming profile here on my list you can see I have a list of profiles available you will not have any you will just have Untitled however we're going to set one up so go to settings settings and it's going to take you right to the profile option we're going to create a new profile I'm going to call this Herp Derp you call it whatever it's appropriate for you twitch YouTube recording whatever and then click add and that's going to create your new profile that we're going to work with moving forward profiles can also be very useful for a variety of other reasons which I cannot cover in this video setting up multiple profiles can highly benefit you and I suggest you watching my expansion video for more details let's head over to the broadcast settings menu we're going to skip encoding for a little while now you have two well yeah two scenarios in which you would really be using this you would either be live streaming to twitch.tv YouTube or other websites or you would be locally recording for just editing and uploading to YouTube based on which option you want you would choose a certain the certain choice so if you're live streaming you would choose under mode you would choose live stream for your streaming service you would pick which streaming service you wanted to go to for example twitch.tv your server you would choose the server that is closest to you and then you would get your stream key from your twitch.tv dashboard do not let anybody stream your key or see your key as if they if they can see your key they can stream to your stream and you do not want that if you are streaming to YouTube Simply select YouTube and then the path key or stream key is something that it gives you in the ingestion settings when you're setting up your stream event on YouTube do note if you're streaming to YouTube you need to click the advance tab apply your settings click the Advan Tab and set your key frame interval to 2 seconds it's just the thing you need for YouTube now if you want to save a local copy of your stream's video just to re-upload or edit or something check the save to file box and give it a location also make sure Auto reconnect is selected click on that encoding menu make sure your settings are applied now make sure the x264 encoder is checked use CBR checked use enable CBR padding is checked now we pick our bit rate if you're live streaming you choose your max bit rate based on your upload speed use a combination of both speed test.net for getting your upload speed and a variety of bit rate calculators to determine the speed you need to upload with low slower the internet you have the lower the bit rate you need to use as far as audio goes as far as I'm concerned if you have really slow internet do 128 kilobytes per second right here if you have decent internet do 192 for streaming and if you're recording choose 320 Koby per second if you are recording you're going to want a much higher bit rate depending on your computer the higher the bit rate the more lag you're going to experience so if you do not have a highend PC you're going to want a lower bit rate there are also dis speed test programs you can use to determine your disc right speed and choose a bit rate based on that I use 26.5 megabytes per second for writing but I have a very high NPC and separate rated hard drives specifically for recording again Post in the forums if you need help click the video menu video adapter this is your graphics card the thing that handles your main screen and all of your games ideally you only have one or two and it should be pretty obvious which one you choose if not you have to figure it out check support forms laptops get a bit wonky in that regard assuming you have a 16x9 monitor either 1080p 1366 X 766 or 720p choose monitor one here and then on resolution down scale choose 1.5 and 1280 x 720 click apply if you do not have a 16x9 monitor and you have a square 4x3 or a 16 by10 monitor you're just going to have to deal with the black bars you can stretch it out but it's not going to look very good honestly dealing with the black bars is your best option click the audio menu desktop audio device for most people default default should be just fine this is going to be where your game and Main system audio comes out from this will be your speakers headphones laptop monitor computer monitor optical audio out Etc if you have something specific you can of course just click it and find your specific choice but ideally by default that should work for you microphone auxiliary device should be self-explanatory it's your microphone if you're not sure what to pick you can certainly Post in the forums but generally it should be self-explanatory you should only have one or two choices now if you're having issues where your mic is just way too quiet you can play around with the mic Ox boost here and it does multiply so you're going to want to your two should be the highest you go you don't want to jump it up to five or you're going to be blowing someone's ears out but play around with that as you wish once you have that all that set up click apply and click okay now you're back at the main window with nothing to do so first of all we're going to turn down the speaker icon here down to at least 50% you're going to want to play around this is your desktop audio levels your game audio if you have it up too loud it's going to overpower your mic you don't want that so play around with it see what sounds good for you do some test streams things like that now under scenes here we're going to right click we're going to add a scene this is going to be you're seeing that people view of your video so Call It Whatever you want test and then you got to add sources to it sources are you know what people want to see your game your webcam your capture cards Etc again expansion videos will help you with this right click under sources click add and here you have a variety of options you can choose from if you just want to capture your whole monitor for recording flash games browser games just your desktop you can choose monitor capture and then you have a couple options as there default should work fine if you want to choose game capture for recording in game you'd right click and go to add and choose game capture and then you would pick your game your game needs to be open or it will not find it so go ahead and open your game then refresh this and find your game do note that until you go back into your game start the preview of The Stream go back into your game and then all tab back into the streaming program you will have a black screen if you still have a black screen after doing all this you may have some direct X issues or Graphics drivers issues again Post in the support Forum this would also be where you would add stream Graphics such as overlays banners things like that by using an image or an image slideshow if you wish to add your webcam capture card things like that you would use video capture device that's where you can choose a variety of capture devices hooked up to your computer my Elgato my webcam things like that anything that would not work in xsplit is not going to work here so as far as I know haes will not work you have a few more buttons here at the bottom preview stream is of course going to preview your stream edit scenes going to allow you to resize your specific windows so you can choose to over lay your webcam over in the corner resize it move it around things like that you can also rightclick to adjust position and size reset it back to the size of the screen move it up and down in your l order list of sources things like that once you're happy with it uncheck edit scene hit stop preview and then you can start streaming or recording based on your settings that you chose in the settings and you're good to go again if you have any questions Post in the support forums check out my expansion videos for expanded thoughts on each different setting section I hope this video helped you out as fast to the point it's what I'm going for thank you for watching and otherwise I'll see you in the next one thanks for watching EOS and Chu let's play together if you enjoyed the video consider clicking on the screen to contribute to our patreon campaign to watch another video click on one of the video annotations on the screen above links are also provided to our website Facebook Instagram and Twitter pages see you next timehello everyone my name is Adam oros Vox and welcome to a quick tutorial on setting up and streaming with OBS in less than 10 minutes OBS is a live streaming and recording software that's completely free but still in beta I'm assuming you at least know a little bit about OBS and live streaming or else you wouldn't really be here I would like to note however that OBS like any streaming or recording software worth using has many complex and finicky parts to it this video will cover the basics of getting your stream up and running with links to expansion videos on various areas provided to help you dig deeper into each section of the software should you run into any problems I suggest watching through the extansion videos as well as other OBS tutorials and over head over to the support forums at OBS projects web page with any specific issues or troubles suting everyone's setup is different I nor other YouTubers are not guaranteed to have the right answer for you but those forums are your best place to get help now let's get started OBS stands for open broadcaster software it is a great software to live stream your games desktop or whatever else it's a handy video recording software if you don't have for apps or DX story and frankly it's going to be a bit less laggy for you now in order to get it you just need to head over to OBS pro.com and download your copy and install it I'd like to note that there are 32-bit and 64-bit versions if you have 64-bit computer it will automatically install the 64-bit version however most plugins only support the 32-bit version so I suggest kind of sticking with that first things first we need a recording or streaming profile here on my list you can see I have a list of profiles available you will not have any you will just have Untitled however we're going to set one up so go to settings settings and it's going to take you right to the profile option we're going to create a new profile I'm going to call this Herp Derp you call it whatever it's appropriate for you twitch YouTube recording whatever and then click add and that's going to create your new profile that we're going to work with moving forward profiles can also be very useful for a variety of other reasons which I cannot cover in this video setting up multiple profiles can highly benefit you and I suggest you watching my expansion video for more details let's head over to the broadcast settings menu we're going to skip encoding for a little while now you have two well yeah two scenarios in which you would really be using this you would either be live streaming to twitch.tv YouTube or other websites or you would be locally recording for just editing and uploading to YouTube based on which option you want you would choose a certain the certain choice so if you're live streaming you would choose under mode you would choose live stream for your streaming service you would pick which streaming service you wanted to go to for example twitch.tv your server you would choose the server that is closest to you and then you would get your stream key from your twitch.tv dashboard do not let anybody stream your key or see your key as if they if they can see your key they can stream to your stream and you do not want that if you are streaming to YouTube Simply select YouTube and then the path key or stream key is something that it gives you in the ingestion settings when you're setting up your stream event on YouTube do note if you're streaming to YouTube you need to click the advance tab apply your settings click the Advan Tab and set your key frame interval to 2 seconds it's just the thing you need for YouTube now if you want to save a local copy of your stream's video just to re-upload or edit or something check the save to file box and give it a location also make sure Auto reconnect is selected click on that encoding menu make sure your settings are applied now make sure the x264 encoder is checked use CBR checked use enable CBR padding is checked now we pick our bit rate if you're live streaming you choose your max bit rate based on your upload speed use a combination of both speed test.net for getting your upload speed and a variety of bit rate calculators to determine the speed you need to upload with low slower the internet you have the lower the bit rate you need to use as far as audio goes as far as I'm concerned if you have really slow internet do 128 kilobytes per second right here if you have decent internet do 192 for streaming and if you're recording choose 320 Koby per second if you are recording you're going to want a much higher bit rate depending on your computer the higher the bit rate the more lag you're going to experience so if you do not have a highend PC you're going to want a lower bit rate there are also dis speed test programs you can use to determine your disc right speed and choose a bit rate based on that I use 26.5 megabytes per second for writing but I have a very high NPC and separate rated hard drives specifically for recording again Post in the forums if you need help click the video menu video adapter this is your graphics card the thing that handles your main screen and all of your games ideally you only have one or two and it should be pretty obvious which one you choose if not you have to figure it out check support forms laptops get a bit wonky in that regard assuming you have a 16x9 monitor either 1080p 1366 X 766 or 720p choose monitor one here and then on resolution down scale choose 1.5 and 1280 x 720 click apply if you do not have a 16x9 monitor and you have a square 4x3 or a 16 by10 monitor you're just going to have to deal with the black bars you can stretch it out but it's not going to look very good honestly dealing with the black bars is your best option click the audio menu desktop audio device for most people default default should be just fine this is going to be where your game and Main system audio comes out from this will be your speakers headphones laptop monitor computer monitor optical audio out Etc if you have something specific you can of course just click it and find your specific choice but ideally by default that should work for you microphone auxiliary device should be self-explanatory it's your microphone if you're not sure what to pick you can certainly Post in the forums but generally it should be self-explanatory you should only have one or two choices now if you're having issues where your mic is just way too quiet you can play around with the mic Ox boost here and it does multiply so you're going to want to your two should be the highest you go you don't want to jump it up to five or you're going to be blowing someone's ears out but play around with that as you wish once you have that all that set up click apply and click okay now you're back at the main window with nothing to do so first of all we're going to turn down the speaker icon here down to at least 50% you're going to want to play around this is your desktop audio levels your game audio if you have it up too loud it's going to overpower your mic you don't want that so play around with it see what sounds good for you do some test streams things like that now under scenes here we're going to right click we're going to add a scene this is going to be you're seeing that people view of your video so Call It Whatever you want test and then you got to add sources to it sources are you know what people want to see your game your webcam your capture cards Etc again expansion videos will help you with this right click under sources click add and here you have a variety of options you can choose from if you just want to capture your whole monitor for recording flash games browser games just your desktop you can choose monitor capture and then you have a couple options as there default should work fine if you want to choose game capture for recording in game you'd right click and go to add and choose game capture and then you would pick your game your game needs to be open or it will not find it so go ahead and open your game then refresh this and find your game do note that until you go back into your game start the preview of The Stream go back into your game and then all tab back into the streaming program you will have a black screen if you still have a black screen after doing all this you may have some direct X issues or Graphics drivers issues again Post in the support Forum this would also be where you would add stream Graphics such as overlays banners things like that by using an image or an image slideshow if you wish to add your webcam capture card things like that you would use video capture device that's where you can choose a variety of capture devices hooked up to your computer my Elgato my webcam things like that anything that would not work in xsplit is not going to work here so as far as I know haes will not work you have a few more buttons here at the bottom preview stream is of course going to preview your stream edit scenes going to allow you to resize your specific windows so you can choose to over lay your webcam over in the corner resize it move it around things like that you can also rightclick to adjust position and size reset it back to the size of the screen move it up and down in your l order list of sources things like that once you're happy with it uncheck edit scene hit stop preview and then you can start streaming or recording based on your settings that you chose in the settings and you're good to go again if you have any questions Post in the support forums check out my expansion videos for expanded thoughts on each different setting section I hope this video helped you out as fast to the point it's what I'm going for thank you for watching and otherwise I'll see you in the next one thanks for watching EOS and Chu let's play together if you enjoyed the video consider clicking on the screen to contribute to our patreon campaign to watch another video click on one of the video annotations on the screen above links are also provided to our website Facebook Instagram and Twitter pages see you next time\n"