The Importance of Proper Audio Levels in Recording Games with OBS and Shadowplay

When it comes to recording games with OBS (Open Broadcasting Software) and Shadowplay, having proper audio levels is crucial for achieving high-quality recordings. Unfortunately, many people struggle with getting their volume levels just right, resulting in a mess of audio that can be difficult to work with. In this article, we will explore how to properly manage audio levels when recording games with OBS and Shadowplay.

To start, let's take a look at what happens when you bring a raw file into OBS. As shown in the video transcription, the game audio is separated from other tracks, making it easy to see the difference between the two. When playing back the audio, it becomes clear that the game audio is just one track, while the OBS footage has multiple tracks of audio. This is because the OBS software is capable of capturing a wide range of audio frequencies, resulting in a more comprehensive recording.

To line up the audio properly, you can use the zoom function to align each track with the others. As shown in the video transcription, this allows for precise control over the timing and volume levels of each track. By using these techniques, it's possible to create a seamless audio experience that complements the gameplay.

One common issue when recording games is the lack of clear audio separation between tracks. This can be particularly problematic when dealing with complex audio setups, such as multiple microphones or external audio sources. To address this issue, many people use OBS' built-in track management features to separate their audio tracks and create a more organized workflow.

For example, as shown in the video transcription, it's possible to unlink certain tracks and delete any unnecessary audio content. This allows for more control over the final product, ensuring that only the highest-quality audio is included. Additionally, using this technique enables the creation of a cleaner, more polished recording that is free from extraneous noise or distractions.

In some cases, it may be necessary to adjust the volume levels of individual tracks to achieve the desired balance. This can be achieved by using OBS' built-in gain control features, which allow for precise adjustments to each track's volume level. By making these adjustments, it's possible to create a more balanced audio experience that complements the gameplay.

For example, as shown in the video transcription, it's possible to adjust the volume levels of individual tracks to achieve a better balance between the game audio and the OBS footage. By using this technique, it's possible to create a recording that is free from distortion or clipping, resulting in a higher-quality final product.

In addition to adjusting track volumes, some people also use effects such as EQ (equalization) and compression to enhance the overall sound of their recordings. By applying these effects, it's possible to create a more polished and professional-sounding recording that is free from imperfections.

Overall, managing audio levels when recording games with OBS and Shadowplay requires attention to detail and a thorough understanding of the software's features and capabilities. By following the techniques outlined in this article, you'll be well on your way to creating high-quality recordings that showcase your gameplay in the best possible light.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmost discussions about obs streaming game recording and so on tend to focus on a specific use case one monitor one screen of computer desktop or gameplay one console input one 16x9 image but what if you want to stream your new awesome 21x9 ultrawide monitor or what if your desktop is another aspect ratio such as 4x3 hint or 16x10 let's discuss this in today's course video i'm eposvox here to make tech easier and more fun welcome back to my obs studio tutorial course i have plenty of videos about this software linked in the video description if you have any questions check that out i've probably already answered them and check the intro video to learn how this course works recording and streaming with oddball resolutions can be frustrating 16 by 9 aspect ratio resolutions such as 1080p or ultra hd are the standard so that's what platforms and tutorials focus on but what if you have an ultra wide or 16x10 monitor such as 1440x900 or 1680x1050 i've got some good news and some bad news the bad news is that when streaming viewers will always get the perceived black bars of letterboxing or pillar boxing around your content ultra wide resolutions require letterboxing to display properly on 16x9 views such as watching a movie on a tv and 16 by 10 resolutions require pillar boxing as they're just a bit taller than 16 by nine at the time of writing and recording this course episode youtube's live streaming doesn't support other aspect ratios but the uploaded player does the good news is if you're streaming to twitch where black bars are almost always there due to how their website ui works or if you're just recording videos to upload to youtube this is not a problem youtube's new layout is very impressive the player dynamically adjusts to your video's aspect ratio and displays it properly on any screen ultra wide videos on my 4k screen actually look amazing they took out they take up the full width of my screen but you absolutely have to record edit and render in the same ultra wide resolution for example 3440x1440 or 2560x1080 if you record edit or render in a traditional 16x9 resolution like normal 1080p the black bars are permanently baked into your video and the viewing experience is ruined for everyone this is very very important i don't have much experience with ultrawide monitors right now but i have a buddy who does so he's going to tell you about his setup process for his 21x9 gaming channel hey everybody this is a.d wheeler from the explorographer.com i am a travel photographer by day but by night i am an ultra wide hd game streamer over at 21 9 gaming.com welcome to my section of the obs tutorial for eposvox channel thank you so much for having me as a collaborator on this project i'm happy to share my knowledge here and get more people streaming ultra wide gaming all right so i want to talk about three different types of obs operations that we're going to be doing with ultra wide so ultra wide is 21 by 9 ratio screens usually 3440 pixels by 1440 pixels i'm going to show you how to stream how to co-op record or single person record using obs uh there also will be some shadow play usage here i have a special setup for co-op recording that i use that i want to share with you guys as a bonus as well so let's get right into it and we're gonna start with streaming 3440 by 1440 or ultra wide on youtube all right so we're going to go into settings here and we're going to get this set up to stream 3440 by 1440 so the first thing you'll want to go to is video you're going to want to make sure that your base canvas and output canvas are set to the 3440 by 1440 and your frame rate is set to 30. this is very important because 60 does not stream well to youtube servers no matter what your bandwidth is i have not been successful with that so make sure that's set to 30. that's a current limitation as far as i know to the output of what you can stream we can record and then upload at 60fps which i'll show you how to do here in a little bit but for right now you can only stream at 30. all right come over here to our output section and then streaming we're going to use our hardware encoder here we're going to set our rate control to constant bit rate our bit rate output should be the maximum of what our current service will allow i know mine only allows right now 10 megabit so i have 10 megabit up so i'm going to set that to 10 000 keyframes required by youtube set to 2 preset high quality profile high here and here's an important one in order to get this to work properly with the hardware encoder you can't actually set a number here you really have to set this to auto as far as i can tell if i set it to 5.1 which would be the highest quality that's just natural right if i try to stream right now oh now it's working okay so once the once the uh once your source material has started it'll work just fine so there you go i just learned something new right on the spot if you don't have your source material going and you try to set that to 5 1 and you try to stream you'll get an error so just so you know that start your source you should be good to go so here we are in the division it's a little choppy right now because i'm in the obs screen i'm gonna move over now to my other screen i have two dell screens working right now let's talk there we go so now i've got i've selected the screen you can see things smooth out a little bit remember we are at 30 frames per second let me talk a little bit about my system specs so i'm running an intel i7 6850k processor it is overclocked to 4.2 gigahertz and it is liquid cooled i'm also running two nvidia geforce 1080 video cards in sli so that's uh gives you a little insight of the power you kind of need to be able to do this i'm actually recording this on one screen the obs tutorial and i'm actually re streaming out the actual division out to my channel right now and so let's just uh do a little gameplay here and we'll just see how this works so yeah you need to have some pretty good horsepower you do need to have a pretty good internet connection to send out 3440 by 1440 video at 30 fps um and also to record as well so we'll talk about that in a little bit but let's just try this streaming real quick and we'll take a look and see how that looks alright so keep in mind we are recording a stream while it's being streamed so if this looks a little choppy uh pay no attention uh i can put up the source video if you'd like i'll give you a link or eposvox will give you a link so you can watch the video that streamed so here we go um we're streaming through here it looks pretty good i'm going to get out into the world here of and take a look at that right now my stream says that i'm using all of the bandwidth but we are green all the way so we're getting full outs to youtube which is great uh cpu usage is only 3.1 percent which is awesome and we have no dropped frames which is also very important the gameplay for me on the actual game screen itself is 60 fps so it's super smooth looks really good so gameplay is not hindered at all by this and there we go so that'll give you a little bit of ideas about how this looks working really well so my cpu is kicking up a little bit because it's doing some work for the game as well but uh right now obs is only using two percent of the cpu which is awesome all right we got some enemies here let's go ahead and get into a little skirmish i guess he said it wasn't much of a challenge he was pretty much right so yeah i'm pretty happy with this um it took me a long time to get this figured out and get it to stream properly so don't be frustrated just go through your settings test your connection i i test my connection at speedtest.net just as you know see i actually used a tcp optimizer as well to optimize my connect so that it stays pretty stable and i also broadcast not only on 219gaming.com but i broadcast on my youtube channel which is for my photography i do live courses on there for my patreon channel thecreatetours.com also um on facebook live i also also use obs for that as well so i'm streaming there and it's a little bit lower bandwidth and i don't stream uh the 3440 by 1440 at all i'm actually streaming standard 1080p at 60fps there so uh but for the 3440 by 1440 is pretty good pretty good all right so i think that's all the settings we need i'm going to go ahead and escape out of there now for my recording settings it's a little different when i want to do recording i'll generally go into settings and in the here i'll go to the video and i'll set this to 60fps and then in output same thing here i've been using just the default preset or high quality totally up to you high quality is fine keyframes two bit rate 130 uh megabit um that's basically a mega bps basically i want the highest quality possible i know that this is the limit set by the uh as far as i know the limit that is set by the hardware encoder um and my profile is to high and level again is to auto although now that i have the source going let's try the 5.1 this didn't work earlier but we'll try it right now my gpu is set to zero and two these don't really make much of a difference that i've seen over on the audio side i'm setting these all to 192. that's just a basic good quality audio i know eposvox is rolling right now being like set it to the highest setting but 192 has been fine for me um and then also in the audio over here i just use my microphone as one channel and there is one other setting that i actually do in the output i make sure in the recording that i'm actually recording multiple audio tracks and i'm and what i do is send out each audio stream to a different track alright so the co-op recording is a little different so this is just going to be in-house recording straight to my hard drive and also i want to mention even if you set obs to record at 130 mega bps even if you set that the problem is is that it will only go as fast as your hard drive can take so record to an ssd if you can that way it'll open that up and you won't have that limitation but when i record to an actual hard drive a mechanical hard drive i had it set to 130 but then it kicked it back to 80 megabps so just keep that in mind that you can you can hinder yourself just by the hard drive alone it will throttle it back so make sure you record to an ssd so we're going to go ahead and start a recording here and that's the error that i get right there so normally i get that and the reason i get that is because i have the setting under recording so we'll just go in here to output and then recording it's because of the level setting if i set this to auto that won't happen watch here we go and there we go now it's recording so i'm not sure why that happens but let's switch over to the game we'll do a little bit more game play this time um instead of showing you the obs window i'm actually going to show you the actual recording that i'm doing so we'll go ahead and play through a little bit here and i'll show you what the recordings like we got enemies right here that's cool so they're looking like they're in a fight with somebody that'll work out great all right we'll get their attention that'll get their attention i got guys behind me too take care of the guys behind me first all right these guys are a little angry at me that's okay they can be angry fairly simple at this level oh there was jtf there too but they didn't help me all right so there you go guys that's a little demo of just a few seconds of of uh recording at 60fps in-game right now the cpu is showing 6.2 percent uh and it does say that we're kind of hovering around the uh the 50 to 60 area and that's probably simply because i'm recording and recording and recording like three different versions of this so if it looks a little choppy normally it's not so just so you're aware of that so there we go okay and in the final part of this tutorial essentially is set up for co-op recording so i do some recording with a another guy who plays with me from the uk and we don't usually stream this live he has streamed it before with us playing live but i have not um and so streaming ultra wide is difficult on the machine let alone also the bandwidth requirements coming in and out so then the gameplay gets kind of hokey at that point and doesn't work all that well but you can do it it does work if you have a good connect you'd have no problems doing that okay so the way that i record co-op is a little different from the way that i do my live or streaming i'm going to record a super high quality video using shadow play as my recorder i have shadow play set up to record at 130 mega bps so it's the highest setting that it will go i have it set up so that it records to my ssd so i get the most speed there and then i have some settings in obs because i use obs as well i also use discord for the audio portion of my recording so that i can talk with the person that i'm that i'm actually connected to in co-op so if i'm recording in in doing all that first off i'm going to show you how to set up discord so this is bonus material so here's discord here's my main microphone and my output device is actually going to be set to a virtual audio cable b now you won't be able to hear this unless you set up a few things in windows as well i'm going to show you how to do that so that's the first setting you're going to be using virtual audio cable it's available on the internet i think eposvox has uh some sort of tutorial on it i hope on this channel if not you can easily find one on youtube on how to set up virtual audio cable it's free uh there it's donation ware i think too you can donate to get the full version so anyways you get virtual audio cable you get that set up and it'll give you a virtual audio cable a virtual call audio cable b and then it'll give you an a b together we're just going to use b right now and that means that all the audio that comes through over here on discord which is the other person talking the person i'll connect with the talk will be coming through this line so that's how that's set up all right so we've got that set up now in obs we're gonna need to do a special setup here so let's go to settings the first thing you're going to set this is very strange but we're going to do your output scaled resolution to as small as it will go the integer value fps value you're going to want to select that and set that to 2. now i know that seems weird but we're really only recording audio here so we don't want to use up a lot of the hardware encoder trying to do big amounts of video we don't need that so we're just going to do this set to two and that's just going to give us a good reference recording over an output we are going to set our recording here to audio tracks one two three and four so i'm gonna only have four in audio we're going to make sure that's all 192 and then also coming down to the full audio tab we're going to want to set our auxiliary mic device number two to that cable b output okay so that means that discord is going to be sending its audio in through here into device number two our mic is going to be set up to number one that means track number one is going to be set up to that and then our desktop audio device should be set to default all right and then of course if you had more people playing you would set up other mic devices like cable a would be the other mic device and so on and so forth right now we're just going to keep it like it is and that's all there is to that all right go ahead and hit apply and there we go all right now so what i would normally do in game is i would now start my game i would turn on shadow play to start recording and then i would have a macro set so that i would start recording to the actual obs as well and then when i'm in premiere i'll just bring in both of those video files and the obs video file will actually have multiple tracks of audio so let's just do a test recording i won't have multiple tracks here for you now because i don't have somebody else talking along with it but i will show you what it looks like from reference files that i have from a co-op recording that i did so we'll go ahead and show you that and you can see how it turns out and how i edit my videos okay guys so this really isn't about adobe premiere but i did want to show you what these files look like when i edit them and why i do my setup kind of the way that i do it so here you can see i have multiple tracks of audio and i have the game audio i have twists mic here and my mic and i'm able to actually eq each of these channels or control the volume of each of these channels which is really important to get the best overall sound sometimes the game volume can be too loud uh when recorded sometimes one person's voice won't be as loud as another and uh the number one thing i see on the internet uh on basically on youtubes and all that is that volume levels and voice levels are usually a mess so um hopefully this will help you guys too if in your recordings so this is what it looks like after i bring the file in and chop it all up let me show you what it looks like when i bring in the raw files so let's drag some footage in here and i'll show you what's going on so this is my original shadowplay source material and you can see one track here and if i play this it's just the game audio by itself eisenhower has bigger plans a uh mainland invasion so there we go that's just the game audio so let's look at the audio from obs now which is going to be a bunch of tracks all right so i bring this in and you can see there's tons of tracks here and it's easy to see if i zoom in to align this audio let me zoom in here i want to get these tracks lined up perfectly you can see the obs footage started a little late so i have the ability to line all this stuff up make it a little shorter bring this in line with that guy so you can basically sync everything up here and get it perfect okay there we go you can see everything's in line all right so now i can label these as to what they are we've got uh several tracks of audio here and we've we've also got a repeat of our game audio so what i usually do is i'll unlink these and you can see in the footage here that there's a small black box this is what i recorded with obs so very little video two frames per second we can delete that and get rid of it all right and then i can select the any track that i want here i'm gonna get rid of the game audio now that i have it synced and now i'm just left with what i had lined up here before on my screen which is my audio twist audio and the game audio and that's why i record that way now i can apply any sort of effect that i want and you can hear these three played together heard operation husky guys also heard eisenhower has bigger plans she talked back to her christopher walken voice mike always has dinner plans i can't even do it right right now the audio is uh of the game is very loud so i can go ahead and and change this now and bring that down oss is mighty pleased with that and uh sicily heard operation husky man you guys also heard eisenhower has bigger plans she talked back to him in a christopher walken voice i go two months so there you go and you can just basically control the volumes and make a better production out of the whole thing so i wanted to show you guys that and give you an idea of how i do my co-op recordings using obs and using shadowplay together all at the same time all right guys thank you so much i'm going to hand this back to eposvox adam thank you so much for doing this collab i hope the video was up to your standards man your videos are the best and i hope to be able to do more of these in the future alright guys back to the studio you may proceed the same goes for 16 by 10 or 4x3 resolutions set up obs for that proper resolution whether it's 1440x900 1280x1024 etc and things will turn out fine make sure your canvas and scaled resolutions are set to this and if you're streaming you set your scaled stream resolution to a factor of your original for example recording at 3440 by 1440 and streaming at 2560 by 1080 or 1707 by 720 alternatively if you don't want to deal with boxing and black bars your only other option is to run games at 16 by 9 resolutions in a window or downscaled full screen mode for example a 4x3 monitor can run games just fine at 1280x720 a 1680x1050 monitor can run games just fine at 1600 by 900 and so on then you have to deal with the black bars instead of the viewer but hopefully that makes it clear why it's unavoidable any attempts to stretch your image to fill the screen will only distort it and ensure that no one really wants to watch your content i hope this episode of my obs tutorial course has been helpful for you if it was hit that like button subscribe for more awesome tech content come follow me on twitch if you like i'm eposvox over there as well and until next time i just said i'm eposvox so you know i'm eposvox happy streaming thanks for watching this episode of my obs studio tutorial course more videos like this and a full master class are linked in the playlist in the video descriptionmost discussions about obs streaming game recording and so on tend to focus on a specific use case one monitor one screen of computer desktop or gameplay one console input one 16x9 image but what if you want to stream your new awesome 21x9 ultrawide monitor or what if your desktop is another aspect ratio such as 4x3 hint or 16x10 let's discuss this in today's course video i'm eposvox here to make tech easier and more fun welcome back to my obs studio tutorial course i have plenty of videos about this software linked in the video description if you have any questions check that out i've probably already answered them and check the intro video to learn how this course works recording and streaming with oddball resolutions can be frustrating 16 by 9 aspect ratio resolutions such as 1080p or ultra hd are the standard so that's what platforms and tutorials focus on but what if you have an ultra wide or 16x10 monitor such as 1440x900 or 1680x1050 i've got some good news and some bad news the bad news is that when streaming viewers will always get the perceived black bars of letterboxing or pillar boxing around your content ultra wide resolutions require letterboxing to display properly on 16x9 views such as watching a movie on a tv and 16 by 10 resolutions require pillar boxing as they're just a bit taller than 16 by nine at the time of writing and recording this course episode youtube's live streaming doesn't support other aspect ratios but the uploaded player does the good news is if you're streaming to twitch where black bars are almost always there due to how their website ui works or if you're just recording videos to upload to youtube this is not a problem youtube's new layout is very impressive the player dynamically adjusts to your video's aspect ratio and displays it properly on any screen ultra wide videos on my 4k screen actually look amazing they took out they take up the full width of my screen but you absolutely have to record edit and render in the same ultra wide resolution for example 3440x1440 or 2560x1080 if you record edit or render in a traditional 16x9 resolution like normal 1080p the black bars are permanently baked into your video and the viewing experience is ruined for everyone this is very very important i don't have much experience with ultrawide monitors right now but i have a buddy who does so he's going to tell you about his setup process for his 21x9 gaming channel hey everybody this is a.d wheeler from the explorographer.com i am a travel photographer by day but by night i am an ultra wide hd game streamer over at 21 9 gaming.com welcome to my section of the obs tutorial for eposvox channel thank you so much for having me as a collaborator on this project i'm happy to share my knowledge here and get more people streaming ultra wide gaming all right so i want to talk about three different types of obs operations that we're going to be doing with ultra wide so ultra wide is 21 by 9 ratio screens usually 3440 pixels by 1440 pixels i'm going to show you how to stream how to co-op record or single person record using obs uh there also will be some shadow play usage here i have a special setup for co-op recording that i use that i want to share with you guys as a bonus as well so let's get right into it and we're gonna start with streaming 3440 by 1440 or ultra wide on youtube all right so we're going to go into settings here and we're going to get this set up to stream 3440 by 1440 so the first thing you'll want to go to is video you're going to want to make sure that your base canvas and output canvas are set to the 3440 by 1440 and your frame rate is set to 30. this is very important because 60 does not stream well to youtube servers no matter what your bandwidth is i have not been successful with that so make sure that's set to 30. that's a current limitation as far as i know to the output of what you can stream we can record and then upload at 60fps which i'll show you how to do here in a little bit but for right now you can only stream at 30. all right come over here to our output section and then streaming we're going to use our hardware encoder here we're going to set our rate control to constant bit rate our bit rate output should be the maximum of what our current service will allow i know mine only allows right now 10 megabit so i have 10 megabit up so i'm going to set that to 10 000 keyframes required by youtube set to 2 preset high quality profile high here and here's an important one in order to get this to work properly with the hardware encoder you can't actually set a number here you really have to set this to auto as far as i can tell if i set it to 5.1 which would be the highest quality that's just natural right if i try to stream right now oh now it's working okay so once the once the uh once your source material has started it'll work just fine so there you go i just learned something new right on the spot if you don't have your source material going and you try to set that to 5 1 and you try to stream you'll get an error so just so you know that start your source you should be good to go so here we are in the division it's a little choppy right now because i'm in the obs screen i'm gonna move over now to my other screen i have two dell screens working right now let's talk there we go so now i've got i've selected the screen you can see things smooth out a little bit remember we are at 30 frames per second let me talk a little bit about my system specs so i'm running an intel i7 6850k processor it is overclocked to 4.2 gigahertz and it is liquid cooled i'm also running two nvidia geforce 1080 video cards in sli so that's uh gives you a little insight of the power you kind of need to be able to do this i'm actually recording this on one screen the obs tutorial and i'm actually re streaming out the actual division out to my channel right now and so let's just uh do a little gameplay here and we'll just see how this works so yeah you need to have some pretty good horsepower you do need to have a pretty good internet connection to send out 3440 by 1440 video at 30 fps um and also to record as well so we'll talk about that in a little bit but let's just try this streaming real quick and we'll take a look and see how that looks alright so keep in mind we are recording a stream while it's being streamed so if this looks a little choppy uh pay no attention uh i can put up the source video if you'd like i'll give you a link or eposvox will give you a link so you can watch the video that streamed so here we go um we're streaming through here it looks pretty good i'm going to get out into the world here of and take a look at that right now my stream says that i'm using all of the bandwidth but we are green all the way so we're getting full outs to youtube which is great uh cpu usage is only 3.1 percent which is awesome and we have no dropped frames which is also very important the gameplay for me on the actual game screen itself is 60 fps so it's super smooth looks really good so gameplay is not hindered at all by this and there we go so that'll give you a little bit of ideas about how this looks working really well so my cpu is kicking up a little bit because it's doing some work for the game as well but uh right now obs is only using two percent of the cpu which is awesome all right we got some enemies here let's go ahead and get into a little skirmish i guess he said it wasn't much of a challenge he was pretty much right so yeah i'm pretty happy with this um it took me a long time to get this figured out and get it to stream properly so don't be frustrated just go through your settings test your connection i i test my connection at speedtest.net just as you know see i actually used a tcp optimizer as well to optimize my connect so that it stays pretty stable and i also broadcast not only on 219gaming.com but i broadcast on my youtube channel which is for my photography i do live courses on there for my patreon channel thecreatetours.com also um on facebook live i also also use obs for that as well so i'm streaming there and it's a little bit lower bandwidth and i don't stream uh the 3440 by 1440 at all i'm actually streaming standard 1080p at 60fps there so uh but for the 3440 by 1440 is pretty good pretty good all right so i think that's all the settings we need i'm going to go ahead and escape out of there now for my recording settings it's a little different when i want to do recording i'll generally go into settings and in the here i'll go to the video and i'll set this to 60fps and then in output same thing here i've been using just the default preset or high quality totally up to you high quality is fine keyframes two bit rate 130 uh megabit um that's basically a mega bps basically i want the highest quality possible i know that this is the limit set by the uh as far as i know the limit that is set by the hardware encoder um and my profile is to high and level again is to auto although now that i have the source going let's try the 5.1 this didn't work earlier but we'll try it right now my gpu is set to zero and two these don't really make much of a difference that i've seen over on the audio side i'm setting these all to 192. that's just a basic good quality audio i know eposvox is rolling right now being like set it to the highest setting but 192 has been fine for me um and then also in the audio over here i just use my microphone as one channel and there is one other setting that i actually do in the output i make sure in the recording that i'm actually recording multiple audio tracks and i'm and what i do is send out each audio stream to a different track alright so the co-op recording is a little different so this is just going to be in-house recording straight to my hard drive and also i want to mention even if you set obs to record at 130 mega bps even if you set that the problem is is that it will only go as fast as your hard drive can take so record to an ssd if you can that way it'll open that up and you won't have that limitation but when i record to an actual hard drive a mechanical hard drive i had it set to 130 but then it kicked it back to 80 megabps so just keep that in mind that you can you can hinder yourself just by the hard drive alone it will throttle it back so make sure you record to an ssd so we're going to go ahead and start a recording here and that's the error that i get right there so normally i get that and the reason i get that is because i have the setting under recording so we'll just go in here to output and then recording it's because of the level setting if i set this to auto that won't happen watch here we go and there we go now it's recording so i'm not sure why that happens but let's switch over to the game we'll do a little bit more game play this time um instead of showing you the obs window i'm actually going to show you the actual recording that i'm doing so we'll go ahead and play through a little bit here and i'll show you what the recordings like we got enemies right here that's cool so they're looking like they're in a fight with somebody that'll work out great all right we'll get their attention that'll get their attention i got guys behind me too take care of the guys behind me first all right these guys are a little angry at me that's okay they can be angry fairly simple at this level oh there was jtf there too but they didn't help me all right so there you go guys that's a little demo of just a few seconds of of uh recording at 60fps in-game right now the cpu is showing 6.2 percent uh and it does say that we're kind of hovering around the uh the 50 to 60 area and that's probably simply because i'm recording and recording and recording like three different versions of this so if it looks a little choppy normally it's not so just so you're aware of that so there we go okay and in the final part of this tutorial essentially is set up for co-op recording so i do some recording with a another guy who plays with me from the uk and we don't usually stream this live he has streamed it before with us playing live but i have not um and so streaming ultra wide is difficult on the machine let alone also the bandwidth requirements coming in and out so then the gameplay gets kind of hokey at that point and doesn't work all that well but you can do it it does work if you have a good connect you'd have no problems doing that okay so the way that i record co-op is a little different from the way that i do my live or streaming i'm going to record a super high quality video using shadow play as my recorder i have shadow play set up to record at 130 mega bps so it's the highest setting that it will go i have it set up so that it records to my ssd so i get the most speed there and then i have some settings in obs because i use obs as well i also use discord for the audio portion of my recording so that i can talk with the person that i'm that i'm actually connected to in co-op so if i'm recording in in doing all that first off i'm going to show you how to set up discord so this is bonus material so here's discord here's my main microphone and my output device is actually going to be set to a virtual audio cable b now you won't be able to hear this unless you set up a few things in windows as well i'm going to show you how to do that so that's the first setting you're going to be using virtual audio cable it's available on the internet i think eposvox has uh some sort of tutorial on it i hope on this channel if not you can easily find one on youtube on how to set up virtual audio cable it's free uh there it's donation ware i think too you can donate to get the full version so anyways you get virtual audio cable you get that set up and it'll give you a virtual audio cable a virtual call audio cable b and then it'll give you an a b together we're just going to use b right now and that means that all the audio that comes through over here on discord which is the other person talking the person i'll connect with the talk will be coming through this line so that's how that's set up all right so we've got that set up now in obs we're gonna need to do a special setup here so let's go to settings the first thing you're going to set this is very strange but we're going to do your output scaled resolution to as small as it will go the integer value fps value you're going to want to select that and set that to 2. now i know that seems weird but we're really only recording audio here so we don't want to use up a lot of the hardware encoder trying to do big amounts of video we don't need that so we're just going to do this set to two and that's just going to give us a good reference recording over an output we are going to set our recording here to audio tracks one two three and four so i'm gonna only have four in audio we're going to make sure that's all 192 and then also coming down to the full audio tab we're going to want to set our auxiliary mic device number two to that cable b output okay so that means that discord is going to be sending its audio in through here into device number two our mic is going to be set up to number one that means track number one is going to be set up to that and then our desktop audio device should be set to default all right and then of course if you had more people playing you would set up other mic devices like cable a would be the other mic device and so on and so forth right now we're just going to keep it like it is and that's all there is to that all right go ahead and hit apply and there we go all right now so what i would normally do in game is i would now start my game i would turn on shadow play to start recording and then i would have a macro set so that i would start recording to the actual obs as well and then when i'm in premiere i'll just bring in both of those video files and the obs video file will actually have multiple tracks of audio so let's just do a test recording i won't have multiple tracks here for you now because i don't have somebody else talking along with it but i will show you what it looks like from reference files that i have from a co-op recording that i did so we'll go ahead and show you that and you can see how it turns out and how i edit my videos okay guys so this really isn't about adobe premiere but i did want to show you what these files look like when i edit them and why i do my setup kind of the way that i do it so here you can see i have multiple tracks of audio and i have the game audio i have twists mic here and my mic and i'm able to actually eq each of these channels or control the volume of each of these channels which is really important to get the best overall sound sometimes the game volume can be too loud uh when recorded sometimes one person's voice won't be as loud as another and uh the number one thing i see on the internet uh on basically on youtubes and all that is that volume levels and voice levels are usually a mess so um hopefully this will help you guys too if in your recordings so this is what it looks like after i bring the file in and chop it all up let me show you what it looks like when i bring in the raw files so let's drag some footage in here and i'll show you what's going on so this is my original shadowplay source material and you can see one track here and if i play this it's just the game audio by itself eisenhower has bigger plans a uh mainland invasion so there we go that's just the game audio so let's look at the audio from obs now which is going to be a bunch of tracks all right so i bring this in and you can see there's tons of tracks here and it's easy to see if i zoom in to align this audio let me zoom in here i want to get these tracks lined up perfectly you can see the obs footage started a little late so i have the ability to line all this stuff up make it a little shorter bring this in line with that guy so you can basically sync everything up here and get it perfect okay there we go you can see everything's in line all right so now i can label these as to what they are we've got uh several tracks of audio here and we've we've also got a repeat of our game audio so what i usually do is i'll unlink these and you can see in the footage here that there's a small black box this is what i recorded with obs so very little video two frames per second we can delete that and get rid of it all right and then i can select the any track that i want here i'm gonna get rid of the game audio now that i have it synced and now i'm just left with what i had lined up here before on my screen which is my audio twist audio and the game audio and that's why i record that way now i can apply any sort of effect that i want and you can hear these three played together heard operation husky guys also heard eisenhower has bigger plans she talked back to her christopher walken voice mike always has dinner plans i can't even do it right right now the audio is uh of the game is very loud so i can go ahead and and change this now and bring that down oss is mighty pleased with that and uh sicily heard operation husky man you guys also heard eisenhower has bigger plans she talked back to him in a christopher walken voice i go two months so there you go and you can just basically control the volumes and make a better production out of the whole thing so i wanted to show you guys that and give you an idea of how i do my co-op recordings using obs and using shadowplay together all at the same time all right guys thank you so much i'm going to hand this back to eposvox adam thank you so much for doing this collab i hope the video was up to your standards man your videos are the best and i hope to be able to do more of these in the future alright guys back to the studio you may proceed the same goes for 16 by 10 or 4x3 resolutions set up obs for that proper resolution whether it's 1440x900 1280x1024 etc and things will turn out fine make sure your canvas and scaled resolutions are set to this and if you're streaming you set your scaled stream resolution to a factor of your original for example recording at 3440 by 1440 and streaming at 2560 by 1080 or 1707 by 720 alternatively if you don't want to deal with boxing and black bars your only other option is to run games at 16 by 9 resolutions in a window or downscaled full screen mode for example a 4x3 monitor can run games just fine at 1280x720 a 1680x1050 monitor can run games just fine at 1600 by 900 and so on then you have to deal with the black bars instead of the viewer but hopefully that makes it clear why it's unavoidable any attempts to stretch your image to fill the screen will only distort it and ensure that no one really wants to watch your content i hope this episode of my obs tutorial course has been helpful for you if it was hit that like button subscribe for more awesome tech content come follow me on twitch if you like i'm eposvox over there as well and until next time i just said i'm eposvox so you know i'm eposvox happy streaming thanks for watching this episode of my obs studio tutorial course more videos like this and a full master class are linked in the playlist in the video description\n"