**Setting Up OBS Multiplatform**

Not getting an echo or having two of you talking so it's going to be the same thing in my webcam only scene you just want that in your mixer turned all the way down. So, I'm going to set up a capture card. I'm going to use my Live Gamer Extreme from Media as an example here. I'll go to add new scene and call it LGX. Then, I'll add video capture device AV LGX for my Live Gamer Extreme.

**Customizing the Capture Device**

Now, by default since it says it's using the device Default Resolution, it's like who what up you don't got anything going through it but I have another monitor I'm looking at here running through it. So, I'll go to custom resolution and set it to 1080P. Click okay and there we go! It has my other monitor here and you can see my OBS OBS crazy preview.

**Adding Sources to the Scene**

Any other time you want to add that Source go to add video capture and then you can add existing and add that. You can also add new text and then you can type something out, shout out to Epos Boox FTW! And then, you can change the font, tell it whether or not you want it to read from a file, which is how some of the plugins work for displaying what song is playing or your top donators or something like that.

**Configuring Text Source**

So, you can tell that and then browse and find the file. You can also change the colors of your text, add an outline, Etc. And then if we add that over top of here then we have a big of text that we can display over top of our stream. Obviously, you'll want to change the font size so that it doesn't look all pixelated.

**Capturing Specific Windows**

If you want to add specific windows to capture instead of just the display, the entire monitor itself, you can add a source of window capture and then choose a window that you want to stream. For example, I could use explorer.exe. That doesn't like EXP okay, that's fine.

**Using Window Capture**

We use Windows store which isn't even open it's going to show a lot of stuff that isn't even necessarily open and that can be kind of a pain. So, we use core temp here there we go! My temperature monitor for a lot of window capture stuff unless you're using it like in a tutorial fashion you don't want capture or capture cursor on.

**Adding Overlays**

And then I can add for whatever reason if I wanted this window over top my stream I can add it there and it cuts off the title bar but shows the contents of the window so everybody can look at my computer speed and how hot it is ETC pretty cool. You can add overlays or overlays for like follower alerts and things like that using plugins like sub alert or what I like to use which is Twitch alerts.

**Twitch Alerts**

Twitch alerts but it only works with twitch um but keep in mind that that is or but those are a bit more advanced and I may cover them more in depth in other tutorials. I did cover Twitch alerts in its own video, so keep an eye out for that.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone my name is Adam reos box and welcome back to another OBS multiplatform or OBS Studio at a glance tutorial I've been covering this software very in depth in a series of videos the playlist for these videos will be in the description below and I highly recommend you go through them to find out everything you need to know about OBS multiplatform or OBS in general in more in depth however I'm going to be doing a shortened version of just a quick let's get start to finish streaming on Twitch in this video and then this video we are covering twitch.tv live streaming now there are a couple links you're going to want to be aware of first of all to download OBS multiplatform from OBS project.com the one on the right here link will be in the description below download it for your platform and install it you're going to want to run a speed test from speedtest.net right here run a speed test and find out your upload speed it'll run through and it'll have your download speed and then your upload speed you're going to want to take a look at your upload speed and that's what we're going to use for your bandwidth in a minute you're going to want to know your twitch.tv dashboard once you're logged into twitch go to your username and hit dashboard you're also going to want your channel and you get to that by going to your username and clicking Channel and my twitch channel is twitch.tv/ epos boox if you want to come give us a follow and support our live streams and I will give you shout outs for following and donating and stuff in the live stream itself your twitch.tv V dashboard is something you really want to learn your way around uh it's where you're going to find a lot of information and how you're going to control and monitor your stream a couple things I want to note about it here this is where you title your stream so like here it's called Sunday stream time this is where you put in your game my game currently is set to Destiny you can put in in English and then click update once you've changed everything your chat preview will appear here as well as your video preview however this is very important if you are previewing your video stream you're going to want to mute it or else it will echo through your stream and people will hear a constant echo of your stream and it will drive them insane and nobody will want to listen because it won't be listened to a if you have really low bandwidth or a really slow computer or you just don't want the video preview at all hit hide video preview and it won't show it at all and you don't got to worry about it you can also get to your video manager here for your past uploads you can check permissions of other streaming apps with the streaming apps option look at activity and statistics on your previous live streams here um from your dashboard and then you can also view your stream key this is basically a password to access your twitch.tv stream and you will want to make sure you know where this is very very important because if I hit show key here never ever ever share your stream key with anyone not on stream not if somebody says they work for twitch never your stream key gives someone permission to stream to your channel and you don't want them to be able to do that okay let's move into OBS multiplatform next once you have it installed it's going to look somewhat like this uh actually yours is going to look like this but I have it on the Dark theme which I changed under settings General and I want to dark because it shows more contrast it looks better for the audio meters Etc I've totally reset it back to normal and we're currently on 0.1.4 64bit you may be on 32bit that's okay so we're going to set you up a live stream to stream your desktop to stream video games webcam FaceCam Etc this is a very very very powerful piece of software much better than the original OBS and there's a lot of settings that you'll want to learn more about and go into the more in-depth videos that I've done for those first and foremost we're going to set up what's called a profile and a scene collection a profile is basically a preset of all of your streaming settings so you can set up different ones for twitch hitbox recording Etc we're going to set one up for twitch here by going to profile and clicking new and I'm just going to call it twitch click okay same thing for scene collection scene collection is going to be basically a preset collection of your scenes and sources scenes are collections of sources sources are your various video inputs such as images your video capture card your desktop your webcam Etc so having different sets of those can be very useful for managing multiple streams or multiple projects etc for the purpose of the purposes of this we're going to be doing a 720p 30 frames per second live stream but if you're streaming in a different format you can you know change all that yourself if you like by default twitch nonp Partners people who aren't partnered with twitch get downscaled to 30 frames per second so there's no point in streaming at 60 until you're a twitch partner really next we're going to go to scene collection new and type in twitch again and click okay or hit enter all right now that part's ready let's jump into your settings there's a settings button down here go ahead and click it make sure your language is set and your theme all right stream tab is our big thing here by default twitch is pretty much always selected because at the moment it is the most common next you're going going to want to select the server closest to you what state are you in find the server closest to you Chicago's the closest to me next you're going to want to put in your stream key this is from that stream key page here on your dashboard that I told you about before just hit show hit I understand again make sure you don't show it to anyone or else you have to reset it and then copy it and paste it in here and then click apply all right that's all you need to really get activated streaming to twitch but we're going to change your bit rate and stuff so you get a decent quality next jump down here to Output this is if you want a recording copy a recorded copy of your live stream go ahead and change the format to MP4 always do MP4 it is the most compatible with YouTube and video editor software and things like that always do YouTube we're going to leave output mode at simple and then for recording path just tell it where to record I have a specific hard drive and folder set up for OBS recording so I'm going to tell it to go there you can pick your video folder or whatever so when you're done streaming your final recording will go in this folder that you choose next up are your bit rates this is what you need to run a speed test for run the speed test and you'll see right here it says for me that I have a upload speed of 4.68 megabits per second that's about 4.5 is what I'm going to estimate it as so go over here to the OBS estimator again link will be in the description below you're going to need that bit rate and I'm going to put 4500 and then some specs about your computer your processor your graphics card Etc I've put in my information here put in your computer's information you can find it on like the box of your computer or control panel things like that and then what you're actually what you're actually streaming in terms of size we're doing a 720 piece stream here because it's a lot easier to stream 720p especially on lower end like laptops and stuff but you could even do a 480p stream because it would still look really good as long as you have a decent bit rate and then click recommended settings it's going to give you some advice of what you can set it says set your FPS to 25 I don't really agree with that because 30 is the standard so that's really what you need anyway but then it's going to tell you right here this is all you really need it says you can do 720p or 1080p and it says recommended bit rate 3,000 so I'm going to knock about 200 off of that because we're going to use a audio bit rate of either 128 or 160 never really go below 128 um but you don't really need above 256 um but we're going to use 160 so I'm going to really just put my bit rate at 2500 just to be safe because sometimes if something else is going in the background on my internet you don't want it to cut your stream out cuz you're using up too much bandwidth once youve figured that out hit apply and you're good to go on that end next up is your audio devices this is going to be your game sound and your microphone for sample rate always have it at 44.1 khz or 48 khz you should never use 22.05 unless you know exactly what you're doing for channels put it a stereo just do it for desktop audio device in 90% of cases on Windows default is going to work because whatever is set as default in Windows is going to play your game sound or your computer sounds Etc if you know specifically that you're sending audio out to a specific separate device then you can choose that but there's no reason to for the purposes of this tutorial leave desktop audio device 2 microphone and microphone 2 and three disabled uh there is a more in-depth video you can go watch in the playlist that'll explain this but essentially OBS has the ability to add multiple audio devices so if you're setting up music or say like Skype or TeamSpeak Skype or TeamSpeak can run through desktop device 2 and so let's say you have a headset that has two different outputs one for chat one for game then you can choose your game chat as desktop device and then your Skype chat as desktop device 2 and then balance it in the mixer down here which we'll get to in a minute but for most streams you're just going to have game sound in your voice so just leave that those three as disabled same thing with three microphones in most cases you're only going to have one microphone input you need to stream your microphone audio device is going to be a little bit different because the default may not be right for you if I click it here you'll see that I have a webcam I have a line in I have a microphone in and then I have my USB interface for my professional grade microphone if you have a USB microphone such as a snowball or a Blue Yeti then it's actually going to say Blue Yeti it may say microphone but next to it it'll say like Blue Yeti or Blue Snowball choose that one if you have a webcam it should identify it as well if you're using like a normal headset microphone with a 3.5 mm analog input then it may just say microphone real Tech highdefinition audio if you don't know what you're using exactly just pick some you know start picking some and doing trial and error and if you see in the mixer down here you have an audio level for your microphone as you're talking so just keep picking different ones and talking into the microphone and one of them should work if your microphone's hooked up correctly in your system and you'll see audio a little green audio bar bouncing around here so mine's set up correctly I'm going to put it at my line in USB audio device and then you can enable push to mute or push to talk push to talk is pretty standard and like teams speak and ventrillo and stuff because you hold down a key in order for your microphone to be heard so if you don't want your microphone always to be going in the Stream for whatever reason you can do that that gets pretty problematic in a game however and so what you can actually do is instead do push to mute so instead of having to hold down a key while you're playing a game to talk you can instead only have to hold down a key when you're just you know needing to mute yourself for whatever reason so if you're enabling those and no matter what go ahead and hit apply but if you're enabling those go over here to hot keys and set up some hot keys for this now all you literally have to do is click in the box and press the key that you want to use and then if you put the same key for something like start and stop recording then it'll toggle it so you only have to hit plus to start recording then plus again to stop recording I go more in depth on the hotkeys in another video however if you're if you've used other software like this you should be good to go all right lastly in the settings here let's go to video render for most people direct 3D or direct X it may say something something direct basically should be the option you choose that that that should be it uh for most people that's pretty much all you should be using it may not say 11 but it should be direct 3D or direct X for video adapter I only have one graphics card in my computer so can't actually show an example of this but in computers with multiple graphics cards or computers with or laptops where where it has Intel graphics and an Nvidia graphics card or Intel graphics and dedicated AMD graphics card you know where your processor also does Graphics then you'll want to pick the either AMD or Nvidia Graphics if you have that available otherwise it's going to cause a black screen for your games however if you're recording your desktop you're going to want to choose the Intel option or the AMD option for for your actual processor it'll be like integrated Graphics or Intel HD 3000 or something like that the issue here is is if you're using a laptop with dual Graphics then you're most likely not going to be able to record both your desktop and your games without getting a black screen because the computer actually uses the two different graphics cards for those two different devices so that'll be something you'll have to keep in mind if you're on a laptop and if you have trouble with it check out the OBS support forums links will be in the description below to that for your resolution here this is what either your desktop is at or what your games are going to be at in an ideal world it's going to be 1920 x 1080 in a lot of cases it's not going to be if you click it here it'll show you your monitor resolution options most likely I have three different monitors I have a 1440p monitor a 4k monitor and a 1080p monitor choose the one that you're going to be streaming from if you're unsure of your resolution go over to your desktop right click and if you're on Windows 7 or 8 you can go to screen resolution instead of display settings here it'll say screen resolution on Windows 10 to see your screen resolution right click the desktop go to display settings and then go to Advanced display settings and it will show your resolution for your various monitors here you just have to click a couple extra times I'm actually for the sake of this video I'm going to use my 1440p monitor as my base resolution so I'm going to select the 2560 X 1440 for scaled resolution since we're doing a 720p stream we're doing 1280 x 720 and and then you can choose your frame rate again if you're a twitch partner you can use 60 frames per second if you're not a twitch partner you have to use 30 frames per second also keep in mind that it requires a really powerful computer to do 60 frames per second as well now something to keep in mind if you have a 4x3 aspect ratio monitor or a 16x9 aspect ratio monitor that means your resolution is going to be something crazy like 1440 by 900 or 800x 600 or 1280 x 1024 you know something that's not 16 by by9 widescreen resolution you're going to end up with some black bars issues you can either tell your games to run at that 16x9 resolution so for example on a 1440 by 900 monitor you can actually tell the game to run at 1280 x 720 then you'll work out fine um but otherwise you're going to have black bars and there's no way to fix that other than stretching it and stretching it's going to make it look really distorted and ugly that's just how it works you don't have a widescreen monitor so it's not going to look widescreen there there there's no real getting around that so keep that in mind go ahead and hit apply and then okay cuz we're done all right now we're ready to tackle the bottom part of the screen here and actually set up your video you know your video inputs and then you're good to go to start live streaming so take a look at the interface here and I go over everything in the interface more in depth in another video in the playlist um but over here you have the audio mixer this is how you're going to balance your microphone and your game audio which we set up in the audio settings you have two different volume meters here which will show the active volume and if I I play a Windows sound real quick you'll see the desktop one go up there we go and then my microphone's going up because I'm talking into it now if you're talking too loudly you can turn that down and then what you're really going to want to mess with is turning down your desktop audio this should stay fairly low as your game audio is going to very easily overpower your voice you don't want that so you will have to do since you don't have a live audio preview unless you do like a little test stream to yourself you're going to have to do some trial and error to try to see what your audio levels are at and just you know get it to a sweet spot and save it there that way you don't end up overpowering your voice cuz you don't want to be deep into stream and notice that your stream viewers are saying hey your volume's too loud if they are you can just come sit here and turn it keep turning it down and find the right spot but you're going to want to do some testing to figure out where that is and unfortunately that may even depend per game that's just kind of how it goes next to this you have your controls to start and stop streaming and recording down here at the bottom it will tell you how long you've been streaming or record recing and how much processor power you're using so if you're up in the 80s 7s ' 80s or '90s you're probably using too much power and your computer's probably making your Liv stream or recording lag over here on the left you have your scenes and sources sources are your various video inputs and overlays and things like that such as your video capture card your image overlays your webcam your desktop Etc scenes are collections of those sources so if you have a scene set up with your webcam overlay on top of your gameplay that's a scene and you're going to want to set up multiple scenes to put together a decent live stream that is entertaining for your viewers and has some variety all right to get started we're going to delete this empty scene here by clicking the minus button yes and we're going to click the plus button to add a new one this one's going to be called strm starting okay now this is just going to be a still image to put up when I'm first setting up my live stream to tell people that the stream's starting in a minute but not show my webcam or my screens in case I'm showing passwords or something something like that and so to add that image which is already pre-created by my designer blizzard ball uh you can find his link to his Deviant Art and stuff like that in the description below I did a whole video talking about making these things um check that out in the playlist as well go ahead and click Plus in your sources and add image we're going to call this start strm click okay and then we're going to find it and mine is up under some funky folder here so we're going to go find this channel projects it's actually under the hit box folder starting soon. PNG doesn't matter for full screen images if they're PNG BMP or jpeg because they're not they don't need a transparent background but for overlays which we'll cover in a second you'll need a transparent background right click your image and go to transform and fit to screen just to make sure it looks nice and full we're going to do another scene here click plus and call it BRB we're going to click plus under the source image BB one and we're going to do the same thing for the bite back screen screen okay and then you'll notice here there is a box here it says unload image when not showing now this essentially keeps the image out of system memory when your scene is not up you may want to do this if C keeping it in your you know if not having this checked causes your system to lag if you don't have a lot of RAM memory in your computer or if you're storing the images on a network hard drive like I am you want to keep it in memory because if you lose connection to that nwork hard drive when you switch back to the scene it'll either not show the image or it'll take a minute to actually show it which you don't want that little hiccup so I'm going to uncheck that and then right click transform fit to screen same thing on the start strm one I'm actually going to uncheck that box as well all right next we're going to set up a desktop scene just a plain desktop so I'm going to click plus again I'm going to call this desktop and in this version of OBS it's actually called display capture so when I go to add a source it's called display capture so I'm add that and call it desktop one and then it's automatically picking up my 4k monitor here but that's not the one I want so it has this box right here which lets you choose which monitor you want so I'm going to choose that 1440p one I talked about earlier and then it's automatically fitted to the screen for me but if not we can change that in a second and then capture cursor or not capture cursor depending on what you're doing you may not want to capture your cursor for me I do so click okay and then if it's too big you you can use the little red box here if you click it the red box to change the size move it around or right click transform fit to screen now this is where if you have a 4x3 monitor or a 16 X10 monitor you can right click go to transform and actually hit stretch to screen and it will stretch it to fill up the whole screen without having black bars for most uses other than something like maybe five nights at Freddy's this will make it look very very bad you generally don't want to do this however in certain situ like Five Nights at Freddy's you can do that and it might look okay all right let's do a webcam a webcam is actually a video capture device so we're going to add a scene we'll call it web cam Dy and then add a source and instead we're going to go to video capture device and we're going to call it webcam and then it's going to pop up an option to choose our video capture device you may have a bunch here you may only have one you may have a couple mine is my Logitech webcam now with this you can choose your custom resolution up to what your webcam supports by instead of having device default you can choose custom and then I'm going to go up to 1920 by 1080 and it's going to match the frame rate to what it can to my live stream and then I can transform fit to screen and I have a full webcam view something to keep in mind here is that you cannot change your webcam resolution here and then have it be something else in another scene for your entire scene collection here the webcam res resolution has to be the same or it's going to change it across all your scenes all right so let's make a FaceCam scene so I'm going to make a new scene desktop with FaceCam actually we're not going to make it a desktop with FaceCam so I'm going to remove that scene with the minus button click plus again game game FaceCam we're going to add our webcam Again by going to plus video capture device but instead of creating a new one we're going to click and add existing and choose our webcam next so we're going to hit plus and go to game capture and then we'll just call this game capture and this works differently than it did in previous versions of OBS instead of having to choose whatever game you want you can actually tell it to just capture any full screen application so as soon as your game goes full screen it'll catch it and show it to your stream now this may or may not work for you depending on the compatibility of your game you may have some issues where your game only shows a black screen or something like that so you're going to want to test that check your video stream preview Etc and figure that out if it's not working then you can uncheck that and actually manually choose your game I'm going to leave it checked for now and then go down here and actually choose whether or not you want your cursor captured keep that in mind if you want your cursor uncaptured you can uncheck that and click okay now I don't actually have a game running so this isn't going to show anything so I'm under my sources here I'm going to click this little eyeball icon to turn that off so you don't see it and then I'm going to go ahead and add another desktop capture for the sake of this video so display capture add existing desk stop one all right now you see that my game or my desktop here is over top of my webcam so here if I choose webcam and use these arrows I can move it up and down so I move the webcam up on top of this and then I can use this red box here to change the size and position of it and just drag it over here now I have FaceCam set up and then if you want to add an overlay for FaceCam what you can do is add add that as an image now an overlay image needs to be a PNG file with a transparent background you can talk to a designer like blizzard ball or someone else to make one for you or you can make it yourself in a free program such as or paint.net or even Photoshop however keep in mind it needs a transparent background and it be save as BNG so we're going to go add image we'll go call it overlay click okay find our image which is that one's in my Dropbox and then uncheck unload image and then transform oh transform fit to screen and then we'll adjust our webcam here to fit within our overlay so that way it looks nice and good as a FaceCam with our overlay and boom now we have we webcam FaceCam overlay stuff and you can do that with all sorts of images and things like that you will notice because of a setting I chose by adding my webcam it actually added a webcam audio slider if you're using a webcam or a microphone that isn't your webcam you're actually just want to turn that down that way you're not getting an echo or not having two of you talking so it's going to be the same thing in my webcam only scene you just want that in your mixer turned all the way down so nobody has to hear it all right lastly we're going to add a capture card I'm going to use my live gamer extreme from a media as an example here so I'm going to go to add new scene I'm going to call it lgx click okay and then add video capture device AV lgx for my live gamer extreme and then instead of my webcam we're going to choose a media video capture Now by default since it says it's using the device Default Resolution it's like who what up you don't got anything going through it but I have another monitor I'm looking at here running through it so I'm going to go to custom resolution set it to 1080P and click okay and there we go it has my other monitor here and you can see my OBS OBS crazy preview and then any other time you want to add that Source go to add video capture and then you can add existing and add that you can add a couple other different things here you have a text Source you can add you can just add new text so we'll create new text and then you can type something out shout out to epos boox FTW and then you can change the font you can tell it whether or not you want it to read from a file that's how some of the plugins work for displaying what song is playing or your top donators or something like that so you can tell that and then browse and find the file you can change the colors of your text add an outline Etc and then if we add that over top of here then we have a big of text that we can display over top of our stream obviously you'll want to change the font size so that it doesn't look all pixelated but it works pretty freaking cool if you want to add specific Windows to capture instead of just the display the entire monitor itself you can add a source of window capture and then choose a window that you want to stream so for example I could use explorer.exe well that doesn't like EXP okay that's fine we use Windows store which isn't even open it's going to show a lot of stuff that isn't even necessarily open and that can be kind of a pain so we use core temp here there we go so my temperature monitor for a lot of window capture stuff unless you're using it like in a tutorial fashion you don't want capture or capture cursor on and then I can add for whatever reason if I wanted this window over top my stream I can add it there and it cuts off the title bar but shows the contents of the window so everybody can look at my computer speed and how hot it is ETC pretty cool you can add overlays or overlays for like follower alerts and things like that using plugins like sub alert or what I like to use which is Twitch alerts twitch alerts but it only works with twitch um but keep in mind that that is or but those are a bit more advanced and I may cover them more in depth in other tutorials I did Cover twitch alerts in its own video so keep an eye out for that and then lastly you can set up nightbot if you go to nightbot TV link will be in the description tell it to join your chat and then in your stream chat on your dashboard if we go to live here when nightbot when you tell nightbot to join your chat then you have to make it a moderator so type once your chat loads cuz there we go type slod nightbot it's going to it tells me that it's already a moderator but it's going to make it a moderator that way I can help control spam kick people from your chat for doing stuff you can run giveaways through it you can have it automatically play songs that people request with this Auto DJ function all you do is leave this open and if you have your desktop audio picking up sound it'll start playing the music that your viewers suggest and things like that and then you can also run giveaways with it through nightbot so that's pretty cool link to this will be in the description below it's fairly straightforward to set up I do hope this video has been helpful for you this is probably the longest OBS multiplatform tutorial that I've done again everything's covered more in depth in the other videos in my video playlist Link in the description below if you enjoyed it be sure to smash that like button smash that subscribe button check out our other channels and ways you can support us such as following us on Twitch at twitch.tv/ boox checking out our patreon campaign where you can support us via monthly contribution get early access to all of our videos Etc and I will catch you in a future video bye-byehello everyone my name is Adam reos box and welcome back to another OBS multiplatform or OBS Studio at a glance tutorial I've been covering this software very in depth in a series of videos the playlist for these videos will be in the description below and I highly recommend you go through them to find out everything you need to know about OBS multiplatform or OBS in general in more in depth however I'm going to be doing a shortened version of just a quick let's get start to finish streaming on Twitch in this video and then this video we are covering twitch.tv live streaming now there are a couple links you're going to want to be aware of first of all to download OBS multiplatform from OBS project.com the one on the right here link will be in the description below download it for your platform and install it you're going to want to run a speed test from speedtest.net right here run a speed test and find out your upload speed it'll run through and it'll have your download speed and then your upload speed you're going to want to take a look at your upload speed and that's what we're going to use for your bandwidth in a minute you're going to want to know your twitch.tv dashboard once you're logged into twitch go to your username and hit dashboard you're also going to want your channel and you get to that by going to your username and clicking Channel and my twitch channel is twitch.tv/ epos boox if you want to come give us a follow and support our live streams and I will give you shout outs for following and donating and stuff in the live stream itself your twitch.tv V dashboard is something you really want to learn your way around uh it's where you're going to find a lot of information and how you're going to control and monitor your stream a couple things I want to note about it here this is where you title your stream so like here it's called Sunday stream time this is where you put in your game my game currently is set to Destiny you can put in in English and then click update once you've changed everything your chat preview will appear here as well as your video preview however this is very important if you are previewing your video stream you're going to want to mute it or else it will echo through your stream and people will hear a constant echo of your stream and it will drive them insane and nobody will want to listen because it won't be listened to a if you have really low bandwidth or a really slow computer or you just don't want the video preview at all hit hide video preview and it won't show it at all and you don't got to worry about it you can also get to your video manager here for your past uploads you can check permissions of other streaming apps with the streaming apps option look at activity and statistics on your previous live streams here um from your dashboard and then you can also view your stream key this is basically a password to access your twitch.tv stream and you will want to make sure you know where this is very very important because if I hit show key here never ever ever share your stream key with anyone not on stream not if somebody says they work for twitch never your stream key gives someone permission to stream to your channel and you don't want them to be able to do that okay let's move into OBS multiplatform next once you have it installed it's going to look somewhat like this uh actually yours is going to look like this but I have it on the Dark theme which I changed under settings General and I want to dark because it shows more contrast it looks better for the audio meters Etc I've totally reset it back to normal and we're currently on 0.1.4 64bit you may be on 32bit that's okay so we're going to set you up a live stream to stream your desktop to stream video games webcam FaceCam Etc this is a very very very powerful piece of software much better than the original OBS and there's a lot of settings that you'll want to learn more about and go into the more in-depth videos that I've done for those first and foremost we're going to set up what's called a profile and a scene collection a profile is basically a preset of all of your streaming settings so you can set up different ones for twitch hitbox recording Etc we're going to set one up for twitch here by going to profile and clicking new and I'm just going to call it twitch click okay same thing for scene collection scene collection is going to be basically a preset collection of your scenes and sources scenes are collections of sources sources are your various video inputs such as images your video capture card your desktop your webcam Etc so having different sets of those can be very useful for managing multiple streams or multiple projects etc for the purpose of the purposes of this we're going to be doing a 720p 30 frames per second live stream but if you're streaming in a different format you can you know change all that yourself if you like by default twitch nonp Partners people who aren't partnered with twitch get downscaled to 30 frames per second so there's no point in streaming at 60 until you're a twitch partner really next we're going to go to scene collection new and type in twitch again and click okay or hit enter all right now that part's ready let's jump into your settings there's a settings button down here go ahead and click it make sure your language is set and your theme all right stream tab is our big thing here by default twitch is pretty much always selected because at the moment it is the most common next you're going going to want to select the server closest to you what state are you in find the server closest to you Chicago's the closest to me next you're going to want to put in your stream key this is from that stream key page here on your dashboard that I told you about before just hit show hit I understand again make sure you don't show it to anyone or else you have to reset it and then copy it and paste it in here and then click apply all right that's all you need to really get activated streaming to twitch but we're going to change your bit rate and stuff so you get a decent quality next jump down here to Output this is if you want a recording copy a recorded copy of your live stream go ahead and change the format to MP4 always do MP4 it is the most compatible with YouTube and video editor software and things like that always do YouTube we're going to leave output mode at simple and then for recording path just tell it where to record I have a specific hard drive and folder set up for OBS recording so I'm going to tell it to go there you can pick your video folder or whatever so when you're done streaming your final recording will go in this folder that you choose next up are your bit rates this is what you need to run a speed test for run the speed test and you'll see right here it says for me that I have a upload speed of 4.68 megabits per second that's about 4.5 is what I'm going to estimate it as so go over here to the OBS estimator again link will be in the description below you're going to need that bit rate and I'm going to put 4500 and then some specs about your computer your processor your graphics card Etc I've put in my information here put in your computer's information you can find it on like the box of your computer or control panel things like that and then what you're actually what you're actually streaming in terms of size we're doing a 720 piece stream here because it's a lot easier to stream 720p especially on lower end like laptops and stuff but you could even do a 480p stream because it would still look really good as long as you have a decent bit rate and then click recommended settings it's going to give you some advice of what you can set it says set your FPS to 25 I don't really agree with that because 30 is the standard so that's really what you need anyway but then it's going to tell you right here this is all you really need it says you can do 720p or 1080p and it says recommended bit rate 3,000 so I'm going to knock about 200 off of that because we're going to use a audio bit rate of either 128 or 160 never really go below 128 um but you don't really need above 256 um but we're going to use 160 so I'm going to really just put my bit rate at 2500 just to be safe because sometimes if something else is going in the background on my internet you don't want it to cut your stream out cuz you're using up too much bandwidth once youve figured that out hit apply and you're good to go on that end next up is your audio devices this is going to be your game sound and your microphone for sample rate always have it at 44.1 khz or 48 khz you should never use 22.05 unless you know exactly what you're doing for channels put it a stereo just do it for desktop audio device in 90% of cases on Windows default is going to work because whatever is set as default in Windows is going to play your game sound or your computer sounds Etc if you know specifically that you're sending audio out to a specific separate device then you can choose that but there's no reason to for the purposes of this tutorial leave desktop audio device 2 microphone and microphone 2 and three disabled uh there is a more in-depth video you can go watch in the playlist that'll explain this but essentially OBS has the ability to add multiple audio devices so if you're setting up music or say like Skype or TeamSpeak Skype or TeamSpeak can run through desktop device 2 and so let's say you have a headset that has two different outputs one for chat one for game then you can choose your game chat as desktop device and then your Skype chat as desktop device 2 and then balance it in the mixer down here which we'll get to in a minute but for most streams you're just going to have game sound in your voice so just leave that those three as disabled same thing with three microphones in most cases you're only going to have one microphone input you need to stream your microphone audio device is going to be a little bit different because the default may not be right for you if I click it here you'll see that I have a webcam I have a line in I have a microphone in and then I have my USB interface for my professional grade microphone if you have a USB microphone such as a snowball or a Blue Yeti then it's actually going to say Blue Yeti it may say microphone but next to it it'll say like Blue Yeti or Blue Snowball choose that one if you have a webcam it should identify it as well if you're using like a normal headset microphone with a 3.5 mm analog input then it may just say microphone real Tech highdefinition audio if you don't know what you're using exactly just pick some you know start picking some and doing trial and error and if you see in the mixer down here you have an audio level for your microphone as you're talking so just keep picking different ones and talking into the microphone and one of them should work if your microphone's hooked up correctly in your system and you'll see audio a little green audio bar bouncing around here so mine's set up correctly I'm going to put it at my line in USB audio device and then you can enable push to mute or push to talk push to talk is pretty standard and like teams speak and ventrillo and stuff because you hold down a key in order for your microphone to be heard so if you don't want your microphone always to be going in the Stream for whatever reason you can do that that gets pretty problematic in a game however and so what you can actually do is instead do push to mute so instead of having to hold down a key while you're playing a game to talk you can instead only have to hold down a key when you're just you know needing to mute yourself for whatever reason so if you're enabling those and no matter what go ahead and hit apply but if you're enabling those go over here to hot keys and set up some hot keys for this now all you literally have to do is click in the box and press the key that you want to use and then if you put the same key for something like start and stop recording then it'll toggle it so you only have to hit plus to start recording then plus again to stop recording I go more in depth on the hotkeys in another video however if you're if you've used other software like this you should be good to go all right lastly in the settings here let's go to video render for most people direct 3D or direct X it may say something something direct basically should be the option you choose that that that should be it uh for most people that's pretty much all you should be using it may not say 11 but it should be direct 3D or direct X for video adapter I only have one graphics card in my computer so can't actually show an example of this but in computers with multiple graphics cards or computers with or laptops where where it has Intel graphics and an Nvidia graphics card or Intel graphics and dedicated AMD graphics card you know where your processor also does Graphics then you'll want to pick the either AMD or Nvidia Graphics if you have that available otherwise it's going to cause a black screen for your games however if you're recording your desktop you're going to want to choose the Intel option or the AMD option for for your actual processor it'll be like integrated Graphics or Intel HD 3000 or something like that the issue here is is if you're using a laptop with dual Graphics then you're most likely not going to be able to record both your desktop and your games without getting a black screen because the computer actually uses the two different graphics cards for those two different devices so that'll be something you'll have to keep in mind if you're on a laptop and if you have trouble with it check out the OBS support forums links will be in the description below to that for your resolution here this is what either your desktop is at or what your games are going to be at in an ideal world it's going to be 1920 x 1080 in a lot of cases it's not going to be if you click it here it'll show you your monitor resolution options most likely I have three different monitors I have a 1440p monitor a 4k monitor and a 1080p monitor choose the one that you're going to be streaming from if you're unsure of your resolution go over to your desktop right click and if you're on Windows 7 or 8 you can go to screen resolution instead of display settings here it'll say screen resolution on Windows 10 to see your screen resolution right click the desktop go to display settings and then go to Advanced display settings and it will show your resolution for your various monitors here you just have to click a couple extra times I'm actually for the sake of this video I'm going to use my 1440p monitor as my base resolution so I'm going to select the 2560 X 1440 for scaled resolution since we're doing a 720p stream we're doing 1280 x 720 and and then you can choose your frame rate again if you're a twitch partner you can use 60 frames per second if you're not a twitch partner you have to use 30 frames per second also keep in mind that it requires a really powerful computer to do 60 frames per second as well now something to keep in mind if you have a 4x3 aspect ratio monitor or a 16x9 aspect ratio monitor that means your resolution is going to be something crazy like 1440 by 900 or 800x 600 or 1280 x 1024 you know something that's not 16 by by9 widescreen resolution you're going to end up with some black bars issues you can either tell your games to run at that 16x9 resolution so for example on a 1440 by 900 monitor you can actually tell the game to run at 1280 x 720 then you'll work out fine um but otherwise you're going to have black bars and there's no way to fix that other than stretching it and stretching it's going to make it look really distorted and ugly that's just how it works you don't have a widescreen monitor so it's not going to look widescreen there there there's no real getting around that so keep that in mind go ahead and hit apply and then okay cuz we're done all right now we're ready to tackle the bottom part of the screen here and actually set up your video you know your video inputs and then you're good to go to start live streaming so take a look at the interface here and I go over everything in the interface more in depth in another video in the playlist um but over here you have the audio mixer this is how you're going to balance your microphone and your game audio which we set up in the audio settings you have two different volume meters here which will show the active volume and if I I play a Windows sound real quick you'll see the desktop one go up there we go and then my microphone's going up because I'm talking into it now if you're talking too loudly you can turn that down and then what you're really going to want to mess with is turning down your desktop audio this should stay fairly low as your game audio is going to very easily overpower your voice you don't want that so you will have to do since you don't have a live audio preview unless you do like a little test stream to yourself you're going to have to do some trial and error to try to see what your audio levels are at and just you know get it to a sweet spot and save it there that way you don't end up overpowering your voice cuz you don't want to be deep into stream and notice that your stream viewers are saying hey your volume's too loud if they are you can just come sit here and turn it keep turning it down and find the right spot but you're going to want to do some testing to figure out where that is and unfortunately that may even depend per game that's just kind of how it goes next to this you have your controls to start and stop streaming and recording down here at the bottom it will tell you how long you've been streaming or record recing and how much processor power you're using so if you're up in the 80s 7s ' 80s or '90s you're probably using too much power and your computer's probably making your Liv stream or recording lag over here on the left you have your scenes and sources sources are your various video inputs and overlays and things like that such as your video capture card your image overlays your webcam your desktop Etc scenes are collections of those sources so if you have a scene set up with your webcam overlay on top of your gameplay that's a scene and you're going to want to set up multiple scenes to put together a decent live stream that is entertaining for your viewers and has some variety all right to get started we're going to delete this empty scene here by clicking the minus button yes and we're going to click the plus button to add a new one this one's going to be called strm starting okay now this is just going to be a still image to put up when I'm first setting up my live stream to tell people that the stream's starting in a minute but not show my webcam or my screens in case I'm showing passwords or something something like that and so to add that image which is already pre-created by my designer blizzard ball uh you can find his link to his Deviant Art and stuff like that in the description below I did a whole video talking about making these things um check that out in the playlist as well go ahead and click Plus in your sources and add image we're going to call this start strm click okay and then we're going to find it and mine is up under some funky folder here so we're going to go find this channel projects it's actually under the hit box folder starting soon. PNG doesn't matter for full screen images if they're PNG BMP or jpeg because they're not they don't need a transparent background but for overlays which we'll cover in a second you'll need a transparent background right click your image and go to transform and fit to screen just to make sure it looks nice and full we're going to do another scene here click plus and call it BRB we're going to click plus under the source image BB one and we're going to do the same thing for the bite back screen screen okay and then you'll notice here there is a box here it says unload image when not showing now this essentially keeps the image out of system memory when your scene is not up you may want to do this if C keeping it in your you know if not having this checked causes your system to lag if you don't have a lot of RAM memory in your computer or if you're storing the images on a network hard drive like I am you want to keep it in memory because if you lose connection to that nwork hard drive when you switch back to the scene it'll either not show the image or it'll take a minute to actually show it which you don't want that little hiccup so I'm going to uncheck that and then right click transform fit to screen same thing on the start strm one I'm actually going to uncheck that box as well all right next we're going to set up a desktop scene just a plain desktop so I'm going to click plus again I'm going to call this desktop and in this version of OBS it's actually called display capture so when I go to add a source it's called display capture so I'm add that and call it desktop one and then it's automatically picking up my 4k monitor here but that's not the one I want so it has this box right here which lets you choose which monitor you want so I'm going to choose that 1440p one I talked about earlier and then it's automatically fitted to the screen for me but if not we can change that in a second and then capture cursor or not capture cursor depending on what you're doing you may not want to capture your cursor for me I do so click okay and then if it's too big you you can use the little red box here if you click it the red box to change the size move it around or right click transform fit to screen now this is where if you have a 4x3 monitor or a 16 X10 monitor you can right click go to transform and actually hit stretch to screen and it will stretch it to fill up the whole screen without having black bars for most uses other than something like maybe five nights at Freddy's this will make it look very very bad you generally don't want to do this however in certain situ like Five Nights at Freddy's you can do that and it might look okay all right let's do a webcam a webcam is actually a video capture device so we're going to add a scene we'll call it web cam Dy and then add a source and instead we're going to go to video capture device and we're going to call it webcam and then it's going to pop up an option to choose our video capture device you may have a bunch here you may only have one you may have a couple mine is my Logitech webcam now with this you can choose your custom resolution up to what your webcam supports by instead of having device default you can choose custom and then I'm going to go up to 1920 by 1080 and it's going to match the frame rate to what it can to my live stream and then I can transform fit to screen and I have a full webcam view something to keep in mind here is that you cannot change your webcam resolution here and then have it be something else in another scene for your entire scene collection here the webcam res resolution has to be the same or it's going to change it across all your scenes all right so let's make a FaceCam scene so I'm going to make a new scene desktop with FaceCam actually we're not going to make it a desktop with FaceCam so I'm going to remove that scene with the minus button click plus again game game FaceCam we're going to add our webcam Again by going to plus video capture device but instead of creating a new one we're going to click and add existing and choose our webcam next so we're going to hit plus and go to game capture and then we'll just call this game capture and this works differently than it did in previous versions of OBS instead of having to choose whatever game you want you can actually tell it to just capture any full screen application so as soon as your game goes full screen it'll catch it and show it to your stream now this may or may not work for you depending on the compatibility of your game you may have some issues where your game only shows a black screen or something like that so you're going to want to test that check your video stream preview Etc and figure that out if it's not working then you can uncheck that and actually manually choose your game I'm going to leave it checked for now and then go down here and actually choose whether or not you want your cursor captured keep that in mind if you want your cursor uncaptured you can uncheck that and click okay now I don't actually have a game running so this isn't going to show anything so I'm under my sources here I'm going to click this little eyeball icon to turn that off so you don't see it and then I'm going to go ahead and add another desktop capture for the sake of this video so display capture add existing desk stop one all right now you see that my game or my desktop here is over top of my webcam so here if I choose webcam and use these arrows I can move it up and down so I move the webcam up on top of this and then I can use this red box here to change the size and position of it and just drag it over here now I have FaceCam set up and then if you want to add an overlay for FaceCam what you can do is add add that as an image now an overlay image needs to be a PNG file with a transparent background you can talk to a designer like blizzard ball or someone else to make one for you or you can make it yourself in a free program such as or paint.net or even Photoshop however keep in mind it needs a transparent background and it be save as BNG so we're going to go add image we'll go call it overlay click okay find our image which is that one's in my Dropbox and then uncheck unload image and then transform oh transform fit to screen and then we'll adjust our webcam here to fit within our overlay so that way it looks nice and good as a FaceCam with our overlay and boom now we have we webcam FaceCam overlay stuff and you can do that with all sorts of images and things like that you will notice because of a setting I chose by adding my webcam it actually added a webcam audio slider if you're using a webcam or a microphone that isn't your webcam you're actually just want to turn that down that way you're not getting an echo or not having two of you talking so it's going to be the same thing in my webcam only scene you just want that in your mixer turned all the way down so nobody has to hear it all right lastly we're going to add a capture card I'm going to use my live gamer extreme from a media as an example here so I'm going to go to add new scene I'm going to call it lgx click okay and then add video capture device AV lgx for my live gamer extreme and then instead of my webcam we're going to choose a media video capture Now by default since it says it's using the device Default Resolution it's like who what up you don't got anything going through it but I have another monitor I'm looking at here running through it so I'm going to go to custom resolution set it to 1080P and click okay and there we go it has my other monitor here and you can see my OBS OBS crazy preview and then any other time you want to add that Source go to add video capture and then you can add existing and add that you can add a couple other different things here you have a text Source you can add you can just add new text so we'll create new text and then you can type something out shout out to epos boox FTW and then you can change the font you can tell it whether or not you want it to read from a file that's how some of the plugins work for displaying what song is playing or your top donators or something like that so you can tell that and then browse and find the file you can change the colors of your text add an outline Etc and then if we add that over top of here then we have a big of text that we can display over top of our stream obviously you'll want to change the font size so that it doesn't look all pixelated but it works pretty freaking cool if you want to add specific Windows to capture instead of just the display the entire monitor itself you can add a source of window capture and then choose a window that you want to stream so for example I could use explorer.exe well that doesn't like EXP okay that's fine we use Windows store which isn't even open it's going to show a lot of stuff that isn't even necessarily open and that can be kind of a pain so we use core temp here there we go so my temperature monitor for a lot of window capture stuff unless you're using it like in a tutorial fashion you don't want capture or capture cursor on and then I can add for whatever reason if I wanted this window over top my stream I can add it there and it cuts off the title bar but shows the contents of the window so everybody can look at my computer speed and how hot it is ETC pretty cool you can add overlays or overlays for like follower alerts and things like that using plugins like sub alert or what I like to use which is Twitch alerts twitch alerts but it only works with twitch um but keep in mind that that is or but those are a bit more advanced and I may cover them more in depth in other tutorials I did Cover twitch alerts in its own video so keep an eye out for that and then lastly you can set up nightbot if you go to nightbot TV link will be in the description tell it to join your chat and then in your stream chat on your dashboard if we go to live here when nightbot when you tell nightbot to join your chat then you have to make it a moderator so type once your chat loads cuz there we go type slod nightbot it's going to it tells me that it's already a moderator but it's going to make it a moderator that way I can help control spam kick people from your chat for doing stuff you can run giveaways through it you can have it automatically play songs that people request with this Auto DJ function all you do is leave this open and if you have your desktop audio picking up sound it'll start playing the music that your viewers suggest and things like that and then you can also run giveaways with it through nightbot so that's pretty cool link to this will be in the description below it's fairly straightforward to set up I do hope this video has been helpful for you this is probably the longest OBS multiplatform tutorial that I've done again everything's covered more in depth in the other videos in my video playlist Link in the description below if you enjoyed it be sure to smash that like 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