setting up OBS to stream to YouTube is really easy let me show you how first thing to do is rightclick OBS Studio wherever it is and run as administrator or if you do not have OBS Studio yet then make sure you go to the OBS pro.com website and you grab the windows Mac or Linux version whatever it is that you need once we open OBS make sure that you go up to the help Tab and click check for updates these updates are going to improve functionality bug fixes and also are going to add add new features in order to make streaming to YouTube and twitch a lot easier in order to get connected to YouTube you need to go to the settings section and you need to hit the stream tab once we're in the Stream section you're going to want to hit service and make sure that YouTube is enabled not twitch or any of the other ones you can ignore the server and just hit connect account it just allows you to sign in make things super easy make sure you allow OBS to access your account by hitting continue a message will appear saying authorization completed successfully you can close this page now that we're back in OBS Studio we need to make sure that the ignore streaming service recommendations box is checked and the reason for this is we do not agree with the video bit rate options that they are giving us right now and we're going to custom set those in just a moment once you've done this make sure you hit apply you'll notice that a couple of screens appear on your OBS so go ahead and hit okay and we're going to move this one it's called a dock we're going to move it over to the left side and this is our chat box and it could slip right in there you can put anywhere you want but I recommend obviously left or right that makes the most sense to me you'll also notice the live control panel is now enabled as well in order to use this we need to sign in again but once we do it'll have some neat features to it so go ahead and sign in before we go any further there is something that you need to know YouTube requires that in order for you to start live streaming you have to wait a 24-hour period of time to go through a verification process let me show you how to do that in order to start the verification process we're going to hit YouTube Studios icon right there and now what I need you to do is hit create and then go live and you will see a timer appears on the screen to let you know that you have requested access on blank blank blank blank and it will be available after this timer now knowing you have a waiting period choose one of two things to do you can a come back later and watch the rest of this video once your waiting period is done or B you can watch the rest of this video and then when your waiting period is done you're already ready to stream I'll let you decide that and I'm going to keep going if your page has a request button on it to start this countdown make sure you hit that before you do whatever it is you're going to do and for more information on the waiting process you can hit the learn more button and it will tell you basically the same same thing that I was telling you already once your channel is unlocked go ahead and hit the manage broadcast button in the manage broadcast section you can set a lot of different settings including your title your description your privacy to public unlisted or private you could even set your category to gaming film Autos etc etc I would highly recommend for most of you that you're going to want to say no it's not made for kids so whatever you're doing is probably not made for kids also it affects monetization ability you can add your stream thumbnail as well here and additional settings including latency normal and low are generally fine I would always enable DVR this allows for your stream to be recorded and then posted to YouTube you could always unlist those videos but sometimes it's good to have them in case you want to clip something from it and finally you can schedule the broadcast for later by clicking this button if your schedule for later is unchecked then your options will be create broadcast and create broadcast and start streaming this will make you go live immediately but hold on don't do that because we need to go through your bit rate settings before you even think about sending this broadcast through the next important things we need to do are in settings and they are in video first off and generally speaking you're going to want your stream your base canvas and your scaled canvas you're going to want these to be the same and you're going to want them to be 1920 x 1080 cuz most devices and internet speeds can keep up with that amount it's pretty common to do 60 frames per second especially in gaming or something that's high action but if you're finding that you need to lower the settings in order to maintain your internet speed bit rate stuff that we're going to talk about in just a moment then you could always lower it to 30 frames per second especially if you're doing talking head stuff once you're done with these settings hit apply and then move on to the output tab make sure that your output mode is on Advan instead of simple in order to access these options for the output tab there's a couple options here specifically for the video video encoder and for the bit rate for video encoders there are a few options you have the GPU based options which are the Nvidia the AMD the sometimes Intel will come up here the Mac anything that in that says like an actual name will most likely be your GPU gpus are the best way of encoding because they have generally a dedicated chip and allows the GPU to be able to do other things while it's also in encoding your stream pick a GPU encoder if you can if you cannot if that is not available then you can do x264 which means that your CPU is encoding that profile instead so I'm going to stick to something very friendly to all platforms and do h264 I'm going to leave the rate control at CBR and your bit rate is determined by your internet speed in order to do that you need to go to a site like speedtest.net and you need to hit the go icon in the middle in order to test your internet connection connection as you can see my test results were a 90491 for the download and a 92877 for the upload and the way that I like to do this is I like to take the number that I have and I like to cut it in half 928 does not break evenly in half very well so I'm going to just imagine that my upload speed is actually an 800 megabytes per second 800 cut in half is 400 so we're going to assume it's 400 megabytes per second the easiest way to do this to convert it into kilobytes is to just add three zeros to the end so my 400 is now going to be 400,000 and that's going to equal kilobytes 400,000 kilobytes per second is exactly how much I have internet speed wise to use for the bit rate of my stream to reference that to an actual chart we would then go to the official YouTube recommended streaming settings which I will link in the description and on this page it tells you exactly the requirements that they recommend for each quality level as you can see we are doing 1080p at 60 frames per second if we go over to the right side of the chart you can see that for 1080p 60 frames per second they recommend a 12 MGB per second upload speed this is in order to have a stable stream according to you the easiest way to change megabytes into kilobytes is to just have three zeros at the end in this case 12 mbes per second is going to be 12,000 kiloby per second and in case you're wondering why I keep saying just add three zeros it's because every 1,000 kiloby equals 1 Megabyte so it works out cleanly as long as you're on an even number to to be able to just add three zeros to the end to convert it and we don't have to be exact with these bit rates we just have to be somewhat close so if I only need 12,000 kiloby per second in order to have a healthy stream and I have 400,000 then that means I am very much in the clear and I can go ahead and just put my 12,000 and be done there's no point in using the whole 400,000 as there's no actual gain past what YouTube is recommending however if I was recording at 4K 60 then I would need a lot higher bit rate of 35,000 mbes per second let's go through a hypothetical situation that probably will apply to most of you let's say you did a speed test and that speed test yielded you an upload speed of 20 mbes per second you would then cut that 20 mbes per second upload speed in half and you'd have 10 mbes per second then add three zeros and you now have 10,000 kilobytes per second and in this circumstance if you were doing 1080p60 with h264 then you would be under the recommended amount of 12,000 kiloby per second needed to have a healthy Stream So then at that point you may consider going down to 30 frames per second or even 720 and 60 frames per second I hope that makes a little more sense to you on the bit rate end of things if you have any questions about how that math works out then please comment below so let's go ahead and put in my 12,000 recommended bit rate as for the key frame interval YouTube actually recommends 2 seconds for the preset I recommend P4 which is medium to medium quality the lower you go to p7 the best quality you have but the harder it is for your computer to run and vice versa the higher up you go to P1 will be lower quality but will be the easiest for your computer to run it's been proven by other content creators that Medium quality seems to be the best return or what you're giving up tuning stick to high quality and multi-pass mode turn it to single pass your profile can be on high and I would turn off look ahead and cycle visual tuning your GPU is most likely going to be zero if you have a dedicated GP U which means it's not tied to your CPU if you have a laptop then most likely you will have a GPU tied to your CPU but in order to check that the easiest thing you can do is actually just hit control alt delete and go to task manager when you pull your task manager up go ahead and hit the performance Tab and you will see down here at the bottom that it states what number your GPU is named as you can see my GPU is named gpu0 which you may have multiple gpus show up and you need to figure out which one is the better GPU and then you need to put that number in this spot your B frames should be a Max of two and then once you're done with these settings you can go ahead and hit apply now that you've set up your settings before you start streaming just be aware that you probably want an overlay of some kind in order to be more visually appealing to your audience there are many ways to find overlays both professional paid ones and also professional free ones I'm going to show you a couple quick methods so you know where to look the first site I would recommend to a lot of people is own.tv and you can hit the stream overlays package and YouTube overlays and you'll see a bunch of overlays right here they're all pretty neat professional detailed and come with just about everything that you need including alerts and things like that they're pretty inexpensive and if you you do want to get one then be sure to use my affiliate link down below it doesn't cost you anything extra it just helps support the channel however if you're not ready to pay for an overlay like an owned overlay which can be a little overwhelming at times then don't worry about it right above my head should be some videos where we talk about how to set up stream elements free overlays and also an overlay that I give you for free from our personal designer I look forward to seeing you in those videos let's keep learning OBS together
