OBS Studio Full Setup Guide and Tutorial For Streaming

what's going on guys and welcome back to the Hammer dance YouTube channel it's that time of the year again there has been a ton of updates on OBS I'm making this video for new returning old young every kind of streamer uh we're gonna be going over how to set up OBS to stream on Twitch YouTube whatever it is that you want to stream on from start to finish it's going to be a full walkthrough as fast as I possibly can on how to set the program up from nothing to streaming but before we do that guys let's give a shout out and thank you to our sponsor for today's video own.tv own.tv is the place to go guys if you're looking for some fresh new graphics for your stream whether you're on Twitch YouTube or Facebook gaming you'll find something that's a perfect fit for your channel they offer full themed overlay packages which are great if you're trying to give your stream a complete makeover but let's say you're just looking to pick up some new alert Graphics don't worry because they've got you 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that I find irrelevant uh or that I feel like you don't need to know just to get started with streaming so bear with me this is going to be a more simplified tutorial on just how to get people going you know really really quick Get You Up Up and online and streaming as fast as possible so we go to settings and in our first tab here under the general tab we have a few things we have language minus set to English you can choose your theme that you want OBS to be in you can choose whatever you want here this is the Dark theme I kind of like this new Yami theme I think it's a very modern looking and nice and the text Pops off the colored backgrounds and all that I love it so under this tab nothing super important you can have it automatically check for updates on Startup which I leave up just because if there is an OBS update you know you do want to get that update as soon as you open the program other than that nothing in here is going to affect your stream uh significantly so what we can do is completely skip the rest of that tab let's head over to the streaming tab now this tab a little bit more important this is where you're going to select your streaming service right so if you're streaming on Twitch this is where you select twitch if you're streaming on YouTube this is where you're going to select YouTube so right here I'm streaming on Twitch so I have my service selected as twitch uh the server that you want to use to stream to you're going to have that set to Auto and right here I have my Twitch account connected uh but if you're just setting this up for the first time you're gonna be able to connect to your account and log into your Twitch account or your YouTube account whatever it may be right here it says disconnect account for me just because my account is currently connected it's already connected other than that we can leave the rest of this stuff alone and head on over to the output tab another important tab here so in the output tab this is where we're gonna um you know finagle with most of the settings for our Stream So output tab under the streaming tab here you may want to come up to the top under the output mode and select Advanced it should be on simple when you first start it up change it to Advanced so that we can mess with some settings in here so under the streaming tab we're gonna come down here um and we are going to the first super important thing here is we're going to look at our encoder uh if you're using a 10 series or higher Nvidia GPU I suggest using the nvank h.264 encoder like I'm using here if not you can use x264 which will use your processor instead of your graphics card but if you do have this option I will always suggest using this option it's a lot less demanding on your PC's resources your frames will be higher in games and overall streaming will impact the performance of your PC a lot less if you use this option so Nvidia and Bank h.264 selected do not touch rescale output come down here to encoder settings we want to set this to CBR and your bit rate is going to be determined by the resolution of your stream so I'm streaming on Twitch at 1080P 60fps and I have messed around with this quite a bit and found that 8K bitrate is the sweet spot for me where everything looks pretty clear and I have no issues if you're streaming at 1080 at 30 FPS you can drop that down to 6K no problem uh even 1080p 60fps looks fine at 6K scrolling down we have keyframe interval we want to set that to two seconds preset I have mine on Max quality however if you're getting a little bit of stuttering or your PC seems to be lagging a little bit you can drop it down to Quality or even performance they both still look pretty good profile I have mine set to high look ahead checked cycle visual tuning checked GPU set to zero and Max B frames set to two next we're gonna head over to the audio tab this is where we're going to be able to mess with our audio settings so for general purposes you want to have your sample rate set to 48 kilohertz your channel set to stereo so you don't get some weird uh mono sound your Global audio devices so here is where you're going to be able to if you don't have a go XLR this is a little bit more important for you so this is where you're going to be able to select your microphone so what you do is hit this drop down and select your microphone from the mic auxiliary uh tracks and then the desktop audio you'd probably want to have this set to default if you're using headphones or speakers whatever you normally use you can just leave that set to default and that should pick up your audio from your PC you know any game you're playing or anything like that I have a lot of tutorials on like more in-depth audio setup for OBS if you want to check them out on the channel but for General setup purposes set your desktop audio to default select your microphone under mic auxiliary and you should be good to go there we're gonna head over to the video tab another pretty important tab here so in the video tab this is where we're going to set our resolution of our stream under the base canvas resolution uh I'm gaming in 1920x1080 at 240 hertz so what I do is Select 1920x1080 because that is the monitor that I am using that's what I'm gaming at and then the output scaled resolution is going to be what you want your stream to be output as right so I'm streaming in 1920 by 1080p at 60fps so for me I select 1920x1080 no issues there but you can play in 1920x1080 and then stream in let's say 720. all you would do was change your output scaled resolution here to 1280x720 and that means that now you're playing in 1080P but your stream will be in 720p and for people with a little bit less powerful PCS or a little bit slower internet this may be the better option for you downscale filter um resolutions match no downscaling required that's going to be just default common FPS values this is where you'll set the FPS of your stream like I said I'm doing 60 FPS so I have 60 in there if you're doing 30 you can do 30 48 you can put that in there as well no issues whatsoever very very simple next tab over here on the left guys we have hotkeys if you don't have a stream deck or any kind of Hardware that allows you to basically map buttons to you know perform actions within OBS this is where you're gonna have a lot of fun because there is a hotkey for every function in OBS but basically you can bind Keys like you know using keybinds in setting up you know game keybinds same idea here you can bind keys on your keyboard to do certain actions within OBS very cool tab here I don't really use this strictly because I have a stream deck that I use for this stuff but if you don't have a stream deck this tab is extremely useful you can browse through here there's a ton of things that you can map to keys to just have easy access while you're streaming accessibility don't have to do anything within this tab and under the advanced tab right here you do want to have your process priority set to normal you don't want to go any higher than that normal seems to be pretty solid you don't want OBS to be pulling too many resources from your PC all of this stuff should be this exact settings that I have here if it is changed I would change it to this here and you can also add a stream delay let's say you're getting stream sniped or you just want there to be like a significant you know 60 second delay you can enable a stream delay here put your custom duration in and it will work I do suggest having automatically reconnect enabled strictly because if you have some internet issues it won't cancel your entire stream and take it offline it'll keep trying to reconnect your viewers won't get kicked out all around good feature to just have enabled in my opinion and everything else under here I would not worry about so those are the basics of setting up OBS from scratch very simple tutorial guys but this is meant to help people who are just getting started who just want to get going with streaming I don't want to confuse anyone I don't want to dive too deep into this I have more in-depth videos on my channel if you want to get a little bit more in depth with your settings with audio and video and keybinds and things like that but for the purposes of this video This is for people just jumping into this wanting to set it up for the first time I wanted to make it as simple as possible and you know by the end of this video I wanted you to be able to basically hit start streaming and go live and I think we accomplished that here guys so if I did help you hit that like button it does help me out a lot and drop some comments down below let me know if you guys need any more help let me know some new videos that you guys want to see I mean I'm trying to brainstorm a lot of things for this fall I got a lot of ideas but yeah I'm always open to new suggestions if you guys want to see videos on specific topics or items or whatever drop the comments 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Length: 10min 53sec (653 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 20 2022