The Best Streaming and Recording Settings 2023

OBS or open broadcaster software is the golden standard nowadays when it comes to live streaming but also recording videos and what can I say it's very it's very good at it but it is also a very powerful tool with lots and lots of settings which can get confusing really fast so what are the best settings for getting the most out of your streamer recording well let's find out right after you hit that like button and heck why not also subscribe to the channel thank you very much okay enough chatting let's jump straight into OBS the first thing that we want to do is to open the settings and head over to the video tab the video tab is for setting the resolution of the video signal but why are there two options here well the first one is called the canvas resolution and it impacts the window that you see inside OBS this canvas is essentially your drawing board where you can add scenes and sources I personally recommend you to set this setting to either your monitors or if you're vlogging to your camera's max resolution as long as it's above 1280 times 720p the output scaled resolution is the one that your stream or video we'll end up with especially when streaming you might want to set it to something lower than your native monitor's resolution if your internet cannot handle it but more on this later for the best Clarity here you should choose your native resolution as well if you need to use a different resolution however then you should choose langsauce as the downscaling filter since it generally looks the best and does not have any impact on performance whatsoever last but not least we need also to select the FPS of our streamer recording on YouTube and twitch this setting should be set to 30 or 60 FPS there are some differences between those FPS values besides fluidity but more on this later so now that we've set our stream resolution we can move on to the output Tab and it's where the most important settings are being located the simple output mode already contains the best possible settings for most use cases and are generally really good but hey we don't want the best overall experience we want the best settings for your specific use case so let's switch over to the advanced tab let's start off by talking about what each setting does first up let's talk about the audio track OBS offers us the opportunity to record several different audio sources separately for example if we want to stream with background music but we are also recording it for a YouTube bot then we can simply say that background music shouldn't play on track too now we could select track 2 in the settings and we successfully have different audio in our stream and recording pretty cool right the same thing is essentially done with the setting twitch Vault track whereas you want to send the same audio except the music with which is what system that's very important for copyright strikes next up is the encoder and it depends on your system configuration what settings are available to you x264 means that encoding is done by your CPU and in the past for low bitrate streams like we see on Twitch and YouTube it was the better looking option but it comes with a cost for once most of you probably don't rock a CPU with that many threats to spare for encoding but even if you do CPU encoding is still very expensive due to bandwidth troubles which could result in increased latencies generally speaking I only recommend CPU encoding on systems that simply do not have other options or are separated from your gaming rig getting the best quality for your stream does not always mean the best Clarity but also the quality of you playing the game if you play worse due to input lag or simply just the immense drop in fps then it might not be fun to watch the stream ooh self burn those are rare plus Hardware encoding Solutions like nvank amp or even quick sync have become really good nowadays and generally speaking there are more important settings that you can tune to get the best quality first I'm going with amp since I own an AMD GPU quality wise nvidia's nvank is still way ahead of AMD and we will cover those settings later up in the video oh and I should also mention that most settings of amp are also available for x264 let's say that you want to stream to Twitch and record a YouTube video in 1080P now sadly your internet connection can't handle 1080p so you need to switch to 720p but you still want your video to be in 1080. rescaling output helps us with that back in the video tab we set our output resolution as 1080p for the YouTube video and rescale it to 720p for our live stream pretty cool feature now let's talk about raid control for streaming you want to set this to CBR since this means that twitch will receive a constant bitrate stream now CBR is worse than vbr or other Solutions in terms of quality however sometimes it can happen that if you send a stream with vbr to YouTube or twitch then the audio gets out of sync and I don't think that you want that bitrate is quite easy they hire the better twitch officially supports a bit rate up to 6 000 kilobit per second but that's not quite the truth in reality twitch can go as high as 8 000 kilobit per second if you disable this checkbox in the Stream tab but you should be careful with this since 8000 might not be handled that well by the specific twitch server that you are connected to in contrast to Twitch YouTube supports way higher bit rates and resolutions which is great but also not that good given that YouTube Trend codes everything even the source resolution therefore to get a higher bitrate on YouTube You should also go more towards 60fps if your network and PC can handle it the keyframe interval is best being set to 2 since it is a very good balance for most the more keyframes you have the more performance and when recording also storage your video will take up higher keyframes really only make sense when you're playing very fast paced video games with lots of movements though 2 is generally enough as the preset we want to choose nothing lower than quality and of course the higher the better it is going to look the profile should be set to high since this allows us to use special settings within the codec to improve visual Clarity at Max B frames is typically best at around 2 to 4. hi there future Michael here um so it turns out that there is currently an issue with the AMD encoder where if you set B frames above zero then it can cause an encoder overload I just want to let you know the difference between B frames and keyframes is that keyframes are uncompressed references for the video Codec in contrast to B frames which can be compressed but they consist of information of previous and forward frames with some sort of prediction model now I'll spare you the advanced settings since not only are they comparably very complicated but also don't really add much to the image quality anymore the key ingredients here are bitrate keyframes and keyframes but if you have an Nvidia GPU then we can go even further since the last year OBS and Nvidia provided new presets which can help us to fine-tune OBS even more now I won't cover up psycho visual tuning and look ahead in detail since I've already done that last year but here are some Keynotes psycho visual tuning should always be enabled since it really improves the image especially when separating moving parts from more static ones it uses Cuda cores for its processing but it does not even have a measurable impact on performance so look ahead on the other hand can improve your image but only if not too much movement is going on since look ahead works best when it can well predict the next image for most this setting is better left on checked for the preset you want to ideally select p7 since it is the best for visual Clarity but you should definitely test the performance here next up would be quality tuning and it should also be set to high quality please don't use the low latency options since these won't provide lower latency for your stream or peripherals they are only here if you want to share your OBS output to let's say Ms teams or Discord something like that don't use it for broadcasting multi-pass or single pass hmm like theoretically multi-pass would be better but effectively it's really not if you want to know more about this then you should definitely check out this video made by eposvox yeah Intel quick sync settings should be self-explanatory now so let's move on to recording because there are quite some differences here for once the first thing you want to change is the recording format to something robust like MKV MKV Inc contrast to MP4 has the big advantage that if OBS or your PC were to crash you can still open and edit the video file can't do that with MP4 now like in the streaming tab let's first choose our encoder since we are recording to a hard drive and are not limited by our Network or the service guidelines we can go ahead and choose a hardware encoder since at higher bit rates they typically generate even better videos than x264 for best compatibility you should choose AVC but if you want the same quality for Less storage use then you can either select hevc or even av1 if you have an RTX 4000 or an rx7000 card in contrast to streaming we are now also way more flexible when it comes to raid control I personally would recommend that you set this option to cqp which tries to hold a certain level of quality for the whole video the lower you set the CQ level the better looking your video will be however also the bigger the file size personally I wouldn't go beneath 15 even though even 17 or even 20 is really good keyframe interval and B frames should be again set to 2 and everything else to high quality like in the streaming Tab and those were already most settings but we are not quite done yet let's head over to the audio Tab and make sure that we set the sample rate to the same value that we use on our microphone and headset very rarely it can happen that your audio gets out of sync if these values are not matched or maybe your voice sounds even a bit higher or lower pitched if you notice that your colors are washed out then you should take a look at the advanced Tab and try out switching the color range from limited to full one of the most common questions I've got asked last year was what you could do if your stream was stuttering now there are two reasons on wire stream might be stuttering you either drop frames or use skip frames dropped frames come from a bat or a low bandwidth internet connection this issue can only be resolved by adjusting the quality options to something lower or upgrading your internet the second problem are skipped frames and they occur when your system is overloaded this is typically a Windows resource allocation problem since the game you're playing of course tries to get the best performance possible and just doesn't leave enough resources for OBS to work properly this has gotten a lot better over the past couple of years but still the easiest fix is to launch OBS as an administrator this gives OBS more permissions to better allocate resources to itself you can even make this temporary and it works and last but not least have you ever seen someone stream in 936p and wondered why why don't they go to 720 or 900p why does weird number well that has something to do with compression for streaming and recording videos you typically use the codec h.264 which works by splitting up the image in 4 times 4 8 times 8 or 16 times 16 pixel blocks which get updated individually if something happens instead of rendering the whole image again 936p is divisible by 4 and 8 and therefore the much better middle ground for Quality than let's say 900p if you want to get the max sharpness out of the overlays on your stream then make sure to place them correctly I even made a whole video about that but for now it's a wrap so make sure to hit that like And subscribe button and all that's left to say now is good morning good afternoon or good evening wherever you are I'll see you around foreign

Channel: Michael Horn

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Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 15 2023