How To Screen Record On Windows With OBS (Free Software)
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In this video Will shows you how to setup OBS to screen record for your video edits. OBS is free for windows and has a lot of great features!
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Welcome back to another video my name is will and in this one we're gonna talk about the OBS software for Windows it's a screen recording software it's totally free it's super easy to use but I'll teach you my own custom settings that I use to record the screens for our tutorials and if your video editing if you ever need to screen capture something to throw into your edits this is how you did.
I have OBS open here and you're seeing this weird trippy view because I'm recording a screen capture of a screen capture but anyway this is the preview window and then down here in order to get the preview window you want to make sure that you create a monitor capture to do that you just right click and go to add and then go to display capture and then I've just changed the name of it to monitor capture and if I go to right-click properties you'll see that I've set it to my display and I am capturing the cursor which I find helpful for doing tutorials you can turn that off if you want though and then secondly I'm recording with a microphone attached to an audio device and similarly I right clicked when to add and then audio input capture that created this and if we do the same thing right click go to properties you'll see that here is my focus right USB audio device so that's my interface to record the audio and then on the right if I wasn't recording it would say start recording so you'd press that button to start and then you could press stop recording to stop it it'll then automatically save the file into a folder that you set in the settings so let's go to settings and on the settings tab I've made several adjustments and you can copy the settings I have or do a mix and match so that you have your own custom settings so at the top here I don't automatically check for updates because I prefer to update manually when I want update the rule for me is if it's not broken don't fix it and then I believe all the other settings are set the default in this page will skip the stream because we're not streaming under the output settings we'll go to recording so my recording path is set to my internal drive into a folder called screen captures and for my recording format I can't change that now because I am recording however I've set it to MKV there are several other options but I would recommend recording an MKV I've done a lot of research on this and my own tests MKV is your best option because with MKV if the program crashes it'll still save the file up to that point whereas if you set it to one of the other options like mp4 if it does crash you're gonna lose a file it won't save it on top of that MKV and mp4 are the only two formats that I believe you can record multi-channel audio.
So for me I do record the desktop audio as well as my microphone so I do need the two channels and that's why I choose the MKV option under the audio tracks I 1 & 2 selected and then under the encoder reused in the codec x264 which is h.264 and then for the rescale output I leave that as unchecked then on the bottom settings I have the rate control set to CBR which is constant bitrate you can change it to variable bitrate if you like but I prefer to be constant during the whole recording and the constant bitrate for that that I've set is 8000 kilobytes per second I think that is a good bitrate for HD screen captures you could go higher but you might risk the chance of overloading the the screen capture software and then it might stop your recording so I've found that 8000 doesn't really compromise quality but it also is quick enough that it won't stop ever when you're recording and then now we're done with this tab let's go to audio on this page you can see that I've set the audio bitrate to 256 for all of them and then let's go to the Audio tab under here the sample rate is 48 kilohertz and I record the stereo and I've left the desktop audio to default that means it'll just record anything that the computer plays internally let's say you're watching a YouTube video or you're playing back any other video listening to music that's what the computer will record and then I've set the other settings to disabled because I don't need them and then the other settings are default so let's go to the video tab for here I keep the base resolution 1920 by 1080 and the output resolution the same so 1920 by 1080 again and for the downscale filter I leave it to bicubic and then for the frames per second I set it to 24/
Alright let's go to hotkeys I've removed all the hotkeys and I have start recording set to alt shift 2 so you can set it to whatever you like I find that easy to start and stop recording alright so that is it on the Advanced tab I just left it all as default and then back in this setting click on the little gear at the bottom here and go to advanced audio properties so this shows you our audio input and our desktop audio right now I have my input set to minus 4.4 and my desktop audio set to minus 0.9 just so it doesn't peak I have my audio input to down mix to mono and then for the tracks I have it recording to 1 for the audio input and then for the desktop audio I have it set to 3 and 4 so once you're done your recording like I said it'll automatically save once you hit stop and then it will save your MKV file now in most cases and TV is not the best option to edit with so I prefer to do what's called remark Seng and to do that you go to file and then remix recordings and that will open up the remix recording panel and under the three dots here for the OBS recording if you click it select one of the mkv files and then go to open it'll bring it into the program and then if you hit free MUX it'll do it almost instantly it's very very quick and that'll turn the file into an mp4 file but it'll also keep the MKV file in that folder and then from there you can keep your MKV file as a backup but use your mp4 files before editing so that's easy enough that's how you screen record using the OBS software for windows thanks for checking this video out if you like to give it a thumbs up subscribe and we'll see you next time
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