Today, someone from the Video Creators community
is going to walk you guys through how
to use the open broadcast software,
how to set it all up so you can record
your screen-- your video game footage
or whatever you're doing on your computer--
along with your microphone, and a little square of you
from your webcam-- little video of yourself also.
That's coming up.
Hello people from Video Creators.
My name is Nathaniel, I'm 19 years old,
and I'm living in Netherlands.
Maybe you can hear that from my accent and I think you can
and that sucks, but I can't do much about that.
I have a YouTube channel called Nathie944,
also known as Nathie, and I'm doing
a lot of gaming videos on that.
And I'm also doing a lot of virtual reality.
So if you want to take a look at my channel
feel free to do that.
There's a link in the description.
But anyway, today I'm going to give some tips
or you could also call it a tutorial about Open Broadcaster
Software and now you think, what is that?
Well, Open Broadcaster Software is a program
that you can use for video recording and live streaming.
And now you think like, how much does it cost?
It's completely free so that's awesome.
So a few attempts of what you can do with this program
are you can record your screen so you could do a screen
capture, you can do some tutorials with it,
you can show your YouTube channel as well.
And you can also record your voice
so you can record your microphone
and edit a little bit, so that's also really nice.
And you can use it for recording your games.
And that's the point I want to talk about
so let's go to the program and then I will show you
how to set up a little video with a game, a webcam, and also
a microphone.
So let's take a look.
So this shows what Open Broadcaster looks.
Looks kind of boring I know but if you know how it works,
then it's really, really cool.
First of all, we are going to the settings
because before we record a video you always
have to check out the settings.
Please notice that I'm going to go through this really quick
because it's a lot of work to explain this in detail.
So we are going to go through this really quick.
First of all, put your language on English
or in your own language.
Put Setting Profile, put your name here.
I keep it on untitled because it doesn't really
matter what you fill in there.
Also enable cursor over projector.
That's also really important so put it on as well.
Click on Apply and let's go to the second one.
Encoding.
So, the encoding should be on 264 because it's an MP4 file
and you can edit it afterwards really
easily in Adobe Premiere for example.
So that's why I would put it on that.
Do the quality balance on 10 and then turn on CBR.
Put the maximum bitrate on 8,000 and enable the CBR padding
as well.
Put the codec for your audio on AAC,
the format on 48 kilohertz, and the bitrate on 192,
and the channel on stereo.
So then click on Apply again and then let's
go to the Broadcast Settings.
The Broadcast Settings are really
important because with this you choose
if you want to live stream or you
want to record something on your computer.
So I would choose for File Output
because I'm using this for my recordings.
I'm not using it for live streams.
So let's click on File Output.
Choose your file path where you want to save the files.
I have this one.
And then you can also choose your start recording hotkeys.
I'm not using that as well but you can use this.
It's really easy then you can just click one button
and then you are recording.
So click on Apply again and let's go through Video.
On Video you can choose your video card.
Choose NVIDIA or whatever your video card is.
Choose for the base resolution for full HD so 1920 by 1080,
choose a resolution downscale.
You are not downscaling this, just keep it on full HD.
If it's lagging or going slow, then choose a lower one here.
Click on the filter on Lanczos best detail, 36 samples.
This has to do with pixel so how the quality is of your video,
I would put it on the highest one.
Put your frames per second on 60.
If you're gaming I would even put it higher.
But this is just a basic one.
And if you are doing some screen capturing,
I would put it on 30.
Disable Aero is also a really important function.
Keep it on if you are a gamer.
Then save it again and let's go to Audio.
Here you have to put on your speakers.
It's in Dutch here, Luidsprekers,
but in English it is speakers, of course.
So this is speakers, put it on speakers,
and your microphone should be here.
So choose your webcam microphone or your normal microphone,
depends on what you have.
Turn it on there.
The rest here is not really important.
You can change some settings here
but I'm not really using them.
So click on Apply again.
Go to Advanced.
If you are doing this the right way,
then your video is almost perfect.
So, click on Use Multithreaded Optimizations,
click on Process Priority Class, put it
on normal scene buffering on 400,
allow other modifiers on hotkeys,
put encoding profile on high, use CFR,
allow 61 to 120 frames per second.
If you want to have more frames per second,
you have to turn this on because then you can change it here
on video, you know.
So the rest of those settings here are not really important.
You can experiment with them a little bit
if you want to try them out.
Save it again and then you can also
change your microphone a bit with the noise gates.
So if you have too much noise in your microphone
then you can change a little bit here
but I already did that so I don't have to do that again.
So that's all the settings you have and now we
are going to the fun part because the program still
a little bit boring, you know.
So what you have to do here is add a scene.
So you want to add a video here.
Click on Add Scene and fill in your YouTube channel
or however you want to call it.
I call it Video Creators because this video
is on Video Creators, you know.
So I'm adding it here.
Now click on Preview Stream because you
want to see your scene.
And as you can see, it's black.
You don't see anything.
You can only see the audio moving a little bit
and also my speakers so this is what
you hear on my monitor or my computer.
So we don't want to have a black video so let's add a source.
So you can add a source, you can choose out
of a monitor capture, that means it's your screen capturing
and you can also choose for game capture
and that's what we are going to do.
I click on Game Capture.
You can call it a name as well.
I call it Game Capture.
And now you can choose a program that you want to record.
So I'm going to choose my game.
I have a game here.
It's called, Don't Starve.
Now I click on OK.
You can change some stuff here as well.
I would just keep it like this.
Now we have a game as you can see.
But now I only have the game.
I also want to add a webcam or face cam to this video.
So what do I have to do?
I have to go to sources again I have to add a new source
and that's going to be the Video Capture
Device because that's my webcam.
You can choose your webcam here, you can change a lot of stuff
here as well.
I would just keep it like it is and then press OK.
As you can see, you see my face right now and it's really big.
So what you do is you click on Edit Scene
and now you make it smaller like this.
It's moving a little bit.
So you can put it in the corner like real gamers do, you know.
So, I have it in the corner right now.
Now press Control L and then keep it like that and then
you can crop it a little bit as well.
So, this is my whole set up already.
I only have two scenes.
You can have even more stuff.
You can even add images.
So I could add an image here.
Wait a second, let's just add a random image I have.
Let's see if it works on my logo.
Here.
Well, I can put it here as well.
I can put as many images or web cams
or whatever I want in here.
So if you're happy with the results,
you can stop previewing it and then
you can just start recording the video and now it's recording it
and then stop it again.
And then you have to file and then you are done
and then you can edit it in Adobe Premiere
or another program or just upload it immediately
to YouTube.
That's also possible.
So yeah, that is my tutorial.
I hope you liked it.
And now I have a question for you guys of course.
And that's about live streaming.
So are you using a lot of live streams?
If yes, then how are you interacting
with your subscribers?
Because sometimes you are live streaming for hours
and then you have to keep them watching your live stream
and sometimes that's really hard.
So I would like to hear from you guys
what you are using to keep the live streams interesting.
And if you're not using live streams, then
why are you not using them?
I'm also curious about that.
And why should you subscribe to Video Creators?
Well, it's because this channel has so many tips and tricks
for your YouTube channel that you never heard about before.
And if you are really listening to their tips
and you are using them for your channel,
you are really growing and see the difference
and people get more happy on your channel.
So it's really to grow your channel and it's really nice
those tips.
That's my opinion about it.
But anyway, this is it.
Those are my last words.
I'm kind of emotional right now that I
have to end this video but yeah, that was it.
And well as I always say, and I see you guys next time.