OBS can be fairly complicated.
The setup can be pretty intimidating to new users especially.
Today I'm gonna go through the optimal OBS settings for streaming to
YouTube to make it really easy for you to get started as quickly as
possible.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
Let's dive right into OBS and look at the proper OBS streaming setup
for YouTube.
Here we are in OBS and what we're going to do is go ahead and click
down here in settings.
There really isn't anything here in general that would concern you.
If you want to change the theme or look, you can change that right
here.
This is especially important for people who don't like the OBS 28
look.
You can change it from whatever they're using to the dark, so it will
look like mine if you like.
Over here on stream, you're gonna drop down service and select YouTube
obviously, you're going to make sure that you have the YouTube primary
ingest server and we're going to use a stream key instead of allowing
them to connect our account.
It's just easier.
I like to change my stream key for every stream so I don't have to
worry about anything getting hijacked or anything like that.
So you just click the use stream key.
It brings up the box right here and we can go over into our YouTube
and your stream key is right here in your live streaming studio.
You just copy it right here and then paste it directly into here with
the right click and paste.
And there you go.
Your stream key is in there.
Make sure you apply it when you're done and then we move on to the
output section.
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Here in output yours might look like this.
It will be set in simple mode.
We want to go ahead and change it to the advanced mode.
We're only concerned about streaming here.
We're not going to be recording.
And to set up our streaming information, what we want to do is select
our encoder.
You may have multiple encoders in here.
There are really only two that you need to be worried about.
That is X 2 64 or the Nvidia Nvenc encoder, if you have an Nvidia
card.
Now I have an Nvidia card, so that's what I'm going to select.
You're going to get better results from this than you will with X
2 64, especially if you have a computer that is not quite as fast as
you would hope that it should be.
So we've got our Nvenc.
You want to make sure that rescale output is not checked, and then we
want to go ahead and make this 6,000.
That is the 1920 by 10 80 bit rate.
Our key frame interval is going to be two.
I'm going to preset mine to max quality, and this will use a little
more processing power.
If you have the machine to run it, please do.
Otherwise, quality is just fine.
I find max quality to be very nice looking.
The profile here is high.
And then I'm gonna go ahead and check these.
These are two things that are included with the Nvenc encoder and they
just help to process stuff a little quicker, a little smoother, and a
little sharper.
That is for the Nvenc encoder.
If you have X 2 64, once again, your rate control's gonna be cbr.
You do not want your output rescaled.
The bit rate is going to be exactly the same.
We're gonna go with 6,000.
We are not going to use a custom buffer size.
Your key frames here are going to be two, and right down here is where
you're going to set up your CPU usage.
And this is important depending upon the type of machine you have.
Right here is your CPU usage for your preset, I have it set to very
fast, which is acceptable quality.
The more you go down this list, the higher the quality of the video is
going to be, but the more processing power it's going to use on your
computer.
Now you can go to ultrafast, but chances are you're not going to be
all that excited about the quality of the video that you get.
So you want to go as far down this list as you can go on your computer
and you're gonna have to test this.
There's no way that I can tell you what the right setting is for your
computer.
All you need to know is that Ultrafast is going to be the lowest
quality and placebo is going to be the highest quality, and you wanna
find what works best for your eyes and your computer.
I set my profile here to high and I set my tune to film and of course
you can choose whatever you want.
There are a bunch of different types of things here.
Animation could be something you're interested in if you're doing some
sort of video game that's very animation like, but I find that film
looks the best to my eye.
So that is the streaming setup for both X 2 64 and Nvenc encoder.
The next thing we wanna do is go into audio.
I like to make sure that all of this audio stuff is disabled and the
only thing I'm really worried about is our monitoring device.
I want to set this up so that it is wherever I'm going to be listening
to any sort of information from the stream or sound or music or
something like that.
Generally it should be headphones because if it's playing through your
speakers, it will also go into your microphone.
So I'm going to go ahead and select my headphones right here and we're
all set.
The last piece is the video piece right here, and you want to set your
canvas and your output resolution to the exact same thing.
We are streaming in 1920, so that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna set that up right here.
And then all we need to do is select our frames per second.
Right here, I stream at 30, some people stream at 60.
If you stream at 60, you might need to adjust your bit rate a little
bit.
I find that 30 is just fine for most streamers.
And that is pretty much it.
There is nothing in hot keys or advance that you really need to worry
about to set up to have a great looking stream.
You just click apply and okay, and you have the optimal settings for
live streaming to YouTube.
Now that you have all the settings right to stream to YouTube, what
other OBS things do you struggle with?
Let me know in the comments.
And if you wanna see how to set up a simple stream, you should check
this video out.
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