Hello, my YouTube friends.
The new OBS OBS 28 is currently in beta and testing.
What does it mean for you?
What's going to be coming in OBS 28?
Well, it's pretty exciting news if you're a Mac user and there's some
really awesome stuff for Windows folks out there as well.
We're going to talk about it today.
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Now, the first thing you should know about OBS 28 is that it's still
in beta and that means it's for testing purposes, which means that you
should not be using it to live stream or record anything that you
absolutely need to have right.
It's in beta it's has bugs.
It's going to have all kinds of possible problems.
So if you're going to test it and use it, you probably want to use the
portable version, check it out, but don't be using it for live
streaming or recording.
Anything that you absolutely need.
I mean, it's a beta now that we have that out of the way, let's talk a
little bit about what's actually in OBS 28 for the folks who use
Windows, there are some really exciting things.
First they're adding HDR and 10 bit.
So what does this actually mean?
Well, for the average viewer or user of OBS, it probably doesn't mean
anything for a little bit of an explanation on what HDR is.
HDR is like a photograph except for it's video.
And what it does is it takes different images at different exposures.
So you might have one image that's very dark and one image that's very
light.
And then the processing combines those images.
And what it does is it adds a lot of dynamic range to the combined
images.
So for those of you who use a camera with a very small aperture or
something like that, you notice a lot of the graininess in dark areas.
Well, what HDR does is it allows a lot of that to be eliminated by
combining a bunch of images at different exposures, thereby taking the
best image for each of those dynamic ranges and combining them to
eliminate a lot of that stuff.
But here's the thing it's definitely going to require you to have
equipment that most people aren't going to be using for their live
stream.
And so I don't really see HDR becoming a thing that a lot of people
are using right off the bat.
It's really cool to have.
And in the future, I think it's going to be something really big, but
for right now, it's probably not something you're going to be
interested in or worried about.
OBS 28 is actually updating from Qt 5 o Qt 6 and most people don't
really understand what any of that means, but essentially it means
that it's a fully integrated 64 bit platform, and this can have
negative consequences for those of you who are using a 32 bit
operating system or something like that.
And this is also going to cause a lot of the plugins that are written
in 32 bit to not function properly in OBS 28.
So it's something you're going to keep in mind, basically what it is
is it's a full transformation from 32 bit or some 32 bit parts of OBS
into fully complete 64 bit OBS.
And that means if you're using any old Windows operating system like
Windows seven or Windows eight, well, you're not going to be able to
use it with OBS 28.
It is what it is.
For most people, we're not really going to notice anything about the
switch to QT six, other than the fact that some of our older plugins
may not work.
But I believe that the changes that they're making are the reason why
OBS 28 is going to be in beta for quite some time.
And that is to give all of the plug-in makers the ability to update
their plugins, so they're going to function properly in OBS 28.
So you can expect a pretty long beta for OBS 28, just to give all that
stuff, time to catch up.
Application, audio capture, or win audio capture, as it's been called,
as the plugin is actually going to be fully integrated into OBS, which
is really awesome.
You're not going to have to install a plugin to be able to
individually select audio sources that you want to add to OBS anymore.
OBS web socket 5.0
is now going to be fully integrated into OBS.
And it won't be a plug-in anymore either.
A couple of other things that are going to be integrated into the full
OBS is the Nvidia background removal tool, which is awesome.
You just have to install the Nvidia SDKs in order to get it to work.
And of course also the noise removal tool from Nvidia is going to be
fully integrated as well.
And I think one of the best things is if you are using a webcam in OBS
and you go in there and you modify the settings of your webcam, well,
those are going to actually be saved from now on.
And you're not going to have to go in and fix your webcam every time
you start up OBS.
And that is really, really awesome.
That's been a long time coming and I'm excited to see that that is
finally added to OBS.
They've also integrated a new AMD encoder, which is great for the
folks that use AMD video cards.
And that covers a lot of the major stuff for Windows, but Mac is
really getting it laid on thick in this version.
And I'm really excited because it's a long time coming.
Finally OBS 28 is going to be Mac native, which means it's going to
run directly on the Mac M one silicone.
And that's really exciting.
They've also gone in and fixed a lot of the screen capture issues that
you were having on Mac OS as well.
That should be much improved.
It also means that any of the plugins that were created for Mac are
going to have to be updated, to run on apple silicone as well.
And until that happens, they're not going to work, which isn't a big
deal.
Cause like I said, I think this is going to be a long beta to give the
plugin manufacturers a time to catch up.
There's been a lot of work done to the Mac native encoder as well,
which last time I tested was actually working pretty good anyways, and
it can only get better from here.
So you're finally going to be able to actually live stream from your
Mac in native apple, silicone.
And I think this is a game changer for anyone who's live streaming on
a Mac using OBS.
I'm really excited about it.
And on top of all that stuff, there are all kinds of little tweaks and
things that are going to improve with the new OBS 28.
I'm really excited for the full release, but of course, like I said,
you don't want to stream with it.
You want to wait until it's out of beta.
Then if you install it, all your plugins should be easily updated and
things like that.
It's going to be a little work and it's going to take a little time,
but I really do think it's going to be worth it.
I'm really excited about OBS 28.
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