OBS studio is great for recording your content, but if you don't have the
right recording settings inside of OBS studio, the time you spent recording
that content is gonna be wasted as the quality's now gonna be good.
So in today's video, I'm gonna help you avoid that by giving you the best
o b s settings to be able to set up for recording utilizing your Mac.
Let's go ahead and dive in.
The first thing you wanna do is have your O B S studio open.
On the right hand side, you're gonna come to settings, and I always like
to double check to make sure you have.
Video outputs first.
So your base is gonna be 1920 by 10 80, and your output scale is gonna
be 1920 by 10 80, and your common F ps values are gonna be at 60.
Once you have that all checked off, you wanna come to where it says output.
You want to come here to the tab that says recording as the settings for streaming
and recording are completely different.
You wanna make sure for output mode, you have it on advance.
It's gonna give you a lot of these options.
Now what you want to go ahead and do is you wanna first set the path
where you want those recordings to be.
I think this is super important because what you don't want is to have your files
be saved on your computer or somewhere where you don't have enough space.
This is why I save my recordings to an external hard drive.
So once you select that, the next thing you're gonna do is container format.
This is gonna be the file format that's gonna be saved.
Now, you don't want to go ahead and utilize mp4.
Well, you could, but here's the reason why I don't use.
matroska, which I hope I'm pronouncing that right, is M K V.
Now, the reason why I use that over MP4 is because if anything was to happen with O
B S or my Mac or anything was to shut down all the time that I spent creating that
content, having the M K V file, which is what I have selected here, I would be able
to recover that content that I recorded.
If you have it set to MP4 and the same scenario happened, you would lose that
because the file will become corrupted.
So I re.
Utilizing M K V, that's gonna be the best also for post editing.
So once you have that in place, you're then gonna see your video bit rate.
Now this is super important cause this is gonna determine
the quality of that recording.
Now the best way to determine what bit rate you can select here is that you
wanna go ahead and do a speed test.
So I'll put a link into the description of this video to speed test dot.
To be able to get to those results.
So you wanna focus on the uploads.
Once you get to the speed test website, hit go, it's gonna give
you a download and your upload.
The upload is the main focus here.
I always like to use a rule of thumb that whatever upload you have slash it in
half, that's what you have available to be able to utilize inside of o Bs studio.
So I have 454, meaning I have 200,000 bit rate that I can.
Inside of OS studio.
But you can see here that I'm only utilizing 10,000, right?
That's where I found to be the sweet spot for the kind of quality of content that I
want to be recorded and produced through.
OBS you can tweak this.
The higher you go, of course the higher the quality, but also
the more strain it puts on OBS.
And everything of that sort.
So I've found 10,000 to be the sweet spot.
If you don't have 20 upload, I wouldn't recommend using, you know, 10.
You can use 10.
Cause that's.
But if you don't have that, you need to go half of whatever it is you have.
And again, if you start going lower than the 10,000, closer to 5,000, 6,000, you
could have some quality loss and you may have to drop down to maybe a 720p
recording instead of a 1080p recording.
So once you have that in place, you wanna scroll down here and you wanna
go ahead and use video encoder and you wanna select default, right?
Which is l i.
2 64.
You wanna go ahead and make sure you have that in place.
Your audio bit rate, you wanna have it at three 20.
And then for your audio tracks, you're probably gonna have just one check.
I use two audio tracks to be able to get different audio, so
you can select that as you like.
And then the audio en coder is also the default in coder, so
you can go ahead and press Okay.
And now what you want to do is you wanna go ahead and start a recording.
This is very recommended for you to be able to test to see how
the quality of this recording is.
So once you've done that, you can then go ahead and review that file and see if
you need to tweak some of the settings.
Now the settings that we just went ahead and set are only for
recording using O B S studio.
Those same settings will not work if you want to stream utilizing o Bs on your Mac.
So to be able to set up the settings for streaming, go ahead and watch
this video where I'll walk you step by step on the best settings for
streaming on O B S, utilizing your Mac.
I'll see you guys in the next video.