if a new viewer joins your stream and the quality is poor or it's lagging
they're going to leave and never return costing you the opportunity to gain a new follower
or subscriber so in today's video i'm going to share with you the best settings to use
as a console streamer inside of obs studio that way your viewers can enjoy your stream
they'll stick around and potentially turn into a new follower or subscriber
let me know in the comments below if you use a laptop a desktop or a mac to be able
to stream so once you have obs open you're going to want to come to the right hand side and select
settings so the very first thing we're going to land on is the general tab
now this is going to be the first little pro tip that i'm going to go ahead and give you
you want to make sure that on the output you have these two first check boxes checked it's going to
go ahead and give you a prompt that way you don't make a mistake and start your stream by accident
or end your stream by accident it's actually prompted to let you know hey do you want to start
your stream or hey do you want to end your stream giving you that confirmation so make sure you have
those two check boxes checked next we're going to go ahead and jump to the section where it says
stream this is going to be very important especially if you're streaming to twitch you
want to make sure you have this checkbox checked where it says ignore streaming serving settings
recommendations the reason why is because it's going to cap you at 6000 and if you're not a
twitch partner or twitch affiliate you're not going to be able to go ahead and get a 1080p
looking stream it's going to cap yes 720. so listen to me this is going to be a pro tip
and it's going to help us when we dive into the output settings so make sure you have that checked
next we're going to move to where it says output at the top output mode you're going to select
advanced under encoder you're going to select x264 under rate control you're going to select cbr
and then for the bitrate you're going to put 7750 i know that's kind of like a weird figure
but that's going to be the figure you're going to want to put especially if you want a 1080p looking
stream when you put 7750 regardless if you're a twitch partner regardless of your affiliate
regardless you're streaming day one your stream is going to be 1080p 60 okay so make sure you have
that and the best way to determine whether you can have that kind of bit rate is by checking your
internet speed so what you want to do is you want to go to description of the video you want to go
to speedtest.net you're going to select go and it's going to go ahead and test your internet
speed it's going to give you your ping your download and your upload the figure we want to
focus on is your upload you want to make sure that it's above 10. if it's above 10 you're going to
be able to utilize the settings that i'm talking about in the video today and put it at 7750. your
keyframe interval you want to put it at 2 your cpu usage preset at very fast your profile like high
and your tune has zero latency and that's going to be everything you need for the output section next
we're going to move over to where it says video for your base canvas you want to use 1920x1080 and
for your output you want to go ahead and match it the same at 1920x1080 if you do see some lag you
can go ahead and drop the output scale to 1280x720 but i recommend keeping that 1920x1080 if you have
the internet speed and and the settings that i've put in already so for the downscale filter you're
going to use buy linear okay this is going to be the fastest especially if you have it matched
and 1920 double for the base and the output you can use bilinear that's going to give you the
best quality possible and then for the common fps you're going to want to list it at 60. then you
want to come to where it says advanced and then for the process priority you want to make sure
you select high okay for the color format you want to use nv12 the color space you want to put 601
and then the color range you want to use partial then you want to go ahead and hit apply and
that's going gonna go ahead and give you the best settings to give you a nice quality looking stream
but before you go live i want you to go ahead and check out this video right here where i share five
tips to be a better console streamer that way you grow your stream i'll see you in the next video