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Today I'm going to show you how to record your PC screen using OBS.
Now I use this to create all my videos, and it's a great way to show a
procedure or anything else that you want to show on your computer.
You can capture video audio, and oh, by the way, it's totally free.
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There are other apps that do screen capture for PC, and some of them
are free, but most are meant for capturing games and have limitations
on what you can actually capture.
OBS is going to capture pretty much anything.
If it's on the screen, it's going to grab it.
The only thing I've noticed it doesn't capture is administrative
prompts.
It's really easy to set up and use, and you have a lot of control over
your audio that you capture as well.
So let me show you how it works.
The first thing I'm going to do when we get an OBS is go up to
profiles and we're going to create a new one.
I'm just going to call this record tutorial, and I'm going to go up
and create another scene collection as well and call it record
tutorial.
So this way we have a new profile and scene collection to do all of
our recording.
Then I'm going to go down here to the bottom right, and click on
settings.
And there's nothing really to do in general.
And of course we're not streaming, so we don't need to set this up.
We're going to go right to the output and we're going to drop it from
simple and go to advanced.
And we're going to go ahead and select the recording box and we can
select where we want our recordings to be saved.
And then if we go down here, we can select the recording format.
And there are a bunch of different ones here.
If we select MP4, you can see right down here, there is a warning that
tells us if for some reason OBS crashes, that file will probably not
be usable.
So if you're afraid that OBS is going to crash, then maybe don't
select something like MP4, select F L V, or one of the other formats
that don't have this warning.
I generally use MP4.
I feel like it's the easiest to use and also the highest quality
recording.
So that's what I use.
But then you drop down encoder and select the encoder that you have.
If you have an Nvidia graphics card, the NVENC
encoder is ideal.
It's going to give you high quality and not tax your machine at all to
do the recording.
So I'll select the NVENC encoder.
And then I'm just going to go down here to rate control should be CBR.
And then our bit rate is going to be 60,000 kilobits per second.
And I like to select high quality as my preset, depending upon how
fast your machine is, you may need to change this up.
I select look ahead and psycho visual tuning, especially if I'm
recording something that's fast paced.
And other than that, that is really all you need do to set up
recordings if you have an NVENC encoder.
Let's switch it over here to X 2, 6, 4, and we're going to go down
here and change our bit rate once again to 60,000.
And I'm using CBR as my rate control.
And then we just want to go down here to CPU usage, preset, and select
the one that's appropriate for the speed of our machine.
Very fast.
It's going to give you a pretty decent quality video and the slower
that you set this to the higher, the quality of the video, but the
more taxing it is on your computer.
So you may need to test this a little bit, to find out exactly where
the sweet spot is for you if you're using, X 2 6 4 we can go to the
profile and select high, and we can add a tune to it.
I've never really noticed this doing much of anything, but there is
film and a couple of other options in here that you can select if you
like, you can test these out to see how they work for you.
And that is how you're going to set up your X 2, 6, 4, to record.
Then we're going to jump to the audio tab here.
And the only thing we're going to look at here is advanced.
This is going to allow us to monitor anything that we may add to the
stream.
Audio wise.
If we want to monitor it, we just set this up to what we're going to
be listening to it with.
In my case, it'll be headphones because I have a microphone and we
don't want the microphone picking up any of the other sound.
And the last place we need to go is to the video tab over here on the
left.
And we want to just drop these down and select the resolution for the
video we want to create.
These should both be exactly the same.
So if we're doing 1920 by 10 80, they should both be 1920 by 10 80.
If you want to do 4k, all you have to do is put that resolution in
there.
Um, you can just type it in needless to say, if you're going to record
in 4k, you're going to want to go back into the output and bump your
bit rate up considerably to compensate for the extra resolution.
And then we have our frames per second down here, whatever frame per
second, you want to record in, there's a preset right here.
You just select it.
And we're good to go.
We just go down here to the bottom right.
And click apply.
And then, okay.
And now we're all set to record.
Super easy.
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Your new scene collection starts out with just a basic scene and we're
going to click the plus under sources for that scene.
And we're going to add a display capture.
We're going to drop this down and select which display we want to add
in this display seven 20.
So I'm just going to stretch it up here and hold the alt key to adjust
it a little bit here and there we go.
It fits the screen.
We're going to add audio for this by clicking the plus and going to
audio output capture.
We'll just call this desktop.
That's going to be our desktop audio and click okay.
We'll drop this down and select where we're going to be listening to
our audio in this case, headphones.
We want to make sure that headphones is selected right here so that we
can monitor this.
And I'll just open up Spotify, click play.
You can see we're getting audio into OBS.
So we would be recording that as well.
Now I'm going to click the plus and I'm going to create a game scene
and we'll click okay.
And if we wanted to record a game, this is what we would do.
We'll click the plus here and go to game capture.
And I'll just name it.
The game we're going to capture as lost Ark and just capture full
screen is fine and click okay.
Then when we open up the game here, as soon as the full screen is up,
I can flip over in OBS and you can see it's capturing the full screen.
If we want the audio for the game, we click the plus right here we go
to audio output capture, and we can select the existing one, which is
our desktop.
And there we go.
There's the audio.
We can record the game on this scene as well.
And we'll create another one, which is an application record and
click okay.
We'll click the plus under sources and we'll go to window capture and
we'll just call this DaVinci and click okay.
And we can drop this down and just select the window we want to
capture in this case, it's going to be DaVinci resolve click okay.
And I'll hold down the shift key and just stretch this all the way
down to the bottom.
So it fits the whole entire screen.
And there we go.
Now, if we wanted to add the audio, we click the plus, we go to audio
output capture.
We're going to capture the desktop audio that we already created.
And then we go, we can see that it's still capturing our game audio.
So we'll go in here and we'll quit out of their game.
And then we can go into DaVinci resolve.
We can click play on the video I have loaded up and you will see that
we'll capture that audio right here.
So all we would need to do is go over here to the right and click
start recording.
And we would be recording whatever is on the screen and in our audio
capture, it's going to record to this location right here.
And when we go here, you can see what your files are going to look
like.
They have all these numbers, which are basically dates and timestamps.
So now we have three different scenes to capture different things.
We can just switch through each one, depending upon what we want to
record.
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