these are the five steps that every beginner livestreamer needs to do to set
up their OBS stream properly and you're not gonna want to miss the bonus one
that can really take your livestream to the next level let's not waste any time
let's get right into it step one we want to make sure that we
get all of our settings proper so that we can do a live stream when you first
open OBS it's pretty daunting but it's really simple once you get into it the
first thing you need to do is go into settings there isn't anything here in
general that you need to change you want to click on stream on the left hand side
go ahead and select the service YouTube YouTube gaming then select the primary
YouTube ingest server for the stream key you have to go over into YouTube and
here's where you're gonna find the stream key you just copy that stream key
out from here and you paste it into OBS next click output on the left hand side
your video bitrate should be around 6000 bits per second you can change this up
and down and I'm going to show you where it's listed once we go live so that you
understand whether you're operating at a bitrate that's too fast or slow but in
all my live streaming days I've found that 6000 seems to work out best for the
type of internet connection that we generally have your audio bitrate is
going to be set at 160 and that's fine you want to go ahead and play around
with your encoder preset I like mine ultra fast I don't have a super quick
computer ultra fast obviously means that you're not going to get the perfect
picture but it's going to encode really fast which shouldn't drag down the CPU
on your system you can play around with this setting to decide what's best for
yours and I'm going to show you where it gives you the CPU reading when you go
live so that you can see whether your bitrate and you're encoding is working
your computer to hard or not generally speaking you want to keep your CPU under
50 percent if you're planning to record your live stream which can be difficult
depending upon your equipment and I wouldn't really recommend live streaming
and recording your live stream at the same time but if you choose to do so you
can change the quality of your recording right here and of course you can
change the recording path to where the file is saved once your live stream is
over you could pop into audio and just verify that your sample rate is 44 point
one next we go into video here you want to select your base canvas size this
should be the size of the video that you're getting from your webcam at least
that's the best way to do it because you're not going to stress your computer
to have it set the same the next thing you want to do is set your output your
output should also be set at the base size of your camera but here's the thing
this can change if you notice that you're having live-streaming problems
and you're getting buffering and that sort of stuff the output scaled
resolution is where you might want to change that if you lower this to 720
you're making it easier on your computer the average live stream is usually 30
frames per second and I wouldn't change this up unless there's a real reason why
you want to 30 frames per second is pretty much the standard for step two we
want to set up our first scene and this is really simple just go click the plus
button in the bottom left hand corner of the scenes window this will bring up a
box and you just want to name your scene something that you're going to remember
exactly what the purpose of this particular scene was in this case I'm
gonna call it tutorial step three we're gonna want to set up our sources these
are the things that make up our scene the first thing we want to do is add our
camera so click the little plus button in the bottom left-hand corner of the
sources window and select video capture device in this case we want to create a
new one name that video capture device something you're going to remember so
webcam or DSLR or camera or however you want to name it if you're going to use
multiple cameras you just want to make sure that each camera has a different
name you're going to be able to use these cameras throughout any of your
scenes so having a name that you're going to recognize is pretty important
once you're finished naming your camera click OK now you want to select your
device and assuming your device is plugged into your computer it's as
simple as just using this drop-down and selecting which one you want in my case
I have three different cameras but we're going to use the cam link camera for
this one under preset you want to make sure that this is
the actual resolution that your camera is producing it should be the same
resolution as your canvas and your output if you're doing it right in my
case I usually select high for this I have a really good network connection
and sometimes I can actually stream at 4k but if you are not capable of doing
this I wouldn't recommend it just select 1080 or even 720 most people
actually watch these live streams at 480 anyways once you finish selecting your
preset go ahead and click OK once you add your camera in you could notice that
maybe it's not the right size for your canvas and this can happen it can either
be way too big or way too small it's really simple to fix this problem just
click on the screen anywhere and drag this around get it lined up with one of
the corners and then go ahead and drag the other corner to fill the screen or
however you want it the next thing we want to add to sources is our audio
source this is going to provide the sound for your live stream go down and
click the little plus button at the bottom left hand corner of the sources
window and select audio input capture name your audio input based on what it
actually is if it's your laptop microphone or an external microphone or
in my case my camera provides the audio through an external microphone so just
name your microphone something you're going to recognize I call it camera
audio then I click OK and then here in device go ahead and select the
microphone that you want to use once you select the microphone click OK now we
have the first of the basic scenes setup and this brings us to step four you want
to go ahead and adjust your audio accordingly you definitely don't want to
be too loud blowing out your audience eardrums so speak on the microphone and
make sure you get your levels so where you're not peaking a whole heck of a lot
and you can definitely adjust this later next we want to go into advanced audio
properties here you can see my camera audio microphone the thing that's
important here is the audio monitoring this always defaults to monitor off and
what that means is when you're live streaming you're not going to be able to
listen to what the live streamer is hearing if for some reason you want to
listen to the audio of source that you add to sources you're
going to have to change this up you see when I use the drop-down here we get
three different options monitor off means you're never going to hear the
audio that's coming out from your laptop or from headphones the viewer will hear
it but you won't monitor only mute output means that you can hear it if you
have headphones or through your laptop but the audience will never hear it now
I just want to say for sure that you never want to have this playing through
your laptop because it will loop in through your microphone and it'll just
cause all kinds of interference and noise and you're going to get like a
rotisserie of nasty audio you definitely want to make sure that you have a pair
of headphones you're going to use if you plan to monitor your live stream the
last one is monitor and output and this is the setting that you would use if you
want to monitor the audio that's coming from your live stream so if you want to
hear your own voice in your head while you're on the live stream you want to
hear what those live stream folks are hearing monitor and output is the
setting you want to use again make sure that you use headphones because you
can't play it through your laptop speakers or your PC speakers it will
just loop back in through your microphone and cause all kinds of
problems you've been warned go ahead and set this up how you want it and then
click close and the last step is to go ahead and start your stream now once you
start your stream you're going to notice down here in the bottom right hand
corner it's going to give you the particulars of how your stream is
running on the far right I had this green bar that tells me my stream is
good the kilobytes per second is the bitrate that we set up we set our
bitrate at 6000 it's obviously a little bit over that which is why the stream is
good the next setting here is the CPU you can see I'm running at about 51
percent at 30 frames per second if I lowered it
down it could lower the CPU other ways that you can lower your CPU usage would
be lowering your bitrate a little bit adjusting the size of the output that
you're trying to stream but when you do this you put a little more stress on the
encoder so you may want to change your canvas size down as
well then it says live this tells you how long you've actually been live and
dropped frames is the number of frames that it had drop in order to livestream
and if you start seeing a lot of dropped frames it means something's wrong with
your internet connection or you're trying to stream more data than your
connection can handle if that's the case then you need to lower the resolution of
your stream you need to change the bit rates those are the sort of things that
you should be looking at when you test your live stream before you actually go
live just to be sure that you're not using too much CPU and you're not having
a lot of dropped frames that's the basic building blocks for OBS you add more
scenes on there and you can transition from different cameras or different
images or maybe different screen shots it's really that easy to set up and
here's the bonus if you want to learn how to add some of these cool
transitions to your scenes they can really take your live stream to the next
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