15 OBS Things You (Might) Do Wrong Everyday

15 OBS Things You (Might) Do Wrong Everyday and how to improve this.
1) Choose the wrong frame rate for your content (30fps vs 60 fps)
2) Select the wrong resolution for your canvas vs output scaled resolution
3) Auto-enable “Global Audio Devices” which causes resource issues and doubling
4) Use Simple mode vs advanced mode in the “Output” tab
5) Select NVENC encoder if it is available vs x264
6) Manually selecting settings for Recording vs streaming
7) Increasing audio bitrate to 320 to double quality
8) Livestream to one platform when you could be streaming to multiple and growing faster
9) Put everything into one scene rather than splitting into multiple scenes
10) Not using mic filters to make yourself sound better
11) Not syncing your audio and video using Advanced audio properties
12) Not muting and hiding irrelevant audio sources in your mixer
13) Using studio mode when you don’t actually need it
14) Not streaming at the right bitrate
15) Not checking your stats on a test stream/recording in “View” → stats

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[SandraS-Library]

I'm 56 and have been struggling with all this stuff and I just want to say that you are awesome. Thanks.

[BaronPatrickRyan]

Thank you Awall for this in depth pro tips to better OBS. As a Canadian Military Veteran 27.5 years of service and disabilities from my military service, I use OBS, Live Elements and Now because of your expert advice Restream. I try to help other veterans, USA / CANADA in filing claims to VAC " Veterans Affairs" for their disabilities all the while streaming a game, be it Star Citizen, Call of Duty or ONE on ONE. This is invaluable advice and FREE, whats not to like. I may be taking you up on a Phone call / video for support advice in the near future for moving this even better and father. THANK YOU so much for making this video Andrew.

[towlermedia]

Super high quality value on OBS! Really appreciate the time and effort in this. This is gold. Seen several things I need to up my OBS settings game on.

[djtoneyb.production]

This is most definitely The Best tutorial I have come across, I do learn decent stuff from Michael Ferrer's post but by far yours in more no non-sense and less of the comedy of so many others trying too hard to win one over to collect likes & subscribes. Whereas your posts deliver with high end information that cuts through the BS and not trying to sell me ads or join podcast blah blah blah.... Besides the face when you are cheap (as I am) or don't have the resources to spend the dough to get experts seminar or webinars, like you suggested in another of your post. Please keep up the wonderful posts for the little guys and Thank you for so much I have gained from one

[danbrown]

The single best every OBS video tutorial ever made! Awesome! Thank you so much!

[TheSilvertoot]

Hello my brother. I just wanted to say a massive thank you for this video. You have selflessly shared very good info that helps nubies like myself put out good quality videos. I have just started (as a complete novice) putting out sermons and by God's Grace other Christian content for my church I believe this will help my church's members who regularly tune in, and anyone else seeking biblical truths, access good quality, biblical content. Again; a massive thank you, and may our heavenly Father bless your channel so that you will continue to be prosperous, and charitable to your viewers. If government leaders were half as thoughtful for the common man as you, God's battle to protect us from evil would no doubt be, less difficult.. God bless and keep up the good work.

[laurieclark]

Hey thanks, you just showed an almost seventy-year-old woman, and art teacher, how to even begin to understand how to use OBS. Now I just need to add my iPevo document camera and/or GoPro and use it all within zoom and I will up my gain at least tenfold!!

[djcpjgm]

Great TIPS.

#14 is actually Megabits not Megabyte. - Megabit /Gigabit are used for speed and network measurement. Megabyte/Gigabyte are used for storage and file sizes.

[aaronmannofficial]

Lots of great points even for someone using OBS for over a year now daily. I’m going to have to make some changes!
Thank you.

[GeorgeMadden]

New OBS user here - this was great - will look over all your videos next - Thank you - Appreciated!

[onceonly]

Explaining the different scenes was very useful, I always wondered how people did that so easily. Nothing I had seen so far about setting up OBS mentioned separating scenes. edit: A little tip for others, I created a new scene with a second sound source one day, and this created a reverb effect in my stream which I personally couldn't hear until I played it back later. The stream was over an hour long and no one said anything! Always do a test recording of your settings to see how things might look and sound before you go live.

[sugi]

Thank you for great tips! I watch your videos from Japan! Many videos explained in Japanese are inadequate, so these are very helpful.

[voidboi]

You're awesome. Appreciated waiting 5min until throwing in the sponsor and also keeping things super professional and brief as possible with enough info.

[DefextOfficial]

Wow. People actually use just one scene for everything? I knew, day 1, that I had to create multiple scenes. Great video.

[kbjgbgbaebL]

You really helped me a lot and I appreciate the gems you dropped, time and passion you put in this video for us.

[djmollyparti]

This is amazing information, all these little settings are what tripped me up the most when I started streaming, and I couldn’t find all this info in one place. Thank you, I’m going back to check all my settings again! 🙌🏽👏🏽🙏🏽

[kapriece]

After the audio point I almost quit watching. Been trying to solve that problem for years. It was right in my face the whole time. Thank you.

[alpsrodriguez]

I JUST WATCH YOUR CHANNEL FOR THE FIRST TIME IS SO MUCH INFO THANK YOU THE BEST THING IS YOU SPEAK SLOW AND UNDERSTANDABLE FOR NOT NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS THANKS

[thejessexander]

Omg thank you so much. I am using Obs for recording, taking most of my post production out by doing most things live. I had really good video but choppy audio. I couldnt understand why bc the audio from my rodecaster I would have to take the audio from my rodecaster pro and synch it up in post production.

[mamotivated]

Such a valuable set of recommendations. Haven't started yet but now I am excited