Now, it is important to select the right quality settings to maximize the visuals of the recording without trying to go beyond what the computer can handle. Again, there are many options for sources, but not all of them can be covered. This should be fairly intuitive as it works as resizing images in applications such as Word and PowerPoint. Once it is added, it can be resized and re-positioned by dragging it around on the preview.

If a webcam is desired to be broadcast, add a 'Video capture device' in sources and select the webcam. For this example, a game called Rocket League is captured using Game Capture and Window Capture. There are many preference settings in the properties which are too numerous and detailed to be covered in this guide. If game capture is being used, 'Mode' should be set to 'Capture specific window' unless one of the other settings is preferred. Simply right click the source, go to the properties, and choose the process to capture under 'Window'. The difference is that game capture will always capture the game specified regardless of whether it is active on the monitor, whereas window capture will capture the region of the monitor on which the game is played, regardless of whether or not the game is actually being displayed on the monitor at the time.

For capturing a game, game capture should be used, but if the application to be captured is not compatible with game capture, use window capture. Next, sources must be added to that scene. This is done by right clicking on the box labelled 'Scene' in the bottom left, and clicking 'Add' to add a new scene.

Sources can include a game, a region on the screen, a webcam, and a variety of other things.įirst, a scene needs to be created. Within the scene, various sources can be added, which is what will be recorded when that scene is added. The way OBS works is that one can set up many different scenes and switch between them, recording what is currently set in that scene. The first step is to make sure that the screen is displayed properly, because there is no point in fine tuning settings if the screen is not being displayed properly.

How to record a video using obs studio