Little bit of correction: 24000kbps of bitrate means that every second you're writing 24 MEGABITS of data. 8 megabits make up to 1 megabyte, which means that, when you have 24000kbps of bitrate, every second you're writing only 3 megabytes, not 24... If that was the case, bitrate should have been to 192000kbps... Hope that helps. Great video tho
Thanks for the info. My only suggestion here would be to use MKV and not MP4 because if OBS crashes or any other issues, you will lose your entire recording. MKV will not be lost. You can then Remux your MKV to MP4 within OBS. MKV also works with multi audio tracks.
@@theos7291 there’s a setting that you can turn on to automatically remux when you end recording. Settings > Advanced > “Automatically remux to mp4”. Otherwise, you can manually remux by going to File > Remux Recordings. Pick your MKV on the left and choose the destination on the right.
It's a good idea when you're recording multiple hour sessions. I do recordings that are only 5 or 10 minutes each, so I have never had a crash. If I did, I woudl just re-record.
Fantastic video, very clear and to the point. Thanks! I am curious why you didn't choose to upload this video in 4K, but really good content either way!
well i think since his OBS was busy being demo'd he probably just used his laptop's built in screen recorder that defaulted to 1080p? I've heard that you can have multiple instances of OBS running to do this though.
Listen to this man word for word. I wish I seen this video before I started recording content for my channel. Hours of game play deleted because the video quality was horrible. I got my elgato just threw it in there connected it to my console and tried to record in 4K. Don’t be me
Thanks for the suggestions, especially the advanced options in the recording section. I experienced dropped frames when trying to record 4K gameplay of Monster Hunter World with OBS Studio on the same computer, because the GPU was already 99 percent occupied with 3D rendering, and the CPU was too slow to do x264 encoding. Ended up using the GeForce ShadowPlay, which required less resource.
3 years late to the party, but had to comment. Absolutely outstanding video. You made things super easy and clear while also explaining all the logic behind your instructions in an easy to understand manner. I wish more people had your gift of teaching!
I've just seen a 16TB external hard drive on Currys for £320... a LOT cheaper than I thought it was going to be, I remember back in 2011 when a 16GB SD card was like £32. I thought the 16TB drive was going to be like £650 easily. This tutorial was incredible and EXACTLY what I needed. I love your energy, I also love that you finally gave permission to hit "ok" haha.
I love how you explore options and show us the outcome of each (eg. 30fps vs 60fps, x264 vs NVIDIA)! I'm pretty sure if it were some other creator, I would have had to dig around for more videos that cover those two options. Thanks for the video! It's been really helpful. Liked and subbed to your channel!
Thanks so much! I’m on a MacBook Air m2 and I was getting the cpu overload with these settings. I then dropped the nitrate from 45000 down to 4000 and it’s working perfectly. Quality looks great and everything seems fine. I read online that 4000-6000 is optimal but your recommendations are soooo much higher. Also when I drop to 4000 it reduce the mo4 file size from 1.4gb (4 minutes recording) to 160mb! Not sure if the quality suffers to my eyes but maybe my eyes aren’t trained enough?
Thank you, just manually placing 3840x2160 gives 4k. Tried it, recorded video, played video and sure enough the resolution box was exactly a 4k screen. Nice video. All this time I thought OBS was capped at 1920x1080
@@tejasmore7441 In OBS there's an (input) and a (output). Let's say you wanna record a 720p windowed game running on the PC. 1280x720 is the input. You wanna upload the video in a 4k screen, so your output in OBS would be 3840x2160. It's that simple. Or you could do it this way. Place your input and output both on 720p to make the process faster. Then use another program called handbrake to convert the 720p video to 4k and compress the video at the same time. 2 methods.
I was having so much trouble with this. I have a Nvidia Card but it's a T1200 in a precision laptop. I mostly use it for Solidworks and Engineering tasks. I kept having errors when selecting the card as the encoder but I updated windows and now it seems to work. 60FPS I think is making my game recording look a little stuttered but when setting my PS5 to graphics mode for the game and then setting OBS as 30 FPS the recording looks great. I was about to go buy a new desktop but this video just saved me all that time and money. Thank You!
Very, very good! Thank you man, been recording in OBS for a year with standard settings, learned lots of new features today, gonna go out and check em out on my machine. Wish you all the best with developing your channel, good luck and see you again! P.S. Private message me in case you need any advise on MS Excel, will be happy to consult =)
hi, Thank you. I am watching your video for the first time. Appreciated. Can you please tell me how you draw arrows at run time on your windows machine?
I faced some issues while recording 4K videos with OBS and later found that I needed to upgrade my PC to avoid lags. After PC up-gradation, it gave me smooth experience. On the same PC (When it wasn't upgraded), ScreenRec was working well to capture 4K PC recording.
MAN YOU WERENT LYING. I followed the video, only to hear the graphics card part at the end. I wanted to test it, and all i did was start a full screen recording of your youtube video. a 30second video took up over 300mb but i had an 11min 1080p video previously recorded that was like 400mb?! and the CPU usage was over 40% during the recording. I didnt even start a game! crap! I'm going to have to revert the settings there's no way i can do it yet. Thank you so much for this video i need to invest in an nvidia card before i do 4k.
Hello there. Thank you for this fully comprehensive, easy to understand and straightforward tutorial! I really like the work that you do. I have a question: do you also handle Twitch channel creation? I am interested in adding all the right options for monetisation and donations on my Twitch channel. I already have the channel but I don;t know how to do those things - lol
Thanks for the tip. I did notice when recording last time sharing a screen and me talking at 1080, although my image was smaller, it was pixeled and my CPU has 32 cores with 64G of RAM, my graphic card can handle up to 8k (I haven't tried yet). I will try my 4k DSLR and see. -- BTW. your sound is pretty cool. I used Adobe Audition to record directly into my PC, what setting do you normally use. do you have a video on that? thanks
@@PatriotMindsets Well, I have to be honest, I know nothing about audio, or very, very basic, but I have good ears when I hear something good, in fact, I am so much aware that I can hear singers or TV host when breathing through their mouth, trust me it is annoying for me, I wish I didn't notice it. - Anyway, I hope he could share the setting.
If your using OBS studio to record games like GTA 5 or Red Dead Redemption 2 your have to use 30 fps not 60, 60 will make your recorded video choppy, everything else is correct. I tried so hard to use the 60fps to work in video settings and all I got was a choppy mess, and I'm running a RTX 3080ti
Thank you so much for this video my friend! I was going mad trying to figure this out! One confusing thing i found even after this was my elgato HD60S+ device still only gave me option of 1920x1080 on the add device settings…after much googling it appears that setting is limited to your laptop/pc display so can be ignored i believe. Thanks again! 🙏🏻😎👊🏻
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you very so much for this video sir Finally i have found the video which have cleared my all probs of using OBS with 4k recording. Thank you again sir :)
Andrew, I'm curious about the encoder section of your tutorial. Using a Mac (both Intel and M1), the OBS options are Apple specific. Do you recommend one over the others?
Andrew thank you so much bro! Youre really helping me out figure out how to utilize the most out of my nvidia graphics card and my Creator Asus Q laptop which is a very fast laptop too! But my settings recently weren't set right so i think ive had lagging and freezing issues when i record on my 4k webcam, so now im gonna try these specs! I think ill want to book you too because i need help growing my Christian RUclips channel and how to figure out best lighting, video effects, and to make my videos be more widespread! God bless you!!
Hai thanks for you video, may i ask some question about your logo animation on the bottom left? Can you share to us the tutorial how to make that logo animation? Thank you before..
I know this is kind of an old video now, but I still think I should give my opinion, and also the opinion of Nvidia- CQP is recommended for recording and CBR for streaming. And let me tell you, CQP makes some fantastic looking recordings. File sizes are pretty massive though.
I have a question when I go to the setting and then click on video, the output and canvas doesn't have the 3840x2160 resolution to choose. Do you have any solution?
Oh man, on the mac version of OBS, there is no Rate Control option in the Recording tab. Just Bitrate. This was a great and straight to the point video though! Would be cool if a tutorial like this was made for mac users!
![OBS Studio - BEST Recording Settings! 2023 [Full Guide]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_v7cEyYEvaw/mqdefault.jpg)
The absolute best 4K guide. I come back to it every year or so.
Little bit of correction: 24000kbps of bitrate means that every second you're writing 24 MEGABITS of data. 8 megabits make up to 1 megabyte, which means that, when you have 24000kbps of bitrate, every second you're writing only 3 megabytes, not 24... If that was the case, bitrate should have been to 192000kbps... Hope that helps. Great video tho
YES!! Very important!
Able to help?
Dude this was incredible! Your teaching skills are OUTSTANDING! Thank you for existing. Your purpose in this world is to teach.
this is without a doubt the best OBS tutorial I have ever seen. thank you.
omg pickleee
Thanks for the info. My only suggestion here would be to use MKV and not MP4 because if OBS crashes or any other issues, you will lose your entire recording. MKV will not be lost. You can then Remux your MKV to MP4 within OBS. MKV also works with multi audio tracks.
how do you convert it to mp4 within obs?
@@theos7291 there’s a setting that you can turn on to automatically remux when you end recording. Settings > Advanced > “Automatically remux to mp4”.
Otherwise, you can manually remux by going to File > Remux Recordings. Pick your MKV on the left and choose the destination on the right.
This is advice is priceless, I never knew there was an extension that doesn't get ruined when the recording stops accidentally, thanks a lot sir.
Yeah I do this too, I remux only after I'm done recording
It's a good idea when you're recording multiple hour sessions. I do recordings that are only 5 or 10 minutes each, so I have never had a crash. If I did, I woudl just re-record.
Fantastic video, very clear and to the point. Thanks!
I am curious why you didn't choose to upload this video in 4K, but really good content either way!
well i think since his OBS was busy being demo'd he probably just used his laptop's built in screen recorder that defaulted to 1080p? I've heard that you can have multiple instances of OBS running to do this though.
What's the point in him uploading this video in 4k? There's no extra fine details that us viewers could see and benefit from with this type of video.
Listen to this man word for word. I wish I seen this video before I started recording content for my channel. Hours of game play deleted because the video quality was horrible. I got my elgato just threw it in there connected it to my console and tried to record in 4K. Don’t be me
Thanks for the suggestions, especially the advanced options in the recording section.
I experienced dropped frames when trying to record 4K gameplay of Monster Hunter World with OBS Studio on the same computer, because the GPU was already 99 percent occupied with 3D rendering, and the CPU was too slow to do x264 encoding. Ended up using the GeForce ShadowPlay, which required less resource.
3 years late to the party, but had to comment. Absolutely outstanding video. You made things super easy and clear while also explaining all the logic behind your instructions in an easy to understand manner. I wish more people had your gift of teaching!
Samr❤
This is honestly the *BEST* tutorial I have ever seen in my 8 years of owning a pc! Thank you so so much!
Just purchased my new computer and this was everything I needed to get OBS working at 4K....thank you!
very rarely you see yt videos going STRAIGHT on the point
thanks for that!
By far the best tutorial ever with very clear and concise details. Thank you!
I've just seen a 16TB external hard drive on Currys for £320... a LOT cheaper than I thought it was going to be, I remember back in 2011 when a 16GB SD card was like £32. I thought the 16TB drive was going to be like £650 easily.
This tutorial was incredible and EXACTLY what I needed. I love your energy, I also love that you finally gave permission to hit "ok" haha.
I love how you explore options and show us the outcome of each (eg. 30fps vs 60fps, x264 vs NVIDIA)! I'm pretty sure if it were some other creator, I would have had to dig around for more videos that cover those two options. Thanks for the video! It's been really helpful. Liked and subbed to your channel!
Thanks so much! I’m on a MacBook Air m2 and I was getting the cpu overload with these settings. I then dropped the nitrate from 45000 down to 4000 and it’s working perfectly. Quality looks great and everything seems fine. I read online that 4000-6000 is optimal but your recommendations are soooo much higher. Also when I drop to 4000 it reduce the mo4 file size from 1.4gb (4 minutes recording) to 160mb! Not sure if the quality suffers to my eyes but maybe my eyes aren’t trained enough?
7:35 if you're looking for the bitrate (45,000 if 30fps or 68000 if 60fps)
Thank you, just manually placing 3840x2160 gives 4k. Tried it, recorded video, played video and sure enough the resolution box was exactly a 4k screen. Nice video. All this time I thought OBS was capped at 1920x1080
hey can you help me plzzz ??
@@tejasmore7441 In OBS there's an (input) and a (output). Let's say you wanna record a 720p windowed game running on the PC. 1280x720 is the input. You wanna upload the video in a 4k screen, so your output in OBS would be 3840x2160. It's that simple. Or you could do it this way. Place your input and output both on 720p to make the process faster. Then use another program called handbrake to convert the 720p video to 4k and compress the video at the same time. 2 methods.
This video needs more support, definitely loved it, by support I mean people liking it 😶💯
Thank you for these steps! Clearly either well planned or you just know all settings by heart at this point, or both!
Wow! I finally found your video while looking for a way to record gameplay in 4k with OBS. Thanks for sharing.
Just wow, fantastic video dude! you earned a sub!
This was a lifesaver. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much! Subscribed!
thank you for making it so easy to understand
Great tutorial, really helpful! Thank you very mcuh! 😄
You are a treasure. I found this 2 years too late.
Bro i love you.
Great video.
Double thumbs up
Professor Andrew Wall, you are genius! Perfect video tutorial 10/10 👍
I was having so much trouble with this. I have a Nvidia Card but it's a T1200 in a precision laptop. I mostly use it for Solidworks and Engineering tasks. I kept having errors when selecting the card as the encoder but I updated windows and now it seems to work. 60FPS I think is making my game recording look a little stuttered but when setting my PS5 to graphics mode for the game and then setting OBS as 30 FPS the recording looks great. I was about to go buy a new desktop but this video just saved me all that time and money. Thank You!
Thanks for the tutorial!
I have an AMD encoder on and reached 0.2 - 0.4% CPU usage using most of the settings!
This was epic. Thanks for sharing these tips. Applied the same settings on my Macbook Pro M1 - worked a treat!
with obs, you are the best! thanks a lot!
You go directly to the goal. Thank you :)
Very, very good! Thank you man, been recording in OBS for a year with standard settings, learned lots of new features today, gonna go out and check em out on my machine. Wish you all the best with developing your channel, good luck and see you again!
P.S. Private message me in case you need any advise on MS Excel, will be happy to consult =)
This is very useful. I am a fighting gaming creator. and I really needed this!
hi, Thank you. I am watching your video for the first time. Appreciated. Can you please tell me how you draw arrows at run time on your windows machine?
Really amazing video, very nice explanation for what each setting does!
Thank you for this video. I was looking everywhere for this!
wow, difference is night and day, big thumbs up thanks
Dude your awesome! A true OBS Studio Ninja! Thank you
I faced some issues while recording 4K videos with OBS and later found that I needed to upgrade my PC to avoid lags. After PC up-gradation, it gave me smooth experience. On the same PC (When it wasn't upgraded), ScreenRec was working well to capture 4K PC recording.
what configuration do you have? I have 3950x + 3080ti but still get lags recoding 4k
thank you so much! helped me a ton with setting up my logitech brio 4k on obs (which has NOT been easy, but has been worth it)
Thank you very much. Great and very understable video
THANK YOU!
The man helped the most with my obs thank you vary much now i can record in 4k
MAN YOU WERENT LYING. I followed the video, only to hear the graphics card part at the end. I wanted to test it, and all i did was start a full screen recording of your youtube video. a 30second video took up over 300mb but i had an 11min 1080p video previously recorded that was like 400mb?!
and the CPU usage was over 40% during the recording. I didnt even start a game! crap! I'm going to have to revert the settings there's no way i can do it yet.
Thank you so much for this video i need to invest in an nvidia card before i do 4k.
One of the best tutorials. Clear & precise. Tqvm
Hey Andreeeew! Thks a lot for your video, I was searching a long time for one that would enable me to crack a few problems!!
Great vid. I upscaled my monitor to record better and you always have great tutorials for all my obs needs! Keep it up!
Sir which mic you are using while using OBS. Please suggest me a good mic for OBS
You are the best. Love these tutorials. Thanks so much
Best OBS video setup ever!
You mixed up megabytes and megabits at 7:45 but otherwise, great video thank you!
Thank God. I was a bit panicked when I heard that.
Thank you! Helped a lot! Crystal clear in every way :)
Hello there. Thank you for this fully comprehensive, easy to understand and straightforward tutorial! I really like the work that you do.
I have a question: do you also handle Twitch channel creation? I am interested in adding all the right options for monetisation and donations on my Twitch channel.
I already have the channel but I don;t know how to do those things - lol
Thanks for the tip. I did notice when recording last time sharing a screen and me talking at 1080, although my image was smaller, it was pixeled and my CPU has 32 cores with 64G of RAM, my graphic card can handle up to 8k (I haven't tried yet). I will try my 4k DSLR and see. -- BTW. your sound is pretty cool. I used Adobe Audition to record directly into my PC, what setting do you normally use. do you have a video on that? thanks
You're right. His sound was cool. I can't identify why specifically though. What did you notice? Perfect EQing or something?
@@PatriotMindsets Well, I have to be honest, I know nothing about audio, or very, very basic, but I have good ears when I hear something good, in fact, I am so much aware that I can hear singers or TV host when breathing through their mouth, trust me it is annoying for me, I wish I didn't notice it. - Anyway, I hope he could share the setting.
@@IsraelSuperguide got ya. What made you to decide to record audio using Audition? I just record audio straight into OBS with my video.
Thanks a lot for the video Andrew, I just liked it. :)
May I ask what program do you use for those arrows?
If your using OBS studio to record games like GTA 5 or Red Dead Redemption 2 your have to use 30 fps not 60, 60 will make your recorded video choppy, everything else is correct. I tried so hard to use the 60fps to work in video settings and all I got was a choppy mess, and I'm running a RTX 3080ti
than you so much ive been looking for this for so long and finally one that reallyy works loviu thanks so much
Love those videos ... straight to the point and very informative, 10/10 !
Thank you so much for this video my friend! I was going mad trying to figure this out! One confusing thing i found even after this was my elgato HD60S+ device still only gave me option of 1920x1080 on the add device settings…after much googling it appears that setting is limited to your laptop/pc display so can be ignored i believe. Thanks again! 🙏🏻😎👊🏻
love you guy, straight to the point
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you very so much for this video sir Finally i have found the video which have cleared my all probs of using OBS with 4k recording. Thank you again sir :)
Just watched…great content. Looks as though made this 2 years ago. Curious, would you recommend same laptop? Tech changes so much. Thank you!
Amazing. Very useful. Thank you
Thank you for making this video.
you are the best Andrew!
Thanks man, I like the way u talk and everything, that helped me sooo much thx man u deserve a sub
I appreciate you just getting to the point. Very helpful, thanks.
Andrew, I'm curious about the encoder section of your tutorial. Using a Mac (both Intel and M1), the OBS options are Apple specific. Do you recommend one over the others?
Thank you! I was already worried that did I upgrade my pc for nothing because 4k didn't come out too good 😅
Straight to it, I like it!
Andrew thank you so much bro! Youre really helping me out figure out how to utilize the most out of my nvidia graphics card and my Creator Asus Q laptop which is a very fast laptop too! But my settings recently weren't set right so i think ive had lagging and freezing issues when i record on my 4k webcam, so now im gonna try these specs! I think ill want to book you too because i need help growing my Christian RUclips channel and how to figure out best lighting, video effects, and to make my videos be more widespread! God bless you!!
Excellent how-to video! Thank you for making it!
most useful help. thanks dude
Great tweaks, I will try it to record MSFS2020 short scene
Thanks, but do you have the settings for a Macbook book pro?
This was a great video! Thanks for the help!
Thanks for sharing can you record in HDR with an iPhone 11 or is there a Camcorder that records in HDR.
Fantastic! video - so helpful!
Hai thanks for you video, may i ask some question about your logo animation on the bottom left? Can you share to us the tutorial how to make that logo animation? Thank you before..
Fantastic tutorial, very easy to follow and understand, thanks for taking the time to make it :)
Thanks very much, I used this to record my first OBS 4k Brio video
Great video. Super helpful
Fantastic tutorial.
I know this is kind of an old video now, but I still think I should give my opinion, and also the opinion of Nvidia- CQP is recommended for recording and CBR for streaming. And let me tell you, CQP makes some fantastic looking recordings. File sizes are pretty massive though.
You are the best mate!
This is excellent, well taught.
lmfao bro went straight into the subject less then a second. what a legend
Thanks for the tutorial, I learned a lot from this video
Straight to the point thanks !
Thank you, this helped tremendously
I have a question when I go to the setting and then click on video, the output and canvas doesn't have the 3840x2160 resolution to choose. Do you have any solution?
You are proffesional. Thanx i try it!
Thank you! I just subscribed!
Oh man, on the mac version of OBS, there is no Rate Control option in the Recording tab. Just Bitrate. This was a great and straight to the point video though! Would be cool if a tutorial like this was made for mac users!
Thank you for your comment! I will keep this in mind for all my mac folks out there
Thanks, bro. You're the best ♥️
nice video my friend, thank you👍
Is the MSI Creator 15 A10SFS-014 15.6" UHD 4K still your recommended laptop for 4K recording on OBS and 4K editing? Thanks