Best OBS Recording Settings for 1080p 60FPS or Youtube

Joshua Hill

Updated on 2020-10-10

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Part 1. Best OBS Recording Settings

1. Best Recording Settings for OBS

• Step 1: Now launch OBS software, and go to Settings. Then we will see through all kinds of the settings one by one.

• Step 2: Click General tab on the left, and you will be able to see all the general setting options. Select the language and theme as you wish. Then scroll down to check the box next to Enable under System Tray.

• Step 3: Click Output on the left, and you can adjust the recording output settings. Choose advanced for Output Mode, and go to Recording > Recording Path > Browse to choose your preferable path to save all your recordings.
You can also choose Recording Format among these options: flv, mkv, mov, mp4, ts, and m3u8.
To choose Recording Quality, there are 4 options:
• Same as stream: the video quality is what the stream is, and the file size is usually acceptable.
• High quality, medium file size: the recording video is good to watch despite of what the stream quality is, while the file size is medium large.
• Indistinguishably quality, large file size: the video will be clear and accurate while the file size is large. You can choose this one if you want to record game playing or video playing.
• Lossless quality, tremendously large file size: this will create video without quality loss but it is an extremely large file size. You should check your disk space if you want to choose this option.

• Step 4: Click Audio tab on the left to configure audio settings.
Leave Sample Rate and Channels as default aka 44.1KHz and Stereo. If you have more than one desktop, be sure to choose the right desktop audio device for your recording, and disable the one that you don’t use for recording. If you are using microphone while recording, choose the Mic/Auxiliary Audio device, too, or you should leave it as it is.

• Step 5: Video settings: for Base (Canvas) Resolution you should choose the correct resolution for your monitor; Output (Scaled) Resolution allows you to downscale the recording resolution, and you can choose whatever you like from the drop-down menu.
For Common FPS Values, choose 60 if you want to have a high quality video. However, if you are using an old computer without good hardware, then you should choose 30.

• Step 6: When it comes to HotKeys, it is the hotkeys you would like to set up according to yourself.

• Step 7: Click Advanced, set Color Space to 709 and Color Range to Full.

2. OBS Recording Settings for YouTube

• 1. Launch OBS in your computer, and click Settings.

• 2. Click the Output tab, and choose Advanced for Output Mode.

• 3. Click Recording, and choose the Standard Type. Click Browse to choose the recording path where you want to save your recording for YouTube videos.
• 4. Click the drop-down menu next to Recording Format, and choose MP4 for most YouTube videos.

• 5. For Encoder settings, choose your dedicated graphics card to adjust its settings. If you don’t have one, choose x264.

• 6. Scroll down and set Rate Control to VBR, Bitrate to 40000 - 60000, Keyframe Interval to 2 seconds, and Profile to High. Then click Apply to save.

• 7. Click Audio on the left. Choose where your sound goes to from computer for Desktop Audio device, and set the Mic/Auxiliary Audio device to the microphone that you are using while recording. Then click Apply to save your changes.

• 8. Click the Video tab on the left. Set Base (Canvas) Resolution to your monitor resolution. Set Output (Scaled) Resolution to the one that you want to downscale your recording. For instance, if you want to record video in 1920*1080, then your video would be 1080P. Set Downscale Filter to Lanczos (Sharpened scaling, 36 samples). Set Common FPS Values to 60 (or 30 if your computer is lagging).
So if you want to record a video by choosing Downscale resolution to 1920*1080, then it should be OBS settings for recording 1080P 60FPS.

• 9. Click Advanced, set Color Space to 709 and Color Range to Full.

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