

Control the volume using the bars, or mute either or both of them by clicking on the speaker icon. These options can be useful if you want to record gameplay audio and want to add your own commentary to it. The Audio Mixer can be used to record the Desktop Audio and Mic Audio. Now that your video source is set up, let's move on to audio. For example, if you wish to record your desktop screen, select "Display capture", for gameplay, select game, and so on. Once you select the video source, the preview pane will display a live preview of the content that you wish to capture. You can select audio, video, images, browser (web URLs), windows (select the program), games (full screen applications) etc. The Sources section is where you select the content that you wish to capture. You can have multiple scenes, each containing different sources. The bottom of the screen is divided into 5 parts Scenes, Sources, Audio Mixer, Scene Transitions, Controls. The large pane in the middle is the video preview pane.

The menu bar at the top has some advanced options that you can tinker with but can be safely ignored for now. The interface of OBS Studio is quite easy to grasp even for beginners. This is recommended if you're new to the video capturing scene. If you choose the auto-config wizard, OBS Studio will determine your system's hardware capabilities and choose a pre-set for the video output (encoder, quality, resolution, fps.). The program can be used to authenticate your channel's account to stream content directly to it. OBS Studio can stream directly to Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, Facebook, or Twitter among many other services.


The wizard also lets you pick the resolution and frame rate per second, both of which are important for recording/streaming gameplay video. This can help you setup the program for your usage as it may optimize the settings for streaming (with recording as a secondary option) or recording (no streaming). When you run the program for the first time you will see an "Auto-configuration Wizard" prompt. OBS Studio is a cross-platform program that is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. That being said, we're going to take a look at the basic usage of the program, the recording of on-screen content. This is one of those rare applications that is user-friendly on the one hand but still advanced enough to deliver the options that advanced users require.
