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Relic needs to implement a restart replay button. it sucks having to restart the entire thing to back it up at the start of a replay lol.

Replay Cast #124

So generally you have to have 2 layouts. one for streaming, which of course is relative to your upload speed. If you don't have at least 5mb/s up. Then i wouldn't even bother. The other for actually recording relative to your computer power.

In ENCODING you use CBR for streaming. otherwise, unclick CBR and instead make your own value my bit rate is 21,000. I think that is pretty high actually. If I cast an hour long video it will be 10gb+ file...and that sorta sucks cause it takes a while to upload and process. But the quality of course is worth it for me and for viewers! My audio bitrate is 192(it doesnt matter as long as its not terribly low.)

In the VIDEO section my resolution is 1080p and 60fps. You might want to keep it at 30fps if things are running slow.

The AUDIO section you don't need to mess with other than setting up your microphone and default audio device. (USB powered headphones like Turtle beach will make this really difficult sometimes. I had nothing but problems with OBS and usb powered headphones until I got a standalone microphone.

The next important setting is ADVANCED. don't worry and keep most of these settings default. if you are streaming on twitch or what have you. select use CBR in the middle. if you are recording, you want to select "use custom encodingx264 encoder settings" and type this in the bar "CRF=20" without the parenthesis of course lol. the number at the end 20 is kind of arbitrary. the lower the number the better the recording. basically the lower the number the less frame loss. so a CRF=0 would be no frame losses, but it would require a computer that probably doesn't exist. mine is set to CRF=16.

if you lag while recording raise the CRF number and lower your max bit rate in the ENCODING section.

hope it helps you a bit, and anyone else that stumbles across this message. feel free to ask questions. there are tons of guides on how to record with OBS. just google it. lots of websites and forums that tell you what the individual options actually do and mean. those are the only options I really deal with.

p.s. in BROADCAST SETTINGS is where you set up twitch streaming. its pretty straight forward. if you set your file path to end in .mp4 you can immediately upload your video and use it in more video software type deals. just makes things easier if you run into any problems with your files.