Hello Freedom! Family!
A lot of you ask, "What is a good software to record Full HD game-play footage for Free?" The answer is OBS or Open Broadcaster Software! I have decided to make a guide on how to record footage because a lot of people say OBS is too confusing to use. With this guide I hope to eliminate the confusion!
This Guide guide to teach you how to record 60 FPS at 1080p resolution with OBS or Open Broadcaster Software using Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or even 10). Similar settings can be used for the Mac version, however the location of these settings may be different.
This guide is for those looking for the ability to record game-play! NOT STREAM!
Table Of Contents:
1 Getting OBS.
2 Setting Up OBS for recording.
3 How to record your Gameplay Footage with OBS.
1 Getting OBS:
2 Setting Up OBS for recording.
In order to begin, right click in the scenes box, and choose "Add scene". Enter a name for this scene, it can be anything you want. I will name it YouTube 1080p 60FPS. Once the scene is created, you will need to add a source. Right click in the source box and choose "Add >". Then choose "Window Capture". At this point, you will need to open the game you wish to choose, for me it's Half-Life 2. Once in the game capture, dialogue, you will see this:
Make sure to have the game you wish to record selected, In my case it's Half-Life 2. All the other settings can be left at default. However, I recommend un-selecting capture mouse cursor unless you want it on the screen, If you don't see your game here, hit refresh until it comes up, if it still doesn't show close your game, and re-open it. However, once you selected your game hit OK..
Now we need to configure the video settings. Hit the "Settings" button to the top right of the Sources box.
Here are the settings I use: AFTER EVERY CHANGE HIT APPLY!
Then you will go to broadcast settings, here you will change the mode to: "File OutPut Only" Then chose your file path, it should look something like this:
After that we will work on Video recording. I have mine set to my Monitors Resolution which is 1920 X 1080 with an aspect Ratio of 16:9. It should read your monitors setting by default and chose that. Then for resolution downscale I select none. However you can Choose 1280 X 720 if you just want HD and not Full HD. Then I change the FPS to 60 to record 1080p 60FPS footage. It will look like this for Full HD 1080 60 FPS:
Now we will setup your audio devices, Go to "Audio" and then under "Desktop Audio Device" select your speakers so your game audio will be recorded, and then from the drop down menu find your Microphone if you plan to commentate. It should look something like this:
Next we will select Hotkeys so you know which keys will start your recording. Then under Broadcast find "Start Recording" and "Stop Recording" I set mine to + and -, but you can set yours to your liking:
Then make sure your advanced options look like this, I have found this to work well for my machine, but you can customize it by changing some of the settings. Here are my advanced settings:
Once you are done with advanced, hit OK and I will show you how to start recording!
3. How to Record your Game Play Footage:
Before you start recording you want preview your recording. You can do this by selecting "Stream Preview" Don't worry it won't stream since it's only a preview. Once you do so you should see your game play on OBS like so:
The problem with this is that OBS is not recording your full game to fix this, right click on the screen, select "Position/Size" then fit to screen, and it should change to this:
Once your preview covers the whole area of recording hit stop preview. Then go to your game window, hit + (or whatever key you set to start the recording). To stop I would hit - and that's how you record 1080p 60 FPS game-play footage using OBS!
Then take the file from where ever you saved it, drag it to your editor and you are ready to edit!
With OBS you can record FULL HD 1080p 60FPS Footage for Free! Let me know what you think of this guide and if you have any comments or suggestions feel free to add them below!
Thank you for your time!
- Andrew Kan/ Superman
A lot of you ask, "What is a good software to record Full HD game-play footage for Free?" The answer is OBS or Open Broadcaster Software! I have decided to make a guide on how to record footage because a lot of people say OBS is too confusing to use. With this guide I hope to eliminate the confusion!
This Guide guide to teach you how to record 60 FPS at 1080p resolution with OBS or Open Broadcaster Software using Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or even 10). Similar settings can be used for the Mac version, however the location of these settings may be different.
This guide is for those looking for the ability to record game-play! NOT STREAM!
Table Of Contents:
1 Getting OBS.
2 Setting Up OBS for recording.
3 How to record your Gameplay Footage with OBS.
1 Getting OBS:
- First you will need to download OBS you can do so through the link below:
- https://obsproject.com/
- After that follow the on screen instructions to install and you should see a screen like this:
2 Setting Up OBS for recording.
In order to begin, right click in the scenes box, and choose "Add scene". Enter a name for this scene, it can be anything you want. I will name it YouTube 1080p 60FPS. Once the scene is created, you will need to add a source. Right click in the source box and choose "Add >". Then choose "Window Capture". At this point, you will need to open the game you wish to choose, for me it's Half-Life 2. Once in the game capture, dialogue, you will see this:
Now we need to configure the video settings. Hit the "Settings" button to the top right of the Sources box.
Here are the settings I use: AFTER EVERY CHANGE HIT APPLY!
Then you will go to broadcast settings, here you will change the mode to: "File OutPut Only" Then chose your file path, it should look something like this:
After that we will work on Video recording. I have mine set to my Monitors Resolution which is 1920 X 1080 with an aspect Ratio of 16:9. It should read your monitors setting by default and chose that. Then for resolution downscale I select none. However you can Choose 1280 X 720 if you just want HD and not Full HD. Then I change the FPS to 60 to record 1080p 60FPS footage. It will look like this for Full HD 1080 60 FPS:
Now we will setup your audio devices, Go to "Audio" and then under "Desktop Audio Device" select your speakers so your game audio will be recorded, and then from the drop down menu find your Microphone if you plan to commentate. It should look something like this:
Next we will select Hotkeys so you know which keys will start your recording. Then under Broadcast find "Start Recording" and "Stop Recording" I set mine to + and -, but you can set yours to your liking:
Then make sure your advanced options look like this, I have found this to work well for my machine, but you can customize it by changing some of the settings. Here are my advanced settings:
Once you are done with advanced, hit OK and I will show you how to start recording!
3. How to Record your Game Play Footage:
Before you start recording you want preview your recording. You can do this by selecting "Stream Preview" Don't worry it won't stream since it's only a preview. Once you do so you should see your game play on OBS like so:
The problem with this is that OBS is not recording your full game to fix this, right click on the screen, select "Position/Size" then fit to screen, and it should change to this:
Once your preview covers the whole area of recording hit stop preview. Then go to your game window, hit + (or whatever key you set to start the recording). To stop I would hit - and that's how you record 1080p 60 FPS game-play footage using OBS!
Then take the file from where ever you saved it, drag it to your editor and you are ready to edit!
With OBS you can record FULL HD 1080p 60FPS Footage for Free! Let me know what you think of this guide and if you have any comments or suggestions feel free to add them below!
Thank you for your time!
- Andrew Kan/ Superman