It can either be the same as the base resolution setting, or smaller. The Output (Scaled) Resolution setting determines the resolution of your recorded video. Note that if you don't see the dimensions you want in the dropdown list here you can manually type in your preferred pixel dimensions with the format x, e.g.

It can either be the full size of the screen, or a smaller portion of it. The Base (Canvas) Resolution setting determines the area, in pixels, you wish to capture from your screen. This is where you'll set your Capture Size, Output Size, Downscaling and Frame Rate ( FPS) settings. Head to the Video portion of the settings. To get started, open the settings panel by clicking the Settings button at the bottom right of the interface: 2. Feel free to adjust them to your tastes, but please don't spend all day pulling your hair out to get the settings just-so. The video and output settings I've arrived at, which we'll cover below, are for stable, good-quality, low-file-size video creation. The video has to look good, too: settings should create a balance between video image quality and file size.

I found certain combinations of settings were more likely to cause stability issues, while others were rock solid. Using a combination of Stream Deck multi-actions to hide/unhide elements on a timer, (more on that in a future article), and using specific overlay elements intended only for recording, I can show an end screen overlay like the one in the image below.My experience with OBS has been that, once you get it set up, it's incredible, but that it can be a little temperamental getting to that point. This has a lot more utility than it may first seem! For instance, this prevents me from having to do ANY editing on my recorded content from my streams in preparation for upload. One way to use this is it to hide stream overlay elements from your recorded content for YouTube, but you can also use it to only show specific elements for the recording, such as this alpha channel call to action that gets played when I start recording, and is not shown to the stream!

StreamLabs has a selective recording option! This lets you hide or show specific elements in your stream or recording.

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