Recording gameplay has never been easier, anyone can do it, but not many people can do it right…. Laggy footage, blurry footage, no sound at all!

We’re going to show you how to record game footage in OBS, all the settings to make the quality amazing, crisp, and clear, to make both your microphone and game sound perfect.

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What Video Encoder to Use to Record Gameplay In Streamlabs

To make this straightforward, If you’re using any Nvidia card past the GTX 600, which was released in 2012, so likely any Nvidia card being used on a semi-new PC, you’re going to pick Nvenc H.264. This means you’re using a special chip on your graphics card to encode footage, this chip is separate and just used solely for encoding decoding, so it won’t affect your gameplay performance.

And, If you’re using a graphics card from before that, you’ll likely use x264 which will be using your CPU to encode or decode.

What Bitrate to use to Record Gameplay In Streamlabs

In the Encoder settings, you have Rate control, this will be CBR by default, which means you’re recording at the same bitrate all the time, and below that you set the bitrate of your choice, I found for 1080p 60fps that 16,000 - 18,000 gave me excellent quality for editing my gameplay footage later, but any higher was useless, but 8000 bitrate still gave me useable clean footage so if your PC is struggling, start there.

If you want to get a little more complicated in recordings, instead select CQP, which in short is smarter and will change the bitrate as needed so you’re not wasting data, this does mean rather than setting a bitrate you’re setting a CQ level, in short, low numbers here mean higher quality footage, high numbers mean lower quality, I found recording at 15 gave me footage that was perfect, and indistinguishable to viewers, but 20 will also give you totally useable footage, if your PC can’t handle 15, start at 20, and slowly lower it.

🕘 Timestamps:

0:00 How To Record Gameplay in Streamlabs
0:40 How To Install Streamlabs
1:09 Where to download Graphics and assets for Streamlabs
1:56 How To Set Base Canvas Resolution and Output Resolution In Streamlabs
2:20 How are Base Canvas and Output Resolution different in Streamlabs?
2:47 How To Set FPS In Streamlabs
3:09 The Best Streamlabs Settings for gameplay recording
3:24 How to change recording path in Streamlabs
3:36 How to change recording format in Streamlabs
4:01 What Video Encoder to use in Streamlabs for recording gameplay?
4:55 How to change Audio Tracks in Streamlabs Settings
5:03 Best Streamlabs Settings for recording Gameplay with NVENC Encoding
5:24 What Bitrate to use for recording gameplay in Streamlabs
5:52 What Bitrate to use to record 1080p Gameplay footage?
6:03 Why you should use CQP instead of CBR in Streamlabs
6:20 What CQ Level to use for recording gameplay in Streamlabs
6:40 Streamlabs Settings for Recording Gameplay - Preset, Tuning, Psycho-Visual Tuning, GPU, and B-Frames
7:05 Best Streamlabs Settings for recording Gameplay with x264 Encoding
7:33 How to fix bad footage in Streamlabs
7:44 How to use the Streamlabs Stats Panel
8:07 What are Dropped Frames In Streamlabs
8:15 What are Lagged Frames In Streamlabs
8:34 What are Skipped Frames In Streamlabs
8:50 How To Add Gameplay Audio In Streamlabs
9:19 How To Change Audio Volume in Streamlabs
9:50 How To Separate Audio Track Recording In Streamlabs
10:31 How To Use Game Capture In Streamlabs To Record Gameplay
11:11 How To Use Window Capture In Streamlabs To Record Gameplay
11:29 How To Use Display Capture In Streamlabs To Record Gameplay
11:41 How To Add A Webcam Source to Streamlabs
12:00 How To Record Gameplay and Webcam In Streamlabs Separately
13:09 How To Record Gameplay In Streamlabs
13:24 How To Convert or Remux MKV files to Mp4 Files In OBS
14:00 How To Edit Dual Source Recordings In Post
14:46 How To Edit 6 Audio Tracks from Streamlabs In Post

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