
Verify that your stream is working by looking at the Stream Status section.Click Live Control Room the YouTube Live Control Room appears.Return to YouTube (you should still be on the Custom ingestion page).Show me how to run my live event in YouTube Find your output folder in the Recording settings, select the Recording Format you’d like (I usually choose MP4).Ĭlick the Start Streaming button at the lower right side of the main OBS window to start your live stream.Įverything is ready for your live streaming event! Note that it can take 30 seconds or more for YouTube to sort out your connection and start processing the data, so make sure you get things ready well before your go-live time.– Encoder preset: quality (you may need to check Enable Advanced Encoder Settings to select this) – Encoder: Hardware (in our example, QSV)
Select Output from the options on the left. Ensure the video canvas and output are both set to 3840 x2160 and the frame rate is set to 30 fps. Select Video from the options on the left. Click Settings at the far right side of the OBS Studio window the Settings dialog opens. If you don’t have the uplink bandwidth for a consistent 16 Mb/s stream, you may need to use different settings than the ones shown here, or you may need to record now and upload later instead of live streaming. 30 fps – same as the capture frame rate.
4K UHD (2160p)- same as the capture frame size.
This tutorial uses the following encoding settings:
Give your new source a name (like AV.io 4K) and click OK.Ĭonfigure your encoding settings in OBS. Select Add, then Video Capture Device the Create/Select Source dialog appears. With a scene selected in the Scenes section at the bottom of the OBS Studio window, right-click in the Sources section at the bottom of the OBS Studio window. Also, OBS provides a nice estimator tool you can access here. You can start with our suggestions and watch your CPU usage (to make sure it doesn’t go too high) and check your output for quality, then tweak. This tutorial uses the following capture settings (configured in OBS):ĭetermining the best video rates for your computer and network is a bit beyond the scope of this page.