OBS Studio is for everyone who wants to is using camera or his computer screen to for meetings or video broadcasting. When we talk about vloggers, youtubers, content creators, gamers or anyone who records video using camera or does screen recording. Video editing is important aspect.
The content creator spend 20% of their time on video recording and 80% on video editing to give professional touch. But what if video all this is done live and you need to edit the videos on realtime.
Have you seen TV news channels, they do the editing on real-time. You can also do the same.
I have been using video Editing for more than 20 years and used 100s of software for this purpose, but the best one is OBS Studio.
Video Broadcasting
When you do video broadcasting on youtube, facebook or on a TV Channel. You must be having multiple camera and presentation sources and then various audio sources too.
You might also need to show a virtual background the way TV channels do. All this can be done using OBS Studio.
Web Meetings
If you want to give professional touch to your web cam while doing video conferring, web meeting or video call. OBS Studio is the best software to do that.
Why OBS Studio
From my experience, I am going to share the best all in one tool that is really going to make your life easy when it comes to broadcasting video online and Editing them on real time.
Yes, the tool is OBS (Open Broadcast Studio)
What is OBS Studio
OBS Studio is a screen recorder, streaming software and video editor, and one of the best tools around for sharing what’s happening on your screen with viewers around the world. It enables you to work with these multiple sources, mix between them and create one seamless broadcast.
Using OBS Studio you can not only record directly from your webcam and microphone, you can also incorporate footage from games, add in existing videos and still images, capture a window or portion of your screen, and much more.
At first OBS Studio feels a little mysterious; there’s little guidance or indication about what you need to do first. But, to help I have created a Playlist from from Installation and Configuration to most advanced features
OBS Studio System Requirements
Here are the system requirements
- Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux
- At least 4GB RAM
- Intel Core i5 Processor
- DirectX 10 capable Graphics Card
Download OBS Studio
OBS Studio is an open source software, it is free to use and you don’t need to pay anything for this software.
You can directly download from obs website
Web Camera
If you don’t have web camera for your PC don’t worry, you can use your smart camera for web meetings. Here is another article that can help you to do this.
Virtual Camera
Using OBS Studio you can give professional touch to your web camera. Your web cam can be used an a video input to OBS Studio and then OBS Virtal camera can be used as an output.
Look at this video to see how.
Recommended Microphone
The one that I use for many years. I recommend that.
External Microphone. If you are in GCC you can buy from this link. Click here
For other countries Click the link below
OBS Studio Free online Tutorial.
Link of the Playlist if here on top I Icon or the link is in the description below.
I will keep on adding videos on specific features on my YouTube channel in this playlist. Subscribe to my channel and press the bell icon so that you get the notification when I upload new video.
Look at Full Play list here