A start-to-finish OBS build for horizontal and vertical multistreaming — scenes, overlays, split audio, alerts, and the actual bitrate/keyframe numbers to use.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
A single OBS install can multistream to five platforms in both horizontal and vertical formats at once if you add two free plugins, split every audio source onto its own track before you ever go live, and use CBR for streaming but constant QP for local recording.
Who This Is For
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
You are setting up OBS Studio for the first time and want one linear path instead of piecing together scattered tutorials.
You already stream but only to one platform and want to add simultaneous multistreaming to Kick, YouTube, Facebook, or TikTok.
You want separated audio tracks (mic, game, Discord, music) so you can actually mix your recordings afterward in DaVinci Resolve or Premiere.
You want a vertical (9:16) stream running alongside your normal horizontal stream for YouTube Shorts / TikTok LIVE.
You've never known what bitrate, keyframe interval, or encoder preset to actually use and just want the numbers.
SKIP IF…
You're on a console or mobile streaming app rather than a PC/Mac running OBS Studio.
You already have a mature multi-track OBS setup with multistreaming configured — this is a from-scratch build, not an advanced-optimization video.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
The video builds a complete OBS Studio setup from an empty install: run the auto-config wizard, add Aitum's free vertical-canvas and multistream plugins, build the five standard scenes (Starting Soon, Just Chatting, Gameplay, Be Right Back, Ending Soon), and wire up a shared multi-platform chat overlay and alert system through Lumia Stream. It covers streaming simultaneously to Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Facebook, and TikTok (TikTok requires a Streamlabs OBS workaround since it has no official stream-key API), and repeats the whole source setup for a second, independent vertical canvas. The back half covers audio: capturing mic, game, Discord, music, and browser as separate application-audio sources, disabling Desktop Audio entirely, and routing them to separate numbered tracks so a recorded file can be re-mixed in an editor later. It closes with the exact streaming settings (CBR 8000 kbps, 2-second keyframes, two-pass quarter-resolution, high profile) and recording settings (constant QP 15-22, Hybrid MP4) needed for 1080p60, plus a rolling Backtrack buffer for instant clipping.
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States the full scope of the tutorial: multistreaming to five platforms in both horizontal and vertical, split audio, and best settings.
01:11 – 05:04
02 · Download OBS & Initial Setup
Downloads OBS from obsproject.com, runs the auto-configuration wizard (Optimized for streaming/recording/secondary), sets 1920x1080 / 60fps, connects Twitch as the primary service, and customizes the dock layout and color theme.
05:04 – 07:05
03 · How To Setup Vertical Canvas
Installs Aitum's free Vertical and Multistream plugins from aitum.tv and adds their dockable panels to the OBS layout.
07:05 – 11:25
04 · How To Setup Scenes, Sources & Overlays
Creates the five mandatory scenes (Starting Soon, Just Chatting, Gameplay, Be Right Back, Ending Soon) and adds a free animated overlay downloaded from hexium.net as a Media source.
11:25 – 16:41
05 · How To Setup Multi-Chat Overlay
Builds one multi-platform chat overlay in Lumia Stream (replacing StreamElements, which is reportedly at risk of shutting down) and adds it to OBS as a browser source shared across scenes.
16:41 – 18:55
06 · How To Setup Just Chatting Scene
Adds the webcam as a Video Capture Device at max resolution/FPS and reuses the existing chat overlay via Add Existing.
18:55 – 21:11
07 · Setup Gameplay Scene (Windows Users)
Covers the three Windows capture options — Display Capture, Game Capture, Window Capture — and the Window Capture freeze fix (switch method to 'Windows 10').
21:11 – 22:15
08 · Setup Gameplay Scene (Mac Users)
Covers the Mac equivalent, macOS Screen Capture, with the same display/window/application capture choices under one source type.
22:15 – 23:21
09 · Setup Gameplay Scene (continued)
Reuses the webcam and chat overlay sources inside the gameplay scene via Add Existing.
23:21 – 26:48
10 · How To Setup Aitum MultiStream
Adds Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and Facebook as simultaneous outputs under one multistream dock, plus a separate YouTube key for the vertical canvas (YouTube Shorts).
26:48 – 31:58
11 · How To Stream To TikTok Using OBS
Works around TikTok's lack of an official stream-key API using Streamlabs OBS plus a third-party TikTok stream-key generator tool, including the apply-for-LIVE-access process and single-use key requirement.
31:58 – 33:07
12 · How To Setup Vertical Scene & Sources
Rebuilds the webcam and gameplay sources independently for the 9:16 vertical canvas.
33:07 – 38:09
13 · How to Split Audio (Windows Users)
Uses the WinCapture Audio beta plugin and Application Audio Capture to split mic, music, Discord, game, and browser onto separate sources, disabling Desktop Audio entirely.
38:09 – 39:45
14 · How to Split Audio (Mac Users)
Uses macOS Audio Capture with a per-source application dropdown to achieve the same per-app audio isolation.
39:45 – 47:05
15 · How To Add Alerts & Alert Audio
Configures follower/subscriber/bits alerts per platform in Lumia Stream, color-codes them, sources free alert sounds from myinstants.com, and groups the finished alert+chat sources as 'nested audio' for reuse across scenes.
47:05 – 49:37
16 · How To Add Multichat DOCK In OBS
Adds a Lumia Link custom browser dock inside OBS for the streamer's own combined chat view, with a customizable blurred background.
49:37 – 57:59
17 · Best Settings for Streaming & Recording
Sets the concrete Output settings: streaming (Advanced mode, CBR 8000 kbps, 2s keyframes, two-pass quarter-res, high profile) and recording (Hybrid MP4, constant QP 15-22, separate tracks 3-6), plus per-platform bitrates for YouTube/Kick/Facebook/TikTok.
57:59 – 59:17
18 · Setup Vertical Backtrack for Clipping
Enables Backtrack (a 90-120 second rolling buffer) on the vertical canvas with a hotkey for instant clip saving.
59:17 – 1:00:46
19 · How To Split Tracks for Recordings
Assigns mic, gameplay audio, Discord, and music/browser/alerts to separate numbered tracks (3-6) in the Advanced Audio Properties, reserving tracks 1-2 for the live stream mix.
1:00:46 – 1:01:24
20 · Outro
Wraps up, asks for a like/subscribe, and points to a related video.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
Streaming should use CBR (constant bitrate) because it's capped by upload bandwidth, while local recording should use constant QP because there's no bandwidth ceiling to respect.
8,000 kbps CBR is the standard 1080p60 streaming target; if the stream lags, drop in 500 kbps steps but never below 6,000 kbps, which is the floor for 1080p60.
A TikTok LIVE stream key from OBS is single-use — a brand new key has to be generated every single time before going live, unlike Twitch or YouTube keys.
Splitting every audio source (mic, game, Discord, music, browser) onto its own OBS source is the one setting that makes independent volume control and multi-track recording exports possible; there's no way to unmix them after the fact.
Desktop Audio has to be explicitly disabled in OBS's audio settings, or every application's sound gets folded into one uncontrollable channel regardless of how many separate sources you've added.
Backtrack isn't a magic instant-clip feature — it's a rolling 90-to-120-second local buffer that starts recording the moment your stream or recording starts; the hotkey just saves what was already captured.
Recording format should be Hybrid MP4 specifically because it auto-saves progress if the app crashes or power cuts out, unlike a standard MP4 which can be left corrupted and unplayable.
TikTok has no official API for issuing OBS stream keys, so going live on TikTok from OBS requires a separate app (Streamlabs OBS) plus a third-party key-generator tool as a workaround.
Twitch's automatic VOD track only stays clean if desktop audio and background music are explicitly excluded from track two before the first stream.
A single shared chat overlay and alert bundle, built once and grouped in OBS, can be dragged into every new scene via 'Add Existing' instead of being rebuilt from scratch each time.
Takeaway
The settings and structure behind a real multi-platform OBS rig
STREAM SETUP
Multistreaming five platforms in two aspect ratios comes down to a handful of concrete choices — which plugins, which capture source, which rate-control mode, and how audio gets split onto tracks — not a mysterious skill.
02Download OBS & Initial Setup
Run the auto-configuration wizard and choose 'Optimized for streaming, recording, and secondary' rather than hand-picking every setting from scratch.
Set base canvas resolution to 1920x1080 and target 60fps, letting OBS fall back to 30fps automatically if the machine can't sustain it.
Select Twitch as the primary connected service before running the bandwidth test, since some downstream features only unlock when Twitch is the main built-in service.
03How To Setup Vertical Canvas
A dedicated vertical-canvas plugin (Aitum's Vertical, free) is what lets one OBS instance output both a landscape and a 9:16 stream at once, instead of running two separate OBS installs.
Vertical scenes and sources need their own dock tabs pinned next to the standard Scenes/Sources docks so you can flip between horizontal and vertical layouts without hunting for them.
04How To Setup Scenes, Sources & Overlays
Every stream needs five baseline scenes covering the full session lifecycle: Starting Soon, Just Chatting, Gameplay, Be Right Back, and Ending Soon.
Free overlay packs are a legitimate no-budget starting point, and a throwaway email is enough to check out on most of them.
Animated overlay files get added as a Media source with loop enabled; static images use an Image source instead — using the wrong source type is why overlays freeze or vanish.
05How To Setup Multi-Chat Overlay
A single multi-platform chat overlay is built once, then reused across every scene via 'Add Existing' instead of rebuilding it per scene.
Chat is skinnable by theme, per-platform color, layout direction, and whether platform badges show — hiding badges makes it harder for a platform to detect you're displaying rival-platform chat.
06How To Setup Just Chatting Scene
Webcam is added as a Video Capture Device set to its highest native resolution and FPS, not left on defaults, before being resized to fill the canvas.
A 'just chatting' scene is intentionally minimal — webcam plus the shared chat overlay is enough; extra overlays are optional, not required.
07Setup Gameplay Scene (Windows Users)
Windows has three capture options — Display Capture (shows the whole monitor, including anything else open), Game Capture (only the full-screen game), and Window Capture (a specific window) — and the choice determines what accidentally leaks onto stream.
Window Capture's default capture method tends to freeze; switching it to the 'Windows 10' capture method is the fix.
08Setup Gameplay Scene (Mac Users)
macOS uses one unified 'macOS Screen Capture' source with a method dropdown (display, window, application) mirroring the three Windows options.
09Setup Gameplay Scene (continued)
The webcam and chat overlay sources built earlier get reused via 'Add Existing' inside the gameplay scene rather than recreated, keeping every scene consistent without duplicate source instances.
10How To Setup Aitum MultiStream
One multistream widget replaces running separate encoders per platform — outputs for Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Facebook, and a custom RTMP destination all live under one gear icon.
Twitch doesn't need to be manually added to the multistream dock if it was already set as OBS's primary connected service — re-adding it would be redundant.
The vertical canvas gets its own independent output list (a separate YouTube stream key created specifically for Shorts) so horizontal and vertical streams don't collide on the same key.
11How To Stream To TikTok Using OBS
TikTok isn't a native multistream output because TikTok hasn't granted API access for stream keys, so going live on TikTok from OBS requires a workaround: a separate app plus a third-party key generator.
Getting approved for TikTok LIVE access can be instant or take up to roughly 72 hours; if declined, reapplying is the only path forward.
TikTok's generated stream key is single-use — a fresh key has to be generated every single time before going live, unlike Twitch/YouTube keys which stay valid indefinitely.
12How To Setup Vertical Scene & Sources
The vertical canvas needs its sources built out same as the horizontal one — webcam and gameplay each resized and repositioned independently, since a horizontal layout doesn't just crop down cleanly.
13How to Split Audio (Windows Users)
Each audio source (mic, game, Discord, music, browser) is captured through 'Application Audio Capture' as its own separate source, rather than one generic 'Desktop Audio' capture — that's what makes independent volume control and separate recording tracks possible later.
Desktop Audio must be explicitly disabled in Settings > Audio, or every app's sound gets mixed into one uncontrollable stream regardless of how many separate sources exist.
For game audio specifically, 'Capture all audio except sessions from the selected executable' isolates just the game's sound onto its own track while excluding every other app.
14How to Split Audio (Mac Users)
macOS Audio Capture works the same way as the Windows app-capture sources — each app gets picked from a per-source application dropdown instead of one shared system-audio feed.
15How To Add Alerts & Alert Audio
Alerts (follows, subs, gifted subs, bits) are configured once per alert type, then color-coded by platform so viewers can tell at a glance which platform triggered which alert.
Free animated alert graphics and free sound effects are a real substitute for paid alert packs when there's no budget.
The finished alert and chat sources get grouped together in OBS ('nested audio') so the whole bundle can be dragged into any new scene as one object instead of rebuilding it scene by scene.
16How To Add Multichat DOCK In OBS
A combined multi-platform chat feed for the streamer's own dashboard is different from the on-stream chat overlay viewers see — they're configured separately, even though they draw from the same platforms.
A custom background image behind the chat dock, with an adjustable blur, is a low-effort way to make the streamer-facing dashboard match the stream's aesthetic.
17Best Settings for Streaming & Recording
Streaming and recording use fundamentally different rate-control strategies: streaming should use CBR since it's capped by upload bandwidth, while local recording should use constant QP since there's no bandwidth ceiling.
8,000 kbps CBR at a 2-second keyframe interval, two-pass quarter-resolution encoding, high profile, and adaptive quantization on is the baseline 1080p60 streaming preset; drop bitrate in 500 kbps steps if lagging, but never below 6,000 kbps.
For local recording, constant QP 15 is high quality with bigger files, QP 22 is the practical ceiling before quality visibly drops — pick based on available disk space, not defaults.
Recording format should be 'Hybrid MP4,' which auto-saves progress if the app crashes or power is lost, unlike a standard MP4 that can be left unplayable by an interruption.
18Setup Vertical Backtrack for Clipping
Backtrack is a rolling local buffer (90-120 seconds) that starts automatically with your stream or recording — the 'instant clip' hotkey doesn't create a new recording, it just saves what's already been buffered.
19How To Split Tracks for Recordings
Recording tracks 3 through 6 (mic, game audio, Discord, music/browser/alerts) are what get imported into an editor for a proper multi-track edit — tracks 1-2 are reserved for the live stream mix and Twitch's VOD track and shouldn't carry the same audio.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
CBR (Constant Bitrate)
An encoding mode that holds output bitrate steady regardless of scene complexity — used for live streaming because it matches a fixed upload bandwidth budget.
Constant QP
An encoding mode that holds visual quality steady and lets file size vary — used for local recording, where there's no bandwidth limit to respect.
Keyframe Interval
How often the encoder inserts a full reference frame; a 2-second interval is the standard balance most streaming platforms expect for smooth seeking and quality.
Backtrack
OBS's rolling local recording buffer (commonly set to 90-120 seconds) that runs continuously in the background so a hotkey can instantly save whatever just happened, without manually starting a new recording.
Multistream / Restream
Sending one live broadcast to several platforms simultaneously (e.g. Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Facebook, TikTok) from a single OBS output, rather than running a separate encoder per platform.
VOD track
A separate audio track Twitch records alongside your live stream specifically for the saved video-on-demand replay, which can be configured to exclude certain audio sources like background music.
“I'm just gonna flat out tell you to put 8,000. If you notice in your stream that you are lagging, then you're gonna take that bit rate and you're gonna subtract 500 until you are no longer lagging, but do not go under 6,000.”
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29:10
“Each and every single time that you wanna go live on TikTok, you are gonna have to generate a brand new stream key each and every single time.”
See every word as it's spoken — crank it to 2× and still catch all of it. The same dual-channel trick behind Amazon's Kindle + Audible.
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You just clicked on the only video that you are ever gonna need to set up OBS Studio for live streaming and recording content. Because in this video, I'm gonna walk you through the entire process from start all the way up to the finish line. And if you are someone that is brand new to utilizing OBS Studio, I'm here to tell you that's gonna be okay because I'm gonna make this video as stress free as possible.
And so by the end of today's tutorial, your OBS Studio will be ready to stream, record, and clip content both in horizontal and vertical. You will be able to stream and multistream to all of your favorite platforms such as Kik, Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and, yes, even including TikTok.
I am also gonna provide you with a multichat widget for you to read all of your chats all in one place. I'm also gonna show you how you're able to split all of your audio sources so that way you have complete control over your audio. And I'm also gonna provide you with the best recording and streaming settings while also helping you set up your scenes, your sources, as well as your overlays.
And so if that sounds good to you, let's go ahead and let's get started.
And so going straight into the video, the very first thing you wanna do is download OBS Studio. So we need to head on over to obsproject.com and all of the links I'm gonna be utilizing in today's video is gonna be in description down below, so that way you guys can go ahead and follow along.
Now as you can see, it is available for both Windows, Mac, and you also do have the option for Linux, but today we're just gonna be focusing on both Windows and Mac. So go ahead and select the operating system that you are currently utilizing to download the installation.
And then once you download OBS Studio, you'll be met with this particular screen right here, which is gonna be your auto configuration wizard. Now what I recommend you do is to select the very first option, which is optimized for streaming, recording, and secondary.
You are then gonna select next, and you're gonna make sure that your base canvas resolution is set to nineteen twenty by ten eighty. And then you wanna make sure your FPS is set to either 60 or 30, but prefer 60 when possible.
This means it's always gonna prioritize 60 frames per second unless your stream cannot handle it. Then you'll have the option to drop it down to 30 FPS. So we're gonna go ahead and select next.
And then for your service, you wanna make sure that you have Twitch selected because inside of your settings, there's gonna be an option for Twitch bot track that we're gonna select and that only is available if Twitch is your main built in service.
So we're gonna make sure Twitch is selected and then we wanna go ahead and connect our account instead of utilizing the stream key. The reason why we wanna do the account is because it's gonna provide us with a chat that we're gonna be able to put on the side of our OBS screen as well as the ability to change our title for Twitch.
So you wanna make sure you utilize this option here and then go ahead and just connect your account. And then once that's done, make sure both of these options are checked, and then go ahead and select next.
It's gonna then do a bandwidth test based on your internet, but we're also gonna do that again a little bit later because these settings, we're actually going to customize it to give you the best possible performance. But let this go ahead and just run its test really quickly. And then once that's done, it should provide you with your final results, and you can go ahead and select apply settings.
And so now you should see that your chat for Twitch has populated right here. We can go ahead and just move this over to the side. So this is what I like to do.
I like to have my chat right here on the right hand side of my screen. And then for my stream title, I'm actually gonna put that down here on this particular side.
Let's see if we can get it to move. And so now you should have something that looks somewhat similar to this. And so what I highly recommend doing if you want a little bit more customizability to your OBS Studio, I recommend coming over to docs.
I recommend checking this option right here for full height docs. And this is gonna give OBS the ability to take your dockable panels such as your Twist Chat, your scenes, your sources, or custom browser docs, and it's gonna have it expand to the entire vertical height of your OBS application.
And so I'm gonna go ahead and edit this a little bit to get it how I want it.
And this is ultimately what it should look like. Now if your OBS does not have the same kind of color pattern as mine has and you wanna be able to customize it to fit your own personal aesthetic, you can always come down here to settings. You can go over to appearance, and then this is where you can change the different color for your OBS.
So mine is Acry, but if you click the drop down menu, it provides you with different options that you can choose from. So just select the one that you want so that way it can look somewhat similar to mine, and then select apply and okay.
And so once that's done, we now need to go ahead and we need to add in our vertical canvas as well as our multi stream widget. And so in order for us to do that, we need to head on over to this website, adam.tv. Now the plugins that I'm gonna have us download are free.
So you just gotta scroll down a little bit, and then you'll see right here, vertical free download, multi stream free download.
So both of these are free. You're not paying a dime for any of these. I want you to go ahead and download both of these plugins.
So you just gotta click on it one time. It's automatically gonna start the download for you as you can see right here. And then we're gonna go ahead and just click on the installation, and then we're gonna go ahead and just fully install this onto our computer.
And then we're gonna go back, and we're gonna do the same thing for the multi stream. So what you're gonna wanna do from here is you wanna reset OBS. So we're gonna go ahead and close it out, and we're gonna go ahead and open it back up.
And so now you should have your vertical and your multistream plugin listed. So basically, it can be somewhere down here. It could be like anywhere on your screen.
Just look for a little tab that potentially says vertical, and then you will also have something that says vertical scenes as well as vertical sources. So mine is right over here, but it can be anywhere on your screen.
So just look for wherever it says vertical. And so once you have it, you're gonna come over here and we're just gonna just put it right on the side right here.
If you don't see it at all, if you don't have it anywhere on your screen, what you can do is come over to your docs and then you'll have all of these down here. It says vertical scene, vertical sources.
We don't need the vertical scene transitions, but if that's something that you want to have, then you can go ahead and do that. I'm personally not gonna do that. And then we're also gonna add in our ATEM multi stream.
So this is our multi stream widget that's gonna allow us to be able to stream to any platform of our choosing. So we're gonna go ahead and just add this right over here. We're gonna take our vertical scenes, we're gonna put this on top of our regular scene, and then we're gonna do the same thing for our sources.
We're gonna take our sources, we're gonna put it over the regular source, so that way it's in this tab like format. So only thing we gotta do is just click on it and we can just go through them. Now I am gonna go ahead and just rearrange this.
I'm gonna take the controls. I'm gonna put this up under our chat and just bring this over a little bit. And then we're gonna take our scene transitions and we're just gonna put this inside of our audio mixer just so that way we still have it.
It's just down here. And so now what we wanna do is set up our scenes and our sources. Now there are five mandatory scenes that everybody should have.
A starting soon scene, a just chatting scene, a gameplay scene, a be right back scene, as well as a ending soon scene.
So we're gonna go ahead and go over to our scenes. We wanna go ahead and click on the plus icon. We're gonna go ahead and name this starting soon.
We're gonna go ahead and remove the first one, and then we're gonna go ahead and just make the rest of them right here.
And so once all of our scenes have been created, we're gonna come back to the starting soon screen at the top and then we're gonna go ahead and add in our overlays for our sources. So the type of overlays that goes here is gonna be like a chatting overlay in case you want your chat to appear on your screen inside of OBS for your viewers to see, and then you can have your starting soon animation or static image.
Now there's a bunch of websites that you can go to to get overlays, but if you're someone that does not have the money to buy an overlay if you don't have one, then what we're gonna do for the sake of this tutorial is go over to this website, hexium.net. And this website provides you with a couple of free overlays that you are able to download if you just come over to the search bar, you type in the word free, you scroll down, and you select the option that says free designs.
You will then be brought to a page where it has all of their free overlays that you are able to download. So for the sake of this video, I'm gonna go ahead and click on this one right here, which looks like this incision, and we're gonna go ahead and we're just gonna proceed to checkout.
You are gonna have to put in your information here, but honestly, if you're not comfortable putting your information, can you always just put in like a fake name and a fake email address. And once that's done, you're now able to go ahead and select this download button. We are then gonna go ahead and unzip the file.
And so we can now go back into OBS studio here. We're gonna go over to our sources. We're gonna click the plus icon and if you're someone that downloaded an animated overlay, you're gonna select media.
However, if your overlay is a static image which means that it does not move, then you're gonna select image. But since mine is animated, I'm gonna go ahead and do media. I'm gonna name this starting soon overlay.
I'm gonna select okay. We're then gonna select browse for local file. We're going to look for the overlay pack that we've downloaded.
I'm gonna select animated, and then it should have everything right here for you. So mine is starting soon.
I'm a select open. I'm then gonna make sure I select loop and then click okay.
And it's now officially right here on my screen. And so we're gonna do the same thing for the b r I back scene as well as our ending soon scene.
Okay. Perfect. So we now have our starting soon, our b r I back, and then our ending soon.
Now for this, if you are somebody that wants to have a chat appear on your screen, then what you're gonna wanna do is head on over to this website, lumiastream.com.
Now normally, wouldn't recommend a StreamElements. However, we got some unfortunate news that StreamElements just might be shutting down due to financial reasons.
And so because of this, Lumia Stream is gonna be the best alternative when it comes to setting up your widgets as well as your overlays. The only thing about Lumia Stream is that you are gonna have to download this onto your computer. But I promise you, this is safe.
I would not recommend anything that I would not put on my own computer. And so once you're on this website, go ahead and download the application which is available for both Windows and Mac. Now once you download the application, you'll be met with this particular screen right here.
You wanna then go ahead and log in with your Twitch account. Once you go ahead and authorize it, you will then be met with some screens. You can go ahead and close these out, and then it's gonna provide you with a couple options for you to sign in to all of your streaming platforms.
So that's gonna be YouTube, Twitch, Kik, Facebook, TikTok. You can log in to all of those platforms.
Once you do that, you'll be met with your dashboard right here. And if you did not get the option to log in to your streaming platforms, then what you can do if you're on this dashboard, you can scroll down to the very bottom.
You will see an option that says connections. You'll click on it and then it'll provide you with the options to log in to all of your accounts by selecting the option that says add new connection. And you will see it provides you with a list of platforms that you can go ahead and log in to right here.
So we're just gonna focus on TikTok, Kik, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.
Now once that's done, we're gonna go ahead and add in our chat overlay. So I'm gonna make this real simple for you. What you're gonna do is you're gonna come on the left hand side.
You're gonna scroll down until you see the option that says core. You're gonna select the option that says overlays. You are then gonna select the option that says add new overlay.
You are gonna name this chat overlay, add new overlay, and then you're gonna get this screen pop up right here.
We're gonna select the option that says add layer. We're gonna come down here to where it says streaming tools, and we're gonna select the option that says chat box.
This is literally all you have to do. All of your streaming platforms have already been added and integrated. So for example, if I were to go over to my kick account and I start typing in my chat, you're gonna see it pop up green right here.
And then if I were to go over to my Twitch and I were to start typing in my Twitch chat, you will see that it shows up as my Twitch color.
Now what you can do to make it a little bit easier for you is you can come over here to chat box settings, select the option that says manage chat box, and then you will see here that it provides you with all the platforms that will be listed inside of your chat here.
So Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and Kik. We're gonna select the option that says change theme. It provides you with five themes that you're able to use for your overlay.
The ones that I personally like is gonna be the Lumia glass theme and the Lumia bubble theme. I'm gonna go ahead and choose the glass theme. I'm gonna go ahead and click save, and then we're just gonna adjust this a little bit.
Then we can scroll down on the right hand side. We can go over to styling, and then we can just make this a little bit bigger.
So we can go to like 20. Now if we scroll back up, the one thing that I like about Lumia is the fact that we have an option for a horizontal layout. So if you don't want your chat going up and down like this, you can go horizontal from side to side.
And then if you want it, you can also be in reverse. You can also hide the icons for the website. So for example, like how right now it shows the Twitch badge to let you know that this message is coming from Twitch.
You can hide these badges so that way you can put this on your screen and Twitch will have a harder time trying to figure out exactly where the chats are coming from in case if you run into any issues about multi chat on your screen.
Now once you have your overlay here, you can go ahead and select save. You can copy the URL and then you can head back into OBS studio.
You are then gonna go over to your sources. You're gonna click on the plus icon. You're gonna go up to browser.
You're name this chat overlay. Select okay. And you are then gonna paste URL in the URL section here and then press okay.
You can then put this wherever you want and then if you start typing, you will see that your chat now appears right here on your screen.
And so you can make this a little bit bigger if you choose to, and that's it. Now we're gonna head on over to our just chatting scene, and this is where we wanna add in our webcam.
So we're gonna come over to our sources, we're gonna click on the plus icon, and we're gonna select the option that says video capture device.
We are then gonna name this webcam. We're gonna select okay. You then wanna go ahead and scroll down here.
You wanna change your resolution type to custom. You wanna set your resolution to the highest resolution possible, and you then wanna scroll down, make sure your FPS is at highest FPS, and then select okay.
Now go ahead and make sure that your camera is at the full size of your screen. You can do that once again by right clicking, go over to transform, and just fit to screen.
And so now if I plug in my webcam, you should now be able to see it officially show on my screen. Alright. So I am now officially on my screen here.
And so since this is a just chatting scene, we're gonna keep this minimalistic. The only thing we really need is just our webcam on here. But if you do have some overlays, then you are more than welcome to go ahead and put that here.
Just follow the same process as before. Once again, if it's a static image, you'll just come over to your sources and you'll just put in an image.
But if it's an animated overlay, then of course you can do media and then just make sure that you loop it and you're good to go. Now what you can also do here if you wanna add in your chat, since that's what most people put on their just chatting scene, then you'll come over to your sources, You're gonna go to browser, and then since we've already added our chat overlay on our starting soon screen, we can go ahead and click add existing.
Click chat overlay and then press okay. And look at that, it's already right here on screen. You can put this wherever you like personally.
I put mine right here on the right hand corner since it's kinda like a blank area. And then that's it. You're pretty much good to go at this point.
So if we start typing, the chat continues flowing and we can now go ahead and work on our gameplay scene.
So let's go ahead and let's click gameplay here. And so there's a few ways on how you're able to add your gameplay onto your screen. So if you are on Windows, what you're gonna wanna do is click on the plus icon under your sources.
You're gonna see options known as display capture, game capture, and window capture.
If you decide to do display capture, you are going to then select a specific display such as your monitor screen. So for this, I would just go ahead and select my primary monitor.
You will see that it appears directly on my screen and then you can resize this to fit your particular screen if it's not fit correctly.
Now I have a ultra wide monitor, so that's the reason why you guys wanna see black bars down here. However, just know that if you decide to use this option, it's going to show everything that appears onto your screen.
And so if you don't want that, then you have a second option which is gonna be the game capture, and then you'll be able to capture any full screen application. So as long as your game is in full screen mode, it's automatically gonna show up right here inside of OBS Studio.
So you can go ahead and select okay and you now have game capture.
And this is not gonna show anything else that comes up on your screen. And the third way is gonna be your window capture. And so we can go over to the sources, click on the plus icon once more, window capture, and then if we were to go ahead and select this here, this is basically gonna ask us to select a specific window and you will now officially be able to see that Marvel rivals is appearing on my screen.
Now really quickly, if you're gonna be utilizing the window capture, I highly recommend changing your capture method from automatic because at least for me, it automatically freezes up on my screen.
So click on the drop down menu and then select Windows 10, and it should automatically fix itself. And so go ahead and select okay, and you now officially have three ways on how you're able to add your gameplay on your screen.
So choose whichever one works best for you, and then we'll go ahead and move on to the next step. Now if you're somebody that is on Mac, the process for you is just a little bit different, but everything else is still the same.
So for you, what you're gonna do is head on over to your sources, you're gonna click on the plus icon, and then you're gonna see an option that says macOS screen capture.
You're gonna select that. You can title this whatever you like. And then for the method, you'll have a drop down menu with the three options just like Windows.
So it's gonna be display capture, window capture, and application capture. The application capture is the same as the game capture on Windows as well as the display and window capture.
So for example, if you were to select the application capture, you're gonna then select your display and you are then gonna select the application that you want to stream.
So if you have your game up, you go ahead and select it and you will see it now show up inside of your preview. Once that's done, go ahead and select okay. Now go ahead and resize it to fit the screen and you're good to go.
Now if you wanna go ahead and add in your webcam for this scene just like how we did for just chatting, so that way your viewers can see you, then we're gonna go through our sources. We're gonna click the plus icon, video capture device, and then you will see that our webcam is still listed.
So we're gonna select the option that says add existing, select the webcam, and then press okay.
You can then go ahead and just resize this, and then you could just put yourself on your screen right here. And so that's it.
So if you wanna also add in your chat overlay, so that way it appears on your OBS screen, so that way your viewers can also see the chat, then what you can do is click on the plus icon, go back over to browser.
You'll see that we still have our chat overlay sitting right here, so we'll click add existing once more. Click on it, press okay. The chat shows right here, and then we can just put this anywhere that we choose.
I'm a go ahead and just leave it right here, and you're now good to go. And so now what we're gonna do is add in the rest of the platforms that we're gonna be streaming to.
So if you are someone that's gonna be streaming at Kik, YouTube, Facebook, or even TikTok, this is gonna be for you.
So to add the rest of your platforms, we need to go over to the AdaM MultiStream doc. We need to click on the gears icon. It's gonna bring up our main canvas, which is our horizontal canvas, and it's also gonna bring in a tab for your vertical canvas, which is the vertical canvas right here.
We are gonna select the main canvas. We're gonna select add output, and then you will see that it provides you with all the services that we are able to utilize.
So we got YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Kick, and if there's anywhere else you wanna stream to, you can also do a custom destination which is right here. But let's go ahead and let's do YouTube for now.
So we're gonna click on it. It's automatically gonna provide us with our YouTube server. So the only thing we gotta do is come down here to YouTube stream key.
We're gonna click on this link right here. It's gonna take us directly to our YouTube dashboard if you are already signed in to your YouTube account.
Once you are on this page, the only thing you need to do is just press on the copy button to get your stream key.
You're gonna go back into OBS studio and you're just gonna paste it right here. You're then gonna select create output and you have now successfully added YouTube.
So we're gonna do the same thing for Kik and Facebook.
Now for Facebook, it is a little different. On here, what you're gonna do is click right here inside this box to set up your live video. Once the page load, you are gonna select the option that says streaming software, and then you will have your stream key listed right here.
Just go ahead and click copy, and then you can paste it inside of OBS Studio. Now as a reminder, you do not have to do Twitch because Twitch is automatically built inside of Ada Multistream already because we have already added our Twitch account inside of OBS Studio, so there's no need to add it because it's already there.
So once that's done, we can select okay. You will see now that we have the platforms that we can stream to. And so to now set up our vertical canvas so that way we can stream to YouTube shorts, what we're gonna do is click on the gear icon once more.
We're now gonna go over to vertical canvas and we're just gonna add YouTube once again.
So click on this link again to go ahead and bring up your YouTube dashboard, and then what we're gonna do here this time is we're gonna add in a different stream key. So you're gonna come up to the top, you're gonna click on this drop down menu right here that says default stream, and then what we're gonna do is create a new stream key.
We're gonna name this vertical, and then we're gonna click on okay. So now we have a vertical stream key, and then we have our default stream key.
So we're gonna go ahead and copy our vertical. We're gonna go back into OBS Studio, and we're gonna paste that stream key right here. We're gonna now create the output, and you're now good to go.
So we're gonna go ahead and select okay. And so now we have a vertical canvas as well as our horizontal canvas.
So we can now stream to Twitch, Kik, YouTube, Facebook, and horizontal, and then we got the vertical canvas for YouTube shorts. Now in order for us to livestream to TikTok from OBS Studio utilizing Adem Multistream, there is a few things that we're gonna have to do because Adam at the moment does not have the rights to get stream keys from TikTok.
They have not released that yet. And so I do wanna go ahead and inform you that this is gonna be a workaround method. And in order for us to do this, we are gonna have to go to this website streamlabs.com, and you're gonna have to download Streamlabs OBS.
And once you've downloaded Streamlabs OBS, you are also gonna have to come over to this GitHub page, which once again is gonna be linked in the description of today's video, and you're gonna have to download the Streamlabs TikTok stream key generator.
Now if you're on Windows, you wanna download this, and if you're on a Mac with a m series silicon chip, you wanna download this, And if you are utilizing a Mac with a Intel processor, then you wanna download this. Once you have Streamlabs OBS fully downloaded and open, you now need to go ahead and log in to your TikTok account.
And there's two ways on how you're able to do that. The first way is by logging in by clicking on the login button on the lower left hand corner, and you're gonna see this page.
You are then gonna select the option that says log in to TikTok, and once you're officially logged in, you will see your TikTok username on the lower left hand corner. Now another thing that you can do if you're already logged in to a different account, you can come over to where it says settings.
You can go over to where it says stream, and it will provide you with all of the accounts that you're able to log in to. Go ahead and select TikTok, and once you signed in to your account, you might run into a situation to where Streamlabs is asking for you to apply to go live on TikTok.
And if that's the case, go ahead and click on the link to apply, and you will be met with this particular screen right here. And so what you're gonna do is once again click on this button to apply, and you're then gonna go ahead and go through this application.
Now some of you might not have to go through the application process. The moment that you log in to your TikTok account, if it automatically connected and linked inside of Streamlabs OBS, then you're good to go.
There's nothing else you need to do. You can go on to the next step. However, if you do have to apply, then go ahead and go through that process.
You can get approved instantly or it can take up to roughly around seventy two hours, and they will let you know if you got approved to go live or not. Now in the off chance that you don't get approved, just go ahead and apply again until you get approved so that way you can go ahead and move on to the next step. So once you receive the approval from Streamlabs OBS, you now need to go ahead and open up the Streamlabs TikTok stream key generator that you have downloaded.
Once you open up that application, you'll be met with this particular screen right here, And what you're gonna wanna do is select the option that says load from PC. You will then have your username pop up in this box along with the status that says approved, and then it also will say that you can go live true.
If this says false, then the only thing you're gonna do is click on this refresh account information button. It's gonna refresh this, and then you should then see where it says true.
This will not work if you did not first get approved going through Streamlabs OBS. And so once that's done, you're now gonna go over to where it says stream control. You're gonna select the option that says go live.
It's gonna say your stream has started successfully, and you're gonna select okay. Now really quickly, the stream key that you're getting from this generated tool is designed to work only one time.
So each and every single time that you wanna go live on TikTok, you are gonna have to open up the generator tool, so not Streamlabs, but just the generator tool itself, and you're gonna have to generate a brand new stream key each and every single time that you wanna go live on TikTok.
Now you also have the option to, of course, put your stream title and then your game category right here. And, of course, if you have any mature content, you can also check that option right here. And so what you're gonna do now is you're gonna copy the URL for the stream key, and you are then gonna go back into OBS Studio.
You're gonna click on the gear icon for the ADAM MultiStream. You are gonna go to the vertical canvas. You're gonna select the option that says add output.
You're gonna select TikTok, and you're gonna paste the stream key that you received for the generated tool right here. And you are now gonna go back to the generated tool, you're and gonna copy the stream URL, and you're gonna paste that in the TikTok server box right here.
You are then gonna create the output, and you now have TikTok added into Ada MultiStream for you to go live through OBS.
So you can now go ahead and select okay, and that's it. So now we need to go ahead and set up our vertical canvas.
So what we're gonna do is go over to our scenes and our sources. We're gonna switch them to vertical scene and vertical sources, and you then gonna go over to your vertical sources.
You're gonna click on the plus icon. If you wanna add your webcam, once again, you're gonna do video capture and you will see that your webcam is listed right here.
We're just gonna go ahead and scale this down to size. So I was gonna bring this over a bit, see if we can locate that middle part.
And then what I like to do is just have it fit just like that. And then we're gonna do the same thing with our gameplay.
You're gonna choose whichever one you chose. So if you chose game capture, if you chose display capture or window capture, select that one that you chose.
I do display capture, so I'm gonna leave mine at display. I'm gonna go ahead and drag this right up under the webcam.
And so there we go. So now you have your vertical canvas set up. You now can stream in vertical.
You have everything that you need right now. So what we're gonna do is set up our audio. And so what I'm gonna have you do is go back to your regular scenes as well as your regular sources.
And if you're on Windows PC, I need you to go down to the description of this video. I need you to click on the link for the WinCapture audio beta application.
I need you to download that. It should bring you directly to this screen right here. You wanna make sure that you select the latest version.
It's gonna bring you to this page and then you can download the very first one which is the executable. Once you download this and you install it, you are gonna have to reset your OBS.
Once you reset your OBS, I need both Windows and Mac OS users to now come over to your scenes. I need you to click on the plus icon and I need you to create a brand new scene named audio.
I want you to select okay. I want you to go ahead and select this down arrow to bring the audio all the down to the bottom. And what I would like for you to do is open up your music player.
So that can be either Spotify or Apple Music, and I would also like for you to join a VC on Discord if you're someone that's gonna be utilizing Discord. And once that's done, I would like for you to come to your sources, click on the plus icon.
I would like for you to then select the application audio capture beta. You are then gonna name this music, select okay, and then for your window, click on a drop down menu and you wanna look for Spotify premium.
Once you find it, go ahead and press it and then press okay. Now go over to your music player and then just press play.
You should now see inside of OBS Studio that the music is moving on its own. That's how you know that it is working. And so from here, we're gonna do the same thing for Discord.
So we're gonna click on the plus icon once more, application auto capture beta, name is Discord, select okay, and then we're just gonna look for the Discord server that we are currently in right now.
Mine is right here. Press okay. And now you have Discord.
So anytime you join any VC, it's automatically gonna update it and you'll be able to hear your friends talking inside of your stream. Now to add in your gameplay, what you're gonna do is click on the plus icon.
This time we're gonna go to application audio output capture. This is what we've downloaded from that application, and you are then going to name this gameplay audio, and then press okay.
Now for this, what I'm gonna have you do is come right here to this blue button that says add executables, and I just want you to spam it. Like, just press all of it until you are no longer able to press it.
Once it's grayed out, I need you to find the game that you currently have up. So for me, that's gonna be Marvel rivals, and then I'm going to take it out of here.
And I'm gonna have you check this box that says capture all audio except sessions from the selected executable. What this means is that everything within this box, so everything in here will not be heard on your stream.
The only thing that's gonna be heard is this one particular window that you're gonna have open. So for this right here, it's gonna be Marvel rivals. So you are then gonna go ahead and select okay.
If you look at your gameplay audio, you should see it moving. Now, of course, you also do wanna add in your microphone.
So for this, what I'm gonna have you do is actually come over to your settings. I'm gonna have you go over to audio. I want you to make sure that your desktop audio is turned off.
You wanna make sure you have this turned off because you will not have any control over your audio if you have this turned on. All of your audio will end up being in one particular place and you do not want that.
So disable that. And then for your mic, you wanna then go ahead and select your microphone. So mine is gonna be the Beacon mic.
I'm gonna select apply and okay. And now you will see that my microphone is right here, discord is right here, gameplay audio is right here, music is right here. And so now what I'm gonna do is add in our browser audio in case we're gonna be watching something like YouTube on stream.
We wanna be able to separate that audio from everything else. So I'm gonna click on this plus icon, application audio capture beta.
I'm I'm gonna rename this browser, select okay, and then I'm gonna look for YouTube.
So make sure you have it already open. I have it right here. I'm gonna select okay, And now my browser should be right here.
So that's good to go. Now for macOS users, this is what you're gonna do. So you're gonna go over to your sources, you are gonna click on the plus icon, and then you're gonna see an option that says macOS audio capture.
You're gonna select that. You wanna make sure that you already have everything up that you're gonna be using while you're streaming. So that's gonna be Spotify, your game, that's gonna be your browser if you wanna, like, potentially watch YouTube at some point while you're live streaming or anything like that.
So here, we're gonna go ahead and name this music. Click okay. We're gonna change the method from desktop audio to application audio capture.
We are then going to select the drop down menu under application, and right here, you will see it says Spotify. You will go ahead and click on it and select okay.
Now if you have music already playing, you're gonna see it moving right here. And so now we need to go ahead and add in the rest of our audio. So I'm gonna go ahead and click on the plus icon, go back to macOS audio capture.
We're gonna name this one at Discord. Select okay. Once again, application audio capture, and you will now see an option for Discord.
So we're gonna go ahead and select that and then press okay. And so now we have our music in Discord. And so now we need to do the same thing for our browser source as well as our alerts.
Now the process for setting up our alert sound is gonna be a little different. So what you're gonna wanna do is you wanna head back over into Luma stream. You are then gonna go back to the core category.
You're gonna select overlays. We are going to create a brand new overlay. We're gonna name this alerts.
Select add new overlay.
And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna add a layer. Select the option that says alerts, click alert.
We are now gonna go on the right hand side and select the option that says manage alert, And then on the left hand side, we have to select the option that says add alert. And so what we're gonna do, I recommend typing the word follower, and then we're gonna select the option for our kick follower.
If you wanna do TikTok, you can do that, but you also go to select Twitch follower. And then once you select those, search for subscriber, and then you can do gifted subscription, Twitch gifted subscription, as well as Twitch subscriber.
If you wanna do YouTube, you have that option. That's up to you. And then once that's done, we're gonna look for bits, which is Twitch bits.
And then once you have all the other alerts that you wanna add, so you can sift through all of these and you can look for which ones you wanna add in here, you're gonna select the option that says add alerts. On the left hand side, you will see all of your alerts listed right here for you.
And then what we're gonna do is go through each one of these and we're gonna add in our alert. And And so in order to do that, we're gonna go on the right hand side, we're gonna select the option that says image slash video, and of course, if you have a static image, you're gonna choose image.
If you have a video, you're gonna choose the option that says change video. So And what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna go ahead and select change video, and this is gonna be the screen that showcases the alerts that you've imported. As you can see, I already imported some, but what you're gonna do is you're gonna come on the lower right hand corner, you're gonna select the option that says upload files, and your overlay packs should have alerts already built for those in a separate file.
If you do not have them or if they did not provide that to you, then I recommend going over to this website etsy.com and you can actually buy some alerts.
They have really good decent animated alerts that's very clean and that can fit almost any aesthetic and you can get them fairly cheap if you have the money to buy them. However, if you don't, then I will leave a link to a few websites in which you can get animated alerts 100% for free.
And now once you selected your overlays, you're gonna go ahead and select open and you're gonna import all of your files and it's gonna look just like this.
And so now for the fact that I'm adding in a follower alert, I'm gonna go ahead and select follower, and then I can come down here to layout, and I'm gonna come down here to where it says push text, and I'm able to now adjust my text to fit inside of my alert here.
So now I'm gonna go ahead, I'm gonna do this for each and every single alert that's on the left hand side of my screen. And so now that I have these done, what I recommend doing now is color coding our alerts so that way we know exactly which platform that the alerts are coming from.
So for example, the names as well as like tiers, we can change these. For example, green for kick so that way we know that this is coming from kick.
I'm gonna do that for each and every single one of them here. And then for Twitch, we're obviously gonna go ahead and we're gonna change this to purple.
Perfect. And so now what we're gonna do is add in our alert audio. And so what we're gonna do is come on the right hand side, we're gonna select this option right here that says audio, and then we're gonna click change audio.
Now if you wanna know where you can go to get sound alerts for your livestream, I highly recommend checking out myinstance.com. And this website has a boatload of effects that you can use for your alerts 100% for free.
So let's say for example, we're just gonna go ahead and do the Minecraft explosions. We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna click on it, and then there's gonna be option that says download m p three.
You can go ahead and download it. You're then gonna go back into Lumia Stream and you're gonna select the option that says upload files.
You are then gonna go and locate wherever you downloaded the m p three file, press open, and now you have it sitting right here. So we're gonna go ahead and select it.
We can then go ahead and change the volume. So we'll put this down to like 20, maybe 30.
And you're then gonna do this for each and every single alert that you have. Once that's done, you can go ahead and select save, and you are then gonna go ahead and select the option that says copy URL.
And we're now gonna head back into OBS studio. And so now we're gonna go to our sources. We're gonna click the plus icon.
We're gonna select browser. We're gonna name this alert. Select okay.
We're gonna paste the URL and then we wanna make sure that we check the option that says control audio v I a o b s. Go ahead and select it.
You wanna also go ahead and change the width and height. I personally just recommend doing nineteen twenty by ten eighty.
You are then gonna go ahead and select okay. And now if you were to go ahead and open up Lumia stream, and if you were to select the option that says emulate, alert, and let's say we do follow.
Twitch follow, emulate. Look at that.
It's now right here on stream. Now, of course, we wanna do the one that has the actual sound to it, that's gonna be our bit. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that now.
And you see it now inside of OBS that it is coming through on its own. So we're now done with this.
So what we can do is click where it says alert, hold the shift key, and then select music at the bottom.
We're gonna right click and then we're just gonna go ahead and we're gonna group to select the items. We're gonna name this nested audio.
Click inside the canvas, and this is now inside of a group. So we can come back into, let's say, our gameplay scene.
We can then go to our sources. We can click on the plus icon, select group, and then you will see where it says nested audio.
So we can go ahead and click this and bring this in, and you now have all of your audio that you need inside of your gameplay scene.
And then you can put your audio in any scene that you want to. Once that's done, we now need to go ahead and create our multi chat widget so that way we can see all of our chats right here inside of OBS Studio. Now luckily, you can also use Lumia Stream to also get a multi chat widget.
So what we're gonna do is go ahead and open it right back up. And now in order for you to get the widget, what you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna go over to streaming tools, and then you're gonna select the option that says Lumia link.
On the right hand side, it's gonna provide you with the option for the doc chat. You're gonna go ahead and copy the link, minimize Lumia stream.
You are then gonna go to your docs inside of OBS studio. You're gonna create a custom browser doc. And as you can see, I already have it right here, but I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just gonna paste the link that I received.
I'm a click apply, and it should automatically pop up for you. So it should look like this.
So you can go ahead and you can just dock it right here. And the cool thing about this is that you can change the background to have any theme that you want.
So if there's like any kind of wallpaper that you wanna have to put in the background, you are more than welcome to do that. So basically, what you're gonna do if you wanna change that is by going to the gear icon, and then it's gonna provide you with some options.
If you scroll down a little bit, it's gonna bring you to the background image URL. So let's say we go over to Google, and then let's say we type in four k wallpapers, and then we look at a image, and let's say you want this wallpaper right here.
If you right click on it and you copy the image address, and then if you paste it inside of Lumia stream right here, click on the gear icon, you will see the background had changed.
And then if you want to, you can go back and see the gear icon and you can change the blur intensity. So if we put this at zero, you'll be able to see the full picture.
And then if we were to bring it to 25, which I think that's a sweet spot, you now have a nice blurred image.
So you can have this set to any type of theme that you want, and I think that's pretty cool. So now what we wanna do is configure our quality settings so that way we can have a good looking stream and recording. So what you're gonna wanna do is go over to your settings inside of OBS.
You wanna go over to the output tab, and you wanna make sure that your output mode is set to advanced. It's gonna provide you with other options down here that we're gonna change.
You wanna make sure that you're under the streamings tab, and then for your audio track, you wanna make sure you have that set to one. You want your audio encoder set to FFMPEGAAC.
You want to check this box to enable the Twitch VOD track. This is gonna allow you to put your audio into a separate track so that way you can control exactly what goes into your VODs. And then for your video encoder, you wanna make sure this is set to your graphics card.
So you'll either have an NVIDIA graphics card or an AMD graphics card. Make sure you select it and make sure it is a h dot two sixty four. And then if you're on Mac, well, it's gonna say Apple v t h two sixty four hardware encoder.
You wanna make sure that you select that. Once that's done, go to rescale output, make sure that's disabled, and then for your encoder settings, your rate control, you wanna make sure you have a constant bit rate or CBR.
It mean the same exact thing. For your bit rate, I'm just gonna flat out tell you to put 8,000. If you notice in your stream that you are lagging, then you're gonna take that bit rate and you're gonna subtract 500 until you are no longer lagging, but do not go under 6,000 as 6,000 is what's needed for you to have a ten eighty p 60 f p s stream.
Now for your key frame intervals, you wanna have this at two seconds. Your preset, you want it at p five slow good quality. Your tuning, you want it at high quality.
Your multi pass mode, you want it at two passes quarter resolution. Your profile, you want it set to high. Your look ahead and your depth of quantization, have both of those checked.
And then your b frames, have that set to two. This should be a really good setup for any PC to allow you to stream in ten eighty p 60 FPS at a really good quality.
Now if you are still lagging after you bring your bit rate down to 6,000, then what I recommend doing is changing your tuning from high quality and you can change that to ultra low latency. Now once that's done, you can go over to your recording tab and then what we're gonna do is you're gonna leave your type to standard.
Your recording path, you're gonna put this wherever you want your videos to go. For your recording format, I highly recommend choosing hybrid m p four.
This is gonna allow for your OBS to save your videos in case something were to go wrong. For example, if your power goes out, your PC stops, if you run out of store space, it's automatically gonna save it from where it stopped.
So make sure you use hybrid m p four. Now for your video encoder, you wanna make sure you're selecting your dedicated graphics card.
So that's gonna be the same thing as before, either Nvidia or AMD h dot two sixty four or Apple v t h two sixty four hardware encoder.
Once again, you want your audio at f f m p e g a a c. And then for your audio track, you wanna uncheck one or two because that's gonna be your stream chat as well as your vod track from Twitch.
And then you wanna select three, four, five, and six. This is gonna allow for you to have separate audio tracks for when you are taking your recordings and putting that into your editing software such as DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere Pro or even CapCut. Now for your rescale output, you also wanna make sure that's disabled.
You wanna scroll down once again to your encoder settings. Now for your rate control, I recommend you use constant q p if you're on Windows. And then for your constant q p settings, you wanna set this anywhere between 15 to 22.
Now just know that the lower that you set this number, the bigger your file size is gonna be, but the better quality that you are going to achieve. 15 is gonna be a really, really good sweet spot for you.
So I use 15 and I highly recommend you do the same. But if you don't have enough space on your computer, then go ahead and increase the number. Just don't go any higher than 22, otherwise your quality is gonna look really bad.
Now for your key frame intervals, once again, you wanna do two seconds, preset p five, tuning high quality, multi pass mode, two passes quarter resolution, profile set that to high, look ahead and your adaptive quantization set that to two.
Now if you're on Mac, what you're gonna wanna do is the CBR. Since they don't have the option for constant q p, you're gonna do CBR and then you can also leave your bit rate to 8,000.
Once that's done, you can now go ahead and select apply and okay. And then you're gonna come over to your Atom multi stream dock. You're gonna go into the gears icon.
And then for your main canvas, you're gonna go over to advanced settings. Now, there's two ways on how you're able to do this here.
You can leave this as your main encoder, and what this means is that it's gonna piggyback off the quality that you have from Twitch. So you go live on Twitch first, and then if you decide to go live on YouTube, Kick, or Facebook, you can do that, and then it's just gonna piggyback off the same quality that you have for Twitch.
However, if you want to, let's say one day just stream to YouTube and YouTube only, or if you wanna have a specific quality for YouTube and a different quality for Twitch, then what you can do is change your video encoder to your graphics card.
So you're gonna scroll down from here, and then you're gonna change your rate control to constant bit rate. For YouTube, we're gonna set it to 12,000.
Your key frame interval should be the same for Twitch and everything else down below should be exactly as you see it on my screen. And then you're gonna do the same thing for Kik and Facebook.
For so for Kik, if you wanna do your graphics card, what you can do, and then you're gonna scroll down and you're gonna change this to 8,000. Keyframe interval is gonna be two seconds, and then everything else should be as you see on my screen.
Then And you're do the same thing for Facebook. It's gonna be the same exact settings as kick. Just scroll down, 8,000, set this to two, and then everything else should be exactly as you see it on my screen.
Now once that's done, you can head on over to the vertical canvas, and then you're gonna go over to the advanced settings for TikTok. And then what you can do is you can set this to your graphics card, and then you're gonna set this to 6,000.
Everything else is gonna be the same as our previous settings, and you'll be able to copy it from my screen here. And if you wanna try to get better quality, which you don't really have to do, but if you want to, you can bring this bit rate up to 8,000 and then you should be just fine.
So now make sure that the YouTube shorts is the same as the horizontal, 12,000, two seconds.
Make sure you copy exactly what you see on screen, and you can now go ahead and press okay. And so you now have successfully set up OBS Studio for live streaming and recording.
Now there's two more things that you just need to do and then you are 100% completely done. The first thing you need to do is come over to your vertical canvas, gonna click on the gears icon, and we're gonna set up our backtrack so that way you can set up a hotkey to clip your content so that way you can just quickly edit and upload it to YouTube shorts or to TikTok.
You wanna make sure your resolution is set to ten eighty by nineteen twenty. You can leave everything else as is up here. Come down to your backtrack.
Make sure that this is checked, so that way whenever you start streaming or whenever you start recording, you will automatically start your backtrack.
And then for your recording length, you're gonna set this to either ninety seconds or to one hundred and twenty seconds. That's literally up to two minutes of footage that you have to work with. So the moment that something happens that you want to clip, you can go ahead and press the hotkey on your keyboard or on your stream deck, and it will automatically record those last two minutes or minute and thirty seconds of gameplay.
So you can come right here where it says save backtrack hotkey, and you can set that hotkey. Once that's done, you can select okay and you're good to go.
Now lastly, we're gonna come to our audio mixer here. We're gonna select this little gear icon and then it's gonna bring up your advanced audio properties.
What you're gonna wanna do is you wanna uncheck everything in three, four, five, and six.
Inside of track two, you wanna uncheck the music so that way your music is not being heard in your Twitch VOD track. So that way it can just automatically get uploaded to Twitch without having any issues.
You are also going to uncheck the alerts. And this is personal preference.
I just recommend doing that. Now for three, four, five, and six, what you're gonna wanna do is have your microphone on track three.
You are gonna have your gameplay audio on track four. You're gonna have your Discord audio on track five, and then you're gonna have your music on track six, your browser on track six, and if you want to, you can have your alert as well on track six.
That's personal preference. You decide on what you wanna do. Once that's done, you're gonna go ahead and select close, and when you record your content and you upload it into your editing software such as DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere Pro, it should look exactly like this.
Now I know that that was a lot, but you have finally made it to the very end of this video. And so I am proud of you for making it this far. You can now go ahead and enjoy the fruit of your hard work and dedication.
And so with that being said, that's gonna be all for today's video. And so if you made it to the end or if you found this helpful, make sure you give this a big fat thumbs up. Make sure guys go ahead and smash that subscribe button.
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The bait, then the rug-pull.
The pitch is total coverage in one sitting: one video to take OBS from a blank install to a fully multistreaming rig across five platforms, in both horizontal and vertical, with split audio and the exact numbers to punch into every settings box.
Frameworks
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The 5 Mandatory OBS Scenes
Starting Soon
Just Chatting
Gameplay
Be Right Back
Ending Soon
The baseline scene set every stream should have, covering the full session lifecycle from pre-show to sign-off.
Steal forany new OBS scene collection template
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Streaming Output Settings (1080p60)
Advanced output mode
CBR 8,000 kbps (floor 6,000)
Keyframe interval 2s
Preset p5 / slow
Tuning: high quality
Two-pass quarter resolution
Profile: high
Look-ahead + adaptive quantization on
B-frames: 2
The exact encoder settings given as the safe default for a 1080p60 stream, with the fallback of dropping bitrate in 500 kbps steps if lagging.
Steal forany streaming setup guide or settings-explainer
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Recording Output Settings
Hybrid MP4 format
Constant QP 15-22 (Windows) or CBR 8,000 (Mac)
Separate audio tracks 3-6
Dedicated GPU encoder (NVENC / AMD / Apple VT)
The recording-specific settings, distinct from streaming settings, optimized for quality and crash-safety rather than bandwidth.
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