For example, if you’re recording conferences or tutorials for internal use by employees at your company, you may not need to produce a high-definition video that takes up a lot of space and processing power. You may need to make adjustments to these settings depending on your purpose for your video. Your output settings will control the quality and size of the video you create with your screen recording and/or webcam recording. You’ll find Output Settings next, just below General Settings in the Settings window. 30 frames per second is usually a good way to go here, but it’s up to you. Check now to make sure that you have it set to the frame rate you want your final video to have. You can make it the same as your canvas resolution, but you’ll likely want to change it to best fit your output file format or the platform you’ll be streaming or where you’ll upload your video on.Ĭommon FPS (frames-per-second) refers to your frame rate. Output (Scaled) Resolution refers to the resolution of your output video. If you’re capturing a custom-sized window, you can enter the width and height manually. If you’re recording your entire screen, for example, and you know your monitor is 1920 × 1080, you’ll select this option. The numbers you see here are the width x height of the video capture. The Base (Canvas) Resolution refers to the dimensions of the window or area that you’ll be capturing for your video. When you click here, you’ll see options for Base (Canvas) Resolution, Output (Scaled) Resolution, Downscale Filter, and Common FPS Values. Whether you’re a new OBS user or a veteran, you can adjust the video settings to capture better quality videos by clicking on the Video option in the Settings window.