The reality is that there’s a little more to it, more so around stream quality and performance. Streaming is so popular that you might think it’s as easy as opening your web camera and clicking stream.

When I say streaming, I mean live streaming, not publishing pre-recorded videos to be watched on-demand. Or you can open the file with your video editor of choice to edit the video before uploading it.So you’ve decided that you want to start streaming content to Twitch, YouTube, or similar. To watch or edit your broadcasts, select File and Open Recordings Folder from within OBS. If you want to save videos for longer than 14 days, you will need Turbo subscription, which saves them for 60 days. You can export directly to YouTube from your Settings menu. Twitch will save your broadcasts for 14 days before wiping it.

Scroll to Archive Broadcasts and check the box.

Select ‘Automatically save the stream to file’ and then OK.

Enter the location you want to save your broadcasts.

Select Broadcast Settings from the left and File Path.

Both achieve the same goal, but one copy is saved on the Twitch servers while the other is saved locally on your PC. You can do it within Twitch or you can configure OBS to do it. You have two options to record your Twitch stream.

Select Start Streaming when you’re ready.

Just switch on your webcam, then add it as a windowed source as above.

Repeat Steps 3-7 if you want to use another source such as a webcam showing you playing.

Select the window of the game to link OBS with it.

You can use Windowed if you play in windowed mode here.

Select ‘Capture any full screen application’ under Mode so OBS will capture the game.

Select Game Capture and give the stream a descriptive name.

Select the ‘+’ icon under the Sources box.

Open the game you’re planning to stream.

We also need to set up the scene, which is the broadcast people will see which includes those sources.

the game and your webcam if you want to been seen while playing. OBS takes a little setting up, so we need to tackle that next. Now you have linked OBS with Twitch and you will be able to stream to Twitch once you begin. Click ‘Next’ in OBS after pasting your Stream Key.Select ‘Next’ on the pages until you get to the page to input your Stream Key.

Obs setup for twitch