If you do choose to downscale you'll need to be careful of which downscale filter you use. If you set it to be smaller OBS will downscale your capture on the fly, allowing you to capture a 'full HD' 1080p (1920 pixels by 1080 pixels) screen and output it to 720p (1280x720), for example. It can either be the same as the base resolution setting, or smaller. The Output (Scaled) Resolution setting determines the resolution of your recorded video.

Note that if you don't see the dimensions you want in the dropdown list here you can manually type in your preferred pixel dimensions with the format x, e.g. It can either be the full size of the screen, or a smaller portion of it. The Base (Canvas) Resolution setting determines the area, in pixels, you wish to capture from your screen. This is where you'll set your Capture Size, Output Size, Downscaling and Frame Rate ( FPS) settings. Head to the Video portion of the settings. To get started, open the settings panel by clicking the Settings button at the bottom right of the interface: 2. Feel free to adjust them to your tastes, but please don't spend all day pulling your hair out to get the settings just-so. The video and output settings I've arrived at, which we'll cover below, are for stable, good-quality, low-file-size video creation. The video has to look good, too: settings should create a balance between video image quality and file size. I found certain combinations of settings were more likely to cause stability issues, while others were rock solid.

My experience with OBS has been that, once you get it set up, it's incredible, but that it can be a little temperamental getting to that point.

Obs tutorial screen recording