Thank you for being one of the only people with enough brain power to mention audio settings, probably THE biggest issue new users will face when using a capture card. Kudos to you. 10/10.
Best video for this. Absolute headache saver. I went as far as to deleting and reinstalling half my recording stuff with new equipment like cables and everything. I just had to redo it and follow this guide. THANK YOU, you have no idea how much of a headache you saved me from!
I just got the capture card and I was really struggling to get the audio working. This video was great! So clear and very easy to understand! Thank you for the help it was great! I'm excited to try streaming with it! Keep up the great work!
For those having trouble with audio like I was, I did some troubleshooting and found the solution. Open your home menu, go to settings and look up ‘microphone privacy settings’. Click change, and make sure microphone access is turned on. Then make sure allow apps to use microphone is turned on, should fix the audio problem
Just a note, your 3.0 USB on your laptop doesn't have to be blue. not every 3.0 USB port is blue. As long as you see an SS (instead of the normal USB symbol) next to your USB port, it'll take 3.0. I have 2 ports on my laptop with this symbol and then a normal USB port without the SS next to it. I can confirm that this works in the USB port that has an SS next to it even though it isn't blue. I hope this helps anyone else.
@@mdunlocked1557 it could be many things. Maybe you plugged the In/Out wrong. Or perhaps you might not have the correct settings. Maybe your tv is a bit older. (I have an older tv that, for some reason, doesn't display my gameplay on it even though it has HDMI. I use a more modern tv and it magically works. No idea how though.) What specifically seems to be the problem? Is it just not displaying?
@@mdunlocked1557 okay, make sure your In/Out are plugged into the right device. 1 for the game console and 1 for the tv. The USB part goes into the computer. make sure that that video property on OBS is set to the device recording your gameplay. So, find your video source, click it, and then click properties. Look at what the devices part says. To change it to your capture card, plug in the capture card. After that's plugged in, you can change the device to the capture card. You also need a separate "source" to record the gameplay audio.Hope this helps.
You're a life saver! My dad got me a capture card for my 20th birthday and I was so lost with the software it recommended, and then I find your video and it all worked perfectly!!! Thank you, you deserve so many more subs
Thank you for finally solving my headache at 2:49 My audio kept dying relying on audio through the Video Capture Device window. As soon as I created a separate audio input source for my Elgato HD60S+, it's COMPLETELY fixed! Thank you for being quick & thorough with the tutorial, much love!
Thank you so much. My audio on my capture card stopped coming through mid stream, but then I found your video, and it's working again. You're a lifesaver
Thank you. This was so much less of a headache than pretty much every single other tutorial video for streaming. Definitely will be coming back here first in the future for any other problems I may encounter.
Just got my capture card delivered and went straight to testing it out. Found this tutorial during the setup, and it answered every question I had! Thank you very much! ^_^
I've always been interested to know if streaming console gaming was a difficult undertaking. Great explanation and super informative. OBS seems like solid and straight forward software. Thanks for always putting out great content!
It can fiddly and there's always a tech problem or two (believe me!) but there's totally a lot of good low cost ways of starting :) Thanks for your comment, made my day!
This video is awesome! I have spent years traveling for work and lugging around TV's from project to project. Often even splitting with a few coworkers to buy a new TV for the sake of a few months before we all leave. I can finally just use my laptop as a display for whatever I want!!!! I've needed this for sooo long. thank you
Thanks so much Joe! You can definitely use your laptop as a display with the capture card *but* note that there might be some input delay (Depends on the card and your laptop spec, but with most there usually a bit of delay from controller to game) I would still recommend a separate TV or screen if possible, however! Even if it's just a smaller monitor HDMI splitters work great for this - here's a sep video on how to get that setup :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DpQt7TJ8Edw.html
I think this is the first time I've genuinely been stumped by simple tech. The one I have, instructed me to use another output device and I don't have one. This helped me out a lot. Thank you brother man.
Hey! No worries - by default you just need the standard capture card, an hdmi cable and that’s it pretty much! That said the other output device is probably an HDMI splitter - I do recommend it as a lot of cheaper capture cards can be laggy (button input wise) when watching the gameplay through OBS If you find it is a bit slow through OBS to recognise your controller inputs then I would consider a splitter - have explained how it works here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DpQt7TJ8Edw.htmlsi=1KmqlcNrNkpOzY6- But ya, definitely is fiddly to get it up and running for sure!
Hi, thanks a ton! I was really confused at first but I’m so glad that you made this really helpful, straightforward and informative video for me to follow every step of the way. Many thanks once again and I am sure your RU-vid channel and career will grow and thrive (as I hope my future one shall). Keep up the great content -Smudge
Hello TeeChu! Thank you very much for this. As a first time stream from Switch this really helped a lot. I have a question, I followed all your sound tips however mine was echoing throughout the stream (the sound effects of the game sounds like im inside a cave or the bathroom). I experimented, what worked was when I turned "Desktop Audio" in advanced audio properties into "monitor only (mute output)." If I leave it in "monitor off" (like yours in the video), that's when the echoing happens. Is this good? or am I doing something wrong?
Hey! No worries - hmm that's a tricky one, usually it means there's another source playing somewhere (e.g. out of a TV at the same time etc) I would try setting the monitoring device to headphones and trying that way, ensuring that any other source is off (e.g. TV volume down low) - if your audio output is too close to your mic it may also cause a bit of echo too!
@@TeeChu I think I discovered the problem. I stream directly from my switch, Switch > capture card > OBS. I don't have a TV in between. Although I already muted my browser stream, I can still hear it - the doubling / echo of my audio. Reading around in the OBS forums, I think the problem is OBS detects 2 audio sources - the capture card and my desktop. So when I turn my Audio Desktop setting to "monitor only (mute output)" all sounds my stream picks up is the one from the capture card. I hope I thought right though...
Ah! Gotcha - that makes sense - essentially ya, you should only have the one source and you're right, the desktop one I assume it's also looping through!
I legit cannot recommend this video and creator enough, simple and straight forward, I cannot fault this video at all!!! Absolute beast mate, well done!
My capture card came in the mail and while i already had obs installed, i had no idea wtf i was doing. Many thanks for this video! Especially the audio part, that was legit a major hassle.
Bought a simple plug and play capture card and could only get super delayed audio! Nowhere anywhere mentioned adding the audio as a separate source and it's working perfectly! Thankyou so much for the help.
My capture card should be coming in soon, this was really helpful to learn it all beforehand, and Im sure it will all come together in practice~ Thank you for making this video and helping anyone coming across such things. Keep up the good work~
@@TeeChu Gotta say works phenominally, figured out the software steps I had to take, only thing I have issue with is running Cult of the Lamb and streaming it, seems to have some screen tearing when streaming since the game seems slightly rough to run with my old switch, but im guessing thats more of a issue of the game since everything else seems to run fine, even BOTW. Thank you again for the help though~
Had quite a time originally setting this up for switch, think i used a different method but found this video and it explains everything simplified and the audio is the trickiest part! One issue I don't think was mentioned is you need to use the proprietary usb C power adapter into the nintendo switch dock. I tried using other power sources for it (even stronger ones) and they would just give black screen (yet plugging into my usb c phone for example the capture card picked it up). Perhaps that's just my card. But thanks so much!
No problems! That's a great shout and hopefully will help people in the same boat One thing I've learnt with Nintendo is always try to go proprietary as Nintendo, well, Nintendoes! I remember the power supply being an issue or something at launch with the Switch? Seems to ring a bell!
OMG, Thank you so much, can't wait to get started streaming and recording footage for my youtube channel and twitch channel. Iv'e been looking for a vid like this!
thank you so much, i had to do this twice. you earned a sub. ive always disliked obs and decided to use twitch studio due to the issue of me not understanding obs for the most part, but this was the most simple setup ive had to do in a while, while looking it up and reading text made it seem like it was some giant pain the the rear to set up. very very helpful
Thank you so very much I was struggling with OBS and your video was the most clear and concise easiest to follow thing I have ever watched you are awesome
Awesome video, now I can finally live my dream of playing animal crossing behind my pc! I had issues trying to set up my capture card at first, but this video made it so simple i feel silly for having any issues at all!
Thank you for the video, i saved it for later cause my wife and I plan on doing youtube as a duo since I tried before but I'm too quiet and focused on the game almost like a casual walkthrough lol
That's awesome and there's definitely no set style on RU-vid or streaming for sure! Am sure people will love your content no matter how you guys present it :) Enjoy!
@@TeeChu oh we know that but she likes to game too but mever was dedicated as I was as a kid since we both were born in the 80s lol. Question for you I was looking at your other capture card videos. Does the elgato 60S or whatever have two slots for hdmi? I was looking at them and they don't say.
god one of the other videos i looked up almost gave me a heart attaack my ps3 went on but didnt have sound nor the screen worked so i was quite in a panic its running now and now im going to learn from your video!
Thanks so much thanks for going through all setting enclosing audio settings this was the only video that was about the capture card that I have thanks! I’ve watched so many videos and they didn’t work thank you !😂
This was very informative as I've spent so long trying to figure out how to record switch videos whilst viewing on TV screen. I now realise I needed a hdmi splitter.
@@jessicarogers2389 Hmm, tricky! Do you mean it comes out laggy / choppy in the recorded video file or are you streaming? Either way it's likely due to your card or settings I would check a few things: - If your card is USB3, make sure it's plugged into a USB3 port (often but not alway blue) - Try a different USB port in general - e.g. if plugged into the front of your PC currently, try the back etc. - Another thing to try is scale down your video slightly - go into Settings --> Video and reduce the resolution from 1920x1080 to something like 1280x720 and try re-recording. Quality won't be as super-crispy but you may get a better frame rate and overall quality! - If you're recording to your PC - make sure as many other apps as possible are closed as OBS can be pretty demanding! I would go into settings --> output --> output mode (change to Advanced) --> then go into the "recording" tab. From here try experiment with some of the settings - e.g. Rate Control, CPU usage etc. It's fiddly! I would recommend looking up other videos on "OBS Rate control" and "OBS recording settings" as I'm not 100% clued up on that myself - I use the following settings myself but can/does differ depending on setup: - Rate Control: CRF - CRF = 23 - Keyframe = 0 - CPU Usage Preset = superfast - Profile = high - Tune = none
you are the GOAT!!! I had no clue how to get it so that the in game audio from the switch also played in my headphones and this video helped me out so much! thanks so much for this video!! now i can play mario party on my pc and stream it to twitch!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I FUCKING LOVE YOU! You where the only one that specified that it had to be USB 3.0, I changed my setup and couldn't figure out the problem, until now! Thanks to you!
Hey! Yep unfortunately there is a little input lag depending on the capture card / setup - to mitigate this you can use an HDMI splitter to view the gameplay on a second screen or TV :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DpQt7TJ8Edw.html
Thank you so much! I just got my capture card and was worried I had to buy another cable ;;;; Very informative and clear guide on how to set things up!
this was a great help i just started posting videos on youtube and i've been trying to figure out how to use the audio for my switch and my mic at the same time this video help quite a bit thanks.
Thanks man so easy to follow, I had to switch to the actual HDMI 1/2 thats recording and then go back to OBS to hear my video, and mute the desktop audio to stop the echo. But great video i thought I was lost forever lol.
Great video! That helped a lot! I have a question though! Do I need a second monitor for this? Or Through the way you showed in the video I will be watching my game from obs? Thanks again! Keep up the good work!
Hey Tony! No worries :) You don't need a second monitor neccesarilly - it can be played through OBS, but maybe a little laggy button press wise depending on card, PC specs etc For this - if the capture card has an HDMI output (more expensive ones do), you can just have an HDMI going to a second screen or TV If it doesn't have an HDMI output, you can use an HDMI splitter: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DpQt7TJ8Edw.html Hope that helps!
