M2 MacBook Air for Streaming: Elgato and OBS Performance! 

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So I have a gaming channel and I have the 14” MacBook Pro M1 chip with 16gb ram and 1tb of storage with the hd60s+ and I’ve had so many issues with streaming lately. I used to never have issues with dropped frames or pixelation. I’ve tried so many settings and options I’ve even followed your videos and I have 200 down and 20 up as the speeds from my isp. I’m getting more frustrated than anything else. Although your video did help with recording it captured my ps5 beautifully with no dropped frames or pixelation. Any ideas on what else to try and I use streamlabs. I appreciate your videos too.

Which encoder are you using?

@@RegalReycan you also use your recorded gameplay and use it on a editing app like final cut pro?

Much appreciated ❤️ and thank you for the great feedback

Factssss 👀

same here did you find a solution

@@kg7hd322 my chords weren’t strong enough. I replaced my usb c and hdmi with stronger and faster ones, worked just fine.

I was streaming for well over an hour across multiple sessions

You’re chilling with the pro honestly, if you really want M2 better to wait for M2 pro imo

@@MidnightMan M1 pro might be my go to if they don’t bring it out next month. Plus I’m getting the IMac with the M1, unless they do M2 on that. Then I’ll get a iMac with the M2.

Someone needs to turn this phrase into an animation, can picture it in my head lol

@@MidnightMan that would be awesome XD for an intro or ending screeen lol

it works!

I definitely will be!

Ah man! Yeah that could be the problem, might be worth checking out that new beta for OBS 28 and see how it runs with native support as well

I’m using the godspin super speed cable here amzn.to/3EcWX0M

You will do fine with just OBS or streamlabs

@@MidnightMan thank you so much I will try this tonight for my dual pc set up

Usb c to usb c cable super speed, goes directly into thunderbolt port

Thx man that’s very kind of you. I’ll get a 3.0 to be sure, even if the Air M2 has a 4.0 ^^

I just watched this again thinking I hadn't and saw my comment. Whats wrong with my brain.

I listened to my audio from the Mac with wired headphones

AYEEE love to hear it!! Keep it going broo!! 🥳

Keep it up

8 gigs of RAM, 256 gig SSD. I wouldn’t push 60fps for my streams for some reason even though I had it set. I’ll be looking for this feature in the native silicon version

Oh yeahh!!! You know it!

Small tweaks here and there haha

Currently going through this same problem I don’t know what to do

Thank you Eddy!

I would try dropping your bitrate and/or encoding speed until you can run everything you need at the same recording/streaming.

Feel free to DM I can help

Hey, it’s been officially native for some months now actually if you update to OBS 28 or later! It runs really well! Streamlabs desktop is still waiting on the native support update. So technically OBS is the better way to go

@@MidnightMan Thank you so much for your very quick awnser and advices 🙏🙏 I do have a lot of questions to myself and i would be very grateful if you if you think you could help me decide or reconsider anything because all that stuff can get very pricey and i don't want to mess it up first try 😅 I'm planning to get an HD60 X for streaming my PS5 via an apple silicon mac... I'd like my streaming mic and webcam to be the mac but i also want people in game chats to hear me from my PS5 headset (while their voice audio i hear can be heard on stream too)... Do you think i would also need a chat-link cable for example ? I mean... if i have this kind of microphone situation but i also want to have music from something like the spotify mac app to my ears and stream audio at the same time ? Also do you know if that this specific capture card work better within obs or streamlabs software for this kind of mac i'm also very new to these options as i'm starting to transition from a no computer/console only setup and online overlay services to one of these two (obs/streamlabs) and i really want to use my previous custom overlays, some new alerts and better image quality for my streams Anyways thank you so much for your time and effort, i know it takes a lot to be a great streamer and i'll make sure to give you a follow on your socials as i really enjoy your content 💙

If you want to hear all audio including Spotify you’ll want to listen from the computer. You can’t just feed that into your headset using chat link. Also you can even use chat link cable with HD60X on a Silicon Mac, it has no software to change to analog for it to use the chat link cable. The avermedia LGX3 or evga a XR1 pro can use the analog connection on Mac silicon automatically. I recommend watching my capture video here to help you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cHIJ4OtuVks.html And this video to help with OBS ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EcDcTJSSiPs.html

@@MidnightMan Thank you so much ! Oh i forgot one last thing before about the audio part... My headset (Corsair Virtuoso XT) supports up to three connections at the same time, being via usb (plugged into PS5), Bluetooth for maybe my phone or computer, and the jack 3.5mm which i could directly plug in to the computer as well So do you think that would solve the "problem" if i were to let's say use my headset bluetooth or jack 3.5mm on the mac for it's own audio (instead of using the capture card itself) ? You are awesome 🙈🔥 and thank you again for sending your help for us to get better at streaming 🥹 I'm sending you lots of appreciation and love for the work and effort you put in for your community 💙💙💙

Yeah it should work pulling the audio in from a separate device, and use capture card just for the video.

I was gaming on my PS5 and streaming and recording the content. I didn’t test gaming directly on the device while recording at the same time

@@MidnightMan that's very interesting if it can handle games like Albion online, league of legends while streaming at the same time and will it thermal throttle

​@@MidnightMantry playing on Mac Air M2 and also streaming simultaneously. If there's a video already made, let me know.

so does the m2 mack book run fine ?

We’ve come a long way 💪🏽

Having the Elgato is to pull in console gameplay like off Xbox and PS5

I want to know! Did you find an answer?

Go for a larger SSD and you’re good tbh. Machine is a beast

I would do both processes on the hardware encoder, but you may need to lower your bitrate for each depending on performance. As you might of seen in one of my test shots in this video I was able to successfully record and stream at the same time.

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I would recommend watching this video of mine to know how to use OBS at a basic level ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EcDcTJSSiPs.html

Thank you man! I think I’m going to wait out for M2 Pro for my next upgrade before moving on from my 2017 MacBook Pro. Get that 2TB storage, then later when I have more room add the gaming PC and be set with everything I need haha. Ginger Caster is awesome, it’s just like the wave software from elgato but you can use any mic you want!

@@MidnightMan oh yeah definitely downloading it today and yeah the next MacBook Pro M2 Max or ultra I’m getting and yes 2TB cause I can’t take it with this 512GB lol I knew I messed up when I got it and looked at my PlayStation saying 1TB I was like smh smart but that Ginger caster I’ll be using no more iShowU Audio or BlackHole

It’s sooo smooth

Don't buy a base variant, at least 16 gigabytes of RAM and 1 TB storage.

You bet!

Nice

Let's go! Once you get into a flow then you focus more on making the quality even higher!

I would try following the exact settings I showed in this video. Make sure you’re using hardware encoder.

@@MidnightMan got it working, turns out the usb c cable I had was NOT SS, weird since I bought it thinking it was. Anyway, thanks for the settings!

Hey man did u ever find out? I’m currently debating if I should go with with the M1 or M2 MBA

Did you see any video with this? I want to know how it will be before purchase

@@MarkysCloudGaming I bought a m3 macbook air and I will say that it is incredible for this. Ive done some streaming and it as worked great, the quality legit looks like a good stream. If your in the market for a laptop get it, its awesome. If you are upgrading from m2 there is no need.

@@tysive5248 did u try to make a streaming to RU-vid playing GeForce now for example?

It comes over hdmi, and I have no headphones plugged in my controller

@@MidnightMan Thank you!!

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