Normally, for making video tutorials and things, you'll want to leave both of these audio sources ON so you can talk through your video and explain what you're doing while you're doing it, and it will record sounds cleanly coming from the computer too via the 'Desktop Audio' source.

Back to the main screen, at the bottom, under 'Audio Mixer' section, you should see 'Desktop Audio', which is any audio playing from inside your computer, and 'Mic/Aux', which is any ambient audio being picked up by your computer's microphone or Aux jack.

Choose 'Screen Capture (XSHM)', as shown here (these images borrowed from Kezz Bracey's instructions above):Ĭlick 'Output' in the left-hand pane -> set or make note of your 'Recording Path' (I like to set mine to home/USERNAME/Videos/OBS) -> optionally check the box for 'Generate File Name without space' (I do this) -> click 'OK.' Click the + icon to add a new video source. Now, at the bottom of the OBS main window, under 'Sources', you'll see it's empty.If you do live streaming to an audience too, choose that option instead. Most people will want to choose the option for just recording. The first time you open it, it will ask if you'd like to optimize for streaming or just recording. Let me summarize them, plus add some of my own steps, as follows:

Next, I followed these instructions here, by Kezz Bracey from.

Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio

I'm on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04, so I used the Ubuntu instructions here.

It is also free and open source, and no-cost (NOT the same thing), both of which are awesome.

It is cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux), and very high quality and very well-supported, with excellent installation instructions.

Here are instructions for general installation and setup for OBS Studio, including configuring video and audio sources and doing screen recording and audio capture. How to download a YouTube (or any other streaming service, period) live stream (via screen capture)

Record screen with obs