OBS Studio is great - it lets you record to a vast multitude of formats right out of the
box, and a few really cool ones if you know how to tweak it just a bit.
But what format should you be recording to?
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By far, the most compatible format you can record to in OBS Studio is MP4.
Most video editors and YouTube itself tend to work best with the MP4 container.
It’s also compatible with multiple audio tracks, which FLV is not.
The problem with MP4, though, is that it’s prone to corruption very easily.
If OBS crashes, your computer loses power, or sometimes even if just an audio device
disconnects while recording - the whole recording gets corrupted and unrecoverable.
Thankfully, you have two options to avoid this.
You can record to MOV - which is less prone to corruption, though it can still happen
- but it’s not always compatible with all video editors.
The best option for recording is to record to MKV.
MKV allows the file to still be saved, even if your computer crashes or OBS crashes or
gets closed mid-recording.
You generally can’t edit MKV files, but OBS lets you “remux” the file back into
a MP4 file that you can edit, with the multiple audio tracks in tact.
In my opinion, MKV is the BEST format to record to, then remuxed to MP4 to do whatever you
want with.
If you record to MOV, you can remux to MP4 as well.
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