OBS Studio for Mac
Video recording and live streaming.
Free
In English
Version 32.0.4When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
OBS Studio overview
OBS Studio is a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Features:
- High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Create scenes made up of multiple sources including window captures, images, text, browser windows, webcams, capture cards and more.
- Set up an unlimited number of scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.
- Streamlined Settings panel gives you access to a wide array of configuration options to tweak every aspect of your broadcast or recording.
- Modular 'Dock' UI allows you to rearrange the layout exactly as you like. You can even pop out each individual Dock to it's own window.
- OBS supports all your favorite streaming platforms and more.
Create Professional Productions
- Choose from a number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between your scenes or add your own stinger video files.
- Set hotkeys for nearly every sort of action, such as switching between scenes, starting/stopping streams or recordings, muting audio sources, push to talk, and more.
- Studio Mode lets you preview your scenes and sources before pushing them live. Adjust your scenes and sources or create new ones and ensure they're perfect before your viewers ever see them.
- Get a high level view of your production using the Multiview. Monitor 8 different scenes and easily cue or transition to any of them with merely a single or double click.
Collaborative Creativity
- OBS Studio is equipped with a powerful API, enabling plugins and scripts to provide further customization and functionality specific to your needs.
- Utilize native plugins for high performance integrations or scripts written with Lua or Python that interface with existing sources.
- Work with developers in the streaming community to get the features you need with endless possibilities.
- Browse or submit your own in the Resources section
What’s new in version 32.0.4
- Fixed an issue in 32.0.3 where deleting a scene does not remove its audio sources from the Audio Mixer [exeldro/Warchamp7]
- Fixed an issue in 32.0.3 with audio device lag due to new deduplication logic [pkviet]
- Fixed an issue in 32.0.x where transition duration was not updated in the UI [Warchamp7]
- Adjusted application shutdown logic [Warchamp7]
- This is a fairly large change that aims to stabilize OBS Studio's application shutdown process. This reduces the number of scenarios in which the "OBS Studio Unclean Shutdown" dialog will appear and also fixes a crash when forcing a log off or shutdown with active outputs.
- Fixed a crash on macOS when attempting to login with service integrations [PatTheMav]
- Fixed an issue on macOS where Syphon Client sources could be blank/transparent [gxalpha]
- Fixed a possible crash in 32.0.0 on Windows when opening source properties [wanhongqing123]
- Fixed an issue in 32.0.0 where browser sources would break after
switching scenes [tytan652]
- This issue may also have caused increased resource usage.
- Added a basic plugin manager [FiniteSingularity/PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
- Added opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS [PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
- Added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, as well as several optimizations to NVIDIA Effects [pkv]
- Added chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing removal of chairs [pkv]
- Added experimental Metal renderer for Apple Silicon Macs [PatTheMav]
- Added Hybrid MOV support [derrod]
- Brings ProRes support on macOS and a more widely supported HEVC/H.264 + PCM audio option to all platforms
- OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release of OBS to prevent future compatibility issues [norihiro]
- Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates [derrod/gxalpha/Warchamp7]
- Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!) [PatTheMav]
- Changed default bitrate from 2500 to 6000 Kbps [notr1ch]
- Changed the crash sentinel file location to its own subdirectory [PatTheMav]
- Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nested scenes, groups, and multiple canvases [pkv]
- Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to "Monitor and Output" while the monitoring device is also being captured [pkv]
- Updated the default settings for AMD encoders [rhutsAMD]
- Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV [derrod]
- Re-hid the cursor in edit fields on macOS [gxalpha]
- Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture [tytan652]
- Removed workarounds to prevent loading Qt 5 based plugins [RytoEX]
- Removed the --disable-shutdown-check launch flag [PatTheMav]
- Hybrid MP4/MOV is now out of beta and has been made the default output format for new profiles [derrod]
- Potentially fixed a rare crash on macOS when moving or resizing the OBS window [PatTheMav]
- Fixed a crash with SRT when using an invalid URL [pkv]
- Fixed a crash when setting non-default pkt_size with SRT [pkv]
- Fixed a crash in Media Source when playback starts with certain video files [howellrl]
- Fixed a UI deadlock when opening source properties from the Sources list when the Windows setting 'Snap mouse to default button in dialog boxes' was enabled by adding a 200ms delay before creating the properties window [Warchamp7]
- Fixed a memory leak when trying to output Hybrid MP4 to a non-writeable location [norihiro]
- Fixed rare occurrence of multiview becoming blank [norihiro]
- Fixed SRT reconnection failures [pkv]
- Fixed overflow texture rendering sRGB-awareness [PatTheMav]
- Fixed incorrect color range property setting for AMD AV1 encoder [rhutsAMD]
- Fixed Hybrid MP4 file splitting not working correctly in some cases [derrod]
- Fixed not being able to capture higher than 60fps with macOS Screen Capture [jcm93]
- Fixed focus not displaying properly in hotkey settings on macOS [gxalpha]
- Fixed the scrollbar appearing invisible in Light and Rachni themes [shiina424]
- Fixed HEVC frame priority not being set correctly in some cases, potentially causing playback errors when dropping frames [dsaedtler]
- Fixed an issue that could result in increases to output latency after temporary encoder stalls [dsaedtler]
- Fixed an issue where Multitrack Video could still be enabled after switching from a service that supports it to one that does not [Penwy]
- Fixed an issue where GetGroupList with obs-websocket would return nothing [gxalpha]
- Removed a workaround for older Qt versions that prevented docks from loading correctly while OBS is maximized [RytoEX]
OBS Studio for Mac
Free
In English
Version 32.0.4
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Jul 25 2024
Version: 30.2.2
There is a known issue with the virtual camera feature in recent versions of OBS.
What happens is that OBS will give an error message that says it can't find the virtual camera, when you try to enable it.
To fix this, you just need to log out from your account and then log back in again.
this will trigger macOS to check again for things such as the virtual camera. Now it will work again.
From my testing, this only appears to need to be done once after updating OBS.
Hope this helps.
Sep 11 2020
Version: 25.0.8
Version 26.0.0 is due soon.
(25.0.8 was still released months ago.)
