OBS Studio for Mac
Video recording and live streaming.
Free
In English
Version 32.1.2When 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 32.1.2
- Fixed scene list selection lag regression present in 32.1.0 and 32.1.1 [Warchamp7]
- Fixed nested menu appearance [Warchamp7]
- Fixed warnings about non-existent properties in some themes [Warchamp7]
- Fixed missing audio mixer tooltips [Warchamp7]
- Fixed audio mixer minimum width being too large [Warchamp7]
- Fixed audio mixer sorting weight for global and pinned sources [Warchamp7]
- Fixed disabled sources appearing in audio mixer [Warchamp7]
- Fixed missing toolbar actions for audio mixer [Warchamp7]
- Fixed incorrect colors in audio mixer [Warchamp7]
- Fixed audio deduplication incorrectly applying when an audio output capture source is set to monitor only [pkviet]
- Overhauled the Audio Mixer [Warchamp7]
- Adjusted the horizontal layout
- Adjusted the vertical layout
- Added button to swap layouts to the toolbar
- Changed the default layout to vertical
- Added button to toggle audio monitoring
- Sources in the preview are now shown while in Studio Mode
- Added ability to pin audio sources
- Pinned sources are always displayed
- Global audio sources are always pinned
- Scale filtering, blending mode, blending method, deinterlacing mode and deinterlacing field order
- Improved security of browser sources using local files [Warchamp7]
- Improved plugin manager by allowing enabling/disabling missing plugins [Warchamp7]
- Removed "Source" from source names [Warchamp7]
- Updated the Edit Transform dialog [Warchamp7]
- Changed copying a scene item to copy all properties [cg2121/Warchamp7]
- Disabled dock animations [Warchamp7]
- Moved transition preview button to button box [exeldro]
- Rearranged default dock positions [Warchamp7]
- Increased media source playback slider update rate [Warchamp7]
- Enabled palette for Light theme audio mixer [Warchamp7]
- Changed default bitrates to 6000 kbps [mihawk90]
- Fixed a crash if some source data was null [Penwy]
- Fixed a crash on Linux when changing profiles or on application shutdown [hoshinolina]
- Fixed a possible crash on macOS during application shutdown if YouTube docks were active [PatTheMav]
- Fixed an issue where projector resolutions had decimals [Warchamp7]
- Fixed sync of Preview/Program size and positioning [Warchamp7]
- Refactored OBSBasic::Save to only save frontend canvas scenes/groups [dsaedtler]
- Fixed NAL type for HEVC caption/BPM SEIs [dsaedtler]
- Fixed an issue where video scaling could be incorrect in multivideo encoder scenarios [dsaedtler]
- Fixed an issue with chapter markers having incorrect time when using file splitting [garyholmes]
- Fixed an issue where some recordings could have black thumbnails [derrod]
- Fixed an issue where the NVIDIA Blur and Background Blur could have banding or look splotchy [pkviet]
- Fixed an issue where macOS Screen Capture would select an item for capture by default [jcm93]
- Fixed an issue with PipeWire when capturing a device that does not require a framerate [tytan652]
- Fixed an issue where PipeWire Camera framerates listed could be incorrect [tytan652]
- Fixed an issue where HDR video playback in Media Source could be darker than expected [xtfo]
- Fixed an issue that could cause OBS to become unable to change profiles or video settings [exeldro]
- Fixed an issue that could cause transitions to become locked [Warchamp7]
OBS Studio for Mac
Free
In English
Version 32.1.2
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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.)
