
Yet the Xbox Game Bar allows only up to four hours of recording. There are plenty of tools for screen recording–some are even now included in your favorite operating system: QuickTime Player for macOS and the Xbox Game Bar in Windows 10, for example. For more info, visit our Terms of Use page. This may influence how and where their products appear on our site, but vendors cannot pay to influence the content of our reviews. We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships. This is where open source OBS Studio comes in. Most screen recording tools let you record up to two and sometimes even four hours, but they often end up crashing without recording all the data. Video Capture Device sources have been updated to support frame rates above 60 FPS and to automatically set up the audio input for many devices that previously required manual configuration.How to create long screen recordings using OBS Studio Check the release notes linked above for the full list! There are also several smaller updates and QOL improvements, such as media key support for Linux, less restrictive replay buffer limits, muting of browser docks, dynamic bitrate recovery improvements, and more. These tools should help people further fine-tune their audio setups. Two new audio filters have been added! An upward compressor, which helps normalize volume from being too quiet, and a 3-band EQ for making simple adjustments to the levels of your audio. On macOS, HEVC and ProRes are now supported. On Windows, we now support AV1 for AMD RX7000 series GPUs, and AV1/HEVC for supported Intel GPUs. This release brings many new additional encoders to Windows and macOS.

Welcome to OBS Studio 29! This release comes with many new encoder updates and features, all of which can be found in the release notes, but we've highlighted a few here.

However, the changes also mean that displays will no longer potentially switch if anything has been unplugged or changed. Note for Windows Users: Due to changes to how Display Capture on Windows identifies and saves monitors you will need to re-select your display for any existing capture sources.
