In this video we're going to be talking about open broadcast software, also known as OBS, for recording
your investigations.
Now different uses for using recording software for OS and especially OBS.
We may be in a situation where our client requires is going to require us to basically show our entire
investigation.
So to make that easier, we could actually just run recording software and record an entire investigation.
We might want to use this as visual documentation of process and how we work.
We could also use this as visual collection of evidence as we start going through these different web
pages and whatnot.
Things could obviously change.
Someone may post something up.
We catch sight of it during our investigation and then they immediately delete it.
Well, of course, we could use things like Internet Archive, but we also could use backup evidence
with video.
Well, as we're going through our investigation.
We may also use this for our own use for taking notes and information by reviewing the video footage
for our investigation.
So there's a lot of different recording software out there.
Some is going to be free, some is going to be paid.
You definitely want to take a look at what that software is actually doing, how it works, what their
licensing is.
Are there any privacy concerns that you need to worry about?
Personally, I prefer software that records offline.
No cloud backup.
The problem with cloud backup is.
That they you don't know what they're doing with that information.
They may be using the video.
They may be looking at metadata, actually parsing through the video itself for things to sell and whatnot.
If you want to keep things confidential.
I prefer keeping the videos offline whenever possible.
And you may whether you install the software on your host machine or if you're running a VM, really
doesn't matter.
Personally, I tend to run it on on my host machine.
When I do the investigation, not the actual o.s.b.m.
But again, that's entirely up to you.
And again, we're going to be using OBS studio.
It can be found at Https colon forward slash, forward slash Obsproject.com and there is a Windows client
at Mac OS Client and a Linux client, so it pretty much covers all the bases.
Now I'm not going to go through the installation process is actually pretty simple.
So once you have it installed, you can launch it for the first time.
You're going to have this auto configuration wizard pop up and I recommend clicking the second option
optimize just for recording.
I will not be streaming and click next.
Next up, we're going to be going through video settings.
I generally just leave it at default.
My resolution is 1920 by 1080 on my laptop screen.
Um, frames per second.
I.
I tried to record 61 possible.
So I get to leave it default.
But you can change these options if you want to.
And OBS is also the software I use for doing these recordings, so I like it a lot.
It is free again, it operates on a variety of machines, so I think it's a pretty solid option.
And you're free to use other ones.
But again, take a look at terms of service, how it's handling the data.
Does it store anything online?
If so, what?
But again, for this tutorial we're using OBS.
So once you get the video configuration settings done, click next.
And then they'll give you kind of the overview real quick of what what it looks like.
So by default, it records in H 264 high quality, medium file size.
My particular resolution is going to be 1920 by 1080 at 60 frames per second.
And if you're happy with it, go ahead and click apply settings.
Otherwise click back and make those changes.
So once you have that done, you'll have the screen here.
And as you see, there's no sources in here.
And so that's what you're going to need to actually do your recording.
So click on that little plus button down there under sources and we're going to choose a source.
Then you're going to have this little pop up box here.
You want to do display capture because we want to capture our screen and then you want to create a new
display.
And you can name this whatever you want.
Again, I only use one display.
So generally so I really don't need to mess around with this.
I just leave it default and once you're done, click okay.
Now you'll see the preview of the screen here.
Again, you can do capture method automatic.
That's that's what I choose.
Display.
If you're running different monitors, primary secondary, you can click on the display and choose which
screen you're actually going to be using.
I do use a laptop.
However, I run a pretty large curved screen monitor, but with the laptop screen closed automatically
becomes primary and you'll be able to see what what your screen is going to record is.
So once you have that set, go ahead and click okay.
Now once that's done, you'll see again your screen of what what is going to capture and you'll see
a screen within a screen, within a screen and so on and so forth.
So don't worry about that.
Now audio if you need to add an audio source.
I don't if I'm doing a recording, all I really want to show is the methodology.
If I'm if I was going to do some sort of narration or audio notes, I would click on the plus again
and add an audio.
But again, that's not the case where I normally do so.
Once you're ready, you can click start recording the side there.
Now, once you click start recording, you'll also see stop recording.
That's obviously how you stop recording.
Or you can or you can pause it.
So if you want to set up hotkeys, which I do recommend, it makes things a lot easier than minimizing,
say, your browser window and opening up OBS and clicking on stop or pause or whatnot.
You could set up hotkeys, say f one to record f two to stop.
So on and so forth.
So to do that, go ahead and click on settings and then we'll see all these options start streaming,
stop streaming, stop streaming, discard delay, start recording, stop recording, pause, recording,
unpause recording, split recording and so on and so forth.
Go ahead and just click in those fields and you can start setting your hotkeys.
And that's pretty much it.
OBS again is a pretty easy software.
I really haven't had any problems with obs.
I do recommend keeping it up to date.
And again, it's really handy software for doing our ocean investigation recordings if we need to or
want to.
So again, it's free Windows OS X Linux.
Again, all your bases are covered.
So thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video.