WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:07.230 In this video we're going to be talking about open broadcast software, also known as OBS, for recording 00:07.230 --> 00:08.910 your investigations. 00:10.830 --> 00:17.220 Now different uses for using recording software for OS and especially OBS. 00:17.800 --> 00:26.800 We may be in a situation where our client requires is going to require us to basically show our entire 00:26.800 --> 00:28.040 investigation. 00:28.090 --> 00:33.490 So to make that easier, we could actually just run recording software and record an entire investigation. 00:33.610 --> 00:38.140 We might want to use this as visual documentation of process and how we work. 00:38.410 --> 00:43.720 We could also use this as visual collection of evidence as we start going through these different web 00:43.720 --> 00:45.160 pages and whatnot. 00:46.470 --> 00:48.060 Things could obviously change. 00:48.060 --> 00:49.860 Someone may post something up. 00:50.760 --> 00:55.290 We catch sight of it during our investigation and then they immediately delete it. 00:55.590 --> 01:01.140 Well, of course, we could use things like Internet Archive, but we also could use backup evidence 01:01.140 --> 01:02.190 with video. 01:03.020 --> 01:04.910 Well, as we're going through our investigation. 01:06.800 --> 01:13.670 We may also use this for our own use for taking notes and information by reviewing the video footage 01:13.670 --> 01:14.990 for our investigation. 01:17.420 --> 01:20.030 So there's a lot of different recording software out there. 01:20.030 --> 01:22.250 Some is going to be free, some is going to be paid. 01:22.280 --> 01:29.240 You definitely want to take a look at what that software is actually doing, how it works, what their 01:29.240 --> 01:30.590 licensing is. 01:31.260 --> 01:34.040 Are there any privacy concerns that you need to worry about? 01:34.820 --> 01:37.940 Personally, I prefer software that records offline. 01:37.970 --> 01:39.530 No cloud backup. 01:40.760 --> 01:42.890 The problem with cloud backup is. 01:44.190 --> 01:47.790 That they you don't know what they're doing with that information. 01:47.790 --> 01:49.050 They may be using the video. 01:49.050 --> 01:55.670 They may be looking at metadata, actually parsing through the video itself for things to sell and whatnot. 01:55.680 --> 01:57.210 If you want to keep things confidential. 01:57.210 --> 02:01.680 I prefer keeping the videos offline whenever possible. 02:02.320 --> 02:11.320 And you may whether you install the software on your host machine or if you're running a VM, really 02:11.320 --> 02:11.870 doesn't matter. 02:11.890 --> 02:15.760 Personally, I tend to run it on on my host machine. 02:16.540 --> 02:20.080 When I do the investigation, not the actual o.s.b.m. 02:20.470 --> 02:22.780 But again, that's entirely up to you. 02:24.190 --> 02:27.100 And again, we're going to be using OBS studio. 02:27.130 --> 02:35.920 It can be found at Https colon forward slash, forward slash Obsproject.com and there is a Windows client 02:35.920 --> 02:40.630 at Mac OS Client and a Linux client, so it pretty much covers all the bases. 02:42.560 --> 02:46.370 Now I'm not going to go through the installation process is actually pretty simple. 02:46.370 --> 02:49.040 So once you have it installed, you can launch it for the first time. 02:49.040 --> 02:55.130 You're going to have this auto configuration wizard pop up and I recommend clicking the second option 02:55.160 --> 02:57.170 optimize just for recording. 02:57.170 --> 03:00.470 I will not be streaming and click next. 03:02.180 --> 03:05.120 Next up, we're going to be going through video settings. 03:05.570 --> 03:08.690 I generally just leave it at default. 03:08.720 --> 03:13.040 My resolution is 1920 by 1080 on my laptop screen. 03:13.960 --> 03:15.720 Um, frames per second. 03:15.730 --> 03:16.150 I. 03:16.510 --> 03:18.700 I tried to record 61 possible. 03:18.700 --> 03:20.290 So I get to leave it default. 03:20.290 --> 03:22.570 But you can change these options if you want to. 03:22.570 --> 03:29.020 And OBS is also the software I use for doing these recordings, so I like it a lot. 03:29.050 --> 03:36.310 It is free again, it operates on a variety of machines, so I think it's a pretty solid option. 03:37.040 --> 03:38.960 And you're free to use other ones. 03:38.960 --> 03:42.890 But again, take a look at terms of service, how it's handling the data. 03:43.160 --> 03:45.250 Does it store anything online? 03:45.260 --> 03:46.430 If so, what? 03:47.460 --> 03:50.250 But again, for this tutorial we're using OBS. 03:50.250 --> 03:55.050 So once you get the video configuration settings done, click next. 03:56.130 --> 04:02.040 And then they'll give you kind of the overview real quick of what what it looks like. 04:02.220 --> 04:11.400 So by default, it records in H 264 high quality, medium file size. 04:12.150 --> 04:16.650 My particular resolution is going to be 1920 by 1080 at 60 frames per second. 04:16.650 --> 04:19.440 And if you're happy with it, go ahead and click apply settings. 04:19.440 --> 04:21.930 Otherwise click back and make those changes. 04:22.290 --> 04:26.100 So once you have that done, you'll have the screen here. 04:26.100 --> 04:29.250 And as you see, there's no sources in here. 04:29.250 --> 04:32.940 And so that's what you're going to need to actually do your recording. 04:33.270 --> 04:38.190 So click on that little plus button down there under sources and we're going to choose a source. 04:40.190 --> 04:42.260 Then you're going to have this little pop up box here. 04:42.260 --> 04:48.830 You want to do display capture because we want to capture our screen and then you want to create a new 04:48.830 --> 04:49.220 display. 04:49.220 --> 04:50.750 And you can name this whatever you want. 04:50.780 --> 04:53.840 Again, I only use one display. 04:53.840 --> 04:57.770 So generally so I really don't need to mess around with this. 04:57.770 --> 05:01.910 I just leave it default and once you're done, click okay. 05:02.710 --> 05:05.970 Now you'll see the preview of the screen here. 05:05.980 --> 05:08.140 Again, you can do capture method automatic. 05:08.140 --> 05:09.820 That's that's what I choose. 05:09.820 --> 05:10.390 Display. 05:10.390 --> 05:16.630 If you're running different monitors, primary secondary, you can click on the display and choose which 05:16.630 --> 05:19.330 screen you're actually going to be using. 05:20.750 --> 05:22.220 I do use a laptop. 05:22.220 --> 05:27.920 However, I run a pretty large curved screen monitor, but with the laptop screen closed automatically 05:27.920 --> 05:32.600 becomes primary and you'll be able to see what what your screen is going to record is. 05:32.600 --> 05:35.660 So once you have that set, go ahead and click okay. 05:36.440 --> 05:42.590 Now once that's done, you'll see again your screen of what what is going to capture and you'll see 05:42.590 --> 05:45.440 a screen within a screen, within a screen and so on and so forth. 05:45.440 --> 05:47.480 So don't worry about that. 05:47.690 --> 05:50.870 Now audio if you need to add an audio source. 05:50.870 --> 05:56.390 I don't if I'm doing a recording, all I really want to show is the methodology. 05:56.390 --> 06:01.250 If I'm if I was going to do some sort of narration or audio notes, I would click on the plus again 06:01.250 --> 06:02.480 and add an audio. 06:03.650 --> 06:06.500 But again, that's not the case where I normally do so. 06:07.350 --> 06:10.440 Once you're ready, you can click start recording the side there. 06:12.350 --> 06:15.920 Now, once you click start recording, you'll also see stop recording. 06:15.920 --> 06:17.930 That's obviously how you stop recording. 06:17.930 --> 06:19.940 Or you can or you can pause it. 06:22.460 --> 06:28.880 So if you want to set up hotkeys, which I do recommend, it makes things a lot easier than minimizing, 06:29.270 --> 06:35.570 say, your browser window and opening up OBS and clicking on stop or pause or whatnot. 06:35.780 --> 06:40.360 You could set up hotkeys, say f one to record f two to stop. 06:40.430 --> 06:41.880 So on and so forth. 06:41.900 --> 06:47.690 So to do that, go ahead and click on settings and then we'll see all these options start streaming, 06:47.690 --> 06:52.430 stop streaming, stop streaming, discard delay, start recording, stop recording, pause, recording, 06:52.430 --> 06:55.520 unpause recording, split recording and so on and so forth. 06:56.270 --> 07:00.050 Go ahead and just click in those fields and you can start setting your hotkeys. 07:00.840 --> 07:02.550 And that's pretty much it. 07:03.810 --> 07:05.700 OBS again is a pretty easy software. 07:05.700 --> 07:08.460 I really haven't had any problems with obs. 07:09.060 --> 07:11.550 I do recommend keeping it up to date. 07:12.600 --> 07:17.850 And again, it's really handy software for doing our ocean investigation recordings if we need to or 07:17.850 --> 07:18.630 want to. 07:19.230 --> 07:25.260 So again, it's free Windows OS X Linux. 07:25.290 --> 07:26.700 Again, all your bases are covered. 07:26.700 --> 07:30.120 So thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video.