Livestream to INSTAGRAM with OBS Studio for Free – Full Guide

log into to your Instagram account go to create then select live stream give the live stream a name then copy and paste the stream URL and stream key to OBS studio and you're ready to go it is finally possible to use OBS Studio to directly live stream to Instagram completely for free and in

this video I will show you everything you need to know to get started use the link in the video description down below to go to the OBS Studio web page then download and install OBS studio for your platform if you have never worked with OBS Studio before this guide should give you a good basis to get started but

afterwards you might want to watch one or two other tutorials on how to use OBS in general if you first open OBS and you get greeted with this autoc configuration visard you can ignore this for now the first step we need to do is to change the aspect ratio of OBS studio and to do so we go to the settings then

we go to video in video we change the base canvas to 720 * 1,280 this is a resolution of 720p and this is the recommended resolution to live streaming to Instagram according to the fa use we then also make sure that our output the scaled resolution is the same resolution and we can just click

this drop down select 720 by 128 Instagram is recommending to live stream in 30 frames per second however 60 is recorded and for this video we're going to stream in 60 frames per second then next we jump over to the audio tab in the audio tab we change the sample rate to 44.1 khz which is also recommended then

we go over to the tab output in the output tab under streaming we go to the video bit rate and this we change to a maximum of 6,000 Instagram recommends a video bit rate between 2,250 and 6,000 this is the upper limit if your internet connection isn't the strongest you might want to dial this