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Docks

OBS' user interface can be greatly customized depending on your use of it's Docks:

  • in Blue: the View and Docks button mentioned throughout this article
  • in Green: can be shown/hidden in View
  • in Red: can be shown/hidden in Docks

Stats

Displays useful statistics regarding your recording and/or streaming status, most notably (see above):

  • Memory Usage
  • Total data output for recording & streaming
  • Skipped/missed frames due to encoding/rendering lag
  • Disk space available / Approximation of how long it'll take for the recording to fill up the disk

There 2 are ways to view the stats dock

  1. Enabling it in Docks lets you dock it into your interface (like previously shown)
  2. Enabling it in View stays a separate floating window

Scenes

Scenes are collections of user-defined sources, to give you an idea they’re typically used by streamers who switch from game source w/ facecam, full-screen facecam, and "starting stream soon" / "brb" text.

If you only make use of a single source at a time (e.g recording games) you could remove the Scenes Selector and Scene Transitions for some UI headroom.

Managing Docks

Simply select Docks or View -> Select/unselect which you want enabled.