
It's simple to use and packed with all features you need to record or stream high-quality video. Note that if you are running OBS from the Terminal, you may need to grant these permissions to the Terminal as well (unconfirmed).OBS Studio is a powerful, yet free screen recorder and live streaming software. To do so, go to Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy, then under the entries for " Screen Recording", " Camera", and " Microphone", ensure that OBS is checked. If you are having trouble with any of these things, you may need to manually grant OBS these permissions. However, it seems that some users are not getting this pop-up. If you are trying to capture your display, microphone, or a camera on Catalina, you should get a pop-up asking to grant permission to OBS to allow it to do so. Permissions for Display Capture, Microphone, and Cameras
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If so, be sure to grant those permissions to the Terminal to ensure functionality in OBS. NOTE : When you run OBS from the Terminal this way, and attempt to add things such as webcam capture or display capture, the Terminal will ask for these permissions instead of OBS. Open /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/OBS -args -picture Open the Terminal app and type the following: If you want to run the normal release, you will likely need to run OBS via the Terminal.

Option 2: Run OBS manually from the Terminal dmg file, you simply need to drag the OBS.app file into your Applications folder to install. However, this should work for many of you at least as a stop-gap so you at least have something working.

Users currently have two options for running OBS on Catalina right now: For example, if you have a webcam capture in one of your scenes, OBS will crash. These issues stem from a change to the way Catalina handles permissions for things such as capturing webcams and microphones. However, OBS Studio is currently not yet fully compatible with it. The newest version of macOS, 10.15 "Catalina", is now available.
