Custom alerts are an awesome way to personalize your live stream.
You can easily do a very simple stream that looks absolutely amazing
just because you're using a couple of very simple custom alerts and
they're so easy to create and use and you can do it totally free.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
Today I wanna walk you through how to create your own custom live
streaming alerts.
We're gonna use all free tools for this as well.
We're gonna start with Da Vinci resolve a free editing tool that you
can use to edit your videos or like we're gonna do today, create
custom alerts.
There is a link in the description so you can check it out.
So you know what?
Let's get to it.
Okay, so here we are in Da Vinci Resolve and we're going to create a
new project.
And of course you can call your project whatever you like.
Once you've finished naming your project, you just click create and
here we're gonna go up to file and then we're going to go to project
settings and we just wanna make sure that our project settings are the
same as our stream, in my case 1920 by 10 80 and 30 frames per second
and click save.
Now we're gonna go over into the edit mode and we're gonna come up to
the top and we're going to go to our media pool and we're going to
drag our alert in there.
Now I created this alert.
It is just me on a green screen doing some pointing and stuff.
You don't have to have a green screen to do this, but I'm gonna show
you how to do it with a green screen.
You can use any clip you want.
Then we just drag it down into the timeline and I do not need the
audio from this, so I'm gonna go ahead and remove it from the clip.
Now I'm gonna go ahead and edit up the beginning and the end to clip
it.
So it comes in and goes out where I want this clip to begin and end.
And that's as simple as putting my playhead where I want it and then
dragging over the clip.
So now we have just the segment that I want.
It is right about 13 seconds.
Seems like about the perfect length for a good alert.
Next, I'm gonna go ahead and select the clip and go over here to the
right and adjust the clip in a couple of different ways.
First, I notice that I'm pointing in the incorrect direction.
So what I'm gonna do is select flip here to flip the clip around.
The next thing I'm gonna do is go down here and click on the color tab
and I'm gonna select the color picker and we're gonna select our green
color for our background.
Then we're gonna go down here to the bottom and we're going to invert
our selection.
As you can see in that little screen on the top right, it shows that
that removed me from the image and we wanna remove the green from the
image.
So all we have to do is click this button right here to invert it.
Now you'll see that I'm there and the green turns kind of to the gray
color.
Then we're gonna right click on here and we're going to select add
alpha output, and we're gonna connect this blue dot to this blue dot.
And now we can see some black up here in our background.
So we just have to adjust our matte, and we're going to to do that by
adjusting some of these little control lines right here.
And these can be a little bit fiddly to work with, but once you figure
it out, you'll be able to work it out.
Now I'm gonna go up here in the top left hand corner, which is the
only real amount of green that's left over, and we're going to color
pick that again and you'll notice that it kind of changes everything
up, but now we can adjust it in such a way that we can remove all of
the green or a very large percentage of it.
And that is really what we're looking to do to remove as much of this
green as we possibly can so that we have a completely blank
background.
And this requires you to kind of fiddle around with this.
And you're gonna notice that there is some edging around me that is
green and my lighting causes the green to bounce, and that's going to
be something that's going to be very difficult to get rid of.
But we're gonna do the best we can by selecting some of the items over
here in the matte and we're going to adjust them to try to get rid of
as much of the green as we possibly can.
And once again, in this case, it's kind of just a matter of fiddling
around with these numbers.
Some of them don't do a whole lot or don't seem to do a whole lot
until you really push them.
And then you'll end up removing more and more of the green matte from
the background.
And that's really what we're looking to do.
So we wanna remove as much of it as we can just by fiddling around
with all of this stuff.
And we're not going to be able to remove all of it, but the plan is to
remove as much of it as we possibly can.
So once we get to a result with removing the green screen that we are
happy with, we're all ready to go ahead and export this file directly
from here.
So all we need to do in that case is click on the little rocket ship
down here in the bottom right hand corner so we can export our little
clip here.
Here's our export screen.
We're gonna want to go ahead and name our file.
And of course you can name your alert, whatever you want to.
I'm gonna name it Alert Alpha.
Then we're gonna browse to the proper location where we wanna save our
file and our format is going to be quick time.
We're gonna go ahead and drop down the codec and select Uncompressed.
Then we're going to drop down the type and we're going to select B G R
A eight bit.
The A is for Alpha and we want to go ahead and make sure that we check
Export Alpha and we want to be sure that our resolution is 1920 by 10
80 and 30 frames per second or whatever the resolution and frame rate
is for your live stream.
Once we do that, all we need to do is add it to the render queue and
export it and it will take just a moment to export out this clip.
The last step is we're going to use the Shutter encoder.
It's totally free.
It's going to transform our little video into something that's much
smaller and easier to use.
It's really simple.
There's a link in the description, so you can go ahead and download
it, check it out for yourself.
And we're gonna just drag our clip right onto the space here.
Then we're going to drop this down and select VP nine as our format.
And I'm going to select Advanced Features and I wanna make sure that
Enable Alpha Channel is selected.
Then I'm gonna go ahead and just click start function and after a few
moments it will create our web m file and we're ready to go ahead and
move on to the next step.
Now we have our alert.
We're going to use Stream Elements to set it up.
Stream Elements is a free tool for adding alerts to your live streams.
Of course there's a link in the description so you can check it out.
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To set up our alerts we're going to use Stream Elements, it's totally
free.
You have to set up a login for the platform that you plan to stream
for.
In my case, it's YouTube.
Once you set it up, you come in here and you're gonna want to go to my
overlays.
And this is where we're gonna set up an overlay.
We're just gonna click New Overlay here.
You're gonna wanna set it up for the resolution that you're streaming
at.
You can drop this down and select whatever one it is, and my case,
it's 10 80 p.
And then just click start.
And if I zoom this out, you can see there is the 10 80 P square.
I'm gonna go up to the top and go ahead and name the overlay and we'll
just call this custom widget.
And then I'm gonna go over here and click add widget.
I'm gonna go to the alerts and create an alert box.
You can see this creates a subscriber alert, member alert, super chat
alert, tip alert, and a purchase alert.
We are not going to use the purchase alert, so I'm just gonna turn
that off.
And we're gonna get started setting these up with the subscriber
alert.
We'll just click this little gear button and we're gonna click change
video.
Then we're gonna go over here to the top right of this window and
select upload.
And we're just going to drag our alert that we just created on here.
We wanna make sure that we get the Web M one.
It is a nice tiny format.
And then we just have to hover over that and select Submit.
And now that is our alert video.
So now we can see the alert box.
We can just drag this over wherever we want, but if we click the
subscriber event there, you see our alert showing up and it has our
text below.
So we want to go over here to the left and select this button.
It will put our text to the one side of us.
There we go.
Now when we run our alert, we can see we're pointing in the direction
of the text.
That looks pretty good.
That's what we're looking for.
I'm gonna go down here into animation settings and we're gonna go up
here to the top.
And I'm just gonna scroll down and select Fade in.
And I'm gonna also select Fade Out.
And then I'm gonna add one second to each of these so that it fades in
and fades out for one second.
And then when we click our subscriber event, you can see it fades in
there there and it's gonna point and all that stuff.
And I think what's gonna happen here is it's gonna fade out before my
alert is actually finished because it is longer than 10 seconds.
So we're gonna click here and then we're going to go and change this
ten second mark here to 12 seconds.
The alert is actually 13 seconds, but the fade out will cover over
that.
So now when we hit our subscriber event, again, it will fade in at the
beginning.
We're pointing towards our letters, given the thumbs up, doing all the
things, and then it will fade out right as we are turning away again.
Perfect.
So now I just want to go down here into our text settings and I'm
gonna click this and that bumps our text over a little bit closer to
us.
Now in this text one, we can change our fonts, we can change our font
size.
We can even go into advanced and completely change the location that
we want the text to show up if we want.
There are all kinds of awesome things that you can do with this.
I'm just showing you the basics of how it works today.
But just be aware that all of these things can be changed or modified
to any way that you want to suit your particular alerts.
Now when we click our subscriber event, everything is happening the
way we want it to happen.
That's fantastic.
So now we have our subscriber event all set up.
What we want to do is just move this box down to wherever we want.
Now you can see that I can go ahead and expand the box, make the box
smaller.
It doesn't really change the size of the alert, we're gonna have to do
that in OBS, but we're gonna just go ahead and place this down in the
bottom right hand corner.
And now our subscriber alert is completely finished and ready to go.
So now all we need to do is X out at the top here and go into each of
our other alerts and set them up.
So we're gonna hit the gear here for Member Alert.
And if I go ahead and run a member alert, you're gonna see that that
one is still the old one, it is just the standard one.
So we're gonna click change video.
We're gonna go ahead and select our alert that we created.
So we're gonna go ahead and change our alert.
So it's 12 seconds and we're gonna go and add our animation fade in
and fade out.
And we're gonna add our one second for our fade in and fade out.
And we're gonna go into text and bump it over a little bit towards us.
And when we run our member alert, we can see that we forgot to set up
the location of our text.
So we're gonna go back here and we're gonna select this one.
And there we go.
So now our second alert, our member alert is all set up properly.
We can just click the X up here and we're going to move on to the next
alert.
And that's the super chat alert.
So we're gonna go ahead and change our video, click submit.
We're going to go down here and make this 12 seconds.
We're going to adjust the location of our text.
We're going to add our animation settings in here.
So we're gonna add our fade in and fade out.
We're going to put our one second in here, and we're gonna go ahead
and test this and see.
There we go.
Our super chat event looks like it's working properly.
So we're gonna click out of that and we're gonna go and do our Tip
alert event.
It's exactly the same process.
We're gonna click submit on our image, we're gonna move our text,
we're gonna add the 12 seconds.
We're gonna go ahead and add our fade in and fade out.
Add the one second to the fade in and the fade out, and we can run our
tip event, see what it looks like.
And I think we want to bump our text in a little bit here.
So we're gonna click the down arrow right there.
We're gonna go to text settings, we're gonna left adjust it, that
looks better.
And we can go and make sure that all of our text is left adjusted by
going in here.
And we're gonna left adjust that.
And there we go.
And we'll just check one more time to make sure the members' text is
set all the way to the left.
And now it looks like all of our events or alerts are perfectly set
up.
All we have to do is add these into our OBS.
So what you're gonna want to do is go ahead and click save, and then
you want to click on this little link icon right here.
Once you have it saved, all we need to do, and I'm using a scene from
my usual tutorial live screen that I use on my live stream.
And you can, generally speaking, use lots of different methods to put
your alerts on screen, but I'm gonna just show you how to add it into
each scene.
So in this particular case, we'll click the plus, we're gonna go to
Browser source, and I'm just gonna type in alerts.
Then I'm gonna click okay, and I'm just gonna paste in that link that
we already got.
I'm gonna put 1920 by 10 80 in here.
And if we want to use the audio that comes from the alert, we're gonna
put control audio via OBS.
That means that the audio that's in the alert is gonna come through
and click okay.
And now we're all set to use our alert and we'll go into subscriber
event.
And there we go.
Now we can see our subscriber event is happening right there.
So all we, all we need to do to adjust it is go ahead and adjust the
size of our box here and we will go ahead and click on our subscriber
event.
And there we go.
We can move this to wherever we want it on the screen.
Now, like I said, you can adjust the color and all that stuff and you
just kind of put this wherever you want.
And we'll go over here to scene four.
And what I'm gonna do is go ahead and add the alert again.
You can just click the plus go to browser.
You know your alert's already gonna be here.
Click okay.
Now we'll set it off and we'll do a tip event.
And there it is.
So what we want to do is embiggen it and we'll put it right here.
There we go.
And we can make it even bigger.
Do a tip event again.
There we go.
Bring it up here so we can place it wherever we want on the screen.
We just need to place it in the scene wherever we want it, make it
bigger, make it smaller, however we want to place it.
And now we have a pretty awesome custom alert in every scene that we
decide we want it in.
Now, like I said, the downstream key is a great way to just add this
one time and then activate it and it will go over top of any scene you
want, but sometimes that's just not something that you can do.
So we just go and go to browser and go and select alerts.
And it's really that simple.
We can put these alerts wherever we want.
So we're gonna be over in this direction area here, make it bigger.
We'll just cause them to go off.
And then we just need to resize them, put them wherever we want them,
and we can make these as big or as small as we want.
Pretty simple.
Cool, easy, clean alert that anyone can do with a simple green screen
and free Da Vinci Resolve software.
And you can do this with any sort of animation.
There's just so many cool things that you can do with custom alerts
and now you understand how to set them up and use them.
Pretty awesome.
Super easy.
What sort of alerts would you like to see how to create?
If you wanna see how to create a full stream using OBS, you should
check this video out.
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