Having overlays on your stream is a great way to take your stream from
looking boring, to give it in more professional feel to helping you stand
out and for keeping viewers more engaged.
So in today's video, I'm gonna show you how to go ahead and set up your scenes
and sources like you're starting soon.
Your countdown timer, your be right back and your offline screen.
To be able to go ahead and get you started.
So let's go ahead and dive in.
So the first thing you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to go
ahead and have your OBS studio open.
If you don't have OBS studio, I'll put a link in the description for
you to be able to download it.
It's a free software.
So once you have this in place, the first thing we're gonna wanna do is
you're gonna wanna set up our scenes.
Our scenes are gonna be the different scenes that you're gonna
switch to when you are streaming.
And sources are gonna be the things that you include inside of that scene,
like your webcam, your gameplay, etc.
So let's go ahead and set up our scenes.
First, we'll go ahead and press the plus icon.
And the first scene we're gonna have is our, starting soon we'll press okay.
Then we'll go ahead and use the plus icon again, and then
we'll name this countdown timer.
Okay?
And we're gonna set up all our scenes first, and then we'll start
filling them in with the sources.
Then we're gonna go ahead and name this, be right back.
Okay, then we're gonna go ahead and say stream offline.
And then you're also gonna have a just chatting and then you're also going
to go ahead and have a gameplay scene.
Okay, so we'll press, okay.
So these are gonna be all the standard scenes that you're gonna
utilize when you are streaming.
So let's go ahead and start filling them up with some sources.
Now the sources are gonna be the overlays that you went ahead and got.
Now, if you don't have any overlays, eye lights to go ahead and use Stream
Designz where they have tons of animated overlays, countdown timers.
And things that you need to make your stream look professional.
So for this example, I'm gonna go ahead and utilize the Lux package.
That's gonna include everything that I'm going to need.
And I'm also going to get the countdown timer overlay lux.
So I'm gonna put a link in the description for Stream Designz if
you don't have your own overlays.
So once you have your overlays, we'll come back here into OBS studio, and
we're gonna come to starting soon.
And we're gonna go to sources.
You're gonna press the plus icon and we're gonna go ahead and use media source.
For animated overlays and image for static overlays, meaning non-animated.
So because this package is animated, I'm gonna use media source.
I'm gonna name this starting, I'm gonna press, okay, and now it's gonna go ahead
and ask you to find the overlay file that you went ahead and download it.
So I'm gonna hit browse.
I'm gonna come to my desktop.
And then if you downloaded the package from Stream Designz,
that's gonna come in a zip file.
You can see that we can't click it.
You have to unzip it for, it's to create a folder like this so you
can have access to the overlays.
If you've never unzipped a file before, just simply go to Google, type
in how to unzip a file on Mac or on Windows, and then it'll guide you and
you'll have a folder just like this.
It's gonna have your panels, your alerts, your overlay
screens, and your webcam overlay.
So we're gonna come to overlay.
We're gonna go ahead and use starting soon.
We're gonna press open and then you wanna make sure you select loop because it is
an animation and we don't want this to end after the few seconds that it runs.
So we'll press okay.
And you'll see here that our starting soon is now available.
So what we'll come here is we'll simply lock it so that it doesn't move.
And now we have that in place.
Now we're gonna come to the countdown timer on their sources.
We're gonna press the plus icon.
We're gonna come to Media Source cuz it is a animated countdown timer.
We'll put this as timer, we'll press okay, and then for the locate file, you're gonna
hit browse and then you'll come again.
Same thing, you'll get a zip file from Stream Designz.
The countdown timer is not included in the package, so you
do have to get it separately.
And then once you unzip it, you'll have a file just like this.
We'll open it up.
And here we do not wanna select the loop because we want them,
the timer ends for us to be able to transition to our next scene.
So press okay.
You'll see here that our countdown timer is now running.
We'll go ahead and lock it.
And now we wanna go ahead and do be right back.
So we'll go ahead and use the plus icon.
We'll come to Media Source.
We'll name this B rrb.
We'll press okay.
We'll locate the file here and we'll come back into our package and you'll
see here on the overlay screens we have our B right back screen.
And this you are gonna want to go ahead and use loop.
Now your B right back screen is utilized.
Anytime you need to go use the restroom, you need to step away.
This is a scene that you can put up.
That way your viewers are still able to be watching something as opposed to
a black screen or just an empty chair.
So we'll go ahead and put that at slot there.
And now we want to go ahead and do our stream offline.
We'll come to the plus icon, we'll come to media sources.
We'll name this offline, you'll press okay, and then under locate
file again, you're gonna come and see your offline screen.
You'll press okay, and then this.
You are gonna want to go ahead and use loop and now you see here
this is your currently offline.
This is a scene that you switch to when you get ready to end your stream.
That way that when you end the stream doesn't just go black.
Your viewers can still watch something here, allowing you to do some final
touches, respond to people in chat and say, thank you for watching
while this scene is actually playing.
So we'll go ahead and end that there.
Now we have our just chatting scene.
So the just chatting scene.
You'll press the plus icon, you'll come to Media Source, we'll name this chatting.
You'll press, okay, and then here you'll locate file.
You'll hit browse, and then you'll see here that you have
the just chatting screen.
So we'll go ahead and open this up.
You do want Select Loop and the just Chatting screen is a great scene for
you to be able to utilize in between games in the beginning of your stream
to just engage with your viewers.
Or at any point in your stream when you just wanna focus on
engaging with your community.
So the center screen is where your webcam's gonna be.
Your top right is where your gameplay is gonna be, and the bottom right
is where your chat's gonna be.
Now, another video, I'm gonna show you how to go ahead and set up the just chatting.
Because it does have a few additional elements, but right now the next scene
that you want to go ahead and set up is gonna be your gameplay scene.
Your gameplay scene is where you're gonna spend the majority of
your time when you're streaming.
That's gonna include your webcam, your gameplay, your overlays, your alerts,
your chat, all these elements there.
So go ahead and watch this video right here to learn how to set up your gameplay
scene, and it's gonna be a crucial part of your streaming experience.
I'll see you guys in the next video.