Hello, my YouTube friends.
OBS has a way to do just about anything that you could possibly want
to do on a live stream.
There are so many times that I get questions in my email asking me how
do I do something?
And I love these emails because it makes me try to figure out how I
would do it.
To me, that's what makes OBS and doing this fun, figuring out how to
create that look or effect that you really want.
And usually this makes it easy for me to find content to do as well.
So that's good.
And the best part is there's usually multiple ways to do just about
anything.
I just show you the way I figured it out.
A lot of times, these questions prompt a visit to the OBS plugins page
to see if there's a tool it's already created to do what I want to do.
Today I want to tell you about the three plugins that are so
versatile, that they can help you create just about anything that you
want to do on your live stream.
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Streams can get really complex and anything that can help you manage
the complexity and even enhance the functionality of OBS is a huge
win.
That's why I don't stream without the downstream keyer in OBS.
Now this is a relatively new plugin that allows you to dock a panel
with assets that you can use over top of any scene that you're in.
It's perfect for soundboards, alerts, video overlays and anything else
that you might want to be able to use in every scene on your stream.
So let me show you how this works.
You can find links to videos on how to use all the features in these
plugins in the description below.
Here, you can see that I've loaded some animations in the downstream
keyer and I am using them over top of a bunch of different scenes.
And the best part is that's for any scene.
So I can go over here to my tutorial scene and needless to say, I
don't have a tutorial going on right now, but if I click any of these,
well, it's just going to play right over top of the entire scene.
It's awesome.
I just quickly added the rest and it's awesome because I can just
click on any one of them and it will appear on any screen that I'm on.
And then I can just click the pause and make it go away.
So let me show you how you could do this with lower thirds that you
can create right here in OBS.
And when we actually click it it slides in really, really awesome.
So the best part is that's going to stay there even when we switch
scenes, see we can switch scenes.
The only thing that moves it is this.
So we can have regular transitions on all of our scenes as well.
Let's use our regular transition on our main scene, and you can see
that the regular transition goes, but our lower third will actually
stay there until we click the pause and remove it.
So you can have lower thirds for guests or whoever you want.
You can place them wherever you want.
You can add any transition you want and you don't have to create them
in every scene.
You can just create a tab up here in the downstream keyer and add them
and remove them anytime you want.
This is just awesome for little slides or things that you want to add
to any scene, it can be a video, it can be text.
It can be just an image, whatever you want for any good live stream,
you need to set up your audio.
So it sounds awesome, of course.
But you also need to hear the things you need to hear and your
audience needs to be sure that they hear the stuff that they're
supposed to hear as well.
It really wasn't that long ago that you had to use really complicated
tools to separate out audio sources, to use them in OBS.
In fact, for the Mac, it wasn't really possible until very recently,
but now for the PC, there's the win audio plugin and I couldn't
possibly stream without it.
I use this to have scenes where I hear my producer, but the audience
can't.
So he can keep me up to date on things going on in the chat that I
might need to see.
And then I have scenes where you can hear my producer and my guests as
part of the stream.
I have scenes with music or sound effects for the audience that I
don't want to hear.
And some scenes where I do want to hear music, or I want to know
what's going on that the audience is hearing.
The win audio plugin is a game changer for OBS audio.
So let me show you how it works.
Once again, there's a link to a full video in the description as this
is just kind of an overview of what it's capable of doing, and we'll
quickly split the screen here.
And now if I go ahead and I play it, and then let's just expand our
audio sources here so we can see them better and we can see our
YouTube video is playing.
And if I pause it on YouTube, the audio goes away.
When I start it on YouTube, it starts up again.
So we can add all of our audio sources completely separately using
this.
And it's really, really easy to do.
Now there's a tool for you to do the same thing if you are a Mac
streamer, you can check out the link in the description below if you
want to see.
The last plugin is a game changer for visual effects.
I use it to create animated masks, use a virtual green screen and even
face tracking on my live streams.
And that plugin is stream FX.
Let me show you how it works.
Again.
There are links to all these videos in the description.
The first cool thing you can do at stream FX is a virtual green
screen.
That is really good.
We're going to click the plus and we're going to go to this virtual
green screen right here.
And luckily there isn't really a whole heck of a lot to set up.
You can do performance or quality quality should be just fine.
And we can select the Nvidia green screen powered by Nvidia broadcast
right here and click close.
And there we go.
So now you can see what we get.
It gets even better if we just go ahead and shrink our image, um,
cause you're not going to probably be using this in full screen
anyways, we'll just shrink it down here.
There is also an absolutely awesome face tracking feature.
It gives it the appearance that you have a camera person in your
studio that you may or may not have.
And then when you come down here to automatic and I just select
Nvidia.
So that's pretty much what all of these do.
If you wanted to have more movement, you can definitely add more to
the padding and that mean you would be zoomed in farther, but your
camera could move a little farther as well.
Stream effects also lets you set up a bunch of different kinds of
dynamic masks that you can use on your face cameras or on other scenes
or videos.
It's absolutely incredible.
Pretty good, but we don't need the white background.
I'm going to go back into that scene and just hide the white
background.
And there we go.
Now we have a really cool cloud type moving mask.
It has great animation and the best part is this is really not very
distracting.
It's really pretty subtle.
Then I just need to scroll all the way to the bottom under alpha and
add that minus one under the green input value.
And there we go.
And now we have our mask.
Looking awesome and really easy to do.
Now, if you want to see how to create the animated face cam masks that
I use with stream effects, you should check this video out.
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My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see in the next one.