In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can go ahead and add a
countdown timer into OBS studio in the simplest way possible.
So let's go ahead and dive in.
So the very first thing you don't wanna do is you're gonna go to the
link in the description of this video, and it's gonna bring you here to
download the simple countdown timer for OBS, as you're gonna need that to
be able to go ahead and follow along.
So once you got ahead and download, We're gonna want to go
ahead and open up O B S studio.
Once you have O B S studio open, you're gonna want to come to the file and
you want come to where it says docs.
You're gonna come to where it says custom browser docs.
And here for the doc name, you're gonna want to input countdown.
Timer.
Then for the url, we're gonna want to go to the files that
you went ahead and downloaded.
So initially it's gonna come as a zip file.
You wanna go ahead and unzip this.
If you don't know how to unzip it, just simply do a simple Google search and then
it's gonna go ahead and create a folder just like this with these assets here.
So the first thing you wanna do is you wanna double click on the doc html,
and that's gonna go ahead and open up a browser window just like this.
We want to go ahead and copy the url, and then we want to come back to
o Bs studio, and we want to go ahead and paste that URL and select apply.
Then you want to go ahead and simply click close, and you're
gonna see here the doc appear.
Now you can place this anywhere inside of obs that you like.
I like to put it between the audio mixer and the scene transitions,
or you can just place it.
Here after controls.
So once you have that there, the next step that we want to go ahead and take is you
want to come to where it says sources.
You wanna make sure the scene where you're gonna want the countdown timer to live.
To be selected, I'm just gonna have this default scene.
Then under sources, you're gonna come and press the plus icon.
Once you press the plus icon, what you're gonna want to do
is you wanna select browser.
You're gonna name this timer you're gonna select, okay?
And now what you're gonna do is for this url, we want to come back to the folder.
And where it says browser html, we want to double click that again,
that's gonna open up a URL for us.
We wanna simply copy that and then we want to come back to O B s and we want
to go ahead and place that in here.
Then for the width, we're gonna want to go ahead and put 1920 by 10 80.
Okay.
And then you want to go ahead and simply press.
And you're gonna see here now you're gonna see zero.
Zero.
Now that we have the countdown timer installed, we wanna
go ahead and get it set up.
So now we can go ahead and come here and be able to put
in the minutes that we want.
So we can put five minutes and you'll see here that it'll
automatically change there for us.
And then we have the visibility to put a message before the time.
So if you want us to display like stream starting in five, you can
check that and input the text if you want a message to come after the.
You can type that in there, and that's gonna show after the five minutes,
I typically leave that unchecked and then you can decide what happens,
what text comes up once the timer is done, so that's gonna be finished.
Then if you scroll down here and select settings, you're gonna
be able to have a little bit more customization of the timer.
You're gonna be able to change the font, you're gonna be able to select fonts.
And then you'll also be able to change the color if you want
it to be in a different color.
Same thing for the text.
You can go ahead and adjust that there.
You can center it, you can align it and make sure that you
have it right in the center.
So this makes it real easy to be able to adjust, but I'm gonna
show you an easier way to be able to go ahead and adjust this.
So we'll go ahead and select settings, and then now what you can do is
you can come on the timer, select.
And then you want to go ahead and hold the alt or the option key, and
you want to go ahead and bring it down and size it so this way you
don't have extra borders makes it real easy to be able to resize it.
So now that you have your timer right there, you now have more
availability to be able to control this.
Now when you hit start, you're gonna see the timer's gonna start going down.
If you hit stop, it simply just pauses the timer.
And then you can go ahead and resume it as you like.
And then of course you can go ahead and add a background to this
to be able to make it look nice.
And put this timer on a background so you can have a countdown timer overlay.
Now, one of the things that I like to do is I like to go ahead and have a custom
countdown timer created using a template.
So to be able to do that, what I like to do is I like to go to streamdesignz.com
and to be able to go ahead and get a custom timer that's already predesigned
with nice background animation and has the timer included in it.
So lemme show you how to go ahead and add that.
So once you have that timer, what you want to do is you want to
click the plus icon and you want to go ahead and click Media Source.
We'll name this countdown timer, you'll simply select, okay.
And then you'll browse where you went ahead and downloaded that file.
So I've got it here.
And then you simply just click.
Hit open and now what you wanna do is click loop.
Then you'll press okay.
And you can see here now that I didn't need to install any app.
And then I can just simply use this countdown timer that's
already pre-built for me.
So I went ahead and put a link in the description for Stream
Designz for you to be able to go ahead and get a countdown timer.
And just like that, you can see that I showed you two ways to be able to go ahead
and add a countdown timer to O B S studio.
That's not the only thing you need to make your stream look professional.
So go ahead and watch this video right here where I show you how to go ahead
and add additional overlays, like alerts starting soon, screens, gameplay, just
chatting, all different kind of overlays to make your stream look professional.
So click that right there to learn how to do that now.
I'll see you guys in the next video.