- If you've been using OBS studio to stream,
and a Stream Deck to control your stream,
you've probably been pretty disappointed
with the lack of things that you could control.
Well, today that changes
because a brand new update has come out
for the Stream Deck software that adds 10 highly requested
new things that you can control in OBS Studio
using your Stream Deck,
so let's check it out.
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So, before we update to the latest version
of the Stream Deck software, you can see that
there's only five different actions that we can do
in OBS using the Stream Deck,
changing scenes, muting, ummuting mixer audio,
starting and stopping a stream or a recording,
and enabling and disabling a specific source.
Not a whole lot of control, but once you've checked
for updates and updated your Stream Deck software,
you should now see the 10 new actions.
So, let's go through these from top to bottom.
Record pause allows you to pause or resume
an active recording,
which is useful for those with either
limited hard drive space,
or those that don't want to sit
through hours and hours of recordings when editing.
You can just press this button on your Stream Deck
to resume a recording whenever you like.
Personally, I'd recommend adding some custom icons
for the enabled and disabled states here.
The default ones that they've included
just don't seem to be that intuitive for me.
Next, we have a pair of actions, replay buffer,
and replay buffer save.
The replay buffer action allows you to turn
on or off the replay buffer in OBS,
although it's worth noting
that you need to have enabled first
the replay buffer in OBS, which you can do by going
to settings, output, replay buffer, and once enabled,
you can customize the maximum replay time or memory used.
The second action, replay buffer save,
allows you to save the replay buffer
to a video file on your Mac or PC.
So if you had your replay buffer set to say 20 seconds,
pressing this button on your Stream Deck
will then save the last 20 seconds of your stream output
to a video file,
which is really useful for making full quality highlights.
Also, if you want to make a really advanced instant action
replay where you can actually watch back
a previous highlight on stream with your viewers,
then you'll want to check out my video.
I'll leave it linked in the top corners,
but this new update to the Stream Deck
should make it even easier.
The new scene collection action allows you
to switch to a specific scene collection.
I don't think this is that useful
obviously when you're live, but it could be really handy
if you run many different kinds
of productions using OBS studio.
I would love if they also release an action
to switch to a specific profile,
as well as the scene collections,
because quite often I'm pairing
up a profile with a scene collection
if I want to do a local recording
versus doing some kind of stream to YouTube
or stream to Twitch.
The media source control action allows you
to have some play pause control
over any specific media source in OBS.
You can see the options here to have
the button act as a play pause, a play stop,
a play restart, or just a stop control.
Another pairing of actions that are useful together
are the studio mode and preview to program actions.
The studio mode action just simply turns studio mode
on or off, and if you've not used studio mode before,
basically it just gives you two separate windows in OBS.
The program on the right is the window
that you're used to seeing,
which is actually what is being sent to your stream.
And the preview on the left
allows you to make specific changes to any scene
without it being shown to your stream.
The new preview to program action,
as you might have guessed, sends the preview to the program.
So whatever is in your preview window
is sent now live to your stream,
as shown in the program window
the filter action allows you to turn on or off
any filter in OBS studio,
and this works for both video filters
like LUTs, Chroma keys, color correction, or scaling ratios,
as well as audio filters that you might use
on your microphone, like compressors, noise gates,
or equalizers via VST.
This is one of those things that people have
been asking to be able to control for years,
so I'm sure some of you are very excited
to be able to finally control filters from your Stream Deck.
The screenshot action simply just takes a screenshot
of the current preview in OBS,
and this gets saved as a PNG to the same location
as your video recordings, which you can always access
by going to file and share recordings.
Finally, the transition action allows you
to switch the transition mode,
and allows you to set a custom duration if you wish to.
Do note though, that this is just
updating your default scene transitions here,
so if you wanted to use a stinger,
you'll have to have that added in your OBS
scene transitions window first.
If you want to dive straight into another video,
why not check out the earlier mentioned instant replay video
that I did that helps you build an instant replay source
that you can watch back highlights directly
on stream with your audience?
Thanks for watching, and I'll catch you in the next one.
Peace.