Hello, my YouTube friends.
I have a real treat for you today.
For this video, I partnered with an amazing Twitch sports channel
called action lab.
So I'm gonna show you how to create a stream like theirs, and also set
it up and organize it in OBS so you can easily recreate it.
And then I'm gonna bring Chris from action lab to talk about how to
make it easy to prepare and create assets that you're gonna use on the
show.
Now, this type of setup, isn't just for sports streams, the format
would work great for pop culture, political commentary streams, or
just about any other type of stream that you would want to do.
And that means you're gonna wanna stick around if you're looking to do
anything outside of the box of game streaming, cuz you're definitely
gonna learn something new today.
So you know what?
Let's get to it
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Let's take a look at the action lab stream to see what they are doing
that is so darn cool.
First, we're gonna just look through the scenes and the movement
between scenes, which is what really makes a stream like this work.
So this is the starting soon screen.
You could see it has a little chasing line that runs around stream is
starting.
You've got a really subtle movement in the background.
This crawl at the bottom for their social media stuff is used on
pretty much every page it's just a very simple, lower third that
rotates through.
I absolutely love how they have their full schedule here on the right,
so that their audience knows when they're gonna be live.
And it's easy to find them.
This is the perfect starting a stream page for a channel like this.
It's really, really well done.
Now I'm not gonna show you how to recreate this page, but if you are
interested in me showing you how to recreate this page with the really
subtle background movement and the chasing line and all that sort of
stuff, well, let me know in the comments and we can probably make that
happen.
The next scene is this welcome scene right here.
You can see that we have our social media crawl exactly the same down
at the bottom.
You'll notice that up at the top, we have a banner with some text,
that's a relatively common theme.
And then the two cameras for each of the hosts.
Then we also have a very subtle background.
You could see that all the colors work, they're kind of the same.
It's based on the same color palette.
And that's really important to having a coherent stream that's going
to look professional.
I really like how their welcome screen and basically their discussion
screen is laid out.
So the next thing they do is flip into another scene and I want you to
watch how their cameras move.
It is really cool and really fluid stuff.
It works so well with a stream like this because it's so subtle.
And this is a really simple screen where they just use a cell phone.
And this allows them to introduce news and information in a vertical
format, which is kind of what you're gonna find on Twitter and other
locations, really, really smart way to integrate that sort of
information into their live stream.
This screen set up is an ingenious way to allow them to add portrait
style content to their live stream, have it look natural and fun.
It's a really, really ingenious way to do this.
So I really do like it.
So from here, they're going to transition and I want you to again,
watch how their cameras transition from one scene to the next really,
really fluid, really smooth looks absolutely fantastic.
And then you can see that that transfers into this and this is the
main screen for most of their content and it works absolutely
fantastic.
And I want you to see that again.
So we go here, we've got the headline down here at the bottom,
transitions to the headline with an image on the right.
And this is absolutely fantastic.
People are gonna notice the way this stuff moves around the screen.
It works really well.
Then we have a ticker down in the bottom left that gives the user
information on ways that they can interact with the stream.
And of course, with the hosts.
In the bottom right we have the exact same crawl for social media
stuff, reused over and over again.
It's the exact same one.
In this particular thing, you've also got Chris and Scott, which is
actually a banner that is reused in all kinds of different locations.
So you're going to notice that each of these assets is completely
separate and that's how they can make the movement look so fun and
easy as it goes along.
It's absolutely fantastic.
And I'm gonna show you exactly how to set this up.
Here I want you to notice how they transition from one topic to the
next it's very subtle, but it works really well.
You also just have the same standard colors and background, which make
everything look like it's professional, just the way that they do all
of these things.
It's well thought out, but it's really, really simple for you to
recreate as I'm going to show you in just a couple of minutes.
And as you could see that transition basically fades from one headline
and image to another headline and another image.
I'm gonna actually show you how to do that.
But of course, I'm also going to show you ways that you can configure
this so that you have a little bit more variety.
You don't always have to be on the exact same screen.
You can transition from this view to another view with the exact same
assets to give your stream a little more visual flair.
And it's really easy to set up, but I absolutely love how they
transition from one topic to another.
It's seamless and a lot of fun.
And last but not least, we have their stream wrap up screen right
here.
You have the banner with the exact same look that says, goodnight, you
have the same crawler down at the bottom with the social media on the
right, you have all of their subscribers and members and all of that
kind of stuff that just scroll up on the right as they close out the
stream.
This is such a great way to recognize the folks that help contribute
to the stream.
And I really, really do love this setup.
And it's a pretty simple setup to create as well.
Now let me show you how to recreate it and organize the stream.
Now let's look really quickly at my recreation of their setup.
You can see this is the start screen.
I have the same subtle background movement in the back, albeit a
little bit different, same chasing line around the screen.
Social media crawl, of course, because I'm not gonna spend the time to
put the social media stuff in there.
And right up here, you can see the countdown timer.
They are using a actual script for that.
If you don't know how to use these scripts, I've done videos on them
in the past.
It's right here.
You put your timer in there and what you want on the screen after the
timer is up.
And of course, when this is done counting down, it'll stay stream
starting soon and you'll be ready to switch scenes.
I recreated the discussion scene.
I don't have two people.
So I just use two cameras.
You can see their social media crawl would be down here and their
banner would be right here, right here is the first setup.
So you would have their title here and the image here with their
social media crawl and that banner, once again, along with the scroll
right here and all of these are really, really simple things to set
up.
So I actually created a B graphic to all the A graphics.
So this is the same would be the graphic they're already using along
with this title right here, as you can see, it is exactly the same.
And then of course, I set up the end screen right here with our title.
This would be our crawl for our social media and the end crawl with
all the credits for all of the folks that watch the stream.
So just as far as setup goes, I use these as placeholders, which would
be replaced by images, but putting these placeholders in here makes it
really easy to just right click here and go to properties.
And then you just put your image in there that you've already created.
And you're all set.
If you look here, this is really kind of difficult to move through and
to use.
There's a really simple way to set this up, to make it easy to use.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag scenes up here and we're gonna
do it like this.
And then I'm gonna right click on here and we're gonna go to grid
mode.
And now you can see that it's really easy to see.
We've got our starting soon and our discussion right here, but not
only that we have all of our associated slides.
So this is slide one.
And slide two.
Obviously your show notes are gonna have to designate what those are
or you can rename them at each show.
Then we've got slide two and slide two B.
And these just give you options for what screens you want to use.
And then we have our close and let's say you wanted three options
instead of two.
Well, it's really simple just to stretch this out and it'll pop over
and you'll have three options.
So it could be slide one, two, and three, or slide A, B, and C, that
kind of stuff.
It really makes it easy to organize your setup.
But the main problem with my setup is of course, it's just fading.
It's not giving us any of that cool motion.
Well, that motion is all done using the move transition.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna add a move transition.
And if we just click okay, you're gonna see this already fixes a lot
of things.
So we've got our countdown timer.
We can go right to our discussion.
You can see the social media crawl, transitions really easy from that.
And from this point, we can go to any of our slides and all of our
assets just transition from one to the other.
It works really well.
So we can go right from slide one to slide two.
And I don't really like how that is appearing, cuz you can see those
slides are popping in.
We don't really want that.
So let's see if we can fix that.
We're gonna go into our transition properties and basically accent one
is turning into accent two.
Graphic one is turning into graphic two.
So these are items that are appearing and disappearing.
So instead of having them jump in from the center left, we're gonna
have none as the transition and we're going to remove the zoom and
then we'll set the transition to a fade.
And so we've changed that up for appearing items.
We're going to do the same thing for disappearing items.
We're gonna uncheck the zoom.
We're gonna have the position as none, and then we're gonna set it to
fade.
So now when we transition all of these items that are appearing and
disappearing are going to fade, so we can go from slide one directly
to slide two and you'll just see those fade in and out.
So basically what we can do is we can go from our discussion page
right here.
And maybe we want to start out with this one right here.
And then we want to transition to this look right here.
And then maybe we want to even transition during this one to this one.
And then we can go right from that, to this.
So it gives us a lot of options as to how we want our stuff to
transition.
And then in the end we can go to the close, but you could see all of
these transitions work to make this stream seem a lot more complicated
than it is.
You just saw I set up the entire movement for this stream in like 30
seconds.
But the real struggle with a stream like this, whether you're doing
sports or you're doing pop culture or you're doing politics is going
to be in the stream planning and the asset creation.
Well in order to figure that out, we're gonna talk to somebody who
does it all the time.
We're gonna talk to Chris from action lab.
He's gonna tell us how he goes about planning his streams and of
course all of the asset creation for each week.
So let's hear from Chris from action lab.
Hey Michael, thanks for the opportunity to showcase what we do here in
the action lab.
Now there are a lot of moving parts that go into this.
So, you know, with a sports stream, with any kind of stream that you
guys are putting on, it takes a lot of planning.
And you know, if you're able to plan your stream accordingly and get
out ahead of each and every stream, I know it sounds like a lot, but
it's totally worth the end product, you know, to do some of these
things, you know, it takes planning out.
Alright, what do I wanna talk about on my next show?
What kind of current events are coming on?
What I like to do is I like to look at everything that's going on in
the sports world.
So if there's an NFL draft and there's NBA playoffs, if there's any
kind of event that's happening, let's say, you know, we have the NFL
season kicking off like we do right now.
I will go ahead and we'll plan out.
All right, we want to do some sort of feature on this week's games.
So we'll go ahead.
We'll build out graphics.
We'll make sure that we have all of our headings, everything that's
all built out.
A lot of the tools that I use are all free tools that you can always
upgrade later on, but that's what makes this nice and easy and
affordable.
Obviously not all streamers have the finances to go out and do you
know some of the big things, but one thing I rely on more than
anything else is Canva.
If you haven't gotten a Canva account, go ahead and get a Canva
account.
They have a lot of tools that I utilize to build out some very nice
and well rounded graphics for each and every single one of our
streams.
Now you'll take a look at these.
These are very eyecatching.
This is something you'll want to have when you're building out your
stream and people are coming and looking for various streams and they
see that these are nice polished graphics.
These are things that catch people's eye in those browse pages on
Twitch.
Also, you know, I have all my headings that I've used for all of our
different scenes that we build out.
Finally, we have different features.
Let's say we have NHL playoffs or NBA playoffs going on head to head
matchups.
We'll have those all here in this.
Now we also have music on our stream.
Music is a big thing of what we do in the background.
I highly recommend stream beats.
Stream beats is a great resource for us.
For example, we come in here, you'll hear some of the music going on
in the background right now.
All of this is downloadable through stream beats and it is copyright
free music.
That's a huge, huge deal.
So make sure you guys are using copyright free music, but once you
take all of these assets, you'll plan it.
Hey, we want to talk about some matchups coming up.
Hey, we want to get some music put in there and make it, you know,
background nice and smooth when it comes to what we're talking about
and get people, you know, that get, get rid of the silence.
And then also just having a set plan for everything that we have.
It all makes the difference and it all makes your stream that much
more polished here.
You'll notice we have our features.
We have our slideshow transitions here.
We have our titles that we all built out.
We have our people can identify both Scott and myself and you know, it
just makes for nice planned shows.
So you can have a lot of success in building out your first sports
channel that maybe you, you know, have been looking to do for a long
time.
Maybe you're a sports fanatic and you really love doing sports
commentary.
You talk about sports with your friends, talk about sports with your
family at family reunions or Thanksgiving or whatever it may be.
This is a great way to apply that into something maybe you're
passionate about and that's streaming.
So with that being said, I hope you guys enjoyed a lot of this
commentary and I hope you guys really take some of these tips that
Michael has put together.
That some of the things that you know, I've, uh, shared here in this
video and go ahead, get out there.
Good luck with your streams.
And we can't wait to see you all over Twitch, YouTube, or wherever you
do your stream.
Big thanks to Chris for sharing his knowledge today, you can check out
their streams for yourself.
There's links in the description to Twitch and YouTube.
What sort of streams are you trying to put together?
Let me know in the comments.
Now, if you wanna see how to install and use the move transition
plugin I use in this video, 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 you in the next one.