- OBS Studio version 26 is now officially out
and with it comes a whole heap of new features, changes
and bug fixes.
Now, if you've been subscribed to the gaming careers channel
for a while, you probably know
that I covered these OBS Studio updates
and they seem to be super popular
with the gaming careers community.
So we're going to be covering exactly what's new
in version 26, paying special attention
to those key features that make the biggest impact
for your lifestreams.
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Okay, so the first new feature,
which I think is going to be a bit of a game changer
for streamers is the source toolbar,
which is going to allow you to have some really easy control
over your different sources in OBS Studio.
The source toolbox sits just below your preview window,
above your scenes and sources and allows easy access
to relevant controls for the currently selected source.
You might need to toggle the toolbar to be viewable
by going to the view menu and then source toolbar.
Now, depending on which source you have selected,
you're going to see different options in the source toolbar
but for every single source
you're going to see two that are common
which has properties and filters,
which allow you to easily access the properties
and the filters options for that source.
But you are going to be able to see different controls
depending on which type of source you have selected
so if you select a tax source, you're going to see options
for font color and the actual text shown.
So no longer do you need to open up the properties
just to change the text from a tax source
for browser sources,
you're also going to be able to refresh the source
for display capture you're going to be able to choose
which display you want to show
and for game capture and window capture,
you're going to be able to choose the specific window choice.
Now, for media sources, VLC video sources
and image slideshows
you're going to get some additional playback controls
which are really useful
if you need to scrub through a video source
or if you want to skip to the next image
in an image slideshow.
Finally, for video capture devices like webcams
or maybe you have a capture card,
you're going to be able to have the option to deactivate
and activate from the source toolbar,
which is super useful
because certainly for some of my capture cards
sometimes I need to refresh them by quickly deactivating
and activating them again.
The next big feature is a new noise suppression filter,
which I did actually talk about in my last video
but it's called RNNoise
and it's going to be super useful for you
if you have a noisy background for your line streams.
Now, OBS Studio did previously have
a noise suppression filter built in,
but this new one called RNNoise
is an AI based noise suppression method
with significantly better results for voice
than the preexisting method,
which is also still available
and it's under the options speaks.
RNNoise has been built to be small and fast
with no expensive GPUs required
like you see with the NVIDIA broadcast,
which I've covered in this channel
it runs really easily actually, even on a raspberry pie.
Now, I covered comparisons
when I did my NVIDIA broadcast video
so I'll include those now here
so you can hear the differences
between old OBS Studio speaks noise suppression
the new RNNoise and then also I'll throw in
the NVIDIA broadcast and noise suppression too.
So first of all, this is how it sounds
when I am typing with no noise reduction,
no noise removal anywhere.
This is me speaking, whilst typing with OBS Studios,
noise suppression filter the speek setting,
this is me speaking and typing with the new RNNoise
suppression filter in OBS Studio
and finally, this is me speaking
with the NVIDIA broadcast noise reduction.
Next up we have virtual camera,
which is a feature that used to be included as a plugin
which you could optionally install into OBS Studio.
They've cleaned up, got rid of some bugs
and now included it in the official version 26
of OBS Studio.
So, what virtual camera allows you to do
is it allows you to use the OBS Studio output
as a camera in other applications on your computer.
So this really is super useful you want
to impress your friends or colleagues in a Zoom call
with some sleek production
using your OBS Scenes, Sources and transitions.
It also allows you of course,
to add some filters to your camera,
which other software like Zoom
probably doesn't allow you to do.
A couple of caveats is that it is for video only
so you still will need to go into Zoom
or Discord or wherever you're using the virtual camera
and make sure you add your microphone
as the audio source.
Also right now, it is windows only,
although they are working on the Mac and Linux versions too.
Now those in my opinion are the biggest
three features of OBS version 26,
but there's certainly quite a few other changes
that they've made, which we'll rattle through now
they've added the ability to take screenshots
of the previous sources or scenes with hot key
something that hasn't existed in OBS Studio since release.
They've added sRGB color support
although they've changed it back to default to 709
rather than sRGB,
because of apparently some incompatibilities with YouTube,
this is a more accurate color representation
if you wish to use it.
They've made some changes to projector
where you can now right click
and make sure a specific projector
always stays on top of all of the windows.
Also projectors associated with specific monitors
will now be deleted when the monitor
is disconnected from your PC.
They made some changes to the cursor
when editing items in the preview,
just to make it a bit more clear exactly what you are doing
so dragging edges or moving sources around
or things like that.
They made some big changes to the transition interface
just to make it a bit more clear exactly what you're doing
or if you're wanting to add a new type of transition,
they have increased the update rates of the level meters
in the audio mixer from 30 Hertz,
which they were previously to now 60 Hertz
so you should now see an improved smoothness
and responsiveness of your audio meters.
If you make use of the auto configuration wizard,
which runs when you first install OBS Studio,
it will now suggest just standard resolutions like 1080P
or seven 720P when selecting the resolution
you'd like to use.
For those of you that use OBS Studio for recording
you can now add slashes in the recording name format
to automatically create directories when recording
or making replays
this is super useful if you want to do something
like organize all of your replays
or all of your VODs by day,
you can create folders based on the date
and then all your replays go in those folders automatically.
For those of you that use LUTs for your cameras,
they've improved performance and accuracy
of using the LUT filter
and of course, if you have not yet downloaded my LUT pack
of 33 cinematic LUT for OBS Studio to use on your cameras,
I'll make sure I'll include a link to that down
in the description, as well as the video card above.
If you make use of the vlc playlist source,
you can now rearrange the order of the videos inside
by just dragging and dropping items,
rather than needing to click the little up and down arrows.
They finally made the change to update the default audio
sample rate to 48 kilohertz instead of 44.1 kilohertz,
which should help with the mass amount of people
that have stuttering microphones and things like that.
Along with all of these new features we've discussed,
they have fixed a whole bunch of different bugs
as always wanting to try and make OBS Studio
as stable as possible for all of the people
that are using it for their live streams.
Let me know down in the comments,
what your favorite feature is of the new version
of OBS Studio.
I think for me, it's either the source toolbar
or the new RNNoise suppression filter,
the noise suppression filter is just so useful,
especially for all of you that aren't using
NVIDIA broadcast maybe 'cause you don't have
one of the latest versions of NVIDIA cards.
So it's really great to have a low weight version
of noise suppression available for you in OBS Studio.
If you love talking about OBS Studio and streaming
and growing your channel and all of those kinds of things,
I'd heavily recommend joining the gaming careers,
discord set, where we have thousands of members,
content creators and streamers
talking about all these kinds of things
I'll leave a link to that down in the description below.
A massive thank you as always to the OBS team
who continues to work and develop OBS Studio,
give you all of these features for free
it really is an amazing tool
that so many streamers are using today.
If you haven't yet checked out my interview with Jim,
who is the founder and lead developer on OBS Studio,
it was one of the early episodes of my podcast,
which I'll also leave linked down in the description below
and I'll catch you guys in the next video, peace.
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