Welcome to another live streaming tutorial in this video, I'm going to
show you how to go ahead and add a countdown timer and Streamlabs OBS.
So you can start to incorporate this into your stream and make sure you stick around
to the end where I show you some pretty cool things you can do with this timer.
So let's go ahead and get started.
all right.
So once you are in and have Streamlabs open, the very first thing you want
to do is you want to make sure that you have the scene where you're
going to want the countdown timer.
Selected once you have a selected, you're going to want to come under sources and
you're going to want to hit the plus icon.
We're going to go ahead and add a text source.
So you select text, add source, and then we'll go ahead and label this timer.
Okay.
You'll add source.
And then what we want to do is you're going to hit done.
That's going to be the first step.
The next step is that you want to go into the description of this video and there's
going to be a link for you to be able to download the, my stream timer app.
It's going to bring you to a window like.
And then what you're gonna want to do is you're going to want to
press download and install the app.
And then once you have the app installed, we want to go ahead and open it up.
And we're going to, it's going to look like this, right?
You're going to be brought to a window just like this.
And then what you want to do is you want to select the time that you're gonna want
the timer to count down from I'll leave it at five minutes, the output you want
to leave it at custom, the custom output.
You want to leave it at our minutes and seconds.
I'm going to show you here a little hack of how you can just
showcase minutes and seconds without having to upgrade to a pro plan.
And then as far as the finished.
You want to select the text that you want to appear?
Once the timer goes down for this, I've put, we are live.
And then you'll see the file name, which has countdown, timer dot text.
You can set this to be auto start to beep as zero.
I'm going to turn this off and then you simply want to go ahead and hit start.
Right?
So what we want to do now is you're going to hit start.
Now you can go ahead and minimize this.
And what we want to do is we want to come back to Streamlabs and select.
We'll double click on it and we'll select the read from file you'll select browse.
And you'll go to the location where it told you, you want
to select countdown timer.
You're going to select open.
And you're going to see here that the countdown timer is now visible.
Now, what we want to do is you want to customize it a bit and you see how it's
slightly blurry to be able to fix that.
We want to maximize the size that we have here to the full potential at 200.
Then as far as the font, I personally like to use impact.
Cause I like the way it looks bold.
And then what we can do is that we can scroll down and start to add
certain colors and styles to it.
Right.
So we want to go ahead and take the color.
I'm going to make this a read and then I'll hit done, but
I don't like it like that.
So what I like to do is I like to go ahead and add a.
But again, you can go ahead and add any style that you like.
I like to go ahead and add an outline.
And then what we want to do is you want to hit done.
Now, what you want to do is you want to place this where you want
the timer to live, but Curry, I don't want the hours to show, well,
this is where I was telling you.
I'm going to show you guys a little hack to be able to avoid
having to pay for a pro plan.
So what you want to do is on your keyboard.
You want to go ahead and hit the alt key.
You want to hold it, then you want to drag it and you want to.
The hours off and now you're just going to have the.
And the seconds, right?
So this is how you're going to handle utilize the countdown timer.
Now, me personally, I prefer to utilize a countdown timer
that's together with an overlay.
So what I mean is that it would be something like this, where
it's an actual overlay that has a countdown timer incorporated into it.
So if you're looking for an overlay with a countdown time, You can go
into the description of this video.
You can select on stream designs.com, where I've created several
countdown, timer templates that you can go ahead and purchase.
But if you want to know how to go ahead and create a count up timer inside of
Streamlabs go ahead and watch this video right here, where I show you how to go
ahead and use a count up timer, to be able to incorporate that into your stream.
I'll see you in the next video.