- Steamlabs OBS now has studio mode.
I'm gonna tell you why you need
to switch from OBS to Streamlabs' OBS
and we're starting right now.
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I am really excited about this.
I can't wait to show you what's under the hood
with Streamlabs OBS.
Let's head to the computer
and I'll show you right now.
First thing that I'm going to do here,
is I'm gonna connect it to my YouTube channel
because we're here on YouTube.
Of course, you can go to Twitch
or something else if you like.
To do this, all you have to do is log into your account
and the reason for this
is because when you get subscriber alerts
and things like that,
this allows them to let that stuff pop up on your screen.
Once you make the switch from OBS to Streamlabs OBS,
of course it's going to ask you to pull in your streams.
This is part of the actual set-up.
It's just a little wizard that's gonna walk you through.
All you have to do is pick the actual scene
that you want to import.
In this case, I'm just going to pick
my normal, untitled one.
I'm gonna click import from OBS.
Once it imports from the scene,
it's going to give you the dialogue
to let you know that it has
successfully imported your scene.
Then you click continue.
Now here is where this starts getting cool already.
Basically you have your alert box,
event list, the jar as you can see here.
These are basically the add-ons to your stream.
So it doesn't matter what type
of streaming you're doing,
all of this stuff can be really, really cool.
So, as an example, one thing I really like to use,
if you watch my live streams,
I like to use the alert box.
And what this does, this basically shows up on my screen
anytime I have a new subscriber while I'm live.
So let's say that I'm streaming
and somebody comes into the stream,
they subscribe to the channel,
this gives me a chance to say,
"Oh hey, such and such, just subscribed,"
and actually give them a shout out,
welcoming them to the stream,
which is pretty awesome.
So I'm gonna add this widget
and then other ones, I'll do a deeper walk through
on these in another video
but for this one, I'm just gonna go ahead and start
with the alert box just to give you the example.
So as you can see right here,
this imported the scene for me.
Now, what's really cool about this
is if you go over the scenes, it's already in there
and you can switch around just like you would
inside of OBS.
Now, what's really cool about StreamLabs OBS
is that it is not very labor intensive
on your computer,
which is really, really cool
because I'm not sure exactly what the technology is behind,
in terms of what they've done to speed it up,
but this doesn't do anything to my computer
in comparison to what OBS does.
OBS is a lot more taxing, so to speak,
on my computer.
This one, it's just like butter.
So what I wanted to show you in terms of the news
with Streamlabs OBS is, if you go up here to the top,
before they didn't have this studio mode here,
but now they've introduced studio mode,
so just like in OBS,
you can basically have your set-up scene over here
and then you can transition it over,
just like you would in OBS normally.
This was a missing feature
but this, for me, is what completed the pie.
So I've switched to this in my home studio.
We've switched to it in the live studio as well
and we are absolutely loving it so far.
But let me give you a little tour here
and show you what Streamlabs OBS is all about.
So right out of the gate,
you can see right here all over the screen,
it's set up just like OBS
so you're already familiar with how to actually use it.
If you go into the actual settings,
all of this, the same,
you're already familiar with how to use this
because it's all mirrored exactly on OBS
with the addition of a handful of things.
In addition to that,
you need to have your hot keys and all that,
so if you wanted to set up
some kind of external controller you could
or I have another video about this remote control option.
I'll actually put a link to it
at the top of the screen right now
that you should go check out because, basically,
with this remote control option
that's integrated with Streamlabs OBS,
you don't have to have an external switcher anymore.
You don't have to spend the money on that.
You can just do it right from your phone
which is absolutely incredible.
So what I mean by a switcher is,
instead of you having to actually click on this stuff,
you can just trigger it from your phone
but I'll put a link to it at the top of the screen
like I mentioned and down in the description,
so make sure that you watch that video as well.
And it gives you the walk through
on how to actually set that up
so that you can pair it with your Streamlabs OBS
to really make the whole thing awesome
for you and your viewers.
Now in addition to them having the studio mode now,
here's some things that OBS doesn't offer.
Like me, I have a graphic design background,
so I have the ability to create stuff
that looks like kind of cool for my streams.
Most people don't.
And because of that,
if you click on this themes button up here,
what you're gonna see
is an entire catalog of all of these different layouts
and all of these different scenes that you can use
to make your live streams look awesome.
It doesn't matter if you're doing gaming videos,
it doesn't matter if you're doing professional style videos
or whatever, like having the stream starting soon option
by itself is fantastic,
so while you're getting all your tech ready,
you can use that.
Having the be right back option is also fantastic,
so that in the event you have to step away from the computer
for a second or something like that,
it still has you covered.
One thing I want to show you here is,
if you look at the animations, right?
If you were to create something like this yourself,
you'd have to go find the video files,
you'd have to put the text together,
you'd have to get the whole look together,
build the whole brand around everything you're creating.
With the themes that they offer,
all this stuff is done for you.
All you have to do is click whatever it is that you want
and click the style that you want
and then, bam, you have, like,
a professional-looking live stream set-up.
Now, if you're not a gamer
and this gaming background isn't something that you want,
not a big deal.
You can change this to your display.
You can change this to something like,
let's say that you do webinars
and you do live trainings on YouTube,
or anything like that,
or any other type of live stream,
reaction videos, anything,
then you can change this background
to video files or presentations,
to whatever it is you want to change it to.
Now, here's something else that's really cool.
Let's say that I click on this dashboard tab.
If you are a channel, if you have a channel
that you are under the 4,000 hours of watched time,
and the 1,000 subscriber milestones
that allows you to monetize your channel
when you're live streaming,
through Streamlabs OBS, you're able to do that
inside of Streamlabs OBS to where
you can take PayPal or credit card
from your viewers directly.
So this is also a way you can actually make money
from live streaming on YouTube or Twitch or anywhere else
that you happen to live stream where you can integrate this.
And it's super easy.
All you have to do is you go into your donation section
and then you take this link
and you add this to your descriptions,
and then anybody that clicks on this will be taken to a page
where they can give you a donation.
So if you have not installed Streamlabs OBS yet
because they didn't have this studio mode feature,
now they have it.
And now it's a complete package,
in terms of, if you're an OBS user
but you want your computer to run smoother,
you need to install Streamlabs right now.
If you are somebody that wants to take your live streams,
as far as how they look, up a level,
in terms of all the different themes
and things like that they have,
you need to install Streamlabs right now.
Because, just like OBS, they have
all the different scene stuff you can do
and then they have all these additional things.
Let me show you one of these widgets in action actually.
I'm gonna go to my sources here
and I'm gonna click on a new source
and here I'm going to add the alert box.
Okay.
So I have the alert box added to this particular scene,
and I'm just gonna hit add existing source,
and what you're gonna see up here,
is you're gonna see basically where the alert would be
and you can also see,
like if you move this stuff around,
you can see that they give you the dimensions
where you can center things up real easy,
and you can move them around
to where you can scale the stuff around
as much as you want to really.
But here's what I want to show you,
is here, down here in the bottom,
I can click on test widgets
and you just click on the subscriber
and then you're gonna see here,
it's gonna pop up
and then it's going to show you exactly
where it's going to be.
So in this case, if you added this to your streams,
even if you had a live stream
to where you're just showing just this and nothing else,
but you have this,
this gives the people that are subscribing to your channel,
while you're streaming, a chance to be highlighted
and it brings it to your attention
so you can actually give them a shout out,
welcome them to the stream, welcome them to your channel,
and all that.
All the way around, Streamlabs OBS
is absolutely just phenomenal
and I highly recommend that you install it right now.
I put a link down in the description for that
and remember also I'll have that link
down in the description to go check out the video
that I did on the Streamlabs remote as well.
You're really gonna love that.
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