Today’s OBS Studio course episode, we’re doing another discussion style video.
Let’s talk about some of the ways you can set up a more dynamic live stream that engages
the audience a bit more than the typical gameplay and webcam setup.
This is going to be pretty hypothetical and require some creative thinking on your part
in order for you to get the most out of it.
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I’m EposVox, here to make tech easier and more fun, and welcome back to my OBS Studio
tutorial course.
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Setting up a facecam overtop your gameplay footage is a great start to connecting with
your audience and making a great-looking live stream.
But it doesn’t have to stop there; a basic facecam cam is just the beginning of what
you can do.
We’re mainly going to talk about some realistic ideas, and I will show you some of what I
have implemented.
Those who are super MLG pro at a specific game - first person shooters, RTS games, and
so on - implementing a keyboard cam, mousecam, or controller cam might be a great idea.
This is super easy to set up - just an extra camera mounted and pointed at your controlling
device.
This can be a webcam via USB or a camcorder or DSLR with an HDMI feed running to a capture
card.
And yes, you can use multiple capture cards in one system with OBS Studio.
You can use a LOT.
This is how professional broadcasts work.
Not only that, but you can get some capture cards with multiple inputs.
Let that sink in if you’ve seen that as a roadblock previously.
If you have multiple computer monitors and use them for a specific workflow, you can
add them all to OBS and use a keypad with macros or an automatic scene switcher to switch
between them.
Or you can go a step further and add webcams on top of each so that you always have a facecam
ready.
Side-cams are pretty obnoxious, IMO.
My live streaming setup has 3 different cameras: My main webcam mounted on my primary monitor
(which is the Logitech BRIO 4K running at 1080p60), the Logitech C922 mounted on my
side monitor where I keep my Premiere Pro panels for editing live streams, and then
I have a camera on a tripod behind my third screen over on the left.
I usually use this for my console gaming live streams and the camcorder feeds it video via
HDMI to another capture card.
Easy to set up and makes the live streaming experience a lot more dynamic and interesting
to the viewer.
If you’re not super picky about privacy and have an interesting setup, you can mount
another camera - such as a wireless security camera streaming over the network, or just
a webcam with a really long USB cable ran - on a wide angle further back from your setup
to show off during your “be right back” scenes.
Add a little blur and text overtop and you have a much more interesting scene than just
a “BRB” slide.
And viewers get to see behind the scenes, which helps make them feel more involved.
You can utilize complex layout graphics or websites like TippeeeStream to make a more
visually-appealing stream with extra layouts, graphics, Twitch Chat overlaid, views side-by-side,
and so on.
You can have multiple people streaming in one location, too!
Run both game systems or PCs into capture cards to the streaming machine, set up facecams
for both people, and switch between the scenes.
Think about how major eSports events are set up and scale that down to your needs.
You can set up an audio mixer to feed in audio from multiple sources - such as multiple mics,
your game system, a secondary computer for music playback, and so on.
See my audio setup if you want an example.
Some people even have separate game feeds for when they’re in-between matches of their
main game.
For example, switching to a view of a mobile phone game they’re playing while waiting
for lobbies to load and switch in a multiplayer competitive game or something.
These are just a few ideas towards the unlimited possibilities you can achieve with scenes
and interactivity in OBS Studio.
You just have to be creative and have patience, and whatever ideas you have can be achievable.
I hope this episode of my OBS Studio tutorial course has been helpful for you.
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Until next time, I’m EposVox, Happy Streaming!
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