hello and welcome i'm machine dana in this video i'm going to show you how you can install
obs studio plugins that's it that's the video this is just a straightforward how-to
video should take a few minutes at the most and then that's it you'll be you'll be left
with the knowledge for life on how to install a plugin for obs studios if you find it useful
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okay just talking very quickly about the ergonomics of my screen right now all i've got
here is the obs studio which is open broadcast software obsproject.com i'll link it in the
description you can go to the browser here and basically browse around on the different plugins
obs studio plugins themes tools all kinds of different stuff like that we're interested
in obs studio plugins and i've located a plugin that i want to install on obs studio
okay so we'll just bear that in mind for now this is one called stream fx it's a really good
plug-in i would highly recommend it way it's going to our program files here on windows
the default installation of obs studios unless you've chosen to change it to a different drive
in which case i'm not going to hunt on your drive you need to hunt for it you you need to find
obs studios the folder okay now we just need to be careful here because you may have two program
files folders and you may have something like an obs studio ftl if you've got this and it looks
like that it's basically the wrong one you need to go into the program files one find obs studios
it should look a little bit like this you should have bin data obs plugins and if you're really
not enjoying obs studio you've got the uninstall file as well you've got the right location in our
program files now we need to go to the downloads we've not downloaded it yet just need to be
careful here because this is the github sort of source code url you're interested in reading code
and understanding the inner workings of plugins you can click on this link and
and bob's your uncle and fanny's around and you can read all the ins and outs of the code and
way whatever if you want to be a nerd you can be a nerd okay go nerd out check discord on twitter
out of streamfx we're interested in just the downloads yeah so we're gonna download this this
is a download some change information here we get different versions as well so a certain plugins
it might suit you to have like an earlier version depending on certain factors things like that this
is all stuff that you learn on the forums okay like you don't just know this stuff you learn
it you learn it on youtube okay people like me but better with installations it's basically up to the
developer on how they serve up the installation files to you and that installation process so you
may find that some plugins are a little bit more easier to install than others for example this is
an advanced scene switcher plugin for obs studio if i click go to download it will just i think
download the zip file with the installation and i'll show you how we can install this
whereas for stream fx when we click go to download it takes us to the github page and actually we've
got a load of different asset files that we can work with here and it's the dot exe that we want
to be working with here but i've only established that after reading the information about this
particular install so if there is an install or a plugin that you really really want but it's like
quite a complicated installation process just make sure you follow the developers guidance
when you are installing them that's really really important because sometimes that can be the maker
or breaker of the plugin it can literally stop a plugin from working or even being compatible if
you don't install it correctly in this particular example you can install it through the zip file
and i could i'll show you that with the advanced scene switcher example but you can just with this
particular one here download it directly from the installer and it will place the files and
go through that normal installation process if i click the dot x exe i'm not going to click that
i've already got it installed the advanced scene switcher i've got now downloaded and it's just
here so it needs to be extracted i can just like you can open it up and just like i normally just
do this and then it appears here we now have the files for this but of course you want to
go into windows now got obs plugins and data as a folder and this matches the folders that we
have already installed so we're pretty much just going to copy over the files here so
let's go into data from the download obs plugins advanced scene switcher we can just get the folder
data obs plugins unless you just copy it over into obs plugins it'll ask for administration
rights continue and there it is in the data the data files are installed now we need to go to
the plugin select 64-bit if you are on a 64-bit and now we're going back to the scene switcher
on windows and into the obs studio select 64-bit or whatever you're running and you'll have some
dll files and some other files in here select all the files that are in this obs plugin folder and
drag it in to the obs plugins folder agree to administration rights the advanced scene
switcher is now installed there i've installed that manually rather than using the exe approach
if i now click this on the stream fx one the exe will just install it'll do that process for you
and it'll do all the executables and all the different things like that to make sure you're
not gonna mess it up okay so that now advanced scene switcher is installed if i was to click
this this would also be installed but this one does it automatically whereas this one we've done
manually if that makes sense hopefully that makes sense i think it does it's a bit of a
boy installing plug-ins but that really is the powerful thing about obs studio versus
using something like streamlabs obs the ease in streamlabs obs is definitely there for beginners
and maybe even like mid-level streamers that might suit them once you want to start getting to more
complicated things that need plugins obs studio is definitely something that's worth looking at
there you have it how to install plugins on obs studio see you later
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