if you're looking to upgrade your stream and add a huge amount of production value
without putting any effort in well then you're going to love instant replays
this video is going to show you guys how with one click of a button you're able to not only
save but play back those amazing victories or hilarious veils all while live and i have a
bonus tip at the end about how you can use all of those instant replays to build your
social media and start making a stream more discoverable yeah it's a big video let's go
hey i'm Eljay with streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at twitch.tv
ljam underscore there are links to both those in the description if you want to check me out while
live or any of our guides over at streamscheme.com today i'm going to be showing you guys how to set
up instant replays but we're going to be taking it a step further i'm going to show you guys
how to add effects to your replays so they can be black and white for fails they can be
slow motion or you can add effects such as our free vhs overlay that shows an instant replay
that you can download from our discord entirely for free this free little effect actually also
matches our glitch aesthetic overlay as well as our glitch stingers so if you want to guys those
are also in the discord and you can download those easily now if you're an obs user and you want to
add instant replays you're going to have to go check out the video linked in the description
it takes you to gaming careers he has a fantastic tutorial on it this video is gonna be focusing on
streamlabs obs and the effects that you can add to them i also got the idea to make and include the
vhs overlay from gaming careers so full credit to him as i said check him out he's fantastic
there's so much stuff in the description including time codes feel free to skip ahead to whatever
section you want but if you do miss a step in this video you're probably going to get lost so let's
finally get into it the very first step to this entire video is enabling instant replays if you
haven't already to do this you're going to go to your settings select output and then select replay
buffer you'll want to click enable replay buffer if you haven't already and then set your maximum
replay time now your default replay time might be different to what i have set currently on screen
and that is totally fine the important thing to remember is the longer the replay time you set
here the more resource intensive it is going to be meaning if you make it too long it might cause you
to lag and every time you save a replay you'll be saving the clip to your pc so it takes up
space i have my replay buffer set to five seconds because it isn't resource intensive and i'm mainly
using it to clip deaths and fails which often don't take longer than five seconds to happen
but there are really good reasons to have longer clips which i will explain at the end of the video
when i show you how to grow your socials using this tool but remember this tool is an instant
replay meaning you're supposed to hit the button and watch the replay back if it's 20 30 seconds
that's a long clip to be watching back live on stream unless a lot happened in the past
20 seconds this time limit is called a buffer and the reason it's called that is because if
you set it to 20 seconds you're buffering the past 20 seconds of your stream and when you hit
a trigger you're gonna save that past 20 seconds now this doesn't mean streamlabs has automatically
started recording your buffer no there is another step you have to do when you go live you either
have to trigger it manually by clicking this button here or you can set it up in your settings
where it will start automatically when you start streaming to do this which i really recommend you
do you're going to want to go to your settings click general and then check the automatically
start replay buffer when streaming this means when you go live as i said you don't have to trigger
the replay button to start automatically with all that checked it means that when you hit that go
live button streamlabs is going to start buffering whatever your timeline was be it 5 or 20 seconds
and now we just need to find a way to trigger it and play it back on stream so to do that
we're going to do is we're going to add an instant replay widget to the scene we choose to use it in
for example i'm going to be wanting to play back inside my game scene where i'm playing games i'm
going to hit the plus in the source list i'm going to select the instant replay widget any scene that
you want to use your replay in will need to have this widget added and then you're going to need to
position it in the source list properly personally i add the widget to the top so it covers
everything when i activate it i'd rather see the playback of myself dying or winning rather than
see my current webcam above it but if you want to you can place the widget underneath your webcam so
that you're constantly just playing your live feed now there are some really fancy ways you can add
instant replays that i'm going to be covering at the end of this video but this is the most
basic way to add it now we just need to trigger a way to capture the buffer and then to actually
activate the replay we're going to be doing this with hotkeys now there are two hotkeys or three
depending on how you want to do it that you need to set up the first is the trigger hotkey which is
what you're going to press to actually save the replay now if we go into stream labs and we go
to our settings if we go to hotkeys we can find the save replay section at the top i'm going to
hotkey mine to mouse 4 but i recommend hotkeying this to a button you don't use for anything else
and is close by so you can quickly hit it remember you're only buffering whatever you set your time
limit to at the start of this video because i set mine to 5 seconds it means that i can only capture
the last five seconds when i hit my trigger that i just set up five seconds isn't that long so
every second i take to get my hand over and press that hotkey means that i'm losing a second from my
buffer now the next hotkey you want to add is just designed to reveal the instant replay source that
you added to your source list earlier if you've added it properly all you have to do is go to your
hotkeys once you're in your hotkeys section you're able to go to the scene you added the replay to
for example my game scene and you want to find show instant replay and hide instant replay
you'll hotkey these to a button you don't use for anything else for example numpad subtract is what
i'm going to use and when you press that button it will either turn on the source or turn off the
source depending on what it was set to you'll want to set your instant replay source to be hidden
to start with so you can reveal it later once you clip something obviously if you have a stream deck
or stream deck alternative you can just set up a button that is very easy to press and reveal that
source but if you have a stream deck you know how to do that so don't worry and that is your entire
instant replay setup in the most basic form now we want to test it before we go live obviously
so if we get our camera turned on and we open up a game and we look down here in the bottom right
we can click this little button that turns on the replay buffer move around a little bit wave
or make your character jump around or fire some shots and then quickly press the save replay
hotkey that you set up earlier now you can press your hotkey to turn the instant replay source on
and if it's all set up correctly you're going to be able to see your instant replay on your stream
it is super important to remember that your instant replay will only play back the last clip
you saved meaning that every time you press that button you're going to be overriding whatever will
play back in that source but that doesn't mean you've lost every clip in fact it's the opposite
every time you hit that button to save your buffer it'll actually save to your pc that clip i'm going
to show you how you can take all those clips and in under 10 minutes turn it into a highlight reel
for your social media at the end of this video so stay tuned but before i show you guys that
let's take out instant replays a step further and make them even more unique which is ironic because
now everyone watching this is going to just make them like this and they're going to be less unique
straight out the gate let's right-click our replay source and look at our properties inside here we
have a few settings that i want to show you the first is the loop setting if this is turned off
then once your replay is finished it will vanish revealing your normal scene note you'll need to
still press the hide source hotkey again before next time or else it won't work if your loop is
turned on though it will keep looping the instant replay until you press the hide source hotkey that
you set up next we have our speed setting now this will either speed up or slow down your playback
depending on what you choose i've set my speed to 50 meaning my 5 second clip goes for 10 seconds
and we can react to it in a sort of slow motion style now if you close your properties and right
click your source you can click filters now you can add filters and add a color correction filter
for example i've then adjusted my saturation to be -1 making my instant replay come back
as black and white let's hit save on our color correction and now when you click playback for
your instant replay it'll be black and white slow motion footage which is great for playing back
fails and deaths you can take this a step further though and set up two different instant replay
effects or even more than that for example we can have this black and white slow motion for
fails but then we want full color for victories to do this let's start fresh remove the filters from
your instant replay and delete it from your game scenes i want you to make a new scene and we're
gonna name it fail replays add your instant replay to that scene right click the scene
filters add your filter to the scene instead of the instant replay source
import this scene as a source now since this is a different source to our instant replay i need you
to go back into your hotkeys and set a new one to activate it on and off as shown earlier you'll be
able to find it though because you named it fail replays and it will appear in your scene source
list under hotkeys now let's follow the exact same steps create a new scene and name it normal
replays but don't add the filters to the scene we can hotkey that to a different button once
we've imported it and now we can watch replays in color or black and white depending on what hotkey
we press to add effects such as rain old-timey overlays fireworks or the little vhs replay
graphic that we gave you it is very similar to do this all you need to do is make a new scene name
it vhs graphic you'll add your vhs effect or your rain or whatever you're choosing to do to it as
well then you're going to import the entire scene into your game scene as we've shown and of course
you'll set up your hotkey to reveal the scene as i showed earlier if you want to deep dive into
using this effect for example i actually have it in another video i'll have it linked at the top of
the description but with all that done you should be able to turn all of this on and off and make
a very unique instant replay depending on what you're going for here is the extra added bonus tip
as i said every single time you hit that button to save your buffer you're actually saving that clip
directly to your computer this is fantastic for a lot of different reasons if i downloaded my twitch
clips for example it is going to be a compressed file from twitch and all of the audio is going to
be squished into one track meaning i can't remove music or i can't remove anything at all which i've
worked hard to separate all of my sources so when they all get smooshed together it is a pain for
editing but as i said by hitting that instant replay it is saving an uncompressed clip with
all of the audio tracks meaning i can pass that off to an editor and he can work with it without
any trouble and the clips that you save won't have any of the black and white slow motion or anything
like that as well they will be the raw original instant replays before you added all the filters
which means the editors can work well on them and they can do whatever they want but you might not
have an editor or you might not have any editing practice and this is where the next step comes in
once you've finished your stream and you've done a bunch of saving don't close streamlabs obs yet
go up to the top left and i want you to click on the highlighter button this is a brand new
tool that's only been out of the streamlabs obs very recently and if you look it'll start
loading up every instant replay you took that stream if you want you can also upload your
own clips from your computer as well meaning you can upload title cards graphics or just generally
clips from other streams this is a quick fire editing program for creating compilations that is
built into streamlabs obs and is entirely free obviously this won't replace real editing and it
isn't overly fancy but for someone just starting out if someone won't be able to post content on
different platforms or just generally get a little bit of a highlight for their community this is
amazing once it's loaded up all your clips you can actually do so much with it for example you
can drag clips around to change the order they're going to appear in you can trim them down to show
only the best parts and get rid of the fat you can change the transition type to whatever you want or
upload background music and play with the volume once you have it in a way that feels good you can
actually hit preview and it will show you a low res version without having to export or render
anything after looking at the preview you can make any changes you want and then you hit export
you can pick where it exports change the name change the resolution change the frame rate
and then that's pretty much it you've got it you have a whole compilation
exported in under 10 minutes you can take this highlight reel upload it to youtube upload it to
twitter upload it to wherever you want and while it might not be vsco and it might not be amazing
at the end of the day it is extra content meaning more discoverability
i absolutely love this but the most important thing that everyone's forgetting is the 100 code
word i want to comment bam down in the comments down below and let me know you watched it entirely
for 100 crew badge i will see you guys next week i hope this video helped you out goodbye