What's up guys, welcome to another video
from the Gaming Careers YouTube channel.
My name's Pete and today we're going to
be talking about how you can add stream
labels into your OBS studio stream.
So stream labels are text files which
basically allow you to display things
like your top donator of the day or the
week or even of all time or things like
sub trains or follower trains any of
those kind of elements that you want to
include into your stream, that's what we're
going to be covering today.
Now if anybody's been following the Gaming
Careers channel for a little while, you
might think this sounds quite similar to
the last video that we did, which was
on Alerts. But the difference between
alerts and labels are; alerts are
real-time events that sort of flash up on
your stream and disappear within
10 seconds or something so getting
a new subscriber or a donation. Whereas
labels, these are more long term events
something that might appear on your
stream consistently like your most
recent follower and it'll always show your
most recent follower until somebody new
follows and the most recent follow
will then update. Or your top donator of
the day, week or month like I said
earlier. Now the stream labels
application is actually a program that
you download to your computer, unlike the
alerts that we use last week. But similarly,
it is also made by the people over at
streamlabs previously known as twitch
alerts but they've obviously rebranded
to streamlabs now. So what we're going
to be covering in this video is where to
get the application from, how to download
and install it, then how to customize the
actual messages that get printed to the
text files and then we're going to be
covering how you add that into OBS
studio and then you can customize the
look and feel of the text so it looks
great on your stream. So let's jump in!
So the first thing we need to do is to head
over to the streamlabs website which is
where we're going to be downloading the
software from, so that streamlabs.com
and you'll need to login with your
Twitch or your YouTube account and if this is
the first time that you've used streamlabs
you'll have to authenticate the
account with Twitch but that's pretty simple
to do. So once we're at the dashboard we
want to be scrolling down the left-hand
side looking for the stream labels tab
and click that and then we've got the
options to download for Windows or Mac
OS X and there is a Linux version in the
works, so hopefully that will be out soon
as well. Click to download for the
correct operating system and save the
file wherever you'd like. It's worth
mentioning here that stream labels used
to be a Chrome Web Store app but since
Google Chrome are going to be removing
all of the apps in 2017 I guess because
the platform didn't really take off like
they wanted it to, streamlabs have
decided to make their stream labels
software downloadable instead. Once the
files finish downloading, you can open
it up and it should just take a couple
of seconds and a couple of clicks to
install and then you'll be met with a
new stream labels window where you can
again log in with Twitch or YouTube so
select the option that you wish to and
log into the software. Once you've logged
in you'll be greeted with a message
welcoming you to the platform and also
the option to choose an output directory,
now this is going to be the directory
where all of the text files are going to
be saved to so it's worth creating a new
folder maybe on your desktop or if you
have a separate part of your computer
where you keep all of your streaming
stuff, whack it in there, create a new
folder and all of the text files will be
auto-generated. Next you'll see the
stream labels dashboard which is
basically just a long list of all the
events that have happened to people on
your stream, so followers or subscribers,
donations, this is very similar to what
you see on the streamlabs website and
it's just it's a useful window to have
open if you have a second monitor whilst
you're streaming because you're going to
be able to see all the events related to
your stream so you can welcome new
followers or thank new donators.
The next thing we're going to want to do is click
up on the file settings button and this
is going to open up a window showing all
the different text files that you can
generate using the stream labels
software. So you've got things all about
top donators or top donators of the
month, as you can see subscriber things,
follower things, loads and loads of
different information that you can show
using OBS studio. We're just going to
select one at random here, let's take
most recent follower and you'll see that
we're presented with a new window where
we can customize exactly how that looks
in the text file so we can change the
text and we get to use this name token
which is going to be the name of the
person that has recently followed you.
Let's say you wanted to have some
different text rather than 'recent
follower' let's say 'welcome to the family',
and then their name you just change the
text here and you can see it in the preview
at the bottom exactly what that will
look like. Once you're happy you can
click save settings and then you can go
around and play with all the different
types of notifications that you can get
and change the text so it appears
exactly as you want it to on your stream
for your viewers.
Now that we've got stream labels set up and it's also
generating these text files we need to
now add those text files into OBS studio
so that they appear on your stream.
So let's open up OBS studio. Now in OBS we
want to select the scene that we want
these sources to appear in so select it
on the left hand side and then go across
to the sources box, click the plus button
and then click 'Text GDI'.
Name it something easy to remember, because if
you're going to be adding a few of these
different labels you don't want to be getting
mixed up as to which one is which so
let's do the recent follower and we're
just going to name it recent follower.
Now we can play around with the font and
color and size in just a second but
first things first, let's get OBS
actually reading the file so if you
select the checkbox next to read from
file and then click browse and navigate
to the folder that you set up earlier. Then
you'll want to find the text file that
corresponds to the thing that you're
wanting to add in, so for us that was
recent follower, we find here, select it
and press open. Now that we can see it's
reading the file correctly, let's press
select font to customize the font that
we're using, and also to change the size.
Now like I said in a number of different
videos on OBS, you want to be changing
the font size here rather than later on
when you get the red box around your text
and dragging it, because that will create
jagged edges, it doesn't scale the text
properly if you drag the corners. So you
want to always be coming back into the
font properties and adjusting the font
size here if you need it larger or
smaller. Next we can change things like
the font color or gradient if you want
more than one color. As well as the
background color and opacity of both the
text and the background. Finally we can
change the alignment, if you want to but
for me I'm just going to leave these
options as they are and press Ok. Now if
we look at the top left of our OBS
preview window we can see the red box
maybe with some text in the middle if
we've already got a recent follower and
we can now drag that around to wherever
we want to position it within our stream.
As always make sure that you're looking
down at the sources window and making
sure that this text is above any
gameplay or webcams or overlays that you
want the text to appear above. Now all we
need to do is repeat that same process
for any other labels that we want to add
to our stream and one thing that's
really worth mentioning is that you need
to have stream labels open and running
whenever you're streaming and you want
these labels to appear. Because the
software actually needs to be running to
generate the updates to these text files
so if you don't have it running it's not
going to update the text files and
therefore they're just going to have the
most recent follower from when you last
had the program running. Another quick
tip is in the stream labels software, you
can see you have this restart session
button at the top. A lot of the text
files that you can generate are based
around streaming sessions, so if you want to
see the top donator of the day or of the
streaming session then you can actually
click here to restart the session let's
say if you're streaming multiple times
in a day. So if you want the biggest
donator of this stream you might need to
restart the session if you haven't
restarted the software. The stream labels
software also allows you to repeat any
alerts that didn't show properly on your
stream for whatever reason as well as
skip certain alerts let's say you notice
that somebody's abusing the
text-to-speech bot or something like
that you can then use this software to
skip the alerts, so if you haven't yet
checked out my other video that I
previously did on how to add alerts like
follower alerts, donation alerts and
subscriber alerts, then this software also
helps manage that kind of stuff
whilst you are streaming.
Hopefully you found this video helpful and you have a great
looking stream now with some labels
included. Let me know down in the
comments below which label you guys are
using the most often, so there's huge
list of the different types of text
files you can generate, I'd be really
interested to know which ones you guys
are using for your streams. As always if
you've enjoyed the video please do give
it a thumbs up and subscribers,
I'll see you in the next video. Peace!