- It's officially released,
OBS Studio version 27 is finally out,
and with it comes a whole heap of new features
for live streamers and content creators.
In this video, we're going to be going
through the seven major new features
showing you exactly what they allow you to do
and helping you set them up for your own live streams.
As always, a huge thank you
to the development team behind OBS Studio.
We're getting this amazing software
and all the updates completely for free.
So a massive thanks to them.
Let's see what they've been working on.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so the first new feature in OBS Studio version 27
is probably the most requested feature
over the past two or three years
for the development team to work on,
and that is the ability to undo actions.
It's something that Streamlabs OBS
has had for a couple of years now,
we've finally now got it in OBS Studio as well,
you can now undo and redo actions.
So this one is pretty self-explanatory really,
if you make a mistake
or change something that you didn't want to,
you can now simply hit Control + Z on your keyboard
or come up to edit and undo,
and there's also an option to redo things
by using Shift + Control + Z.
Thankfully, this doesn't just apply
to moving or resizing sources around in the preview,
you can basically undo any action that affects the preview.
So, adding or deleting sources,
adding or deleting scenes, changing audio levels,
adding or deleting filters,
essentially, any change that you can make
that affects the preview, you can now undo.
Some things aren't yet supported,
like changing a setting inside of a filter,
but over the past month or so,
the OBS has been testing it's releases,
they've been adding more and more areas
where this undo feature works.
So I wouldn't be surprised
to see filter settings being undoable
in the very near future.
In my incredibly thorough testing of this feature,
I tried to see how many steps backwards you could go
with the undo feature, and I couldn't find a limit.
But, upon looking a little bit further,
OBS did release a blog post
stating that the limit was now 5,000 actions.
So, you're going to be covered
no matter how many mistakes you make,
and how many times you need to use Control + Z.
This should help with those pixel perfect alignments
when you're trying to get your overlays exactly right
or your webcam behind your overlays perfect,
and you accidentally move a different layer.
You can now just Control + Z,
and go back to the state that you're in before.
So, should definitely help with alignment
and setting up of your scenes and sources.
Next step, we have source transitions, that's right.
Not seam transitions, but source transitions.
In OBS version 27,
you can now add a transition to each individual source
for when it shows or when it hides.
Simply right click on any source,
choose either show or hide transition,
and select which transition you want to use.
The options that you get for transitions
are the exact same as seam transition,
so you can fade, swipe, slide
and luma wipe your sources in and out as you please.
You can even now add stinger transitions
just for individual sources.
So I can't wait to see
what some people decide to do with that.
It's also worth noting,
that you can of course, set up hotkeys in OBS Studio
or use something like a Stream Deck
or an app like Touch Portal
to enable and disable individual sources,
which will now show and hide
with whatever transitions you've set them to.
Even just a simple slide transition
for showing or hiding your camera or a lens,
makes things look a lot more professional
than the previous hard cut.
If you have a Stream Deck or an app like Touch Portal,
you can even set up some time with macros or multi actions
to do things like hiding your webcam with the transition,
then changing scene with a stinger
and then revealing your webcam
in the new scene with another transition.
The third new feature,
is there is now support for NVIDIA's Noise Removal,
directly within OBS's filters.
This feature does require you
to install NVIDIA's Audio Effects SDK,
and currently it only supports Windows,
but if you have an RTX graphics card from NVIDIA,
you no longer need to be running NVIDIA Broadcast
or RTX Voice as an app,
you can simply enable this filter through OBS.
This is a super useful feature
for those of you that are streaming
in a non-ideal environment,
where you might have air conditioning
or road noise or baby crying or a dog barking,
because NVIDIA's Noise Removal
has been trained specifically on noises like that
to be able to remove them
whilst maintaining a crisp level quality for your voice.
To use it, first install the Audio Effects SDK,
then open up the filters for your microphone,
add a Noise Suppression filter,
and then select NVIDIA Noise Removal.
I'll do a quick demonstration over on the computer
to highlight the differences between the Noise Suppression
that you can now select in OBS Studio.
So you have Speex,
RN Noise and the new NVIDIA Noise Removal.
So the first thing we need to do
is create a noisy environment.
(soothing blow dryer sound) And I think we can all agree,
this wouldn't be a great listening experience
for any of your viewers.
So let's start by enabling Speex Noise Suppression.
So that's enabled now, and this is how it sounds.
(soothing blow dryer sound)
Let's move to RNNoise,
but this is RNNoise which is designed
to be better quality than Speex, but requires more CPU.
And finally, let's move to NVIDIA Noise Removal.
This is the new filter that OBS has just added in,
designed to be the highest quality
and not using any CPU, just the GPA.
So previously, in OBS Studio,
if you wanted to use a stinger transition,
you would need to use a transparent video
and have a moment in that video
where the stinger is covering the whole frame of the video,
and that's actually, when you would be telling OBS
to do the transition between the previous scene
and the current scene.
That point when your video is covering the whole frame,
OBS can then transition in the background,
so it looks like a seamless transition
between the two scenes with your stinger in between.
Now though, what a Track Matte allows you to do,
is display parts of the previous
and current scene at the same time,
so you no longer need
to have a point in your stinger transition
where something is filling the whole frame.
You're essentially using a second video,
with the colors white, black and then shades of gray
to tell OBS which scenes to display at what time.
Now, creating a stinger transition with Track Matte support,
probably warrants its own dedicated tutorial video,
but thankfully the team of a Nerd or Die
have put together a pack of five different Matte transitions
that you can download for free,
and can easily be added into OBS Studio
to start using this feature right away.
These Matte transitions also work
in your video editing software, so you can make use of them.
And for those of you that want a little more choice,
there's a pack of 20 premium Matte transitions
available through the Nerd or Die store.
I'll leave some links down in the description below
to both the free and paid versions
if you want to check them out.
So, to add a new Track Matte Stinger transition,
all you need to do is add a new transition,
select the stinger, and then locate the stinger video file
which should have the Track Matte,
either on the right side or below it.
Then simply check the Use a Track Matte option,
choose the correct layout, and you should be good to go.
You don't need to worry about the transition point anymore
like you did with old stingers,
because OBS is using that Track Matte
to know exactly which scene to display at all times.
So as you can see here, during our transition,
we can see both our previous scene
and our current scene at the same time,
all thanks to a Track Matte.
I know my previous stringer tutorial
has been super popular with you guys.
So if you want to learn the next steps
about how to create your own custom Track Matte Stingers,
let me know down in the comments below,
and I'll prioritize that as a video for you.
Okay, I think we're up to feature number five now,
they've added a missing files dialogue,
similar to those that you see in editing programs
like Premiere Pro,
where you can locate the media that is missing
from your current scene setup.
So whenever you launch OBS Studio
or swap to a different scene collection,
this will notify you if any of the files that you're using
can no longer be found, so you can then locate them.
Whilst not being a huge feature, this is super useful,
especially if you've ever gone through the pain
of moving your streaming setup to a new PC,
and then all of your assets, your stream overlays,
your text labels,
all those things that you rely on in OBS Studio,
in different folders, and you need to go
and re-link every single one individually.
That no longer happens,
you just need to relocate one of the files,
and as long as you've kept the structure the same,
OBS we'll do the rest of the work for you,
and locate all of the rest of the missing media.
Feature number six
is that they've added a new capture method
for display capture,
which allows you to capture displays from different GPUs.
This is a really important update
for those of you that are streaming from laptops,
where you encounter several black screen bugs
when trying to capture displays
because of the multiple GPUs that our laptop might have.
This now adds an option into the display capture method,
where it allows you to select
which GPU you want to use for the capture.
Hopefully, this will also help reduce
the number of people that give up on streaming
when they first download OBS Studio,
because they're running a laptop
and they can't even seem to capture a display properly.
So, it's definitely going to be easier
for new users to go live.
Finally, feature number seven,
is that there have been a lot of updates across the board
for non-Windows users.
So Browser Docks, Twitch account linking and built-in chat
are now available for macOS and Linux users,
as well as there being now native support
for Wayland in Linux.
One thing to bear in mind,
is that this update has been pushed out
to probably millions of streamers now,
and that probably there're going to be some bugs
and some hotfix updates in the next couple of weeks.
So it's worth always checking
that you're running the latest version of OBS Studio.
You can always come up to the help menu
and check for updates
to make sure you're running the latest version.
Thanks for watching.
Hopefully, you're going to get the most
out of the latest version of OBS Studio.
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please do hit that thumbs up button,
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And I'll catch you guys in the next video.
Thanks.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so the first thing that we need to do,
is create a noisy environment,
(soothing blow dryer sound)
(faintly speaking)
Time is money.