Hello, my YouTube friends.
Today I want to show you a plugin for OBS that's been used by
professional live broadcasters for years.
It allows you to have a set of assets in OBS that you can put over top
of any scene that you're in.
Now, this feature is used by sports and news channels to put the
ticker in the bottom of any screen that they're using.
And it's now available in OBS, and it's really easy to set up and use.
And by the way, it's totally free.
So you know what?
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The name of this plugin is downstream keyer.
And the first thing we need to do is install it.
So to install this, we're going to go to this page right here, and
we're going to click the download button.
Now the links to this are in the description.
You can see that we have a windows install and a windows install,
Linux and Mac OS.
We're going to use the windows installer.
Pretty sure this windows zip is just the files to put in the folder.
It's a lot easier to just use the installer.
So we're going to download that.
And once it's downloaded, we're just going to go into our downloads
folder and I'm going to right click and extract all and it extracts
it.
We can just go into the folder and I'm going to go ahead and click on
the downstream keyer installer.
I'm going to click on more info and then run anyway.
Then you want to verify that it is the proper location for your OBS.
If it is not, go ahead and click browse and go to it.
Yours is probably located in C program files, and then it will be OBS
dash studio.
Like you see their OBS dash studio.
Mine is actually E backslash OBS dash studio.
So I'm going to leave it there, click next, and we can call it
whatever we want next and install and finish.
And now downstream keyer is installed in our OBS.
It's awesome.
Now all that's left is to set it up.
Here we are in OBS and I'm going to do this on my normal live stream.
Cause I have a bunch of stuff that I want to add.
I want to show you how this allows you to add pretty much whatever you
want over top of all the existing scenes.
And if we look here, I have a lot of existing scenes.
So what if I had something that I just wanted to add over top so that
I could add it to any scene at any time that I want to?
Well, we're going to go up here to docs and we're going to go to the
downstream keyer and boom.
It just pops it right here.
I can just drop it over here and now it's actually in there.
So it has one tab and I can click this to add or remove tabs.
We can change transitions.
We can do all kinds of cool stuff.
We're going to go ahead and click the plus button down here.
We're just add to disc one and I'm pretty sure we can rename that.
So let's just call this wheel of blame because that's what I'm going
to add here.
All right.
And we'll click okay.
Now the wheel of blame is just something fun and silly we do on my
live stream, but I like to be able to use it in any scene in my live
stream.
And it has a lot of elements that I don't really want to have to add
in every live stream or create a nested scene where then I have to add
it into the scenes that I want to use it.
This makes it really easy to use in any scene that I want.
So here's how this works.
We're going to go and we're going to click the plus under scenes and
I'm going to add a wheel of blame scene and we'll just call this M F J
and click okay, now I'm going to click the plus under sources and I'm
going to go to media source and I'm just going to call this basically
the same thing and just add vid after it, because it is the video for
that.
Then I'm going to browse to the source of that asset right there and
click okay.
So now we have our scene created, all you have to do is make sure that
scene is selected.
And we're going to go over here to our downstream keyer and we're
going to click this plus to add that scene in there.
Now let's create another one.
So I'm going to click the plus under scenes and I'm just going to name
this one up, according to the next file we have here and click okay.
And I'm going to click the plus under sources, go to media source, add
w O B with the same name and vid after it and click okay.
Then I just need to browse and find that file and click open and then,
okay.
And now we have two of these setup.
All I need to do is click the plus under downstream keyer add this
next one in there.
Now I can switch to any scene.
And when I just click one of these in the downstream keyer it's going
to bring those assets up right over top of the actual scene.
It's really awesome.
And all I have to do is click pause to make it disappear.
And the best part is that's for any scene.
So I can go over here to my tutorial scene and needless to say, I
don't have a tutorial going on right now, but if I click any of these,
well, it's just going to play right over top of the entire scene.
It's awesome.
I just quickly added the rest and it's awesome because I can just
click on any one of them and it will appear on any screen that I'm on.
And then I can just click the pause and make it go away.
So let me show you how you could do this with lower thirds that you
can create right here in OBS.
I'm gonna click the plus down here and we'll just call this lower
third for now.
We can come up with a more creative name and I'm just going to click
the plus to add a source.
And we'll go ahead and add text GDI and we'll call this lower third
text and I'm just going to write my name in here.
We'll go to select font and we'll the font that we want.
We can adjust our font size if we like, but I think that's big enough.
So I'm just going to click okay, then I'm going to scroll down here.
We're going to add a gradient to the text.
So I'm going to select my main color.
We'll select this light blue.
Then on the second color, we'll select this dull yellow and that looks
pretty good.
Next thing I'm going to do is add an outline.
I'm going to scroll down to the bottom click outline, make it a little
bit larger and change the color to black.
And that's good.
That's the text I'm looking for.
I'm just going to move it down here into the bottom left-hand corner.
And all we need to do now is go up here to our downstream keyer and
I'm going to click on the properties window and add, and I'm going to
add a new tab.
We're going to call this one lower thirds and click okay.
That adds another tab.
I'll just select it.
Now I just need to go down here and click the plus to add our lower
third scene into the lower third downstream keyer tab.
Now, if we wanted to have the lower third come on, we just click on it
and it comes up and we can go ahead and click pause and it goes away.
So we'll go over to our tutorial scene here and we can just click on
our lower third and it will appear now what if we wanted this to have
some sort of a transition?
Well, we can go up into the thing here and we can go with a show
transition.
So we'll go down here to transitions.
And we're going to go ahead and we're going to add a slide.
Let's call this slide one and let's see, we want slide to come from
right to left.
There we go.
Okay.
And we're going to add another transition and we'll call this slide
two and this one is going to go from left to right.
I like that.
Okay.
So now we can select our lower third here.
We're going to properties go to show transition and we'll use slide
one.
We'll go to hide transition and we'll use slide two.
So now when we click the pause, it slides out to the left when we
actually click it, it slides in really, really awesome.
So the best part is that's going to stay there, even when we switch
scenes, say we can switch scenes.
The only thing that moves it is this.
So we can have regular transitions on all of our scenes as well.
Let's use our regular transition on our main scene, and you can see
that the regular transition goes, but our lower third will actually
stay there until we click the pause and remove it.
So you can have lower thirds for guests or whoever you want.
You can place them wherever you want.
You can add any transition you want and you don't have to create them
in every scene.
You can just create a tab up here in the downstream keyer and add them
and remove them anytime you want.
This is just awesome for little slides or things that you want to add
to any scene, it can be a video.
It can be text.
It can be just an image, whatever you want.
You can create goofy memes, add them all as scenes and then kind of
click them over here in your downstream keyer anytime you want to
bring them up.
It's this tool is so awesome.
I mean, this is what professionals use to put the bar at the bottom of
the screen and they can just click their downstream keyer to put new
overlays over top of it or whatever they want anytime they want.
And so it works really well.
And as you can see, I love it.
Now, what if we wanted to add a hot key to this?
Well, that's really simple.
We'll go into settings and we're going to go to our hotkeys and we
just need to go to the specific, hot key that we're talking about.
So in this case, probably lower third right here, and you can see it
hide lower third show lower third.
And that's where we want to be looking at it right here.
That show on lower third.
So we'll just put a comma in here and we'll put a period in here and
we'll click apply and okay.
And when I clicked comma button, there it is.
I clicked the period button.
There it is, turns it on and off.
You can use your stream deck or Lioran board or whatever you want to
set up hotkeys to make something like this work anytime over any
scene.
It's awesome.
Super cool.
There is so much that you can do with the downstream keyer.
If you want to see how to create a professional looking overlay for
your stream, you should check this video out.
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My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.