- (groans) Streamlabs, you really didn't do yourself
any favors here.
For those of you that don't know, Streamlabs recently had
what I think can only be described
as a catastrophic disaster of a day on social media.
I mean, when you have OBS, Elgato, Lightstream
and even Edward Snowden all bashing you simultaneously,
you know you messed up.
I'm not going to get into the details here
but if you do want to learn about exactly what happened
and my thoughts on it, we discussed it in great detail
on this week's podcast so I'll leave that link
down in the description.
Instead, I want to help turn this negative situation
into a positive and help all of you
that have been using Streamlabs
for either your streaming software
or as your alert and donation provider,
and show you how you can move across to better alternatives
like OBS Studio and StreamElements.
We're going to be going through it step by step
and I promise, once we're done,
you'll be glad you switched over
and I guarantee you won't be missing Streamlabs at all.
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So the first thing that we're going to do
is to move all of your scenes and sources
across from Streamlabs OBS,
now technically called Streamlabs Desktop
across to OBS Studio.
To do this, you're obviously going to need
to have OBS Studio installed if you haven't already
but first we'll actually look at what we want to import
by opening up Streamlabs, clicking the little dropdown arrow
next to your scenes and then clicking Manage All.
This will show you all of the different scene collections
that you have in Streamlabs Desktop.
It's worth noting down the names of any those
that you wish to import into OBS Studio.
You can also see here which scene collection
you currently have active within Streamlabs too,
so for me that's this Amused stream package
from Nerd or Die,
and you can see here if I flip through the different scenes,
we have a Stream Starting Scene scene,
a Chatting scene, a Gameplay scene and an Ending scene.
Next, let's open up our OBS Studio and open up the Settings.
In the General tab, we should have this option
under Importers and make sure we have the option
Search known locations for scene collections
when importing, enabled.
Then we can come up to click on Scene Collection and Import
and this will then scan all of the other locations
that other streaming apps like Streamlabs and XSplit use.
We can check the boxes next to any of the scene collections
we want to import, so for me, I want to import
this Amused collection and this StreamOS collection
and then I can click Import.
Once those have imported,
we'll want to come up to Scene Collection
and then select the collection that we just imported
and OBS will then swap to using that scene collection.
You should see that everything
has moved across successfully,
you might see some odd sources
that need a little tweaking or refreshing
but on the whole everything here
should have imported over correctly.
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Unfortunately, there isn't a super simple way
to actually move your stream settings
across from Streamlabs Desktop into OBS Studio
so instead, we have two options.
If you're happy with all of your settings from Streamlabs,
you can open up the settings there
and make a note of things like your bitrate,
your encoder, your resolution and your framerate
and then use those same settings in OBS Studio.
Or if you want the quicker, easier method,
in OBS Studio you can run the Auto-Config Wizard
up here in the Tools menu and let OBS run tests
on your computer and internet connection
to best determine your settings.
If you're streaming to Twitch or to YouTube,
I'd definitely recommend
connecting your account to OBS Studio
so that you will get the enhanced functionality
like dockable chat and activity feeds.
Speaking of Docks, one thing in OBS Studio
that is completely customizable is the layout.
So if you want to have things laid out in a similar fashion
to how you had it in Streamlabs Desktop,
it can be a bit fiddly but everything here is moveable
and resizable to get things exactly as you please.
You can even add any individual webpage
as a docked element as well, so many people use this to get
their activity feed docked
from somewhere like StreamElements.
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There are quite a few different platforms that you can use
to show when somebody donates, subscribes
or follows you on stream.
If you're up for supporting one of the companies
that was most hurt by this plagiarism from Streamlabs,
then the creators at Lightstream actually have
their own alert platform called rainmaker.gg.
But in terms of feature parity,
I think the closest to Streamlabs is StreamElements
so that's what we'll be talking about today.
So to move all of our alerts
across from Streamlabs to StreamElements,
the first thing you need to do is open up
this StreamElements website using a Chrome-based browser.
Once you've logged in with the platform of your choice,
you can come up to your profile picture,
click it, select Import and then Streamlabs.
This will open up an extension that has been built
to help quickly export your alerts
from Streamlabs into StreamElements.
You'll only need this extension once,
it can be removed as soon as the export has finished.
So click to add this extension
and then head over to Streamlabs website and log in there.
Once you're on the Streamlabs Dashboard,
you can open up the extension which will either be up here
in the menu bar, or if you click this little puzzle piece,
it'll show in the drop-down.
Then simply select if you want to import both your Tips
and Alerts, or just the Alerts
and then click Start Import to StreamElements.
Once that's done you can head back over
to the StreamElements website, go to your Overlays
and you should see a newly imported alertbox.
If you click on edit, you can go in and actually check
that everything successfully imported
by emulating a few different events like a new follower,
subscriber or donator.
If anything needs changing,
you can go into each of the alerts here
on the left-hand side and customize things like
the image, the audio, the sizing
or any other settings that you need.
If everything looks good, all you have to do
is click this little link icon in the top
to copy the browser source URL and then open up OBS Studio.
In OBS, just select which scene
you want the alerts to show in
and then add a browser source to that scene,
pasting in the URL that StreamElements gave you.
You'll want to make sure that the width and height
matches those of the canvas in StreamElements,
then you can emulate some more actions
and these will now show in OBS Studio
for you to position as you wish.
It's also worth mentioning that if you purchased
an alert pack from somewhere like Nerd or Die,
they usually come with a super simple installer
for StreamElements where you can just open one file
and everything will be set up for you.
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If you accept tips or donations on your stream
and you've been using Streamlabs to process those before,
you can again move this across to StreamElements.
To do so, from the StreamElements dashboard,
you want to head across to the Tipping Settings
in the Revenue tab.
Here you can customize the design and layout
of your tipping page, as well as tipping settings like
which payment providers to accept,
which currency to use, any minimum and maximum amounts
and your tip message or TTS filtering.
Once you've got your tipping page set up as you like,
you'll want to update any Twitch panels
or any places that you have your donation link
with this new URL so that viewers are taken
to the new page on StreamElements.
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If you want to move away from using Streamlabs' Cloudbot
on your channel, StreamElements also has a Chat Bot
which has custom commands, timers,
smart modules and spam filters.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy way
to import commands across from Cloudbot
to the StreamElements Chat Bot.
So this may be a bit more of a manual process
if you have loads of custom commands,
but there are a whole bunch of default commands
that you can enable with one click.
There's also a whole world of different chat bots out there,
things like Nightbot, Moobot, Fossabot,
as well as countless others, so feel free to explore here
and find something that suits you.
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If you've been using Streamlabs
to manage and sell merchandise to your community
and you want to move elsewhere, StreamElements
does have a pretty similar service.
You will however, need to recreate your designs
and update your links to point to this new store.
It's really quite intuitive to use
in terms of dragging and dropping your logo
and positioning it on the merchandise as you see fit.
Again, there's countless different places
where you can do this
if you don't want to use StreamElements.
Places like Teespring or Design By Humans or Spreadshirt
are three that come to mind.
If you found this video in any way helpful,
please do give it a thumbs up.
I've realized moving platforms and moving streaming software
isn't the most interesting video topics
but I thought this was really quite important to get out
considering all the news that's happened with Streamlabs
in the past week.
Like I said at the start, if you want to hear exactly
what has happened with Streamlabs and my thoughts on it,
I would highly recommend checking out
the "Gaming Careers" podcast
which we just recorded on Monday.
I'll leave that link down in the description
and I'll see you guys in the next video, peace.