OBS has so many cool features and some of them are rarely used but can
be a game changer for certain streamers.
Studio mode is just one of those features.
If you've never seen it or checked it out and played with it but you
don't really know how it works today, I'm gonna demystify studio mode
and show you exactly what you can do with this cool tool.
It's actually pretty powerful and I think you're gonna like it.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
Now, not everyone will want to use studio mode, but there are some
really cool things you can do with it.
It just makes sense that you know everything you can do with it
because it is possible it could transform your stream.
So you know what?
Let's get to it.
Okay, so to access studio mode, what we're gonna do is go over here on
the right and we're gonna select studio mode.
So that brings up these two windows here with this transition piece
here. And this window is a little too zoomed in.
So let's zoom it out so we could see the whole thing.
This right here under program is the segment that's going out to the
live streaming audience.
And this over here under preview is the segment that allows you to
create on the fly, which is what makes studio mode really cool.
So let me show you what I mean.
Program is what is being seen by the live audience right now.
I can select any scene that I want and you can see it changes our
preview.
So that means I can change and modify anything in the preview window
and it's not being seen by the live audience.
So let's see.
We have this uh, little logo here so I can take it out or add it in
anytime I want on the preview screen.
Now there's also something here that we're not seeing because it's
part of the source switcher, which is fine.
You're gonna find that some of the scenes will have media sources.
Those media sources don't immediately start, but you can go ahead and
start them if you'd like, right here so you can see what they are.
Uh, this is another example right here.
If I select here, I can see what the media source is and there we go.
So just in case you are wondering why this is black, it's because
there's a media source behind it that's not playing mostly just
because it's trying not to overwhelm the computer while it's trying to
stream. So let me show you how you transition the preview window into the main
live stream.
Basically all you have to do is click this transition button and boom.
Now this scene is live and this scene is waiting.
So now I can select whatever scene I want.
And this is really powerful.
So let's say that we got donations or something while we're over here
on this scene and we want to update a text file that scrolls with our
donation names.
Well, let's go ahead and click the plus and we're just gonna add text
source here and we'll call this names and click okay.
And we can read this from a text file obviously if we wanted to.
But uh, what we're gonna do is we're just gonna type, uh, donation
names and you know, Bob George.
There we go, Tim, whatever.
We can add as many names as we want.
We could click okay.
And then what I'm gonna do, you could see those names are listed up
here. I'm just gonna kind of shrink this down a little bit and we'll move it
over here.
And I don't really need it to be really small cuz I'm gonna set this
up in a different way.
I'm gonna right click on it, go to filters, click plus we're gonna go
to scroll and we're just gonna kind of scroll these names across the
bottom here.
And I messed up the name thing.
What I want to do here, we're gonna go into properties and we're gonna
add some spaces after Tim so that that separates the scroll.
And there we go.
So now we've got a scroll that we just added to this scene and then we
just hit transition and boom, we've got an updated donation scroll
across the screen with any new donations that were added or new
subscribers or whatever we want.
And you can see how this could be really powerful, especially if you
have a producer in house that can type this stuff over here and then
just flip on the new scene with anything they want.
Maybe you're having a situation where somebody in your stream tells
you they're having a birthday or whatever.
And so what you can do is over here on this, maybe you have a birthday
gift you could go and select, let's try an image source.
I don't have a specific one, so we're gonna say this logo is a
birthday gift.
And then I'm gonna go ahead and transform.
We're gonna do a fit to screen and let's say that that says happy
birthday, we're just going to pretend here.
And then you've got a person's name.
You can easily go in here and select some text and his name is Frank
maybe.
So you've got a gift that says Happy Birthday and you've got a little
thingy here, says the person's name.
You can just easily put this in here while you're live streaming.
Hit the transition button and bada bing, now you've got Happy Birthday
Frank, right on the screen.
Cuz the person said, today's my birthday.
This is how you can easily interact with your audience and they'll be
like, wow, how did he do that on the fly?
Well, if you have an in-house producer, it's really easy, but even if
you don't, if you have these text files already in each scene and you
just have to update them and modify them, it's pretty easy to do that
while you're live streaming.
It's actually not as difficult as you would think.
Now you can change the transitions for any scene that you want.
Okay, so let me show you how transitions work.
Basically you have this transition bar right here.
You can just use the standard transition by clicking transition, but
you can also go down here and select from quick transitions that you
created.
So if I click hex sting,
there we go.
Or I can just select the standard fade right here.
But we can also click the plus under quick transitions and add any
other transition we want.
So if we wanna do the move transition, we can select that and you can
see it adds it right here.
And boom, there's the move transition.
What else do we have?
You can do the final sting transition, boom.
And there we go.
So we have all kinds of transitions that we can use, which man, it
makes it really fun to do this.
I like it.
You can literally have 5 or 10 different transitions that you use for
this.
So you can just stack 'em all up and change to different transitions
all the time.
I think it makes it a lot easier than standard where you have to
basically select each transition for each different one.
Here I can be creative, I can select different transitions anytime I
want. You can definitely see how studio mode would be something that would
be really, really effective with an in-house producer.
It can be done without an in-house producer, but it's probably a
little more difficult.
For the right streamer studio mode can be an absolute game changer
because it allows you to interact with your audience in real time.
And I think you know, anytime you can do that, it's a good thing.
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I think studio mode can be really awesome, especially if you have an
onsite producer for your show.
They can easily add text and graphics to scenes that are relevant to
the discussion that you're having on the fly and make changes to
scenes and all that kind of stuff to make the show a lot more dynamic.
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