Hello, my YouTube friends.
My green screen videos are very popular and there are a lot of ways to
do a green screen in OBS besides actually having a traditional green
screen.
But after all those videos, I get a lot of questions about how to
actually use a green screen or a virtual green screen.
So how do you actually change the background and what sort of effects
can you do with your green screen?
Today I'm going to go through a bunch of different, cool effects that
you can use with your live stream that you can do to entertain your
live audience.
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First, I'm going to show you how to change your background, and then
I'll show you how to use a cool plugin to rotate through multiple
backgrounds if you wanted to.
And then I'm going to show you a bunch of different effects that you
can do with your green screen beyond just replacing your background.
So first let's get into how to change the background.
Here we are in OBS, and to do any of these green screen tricks, all
you need is a traditional green screen or one of the virtual green
screen plugins that I've done plenty of videos on.
You can find links to those videos if you want to do a virtual green
screen in the description below.
For this video, I'm just going to actually show you a how to use the
green screen once you have it all loaded up.
So what we're going to do is we're going to click the plus down here
in our scene, and we're going to go to video capture device, and we'll
just call this cam click okay.
And I'm using the snap camera, but you can use whatever camera you
want.
And all I need to do is go down here to use custom device, go ahead
and add my microphone in there, click okay.
And as you can see, I'm using a traditional green screen.
And in order to remove the background we need to do is right click on
that, go to filters, click the plus.
And then I'm just going to go to chroma key.
And if I have my background set up correctly, everything should turn
gray and I don't really have to change much.
There are some things that you can change in here if you want to, you
might notice I get a little bit of green ghosting around the edges,
and that's just spill.
If you put a decent background on there, it generally isn't very
noticeable.
So we click close.
Now we have me on a black screen.
If we wanted to add an image, all we need to do is click the plus, go
to media source and then click okay.
And just load up a media source.
This could be a text file or a video file or whatever you want in this
case, let's go ahead and load a video file in here.
This one right here, will do, and I'm going to loop it cause it's a
short clip and there we go.
Now, all we need to do is move it down below the camera and we have
our green screen.
Now, there is a really cool thing that we could do in order to change
our background on a regular basis and to do that we would use a
plugin.
Um, first thing I want to do is create another scene and let's just
call this B G scene for background scene.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and click a bunch of
media sources.
And we're just going to load these in our background scene.
We'll we'll load this one and then we'll click another one and we'll
load another media source.
And I'm not going to name, I'm not going to spend the time to name
these or anything like that.
We're just going to quickly go through and add a bunch of background
sources to this scene, media source three, click here.
And we'll add this one here.
We'll loop these because they are short clips.
And then what I'm going to do is add one more media source four, and
we'll go ahead and we'll use this one right here.
We'll loop it.
And there we go.
So now we have these four scenes in the background scene, and what I'm
gonna do is remove this and I'm going to go ahead and add our plugin.
It's called source switcher, but first let me show you how to install
it.
Here is the page we're looking for.
We're just gonna want to click download in the top right-hand
corner.
The easiest installation is the windows installer zip file.
There is also a Linux and a Mac O S install for this.
So I'm going to download the install zip for windows.
Then I'm just going to go to windows browser and right click on our
zip file and select extract, and then click extract.
It'll take us right in and I can just double click on the executable
here I'm going to select more info and then run anyways.
Then I'm going to click okay.
And then install.
Now it's telling me that I have OBS studio already running on the
machine.
If you are in this situation, be sure to close out OBS studio or
select automatically close, and then click next.
In my case, I'm just going to, uh, select don't close them and click
next.
And then of course, I'm going to get another error message because it
will not install with OBS open.
So I have to close it out, but all you're going to need to do,
assuming that you already closed out OBS is click finish and you will
be done.
So now source switcher is installed.
Now that we have it installed, we'll go ahead and click that plus, and
we'll add our source switcher.
And all we need to do is add some sources and these have to be named
exactly the same as the sources here.
So we're going to go ahead and click the plus.
We're going to add media source and that includes capital letters.
So it's got to be exactly the same and we're going to click the plus
and we're gonna add all of them.
And you can do this with images or with video, although you have a lot
more control with images than you do with videos, but we're going to
go ahead and we're going to do a time switch on this in 5,000
milliseconds is five seconds.
Let's go with a 10,000 milliseconds and we can switch each one
switches to the next media state switch.
So we can actually have a transition in here to how we want to
transition from one to another.
Let's do a swipe and swipe hide transition, swipe networks, duration
thousand milliseconds you could turn that down or up.
And there we go.
So now all we have to do is go into our scene here and we can see our
source switchers switching our backgrounds.
We just move this below our camera and now every 10 seconds or so our
background is going to change.
Obviously for a live stream you may want a different transition.
You also may want to have the length longer in between when it
switches them, but this is a cool little effect that's super easy to
set up and it's more than just your basic green screen background, and
it adds more variety into your live stream.
And that's the basics.
Now we get to the fun stuff, some cool effects with your green screen.
To create the next string of effects what we're going to need to do is
install a plugin called stream effects.
There are links to both the plugins I show you in this video, in the
description below, let's go ahead and download the stream effects
plugin and install it first.
And then I'll show you how to do some really cool tricks.
Here we are on the download page and we're just going to click go to
download in the top right and it brings us up to this install page and
we can scroll down here.
This gives you all kinds of other information on everything this
plugin can do.
And it's a lot.
We're just going to go down here to assets and we're going to download
the windows version.
There is a Mac O S version as well as a Linux version here for you to
install if you like, but we're using windows, so we're just going to
download that.
Once we're done, we just need to go to the location of our downloads
and we can double click on the stream effects download.
We're going to click on more info here.
It does this because this is an unsigned program and we want to just
click there and then click run anyways.
You may also need to disable your virus scan software.
It may not install if you have it running or it may give you an error.
And once you get to this point, you just click install for all users.
And then you're going to accept the agreement and click next.
And I'm going to install static.
You may have your setup portable.
If you do, that's fine.
You can click portable.
And then you click next and you're just going to want to make sure
that this is the location of your OBS installation.
And as long as it is, you can go ahead and click install.
And of course, mine is going to fail because I'm running OBS studio to
actually record this.
But all you really need to do once you get to that point is click next
through everything and then finish and stream effects will be on your
system.
All right.
So the next thing we're going to do is click the plus and create a new
scene.
And this one is going to be a nested scene.
So we're going to call it N S and then white, and go ahead and click
okay, but what we're going to do is go ahead and click that plus, and
we're going to add a source mirror, which is the feature we're looking
for in the stream effects plugin we just installed.
And we're going to call this one white cam and click okay, then we're
going to go ahead and grab our camera source.
And there we go.
We don't need to enable the audio.
There is no reason to do that.
And what we're going to do with this is we're going to right click and
we're going to go to filters and we're going to click the plus.
We're going to go to color grading and we're going to click okay.
And we're just going to lift all and you could see it just turns my
background white.
Next, we're going to click the plus and we're going to go to render
delay.
And we're going to add a 100 millisecond render delay to this
particular screen, and we can click close.
There we go.
And we're going to do the same thing.
We're going to create another nested scene and we'll call this blue
and we'll click the plus.
We're going to go to source mirror, and we're going to call this one
blue cam, and we're going to select our camera.
And then we're going to go to filters, click the plus.
We're going to go to our color grading again.
And we're just going to lift this blue and lower the all lift right
here.
And now we're going to click the plus and we're going to go and create
a render delay.
And this time we're going to do 200 milliseconds and there we go.
And we're going to do this once again.
We'll call this one N S red, click the plus.
We're going to go to our source mirror again, call this red cam click
okay.
Drop this down, select our cam source once again.
And we're going to right click, go to filters, we're gonna click the
plus, we're going to go to our color grade and we're going to lift the
red and we're going to lower this.
So our background is red and we're going to click the plus.
We're going to go to render delay.
And this one is going to be 300 milliseconds and we'll close that.
And one more N s green click okay, we're going to go ahead and add our
source mirror and okay.
We're going to add our source right click and go to filters, then we
go to color grading.
And we're going to lift our green lower this down.
So it's all green click the plus, we're going to go to render delay.
And this one is going to be 400 click okay.
And close.
And now all we have to do.
So we've got our scene and our background, which we used for the other
one.
So we're going to create a new scene and this one is going to be
called delay and we'll click okay.
And we want to create one more nested scene.
We'll call this NS cam.
And what I'm going to do is just go ahead and do a video capture
device, add our camera in here with the microphone.
And there we go.
And that's going to make this delay scene easy.
So we just go in here and we go to our scenes and we're going to add
our camera.
Boom.
There we go.
So now we have our camera and all we have to do is add the rest of
these.
So we'll go to scene and we'll add our white and we'll move it below.
And we can see it has a little delay and the next one is blue.
So we're going to go to scene and add our blue, and we'll move that
below the white.
And there we go, click the plus and we'll go to scene and we'll add
our red and we'll move it down below.
And there we go.
And one more, our green will go to scene.
We'll add our green and we'll move that all the way to the bottom.
And there we go.
So now we have our trail and it looks like the green and the red
should be swapped.
Here we go.
Definitely not seeing the green.
So where is our green?
Let's go over to our green and see what our delay is.
Ah, that's because we didn't put it in right.
There we go.
So now our green is proper.
We'll go to delay, we'll move our green all the way to the bottom.
And there we go.
So now we have all of our stuff set up and then all we have to do if
we wanted to is we can go and to scene and we can add our background
scene and we can move it all the way to the bottom.
And now we have a background scene with all of the stuff in it and
this cool render delay feature, super simple to set up.
Now, you don't actually have to have a green screen to do any of these
effects.
You can check this video out and it will show you how to do all this
stuff with a virtual green screen in OBS.
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