Two of the most highly-requested features I’ve ever seen asked for have finally come to OBS
Studio. Undoing and redoing, something StreamLabs OBS added ages ago, and per-source transitions
for scenes, something popularized by Nutty showing off a custom build of it a while back,
are (hopefully) coming to OBS version 27 and are currently in the beta build available for testing.
I’m EposVox the Stream Professor, and the v27 update for OBS Studio has just entered
beta. I’ve been covering a few of the updates in different videos - I’ll keep an updated
playlist linked in the description so you can keep up with all of my content on it.
The first feature is obvious: Nothing has been more frustrating than accidentally deleting a
source you’ve just spent so long tweaking the position and scaling of, or completely screwing
up your perfect alignment by clicking the wrong thing when editing your scenes in OBS Studio.
The cry for the ability to undo changes in OBS has been heard far and wide - and one of the
things StreamLabs OBS actually implemented what feels like a long time ago now.
So… it’s here. If you move, resize, or delete a source, CTRL-Z un-does your actions, Shift-CTRL-Z
re-does them. This is primarily focused on the canvas from what I can tell - so source
management. Thankfully this extends to scenes and filters as well! So if you mess up a filter
or remove it outright without preserving your settings, undo will be your friend. Now they
just need to add support for filter presets that you can export to back up or share with others.
I am not going to sit here and test every possible setting to see what setting is or isn’t affected
by undo - that’s what the beta testing channel on their Discord server is for - but it does
seem to only affect scenes and sources and not, say, anything in the settings menu for example.
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The next big feature is an iteration of something Nutty actually showed off a few months back in
a video with a custom OBS build by Exeldro. This is really exciting and powerful feature
that allows you to set unique transitions per source in a scene, both for when the source is
hidden from the scene and shown in the scene. This means you can make more complex scenes
with different sources that you show and hide, which will be transitioned individually - rather
than just a full scene transition. You can also set up multi-action macros (such as on
a Stream Deck or Touch Portal) to switch to the scene and activate those show/hide
transitions individually so you have the whole scene transition with delayed activations
for specific sources, such as your webcam. Setting this up is fairly straightforward, in
the new OBS version you right click on a specific source and have two new options: Show Transition
and Hide Transition. One is for when the source shows up, the other is for when the source
disappears. You have the full list of transitions available to add and customize: Cut, Fade, Swipe,
Slide, Stinger, Fade to Color, and Luma Wipe. These will not reflect existing transition presets
you’ve set up for specific scenes so those will need to be made again if you’re re-using anything.
Keep in mind that these transitions will be restricted to the size of the source themselves,
so you’ll have to get creative with the bounding box sizes to give the transition room to not be
cropped off, but for example, a swipe down on a small source will only swipe down through the size
of the source, not across the whole scene. To make that happen you would have to re-export the source
for the full size of your scene canvas. Stinger transitions will also get funky if your source
is not the size of the whole scene, as well. These visibility transitions are available for
nested scenes as sources, and groups of sources as well! This could make your life easier for
managing each of the sources timing by nesting them in a scene, enabling the empty scene first,
then delays to activate the individual sources. This could theoretically be combined with
the Move and Motion plugins to create even more crazy scene configurations.
Between these two updates, I think a lot of prayers have been answers for OBS users and
I hope to see everyone using this to improve their streams and workflows. Hit the like button if you
enjoyed, subscribe for more tech education and streamguides, and I’ll see you in the next one.