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Tired of your webcam settings resetting every time
you reboot? Want to access their settings outside of just OBS?
Howabout an overlay that shows when viewers redeem channel points
on Twitch so you can have them featured in the stream, too?
Today’s Free OBS Tools video features all this and more. We got some neat stuff to show off.
I’m EposVox, and I have countless videos showcasing cool OBS plugins,
scripts, and side tools to maximize your stream.
Jumping in with number 1, we have DXPoints Notification. This is a simple browser source
overlay that displays an alert or notification whenever someone redeems channel points on your
Twitch channel. While channel point redemptions typically announce something in chat or
affect your stream in some way, this gives you an easy way to actually highlight
when someone utilizes them within your stream visually.
Log into the authorization page, then copy the URL into a browser source and you’re good to
go. It features a sound effect and neat little animation, but isn’t super customizable just yet.
These features are planned, but given there aren’t many alert options for channel points,
it’s pretty neat and I’ve already seen quite a few channels rocking this in their streams.
Secondly, we have CounterAnimate. This one is less of a big deal than the others as it kind of
requires other tools to update, but it takes the usual updating text file capabilities
in OBS Studio - such as for score cards, countdown timers, etc. and actually animates
the number changing from one update to the next, rather than just static jumping between them.
That being said, it’s not a simple thing and requires you to run a local Apache webserver
just to get it to show up - this falls in the “probably not worth it” category,
but I thought I’d highlight it to see if anyone makes anything cool with it.
Next up is a really awesome tool. CamooZ is a tool that allows you to manage, save, and restore
your webcam’s settings. For a lot of webcams, the only way to adjust exposure and such is by
going to the Video Capture Device properties menu in OBS, but then they don’t persist past reboot.
CamooZ is a dedicated tool to access and manage these settings outside of OBS, and then take
that even further by saving to dedicated profile files with the ability to then load them back up
after reboots and such. Very nice and probably crucial if you use a traditional webcam regularly.
If you don’t want to mess with this, there’s a little script called
Webcam-Settings-Dialog-Windows which will pop up this same UVC settings menu that OBS opens.
You run the bat file to find your webcam device name, put that name in the webcamdialog.bat file,
and then create a shortcut and you can access it whenever you like.
Super useful for editing webcams for video conferencing - but doesn’t save
them. CamooZ is probably a better choice overall, but I wanted to feature both!
The author of the CamooZ tool also made a tool called CameraRename.
It does as the name implies, it loads a list of DirectShow webcams connected to your computer,
and lets you rename them, with backups made in case you need to undo this change.
It just edits the registry, but nice to have a handy tool that does it for you.
This is super useful if you have multiple of the same devices, such as two of the same webcam,
to be able to more easily identify which is which when setting up your streams or editing settings.
Giving you a backup option in case something goes wrong is important,
as messing with registry names for devices can get funky, but otherwise this could be really handy.
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2021 was a crazy year, and I want to make sure this year is focused
more and more on getting the most out of your stream with the software tools
available to you. OBS’s functionality is expandable beyond your wildest dreams,
and hopefully I continue to help show you that with these plugins and tools video.
Apologies for the wacky background,
I’ve been having electricity problems so things are kinda haywire for the moment.
I hope your year is starting out strong. Remember: Be kind, rewind.