- I'm gonna show you how to make
your live-streams look professional using OBS,
and we're starting right now.
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in front of the computer for this one
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Okay enough of that, let's go to the computer.
Okay so here we are at the computer
and the very first thing that is extremely
important when you are trying to make
your live-streams look professional
is of course the actual camera,
or the camera quality that you're using.
For my live-streams you can see,
I'll put some links in the description
to some of those, you can see the quality
that I get from the Logitech C922 webcam,
which is actually what you're seeing
this on right now as well.
And another thing that is extremely important
about making your live-streams look professional
is your background environment.
Now with mine I like to set it to where,
you know, is has kind of a mood to it.
But, the big idea for your background
is just to make sure that it's nice and clean.
Make sure that there's not junk
all over the place and, you know,
make sure it's not too distracting as far as
detracting from the message that you're
trying to share.
Now one thing you can do for your live-streams
that can really help make your live-stream look professional
is you can add an intro to it, just like you would
if you were adding an intro to a video
and I'm gonna you how to do that right now.
So what you wanna do is you wanna go into
your OBS sources menu down here on the left
and you wanna click on the plus icon
and when you're doing this, just a little side-note here,
when you're doing this one thing you wanna make sure
that you keep in mind is that you need
a video file to work with, so you wanna make sure
that you have already exported your intro
out of your video editing software
so that you can import it into OBS.
So we're going to go into the Media Source option
and I'm going to just type in Intro
and then now it's going to ask me
where my intro is.
Now for me, when the intro comes in,
I don't want it to keep playing.
I don't want it to loop.
So I want to make sure that Loop
is not checked here in the box.
Now I want to browse for the actual intro itself
and here in my stream folder I have an intro file
that shows my intro and I'm gonna show you
basically how this would work.
So I'm gonna click on this, I'm gonna hit Open,
and then I'm gonna hit Okay to close this box.
Now how this would work is, let's say
that we do an intro and basically the hook
for our live-stream and we say, you know,
In this video I'm gonna show you how to make your
OBS streams look professional, and we're
starting right now.
And then, the intro would come in
and then it disappears because I didn't set it to loop.
So basically it comes in, does the flash,
and then it's out of there.
So once again, it would be just like this,
all you have to do is you turn it on,
and then you transition in whenever you want
that intro to start playing.
In this video I'm gonna show you how to make OBS
live-streams look professional,
and we're starting right now.
What is going on, my name is Nick,
welcome to another video, if this is your
first time here, mmkay, you see,
so basically you can use that intro
as just a short bumper that will transition
you into the next scene of your live-stream
or the next part of your live-stream
and still get your branding in there.
Now, another thing that you can do
is you can add a lower third to your live-stream
that will help you introduce yourself
or introduce who you are.
In order to do that, I'm gonna go through
the same process I'm going to go here
and I'm going to add another media source
we're going to call this one Lower Third
and then from there I'm also going to browse for this
and we will go with this one.
Okay, so as you can see here this lower third
now pops up on the screen, and this is actually
down here just at the bottom and for this one
I'm actually wanting it to loop so that
it actually stays on the screen.
So, as you can see here when I didn't
have that on it basically played, then
it disappeared, but now, since I have it to loop
it's going to always be on the screen
until I actually go through the process
of turning it off.
So, with this lower third graphic
the next thing you wanna do is you wanna
add some text to actually let people know,
let people know who you are.
So here we are going to go into the Text
and I'm just going to put Name.
And I'm gonna select the font, here I'm going to
go ahead and use Alternate Gothic
and I'm gonna put it at, let's say, 48 for the size.
I'm gonna hit Okay.
And then I hit Okay.
Now as you can see here, the name part
is just not showing up so I actually had to
click Transition for that to come in for some reason.
And here I just basically want to drag it up,
to increase the size, bump it into place
and then now when I transition this in
to the actual scene then I have
a nice, professional looking thing down here
at the bottom that says who I am, and it also
says what the stream is about.
Now, one thing that you can do with these
is you can also, let's say that you don't want your
full name down there, you don't want all this other stuff
but you want an actual legit lower third.
You can do the same thing by just moving this
over to the side like this.
And then changing your text, and I'm going to
change the name here and I'm just
going to put my name on here.
So we'll make this fill it up just a little bit more.
And then we will scoot this out as well
so it's framed in there nicely
and then we transition that in
then this way it is just a simple name
that comes in, so as you're streaming
and you can do this in a multitude of colors,
or anything like that.
So basically the reason for this, and the reason
to add a lower third to your videos
and you can add your name, you can add
your name plus your website,
your name plus your YouTube channel
or anything like that, but the advantage
of this is basically it lets people
who are familiar with you yet,
know who you are.
So to get that out of there I'm gonna
go ahead and just turn those off
and then I'm gonna click Transition
so that it is no longer in our scene.
Another thing that you can do here
to make your live-streams look more professional
in addition to the camera, in addition to
making your background look nice
in addition to adding your intro
and a nice looking lower third
is you can also add other graphics to your scene.
So in order to do that I actually made
another video about how to do an actual ticker
on the bottom, I'll put a link to that up at
the top of the screen right now.
But you can also just add the images in here by themselves
whatever it is that you wanna put on your image.
Then here it's just a little reminder
for people to subscribe to the channel
and another one that I can add here,
like I did before, is I can also add
the ticker background and then the text
would be scrolling on this which I have,
which is something that I show you how to set up
in that other video.
But let's say that we don't want to do
that particular ticker setup,
which you can also use that lower third graphic for,
by the way.
But let's say you don't wanna use that ticker setup,
another thing that you can do is,
you can add your social media, a social media slide show
so basically what you do is you go ahead
and you make some graphics for
your Twitter account, your Instagram account,
for your Snapchat account or your website
anything that you want to promote, really.
And you can actually have those
slide across the screen in random intervals
during your live-stream without even
having to do anything.
So all you have to do is you set it up first
and I'm just going to call this Social Media
and here for the transition I'm actually
going to change it to a slide instead of a fade
but depending on how you like things to look
you can definitely change this to anything
that you would prefer to make it.
Next I'm going to add the different image files.
In mine I've already made these
so I'm gonna add all three of those in here
and as you can see, it's now going to
make these slide across my screen
in random intervals, so one thing that you can do
is, of course, you can move this frame
so that this is at the very bottom of your screen
so it's not as distracting.
Another thing that you can do that I've found is
if you want to have these come on your screen
sometimes but not a lot, like let's say
that you want a nice space between
all of the different social media tags.
Then all you have to do is, you go into
your properties for that, and you also add
some blank files as well.
And by doing that it makes all of this not as distracting.
So I'm gonna add just a few more
just so I can show you the effect
that this has on how everything is scrolling through.
Okay so now that we've changed that
what happens is, let me transition in,
is basically you have a blank space in between
your social media tags so when they do come in,
just like that it makes a little bit more
of an impact when it comes in.
So that's another thing that you can do
to help make your live-streams look more professional
and in addition to that you can use it
to promote your social media accounts,
you can use it to promote whatever other stuff
that you happen to be working on
or anything else that's coming up in the future
or really anything that you want.
And of course when a live-stream ends
it helps make it look more professional if you
think of it just like it's a normal video on YouTube.
So as an example, what I'm gonna do here
is I'm actually going to add another image
and this image is actually my in-screen.
So I'm going to add this in-screen
just like I normally do.
So that when my stream
is over or when it's getting ready to be over
I would basically prepare it like this,
I would scoot over so that I can frame myself
in the graphic a little bit better
like you can see here.
Then I would transition it in, I would say
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So basically you end it just like you would
a normal video so that when you're
finished with your stream you can go into YouTube
you can cut off any end-parts or anything like that
so that you can still utilize your in-screen graphic.
If you currently do not have in-screen graphics
but you want them or you want custom branding
for your channel you can get all of that
over at TuberTools.com I'll put a link to
that down in the description below.
Now, what I mentioned before is that I'm
going to be giving something away in this live-stream.
I'm actually going to be giving away three things,
in this live stream, all three of them are actually
the lower third graphics that you see here.
Basically it's just a simple
lower third graphic with a little shine going across it.
I made this one so that it, maybe for the gamers
out there because I know I don't do a lot
for you gamers out there.
I also have another one that has a different look to it.
And you're basically getting all of these.
This one is more of a light-leak fade in and out
which is pretty cool, and I have another one
that is just a little bit more basic.
The same idea and that one looks like this,
where it's just a plain one, so you can still
put your text on there and things like that,
but it's still got that motion to it
and as long as you're using OBS
this is definitely gonna work, you can see it
right here on my screen that it'll
definitely work for you as well.
In order to get this, as soon as this video is finished
you want to go down into the description
and you wanna look for a link
that says Join My VIP area, it's absolutely free
and you join that and inside you will
be able to download these lower third graphics.
If you are not already subscribed,
go ahead and click the round Subscribe icon right now,
so you don't miss anything in the future.
Thank you so much for watching,
I'll see you next time.