Hello, my YouTube friends. Today I want to show you how to add
chat to your live stream overlays easily,
without having to bother with Stream Labs or Stream Elements chat features.
They never really seemed to work right anyways.
I usually use Twidget and I love it,
but it's not available on a Mac.
What I'm going to show you today is super easy
and it's going to work on a Mac or any other platform.
So let's get to it.
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So thanks. Now, let's get into how we put the chat in our overlay
in OBS. We're going to click the plus.
I'm going to go to window capture in this case. Next,
what we're going to do is go into our YouTube studio
and we want to go ahead and pop out our chat right here.
So we have the chat in a separate
window and we can just size it up as to how we want it to look on our stream,
kind of give it the relative shape that we're looking for and that looks pretty good.
I have my chat undocked. So why not use it?
We're going to go to the YouTube live chat.
Bada-bing. Smacko. Right there.
Now, it's in my OBS. All I have to do is hold down
the ALT key, modify it up. So we remove this stuff and now we have a nifty little chat overlay.
Now, I want to show you a really cool tool that you can use with your chat overlays.
If you do them like this in the newest version of OBS.
We can right click on our chat and we can go to blend mode.
So let's select the screen blend mode
because I think this is the one most people are going to use. We’ll move this over here on the right
and then I'm going to click the +
and just add a camera in here real quick and we'll just use the camera that's already here.
And there we go. Now I'm going to move this below our window
and you can see that using the screen makes it see through
so we can try some other blend modes
here and you can mess around with these to get the look that you want.
And you can also add backgrounds behind them like a white
screen or any other screen to make them look exactly how you want.
So, mess around with these blend modes over here,
and you're going to be able to do some really cool things just by capturing your chat window,
and this removes all of the big pain in the butt stuff that you have to go through to use
Stream Labs or Stream Elements to put your chat in here,
when it never really seems to work the way you want it to work
anyways, and half the time it doesn't show up.
This is an easy solution for that. Now,
if you use a PC, there is a really cool app that's going to allow you to
display individual chats on your live stream,
like a lower third, it's free as well.
So if you want to know more, you should check this video out.
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So thanks. And if you're always looking
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Thank you so much for watching. Have a great day,
and I'll see you in the next one.