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OBS has been a live streaming staple for a very long time.
And while there are alternative streaming tools out there, none of
them really has the features and functionality or the price point,
free, that OBS has.
But now there's another option.
Poly pop is pretty new and it offers a lot of the same features that
OBS does, and some really nice new features that you can't find
anywhere else.
So how do these free products stack up?
I'm really excited to find out.
So you know what?
Let's get to it.
I think first I'm gonna show you how similar these packages really
are.
So let's look at what they can both do.
So here in OBS, I'm just gonna run through my normal stream.
So we've got the intro and the countdown timer.
Then I always flip over to my branding bumper, which brings us into
the main screen.
And then I have my tutorial screen and I have my ending bumper.
And if we flip over into Poly Pop, you can see I've got my intro and
my countdown timer and my branding bumper, which can easily flip over
into my main scene, which pretty much looks exactly the same.
My tutorial scene, which looks very similar.
And of course our end screen.
They both do a lot of the same things.
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Now, let's look at things that make Poly Pop and OBS different.
The first thing you'll notice here is we have a last donation in OBS,
but if I flip over to Poly Pop, our last donation is missing and
that's because right now, Poly Pop doesn't have any built in donation
service.
Now, OBS doesn't have it built in either, but in OBS you would use
something like stream elements, which of course you can also use in
Poly Pop.
But the other two last subscriber and last super chat are actually
built into Poly Pop, which makes it really easy.
And then if I go over here into our tutorial, you can see that we
don't have any fancy things set up right out of the box, but we'll
show you how we can add something like that in a minute.
Over here in OBS, we have fancy dynamic cameras.
You'll also notice here in OBS, when I switch scenes, we get this
really cool stinger.
Whereas over in Poly Pop, we don't have any stinger services just yet.
If we go in and compare the settings, we certainly do get a lot more
options to optimize and change up.
Or at least it appears so in OBS, whereas over in Poly Pop, the menu
system is separated out more.
You have control individually over each asset and all of the stream
settings are down here at the bottom.
Now you have the ability to add any of the assets that you could
possibly imagine.
And you can see right here that I did switch up my camera in Poly Pop.
So while we don't have the nifty dynamic spikey camera, we have all
kinds of different shapes that we can set our camera up as, and even
add some rotiserie to it.
And it makes it really easy to add multiple cameras into poly pop as
well.
Just like you can in OBS.
Now, some of the things that you get in OBS are all the incredible
plugins.
This one right here is the move transition plugin.
Another really cool one is the one I mentioned before where we get
this dynamic cloud mask on our main camera.
And over here, we get this really cool rotating spike camera over in
Poly pop, we can do different things with the cameras.
So in this case, I have my chat set up as a 3d box and I have my
camera set up as a 3d box.
And at any point in time, these can be triggered to break maybe
through chat or through some kind of alert with your subscribers or
something.
And that enables you to break these cameras and create all kinds of
really crazy 3d effects.
And you can do it not just on cameras, but on any asset, just like I
do here for the chat, which isn't showing up because I'm not actually
live streaming.
And then over here, I set up this camera on a little polygon and it
rotates.
And if I go in here, you can see that you can mount this camera on of
a number of shapes that are already included in Poly Pop.
Any one of these shapes, you can put a camera on and it would look
fantastic.
Poly Pop also just like OBS does have integration into your stream
deck.
So you can use your stream deck to change scenes and do all kinds of
cool things in Poly Pop.
The other thing that Poly Pop has just like OBS is a virtual camera.
So I can create this 3d text layer.
I can go into OBS and I can add it as a camera and I can make it
transparent by selecting B G R A and I can use it right here.
So even if you are not interested in switching from OBS to Poly Pop,
because some of the features that you're looking for aren't there,
that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't use some of these amazing
Poly Pop features with OBS, especially if you have a stream deck,
because you can integrate them in really easily with the stream that
you already have.
I know hardcore OBS users are probably not going to switch from OBS
to Poly Pop, at least not right now.
It's gonna need to mature a bit, add transitions and more audio
control before it really gets there.
But there are effects that most people would really love to use in
OBS.
For new streamers, somehow they always seem to stumble on stream labs.
Poly Pop is a much better option.
It's really easy to use, and it has the same built in functionality
that stream labs does in a much more fun package.
I hope that new streamers find Poly Pop before stream labs to start
their streaming journey.
If they do, we're gonna get a lot of cool, unique streams that push
the limits of what's possible with live streaming.
And that's always good.
Poly Pop is also so new that it's rapidly changing and upgrading all
the time.
Transitions and donations are things that are already in the works and
they're gonna be on one of the next few builds.
It's pretty exciting to see a new streaming app that's so unique and
different, powerful, and also a lot of fun to use.
So you should check it out.
It's a lot of fun.
If you want a deeper look at setting up alerts in Poly Pop, you should
check this video out.
Big thanks to today's sponsor OWN3D.
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My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.