- Welcome to the new gaming career studio.
I will have a video going through everything new
in the coming weeks,
but today we're going to be talking about OBS Studio
and a plugin that's come out in 2021.
I think a lot of you are going to really enjoy,
especially those that like to push the limits
of production value for your live streams.
So what this new OBS plugin allows you to do
is completely customized the transitions
that are used depending on what scene transitioning from
and what scene you're transitioning to.
And I can see some of you rolling your eyes
and saying, "Pete, you already told us
about transition override in your OBS advanced tips video."
No, no, no.
This is a whole new level of customization
transition override only lets you set a custom transition
to use when you switch to a specific scene
but it doesn't matter which scene you switch from.
This plugin takes into account
the scene you are transitioning from,
as well as the senior transitioning to
so you can completely customize your live stream.
So as an example,
let's say you want to show a stinger transition
when you're going from a starting soon scene
to your gameplay scene,
but you want a different transition to show
when you're going from a chatting scene
to your gameplay scene.
That is what this plugin allows you to do.
It's super simple to set up
and it's going to help you stand out
from all the competition with that next level of production.
So let's dive in.
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Okay, so the first thing we need to do
is actually install the plugin into OBS Studio.
So to do that, head to the link that I've included
down in the description down below.
It'll take you to this page here on the OBS website,
where we can see the plugin and actually download
and install it.
And we can see it's been developed by Excel DRO,
who's the same person behind the move transition plugin
that I've covered in a couple of videos,
but you want to come up to the link here
at where it says, download.
You have a few different options.
You can use an installer.
If you don't know exactly where you've installed OBS Studio
or you can just drag across the plugins folders
from a zip file as well.
Once those files have finished installing
you'll need to relaunch OBS Studio
if you already had it open.
And if you come up to the tools menu here
you should see a new option here called transition table
which means that everything has installed successfully.
Before we dive into the options of the transition table,
let's have a look at actually the scene setup
they have here in OBS studio.
So I have four different scenes,
the starting soon scene and intermission scene
which has my webcam in it,
the end game scene,
which is actually where I play my game play
and an ending scene when I am finished streaming.
As you can see right now,
as I swap between these scenes
it's just using a simple cut transition.
So there's no fade,
there's no stinger transition
it's just a simple cut
no matter which scene I'm transitioning from or to.
If I came over to the default OBS studio options
to change the scene transition
and change this from say a cut to a fade
with a duration of 500 milliseconds.
Now, whenever I change between scenes
you can see uses a fade transition
over a duration of 500 milliseconds.
So for the majority of people watching
you're probably using a stinger transition
something a little bit more advanced.
So if I select my gaming career stinger,
you'll see now as I swap it between scenes here
it will share my gaming careers, a stinger
and then the same transition will happen in the background.
But that happens no matter which scene
I'm transitioning from or to.
So what if I didn't actually want that?
What if I only wanted to show the stinger transition?
When I was transitioning
from the stream is starting soon scene.
When this countdown timer say reaches zero
I want to do then show the stinger transition
and move to a different scene.
But whenever I was transitioning between my end game scene
and my intermission scene,
whilst I was streaming
I didn't want the stinger to show every single time
because it's quite lengthy.
Well, that is where the transition table plugin comes in.
So if we just go back to the scene transitions options here
and change this back to the default cut
and then we can open up the transition table plugin here
by clicking on this option in the tools menu.
So as you can see here, we have no rules currently set up.
So let's add our first row on that example I just mentioned.
So what I want to say here
is whenever I'm swapping
from my stream is starting soon scene to any other scene.
So it doesn't matter which scene I'm transitioning to.
I'm going to select any here.
I want to use the gaming careers,
stinger transition.
And you don't need to worry about the duration
when you're talking about stinger transitions,
because you've already set that up
when you added the stinger transition.
So then all we need to do is click set.
And if we close this down
you can see now it's added an option to the table.
If we close this down,
you'll see no matter where we transition from
this starting soon scene to,
is always going to use the stinger transition.
But if we go from say in games intermission
it's just going to use a cut
or intermission back to starting is going to use a cut.
So it's always using the stinger transition
when we're going from our starting soon scene
to any other scene.
So let's add a second rule
to the transition table plugin,
come back into the options.
And our second rule is going to be
if we're going from our intermission to our game scene
we want to be using the actual transition
that came included in this graphic pack from Nerdo dye
which is the cybernetic stinger.
And again, we don't need to worry about the duration
because it's a stinger.
We can click set and whilst we're here
let's just do the opposite.
So if we're going from, endgame to our intermission,
again we want to use the cybernetic stinger.
So click set there as well.
So if we close that down now,
you'll see that if we go back to our starting soon scene
it just cuts
because we have no rule about going to that scene,
we go from starting to say intermission,
it should use a stinger.
And then if we go from intermission to end game
it's going to use the stinger that was included
in this pack.
And if we go from end game to an intermission
we'll use the same stinger.
So everything is working exactly as we wanted.
Let's add a final rule to the transition table plugin.
So the final one that I'm going to do
is when I am finishing my stream
I want to have a transition when I'm going
from any scene to my ending scene.
So it doesn't matter which scene I'm transitioning from.
If I'm going to my ending scene
I want to use the Luma wipe transition
over a duration of 500 milliseconds.
And you can change this because Luma wipe
is one of the ones where you can actually change
the duration here.
So let's say we want to go to 700 milliseconds
and then click set.
And that means that no matter which scene I'm on
if I go to my ending scene
it's going to use that Luma wipe transition.
So in terms of the actual plugin controls
that's pretty much it
really the creativity in control
is completely down to you as to how you use this.
But we'll give a few tips
just from using the plugin over the past week or so.
So if we open it up,
one thing I will say is
make use of the any option here to save yourself
from adding like five or six different rules.
If you're wanting to apply a rule to transition
to a scene or from a scene,
and it's always going to be standard
then make sure you use the any rule here.
Also worth noting,
if you ever want to delete any rules,
you can select as many as you want
down here on the right hand side
and then come to here to delete them,
if you do want to remove them.
If you have a really complex OBS studio setup
and you have, you know,
dozens of rules that you've written into this table,
it can be useful to filter them
if you want to see or remove a certain one.
So you can use these as sort of filters
if you want to see all the scenes
all the transitions that are transitioning
from your starting soon scene,
you can just select that here
and then it'll show all the rules down below in the table.
One thing to note is it's really important
I think to have your scenes named properly.
There's nothing more confusing
than opening up the transition table plugin
to see scenes named scene one, scene two, scene two copy
and then trying to work out which scene is actually which.
So name your scenes properly.
Use labels like games starting, ending like I have
and it makes this whole process a lot easier.
Finally, just get creative with it
make some really cool stinger transitions.
And you're no longer limited
by having to think of stinger transitions
that will apply to your whole stream
because you can apply each stinger transition uniquely.
So get really creative of how you're going to transition
from your intermission scene to your game scene
or to your just chatting or to your be right back.
You can really afford to get creative
in programs like Adobe after effects.
And of course, I do have a video
about building a stinger transition
if you are interested in learning how to do that.
Thanks so much for watching the video.
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And if you haven't
yet checked out the Gaming Careers Podcast
I'd highly recommend doing so it's a show that I do weekly
with Ben green,
and we have a video version and an audio version.
So if you're an audio podcast listener
just search gaming career podcast on any app of choice.
And if you're a video watch
or you want to see mine and Ben's faces,
we do have a separate YouTube channel
called Gaming Careers Podcast
which I'll leave a link down in the description.
Catch you the next one.
Peace.
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