Another day, another big OBS update. These always make me so happy - new tools,
new features, new possibilities for streamers. This one includes some additions that may seem
small but were pretty big updates to implement, and I’m stoked to cover it. Today we’re talking
about OBS version 27, which is now (at the time of recording) in beta, fully releasing soon.
I’m EposVox the Stream Professor and the OBS devs have been hard at work upgrading our
favorite streaming software. Here’s 10 updates you need to know about in no particular order.
RTX Voice Nvidia’s RTX Voice
noise suppression tech has been added directly into OBS for users with Nvidia Turing or Ampere
RTX graphics cards. This requires installing the Audio Effects SDK for Nvidia Broadcast from here.
Then you add a filter to your microphone audio source, choose Noise Suppression,
and then Nvidia Noise Removal from the list and adjust the intensity. This means you no longer
need the RTX Voice app running on your machine and keeps it limited to OBS, which can be very handy.
This works as it has for the past year or two as I’ve covered previously. The only
thing I will note is that it still shows up even if you don’t have the SDK installed,
it just won’t do anything. This will probably change by time this version comes out of beta.
Missing Files Dialog This is huge and something I have requested
for a long time. Now, whenever you launch OBS, it will prompt you with a “missing files”
dialog box which will list any file-based sources that are no longer accessible - so media sources,
images and so on - and give you the option to relink them in place. Moving OBS between PCs or
even accidentally changing a file location can wreak havoc on your stream layouts and
this helps you fix them quickly. Adobe has had a menu like this for Premiere for ages,
and the OBS equivalent is just as powerful. Relocating missing files will be a huge
timesaver for me, personally. A nice quality of life upgrade
to this would be a button (or double-click) that lets you jump to where that source is
in your layout to make sure you swap the correct file for what it’s intended for.
Fixed StreamCam Rotation I’ve received no shortage of
comments and emails from Logitech StreamCam owners who mount their StreamCams parallel to the ground
and the auto-rotate function keeps causing it to spin out or act wild in OBS. OBS 27 includes
a fix for that to help lock it into place. This applies to any video capture devices
which support auto-rotation, but the StreamCam is the only one I’m aware of at this time.
Source-specific visibility transitions One of the most-requested OBS features
is here! You can now manually specify separate show and hide transitions for each individual
source in a scene, allowing you to set up much more dynamic scene switching and source reveals.
You can then either manually switch sources around for a second layer of transitioning within a
scene - combined with actual scene transitioning - or set up delayed reveals of specific sources,
or multi-action macros to reveal each source one at a time after a scene has been changed.
It’s really powerful stuff and I have a whole video showing this off, linked below.
Undo/Redo System Now this IS the most-requested
OBS feature I’ve ever seen. StreamLabs has had it for a while, and OBS finally gets undo
and redo support in OBS 27. This is focused on the canvas area - so source and scene deletion,
transform settings, filters, and etc. - but won’t work for settings in the settings menu.
This is going to save a lot of streamers a lot of headache,
though we’ve certainly already dealt with that headache for quite a while already.
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Laptop & Dual GPU Fixes
OBS 27 comes with a couple fixes for laptop and dual GPU users. First and foremost, there’s better
detection of laptops and systems with multiple GPUs when it comes to deciding which to run on
and which source methods to use - and this is paired with a new Display Capture method called
“Windows Graphics Capture” or WGC, which can capture across multiple GPUs and hitches less
than the old DXGI way of capturing. This type of capture was implemented
in a previous update for Window and Game Capture to help with UWP apps and Vulkan games,
and is now available for full Display Capture as well. This will help laptop users avoid black
screens and stubborn dual GPU desktop users have a little bit of an easier time, too.
WGC can still experience the issue of a yellow border showing up to the user
(but not on stream) around captured sources, but the Insider builds of Windows 10 already
include a fix to remove that, so it won’t be an issue once new Windows updates sort it out.
MacOS Fixes MacOS sees some fixes
in this OBS update, too! There’s some specific bug fixes for Apple Silicon Macs - though OBS
is not yet M1 native. That’s being worked on but is not finished for this specific update.
Mac users do see the addition of hardware-accelerated decoding for
media sources. H264 and H265 sources should play back much more smoothly in OBS on Mac now.
DX12 hook fixes Warzone has been a massive
thorn in many streamers’ sides - even pushing me back to dual PC when I have hardware generally
capable of handling single PC just fine. Frames appearing out of order, hitching, stuttering,
issues hooking the game at all - the DirectX12 only game has had a lot of issues being captured
(along with its own slew of bugs, glitches, and optimization issues). But have no fear!
A fix for hooking DirectX12 games has been implemented that should fix this right up!
Virtual Camera on System Tray Controls to start and stop the Virtual Camera
have now been added to the system tray. Just a little thing that was weirdly missing before.
Track Matte stinger transition support Stinger transitions received a massive
upgrade in this new OBS version, allowing you to mask out parts of a stinger transition to show the
next scene underneath the previous one, instead of just hard-cutting at a specific point. This will
be really powerful as I explained in my dedicated video on it, linked below. Here’s an example.
I also wanted to mention that OBS also got a launch flag for shortcuts to disable High DPI
scaling for scenarios where that bugs out, as well as support for the new open source streaming site
Glimesh - which was a concern since they use FTL and FTL just got deprecated.
Linux builds of OBS get Wayland support for upcoming distro releases that will
be defaulting to Wayland soon. Lastly, an “interact” button has
been added to the source toolbar to make it easy to interact with browser sources. Nice!
Overall, this is a phenomenal update with some specific,
much-needed changes and a couple really cool new tools.
Which update is your favorite? Comment down below. Otherwise, drop-kick that like button, get
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I’m EposVox, your stream professor, and i’ll see you next time.