What's up guys welcome back once again
to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel.
In today's video we're going to be talking
about scene transitions for your live stream.
So when you go from a scene like your game scene back
to your intermission scene actually having a transition
between those two scenes and why you'd want to do that.
Scene transitions might seem like an unnecessary
and maybe an unnoticeable aspect of your stream.
But if you pay a little bit more attention to some
of the top streamers on Twitch, you'll notice
that most of them are using some sort of Stinger
to seamlessly transition between game
and intermission scenes.
Not only do these subtle transitions add
to your production value but they can also help reinforce
your branding and make for a more engaging stream
for your viewers.
In this video we're going to be talking about
how you can set up OBS to use these scene transitions
to up the production level of your live stream.
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There are quite a few different options
for scene transitions in OBS studio;
fade, cut, swipe,
slide, a custom stinger
which we'll talk more about later fade color and Luma Wipe.
To find and to set up these scene transitions
you need to open up OBS and come down
to the scene transitions section.
And you should see here a couple of options already
in the drop down by default fade and cut.
But as I mentioned there's a few others that you can add.
You add those by using this plus icon,
you can remove any of the scene transitions
by using the minus icon and there's also a settings cog
which will bring up the properties
of the selected scene transition.
And also for fade and for some of the other transitions
you have the option to set a duration
for how long the transition will take.
If you add the Luma Wipe transition
and open up the properties, you'll actually see
that there's over 30 different transition options
to choose from.
And although some of them remind me
of those transitions used to get on old editing programs
like Windows Movie Maker.
But this actually work really well and look pretty awesome.
So I definitely recommend going through this long list
and seeing if anything appeals to you.
You don't need to close down the properties window
to test each transition.
Simply swap scenes in the background to see how it looks
and then move on to the next Luma Wipe
in the list and test that.
Write down the names of any of the ones that you'd like,
it really doesn't take long to get through the list of 30
or so that are included.
You'll also get the option to invert the transition
if you want to as well as a way to change the softness
of the edges of the transition image shape.
Before we get into stinger transitions which I know
a lot of you are interested in, it's worth mentioning
that a couple of updates ago OBS added the ability
to set default scene transitions for specific scenes.
This is particularly useful if you want to use simple cuts
when you're changing camera angles or maybe you're using one
of those three steps zooms that a lot of people use
but you want a more advanced stinger transition
when you're going between say your game
and your intermission scenes.
To set a default transition all you need to do
is simply right-click the scene
you want to set the transition to.
Go down to select Transition Override
and then pick the transition you want to use from the list.
Now I imagine most of you are interested
in the stinger transition 'cause this allows you
to add a completely custom video with transparency
to be played as the transition between two different scenes.
OBS will play this video overlaid on top
of your current scene and then swap to a new scene
a specific frame or specific time in the video
to make sure that things appear seamless.
It's worth noting though that this does add
some complexity to your OBS setup.
And so this will definitely have a higher impact on your PC
than if you were just using a simple transition
like a fade, a slide or a Luma Wipe.
Now specifically how a stinger transition works
is that the video file will have some transparent sections
to it at the start and at the end.
Which is where you'll see your current
and your next scenes through.
At some point near the middle of the stinger transition,
the video should take up a fill the whole frame
with no transparency.
And this is where you can set the actual scene transition
in OBS to take place in the background.
To actually create your own stinger
is a relatively complex process that really requires
some more advanced video editing software
like Adobe After Effects.
Am well aware that I haven't covered any After Effects
on this channel before but if there is a demand
from the Gaming Careers community to learn
how to specifically do that and create your own stingers,
do let me know down in the comments and I'll be sure
to create a video that specifically
about how to create your own custom stinger
in After Effects.
But the good news is, is that there are many different free
and cheap stingers available to download from the internet
that you can have and add to your live stream today.
So to demonstrate actually how you setup OBS
to use a custom stinger,
I'll be using the new Arcade Pop Stinger from NerdOrDie
which you can also download for free.
You just need to select free extras from the drop-down
and that includes these stingers.
So once those have finished downloading,
you need to head over to OBS and look
for the scene transition settings
and you want to be clicking the plus icon
to add a new stinger transition.
Name this whatever you want and a reminder that you can add
more than one stinger, so it's worth naming it properly
something that's going to make you realize which stinger
you are editing.
Next you'll want to actually browse
to the video file the actual web M stinger file
that you have downloaded.
So find where you downloaded the stingers
and extracted them to a certain folder
and make sure that you're adding the video file
that you want to whether it's a purple, light or dark.
Next you have this option for Transition Point Type
and the options here are time in milliseconds or frame.
And this is the actual point in the video
where the video fills the whole frame
and there's no transparency.
So this is the point that you're telling OBS
to actually switch the scene in the background.
So if you know the exact time
that, that happens in milliseconds
or the exact frame that, that happens in the video,
you just want to select which one of those it is.
For these if you are following along and have downloaded
these Arcade Pop scene transition stingers
then you want to set time and the time is 500 milliseconds
is where the actual transition happens.
Finally Audio Monitoring.
This is just whether or not you as the broadcaster
want to hear the audio of the transition.
So some of these stingers come with audio
and if you want to be able to hear that yourself
as well as your stream hearing it then you can set this
to monitor and output.
If you don't want to hear it yourself
because you're going to be changing scene so often
then you of course can choose monitor off
so it only gets sent out to your stream.
And then finally you have Audio Fade Style.
This is how you want the audio to fade from scene to scene.
So say you are playing a game in your game scene
and you have an intermission scene
with some background music, how do you want the audio
to fade between the two scenes as you transition.
So you can choose to either Fade Out and Fade In
of the new scene or you can choose to Crossfade
so it has a little bit more of a mix
and it's completely up to you.
So once you are happy you can click okay
to close down the properties.
And then test out the scene transition by swapping scenes
within OBS and hopefully you should see
that the transition happens as the stinger
has covered the whole of the screen
and it should look really seamless.
Of course if you are using the audio
as well in the stinger transitions, make sure
that you've got the level right
in your audio mixer in OBS just to make sure
that it's balanced with the rest of the audio
and your microphone and things like that.
But that is how you do scene transitions in OBS.
So hopefully now you are using some scene transitions
in OBS and just adding that little bit of professionalism
to your live streams.
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