hello and welcome it's machine day and i hope you're doing really really well today i'm
going to show you a video about how you can add stream labels to your stream now if you're new
to streaming or even if you're not but you just want to learn how to add stream labels onto your
stream then this is definitely the video for you stream labels if you didn't know uh i'll just show
you these things here just under me so in my case i've got the latest follower and subscriber from
twitch here on this side i've got the latest bits and dollar donation to me you can have these they
stay static on your page and they update as the events that take place on your stream get updated
these labels will stay on your stream if you apply them and every time somebody new subscribes or
bits or doughnos or follows you or whatever it is that you've got a label for they will update
on your stream so stream labels differ from event lists in that event lists will just show the most
recent events no matter what those events are so for example an event list would be bits donation
bits donation bits donation it will show three bits donations whereas static labels will only
show what you define there and more often than not that's like a new follower new bits donation or
whatever it's one of each i have done a separate video on event lists so check the link in the
description if you want to figure out how to do that if you do find this video useful i'd very
much appreciate a thumbs up on the video feel free to subscribe if you'd like and if you want to ask
me any questions at all check me out at twitch.tv or slash machine dana let's get into it okay
so for my stream labels i'm going to be showing today how you use streamlabs online and there are
two methods that you can use for this method one is if you use streamlabs the streaming software
it is integrated as part of the software and it's actually quite easy to just apply to your stream
and configure and there's lots of different ways that you can figure it and i'll go through some
of those things in this video the second method is that you actually download an application to your
desktop if you're not using streamlabs and that enables a text file to be generated and that text
file can be read by your streaming software pull that text data and display it on your stream and
of course that can then be amended and customized however your streaming software allows it to be
for instance font sizes colours outlines and that kind of thing so first i'm going to show method
one which is if you are using streamlabs obs how to integrate it into your stream from there and
there are a lot of options here like a lot of options on how you can customize it first things
first you will need to register with streamlabs online regardless of whether using the streamlabs
obs version or the non-streamlabs obs version to do that you simply visit streamlabs.com you can
use your twitch credentials or your youtube credentials to log in and then it links your
streaming data to essentially an online web hook and then that just allows the data to be pulled
from your twitch and then essentially pushed into the text file if you've downloaded it or the same
type of thing with streamlabs obs so the way you locate stream labels is within the widgets section
now they do tend to change the layout a little bit within streamlabs online so if you can't see it on
the left-hand side just do a search for it within streamlabs in the search bar but you're looking
for all widgets and then you need to look for the stream labels widget now here's where you will
download the application if you are not running streamlabs obs which will place the text file on
your computer and allow you to navigate and read that text file however if you're using streamlabs
obs i'll show you now exactly how you can set that up so within streamlabs obs add stream
labels you simply go to your desired scene click add source here so you just need to scroll down
on the widgets section here to stream labels now with stream labels you can add as many of these
as you want it doesn't have to be just a singular label you can have three or four or whatever so
we want to add source here now if you've already got stream labels activated on your streamlabs
obs for instance if you've activated it through maybe a downloadable set of themes or assets
you may see some existing sources here for labels in which case you can just use them and configure
them or if you're adding new ones you simply click on the add new source instead you can name it if
you want for instance new follower and click add source so here we need to then now select
and configure this to your liking for your stream in streamlabs obs so here we want the most recent
follower now as you can see here there's a hell of a lot of options and you may just
pick and choose the ones that you actually want to add all time top donor session top donor 30
day top dota all kinds of different flexibilities built into this i remember this pulls from the api
via the stream labs online from your twitch account or from your youtube gaming account
you can also add extra cool things such as the total follow account or session followers the
number of followers you've had today i'm gonna go for the most recent follower here now that's the
actual template there that's used but you can also add some extra text here if you want for instance
test and you get a preview of what it looks like on underneath it and here's the actual source
itself if you wanted to see what that looks like there actually on your streamlabs obs now we can
choose to actually set the font and the size and all the rest of it now one thing to just bear in
mind when you're setting the font size you want to be trying to get the font size about right
you don't want to set it really small and then drag it to resize it too large because by doing
that you're going to pixelate it what you'll then be doing is let's say for instance setting a 10
font and resizing it to a 100 font you're going to get some pixelation there it's better to set
it to 100 font and then just make the fine tuning on the text size once you've got it
you set the font style such as italic bowl all that kind of stuff you can set the font size
using the dragger here and i'll just illustrate my point there if i set a size 10 and then drag it
it goes very very blurry like that you can add anti-aliasing if you don't know what anti-aliasing
what this is is it kind of like blurs the very edges and outlines of the text and just makes it
a little bit more smooth looking i would probably recommend enabling anti-aliasing you transform the
text to the upper lower or start case you can make it vertical if you want just quite an interesting
design technique potentially and here's where you can set the color with a hex value or you can just
select from the picker say pink like that you can then set how opaque you want the text to be so
how transparent and you can even add a background color if you want you can align the text left or
right or center if you've got quite a lot of text not so relevant if it's just like one
label and then you can do other things as well such as an outline outlines can look quite good
if you're looking for some good contrast and you can set the outline size as well for instance one
and it just gives a tiny outline which can make all the difference in certain backgrounds
obviously you can set the outline color as well you can now resize this and place it wherever you
want and just for information you can add another source called text gdi plus and that allows you to
actually add just plain text if you want and allows you to literally type the text
that you want and again format this in a very similar way to the way you've typed the
labels now this will simply update every single time i get a new follower but i may also want
to add other things like a top down donor or whatever it's up to you your creativity here
obviously comes into it and it's very much a personal preference thing
now the second way of doing this if you're not using streamlabs obs is to download a client
for instance if you're on windows download the windows application here within the streamlabs.com
dashboard for stream labels which is under widgets i'm not going to show you exactly how to do this
here because it'll just install an application and place an actual text file wherever you choose it
to be placed but just for illustration purposes i'm going to add a new text document and call
it test i'm going to go into this test document here and just write machine dana as though i'm
a new follower i'll save that we now have a text document i'm basically replicating what
that application does because i don't particularly want to install it because i do use streamlabs obs
and now within your software i'm going to demonstrate in streamlabs obs but you can also do
this in xsplit you can also do this in obs studio and various others you can add a text source as i
showed earlier create a new text source you can name it such as new follower now what we want to
select here is read from file now selecting read from file allows us to browse to a file that has
been placed by the application that you've just installed in this case i'm going to read my text
file and as that file gets changed and updated the text file streamlabs obs or your preferred
software will read the new data in that file now a lot of different widgets are made in this
way using text files and text data for instance countdown timers from snars and a few others and
you get all the same options in terms of gradients transforming text outlines things like that
and there you have it what i'm doing now is i'm just opening up the notepad and i'm actually
going to amend the data here machine dana is cool because that's probably like my art to name or
something now this is not updated yet because i've not saved it but as soon as i save this
this will update there you go it updated if it's not updated for you might just want to try
using the eye picker and renewing it like that or even just going into the properties by right
clicking and browsing to the file again but more than likely it will update on its own
so that's it how to add stream labels to your stream using streamlabs obs or even using obs
studio or xsplit or any other software that can read from a text file there's
loads of different ways you can use this i'm really keen to find out how you guys
actually implement this on your stream feel free to leave comments and let me know how creatively
you are using this me personally i just have the labels on there but i probably could do
a lot more with it on my stream and maybe i will in due course once again if you found
this useful feel free to thumbs up the video and subscribe and i'll see you guys later take care