hello and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're having a great day uh you're here because you're
going to import your obs studio scenes and overlays into streamlabs obs so you've decided
you want to make the switch from over your studio streamlabs obs if you're trying to do it the other
way around you want your slobs scenes in your obs studio scenes check the link in the description
you've got the wrong video the one in the description that's the one you need
so in this video very very short i'm going to go through where you can locate and then import the
scenes from obs studio into streamlabs obs just to save you a little bit of time if you're making a
transition and to save you from having to build all of your scenes one by one so anyone that's
using any streaming software looking to transition from one to the other if it's obs studio to
something else you'll probably find this useful if you're specifically looking to get to streamlabs
obs this is the perfect video the reason is within the video i'll also show exactly where the json
files will be located for obs studio and also for streamlabs obs so you can then import them to
say xsplit or obs live or whatever so yeah if you do find this useful feel free to give it a
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check me out twitch.tv forward slash machine dana otherwise i think we're ready let's go
okay we are here in obs studio first things first i'm actually going to open up the
scene collections folder just in case you have any issues with doing this
from either way around actually from slobs to obs studio obs studio to slobs obviously
this is specifically obs to slobs the default location of your streamlabs obs scene collections
users backslash your name with the space in between or whatever your pc name is called
app data now if you click into the users folder you may not see app data and if you don't see app
data you simply just have to type it once you get into the roaming file here i'll just demonstrate
you can click into slobs client and then scene collections and the scene collections that are
already there for streamlabs obs are located there just for reference it's the same default location
for obs studio except instead of clicking on slobs client we're clicking on obs studio basic
and scenes and it's these json files here if you right click and properties it's these json files
that are the relevant files i'll link both of them in the description below so that you can
see and type it and paste it and do whatever but the reason why i'm mentioning this if
you've changed the location of obs studio or streamlabs obs this could cause a complication
if you're trying to automatically do this through the method that i'm going to show you you may need
to reinstall streamlabs obs and or obs studios and then if you install it in the default locations it
should find it from one to the other and that might seem like a real ball lake but trust me
that's gonna be a lot better than rebuilding all of your scenes one by one it'll take a lot less
time so within obs studio if you simply want to export the data you want to export the file
to a location for instance the desktop saying it already exists i'm going to replace it that's now
created a file on the desktop which can then be imported into another broadcasting software
however there is an easier way so if you're in streamlabs obs because you've downloaded
that and that's the software you now want to use from obs studio we simply want to go
into the section in the bottom left-hand corner this will be the scenes area now if
you don't see this section here just click on the layout editor on the left hand side here
and make sure that you've got the scene selector within this area you may not have that in your
area i don't know why you wouldn't have that but if you don't it'll be listed on the side here and
you can just drag it and drop it into a relevant area and even change the layout of streamlabs obs
so we left click on this we click manage all now we're not going to try and locate that file and
import it i only really showed that to illustrate that you can set it as a file a json file mainly
for people not using streamlabs obs within streamlabs obs if we just click import from obs
it takes a few seconds it looks for the known locations of all of the scene
collections that you've got in obs studios and what streamlabs obs will do now is it
will locate those files and re-point to those collections so streamlabs obs here has found
my machine data spring 2021 the fact that we can see that it's updated a few seconds ago
shows that this is a new file however if you wanted to make it even clearer you
could easily go into obs studio go into the scene collection and simply rename
the collection that you're in so if i rename this for instance to something like
slobs import that will then make it clearer that the scene collection is within streamlabs
obs because the name of the scene collection will be there so now that we've got those imported we
should be able to now select the scene collection by left-clicking from here it'll take a few
seconds to import all of that information and now i now have all of these scenes that were visible
in obs studio you're still gonna have to configure your camera you're still gonna have to configure
your microphone and a few other little bits and pieces but it does mean you'll save a lot of
time if you're simply looking to switch software without doing all the scene changes and things
like that you simply want to replicate a to b one of the reasons people use obs studio is because
of the plugins and a lot of those plugins and functions are not available in streamlabs obs
that's not so much of a problem for some people but for some people if you do have a load of
filters and specific plugins that you've used on obs studio they will not apply in streamlabs obs
you will not be able to do a lot of those things the like special effects and things like that
within streamlabs obs and that of course is one of the benefits of streamlabs obs in that it's
a simplified piece of software whereas obs studio is a little bit more flexible due to plugins and
things like that so it's got its pros and cons depending on what you prefer to use there's
just something to bear in mind the reason why i mentioned this is that things aren't going to look
quite the same way as they did in obs studio if you've used a lot of different filters and special
effects and things like that however if you stuck to the basics straightforward media files
images and browser sources all of those things should port over and it should work absolutely
fine for you there you have it how you can export from obs studio to streamlabs obs or any other
software as well if you use the json files let me know if you saved your time let me know if
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