getting everything set up in streamlabs obs can be pretty confusing and streaming isn't meant to
be confusing it is meant to be fun right today you'll go from having absolutely nothing set
up to having this awesome overlay setup as well as understanding how to add customize and edit
every single thing you need and want inside streamlabs obs let's go
not only are you gonna go from an absolute beginner who knows nothing about streamlabs
over yesterday and become an absolute pro but i'm also going to sneak in a bunch of small little
tips that you probably don't know about that are going to blow your mind i'll be covering
every single step you need but most importantly i'll also be referencing a playlist that is in my
description you see streamlabs obs is incredibly complex at the end of the day and if you want to
learn how to deep dive into things like stream labels alerts and all those things well don't
worry you'll get a beginner's understanding today and then when you're ready to deep dive
you can check out the playlist in the description there are also time codes in the description so
you can skip ahead to whatever section you're specifically trying to set up and get it running
but most importantly in the description is a link to our sponsor own.tv owned.tv are
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go and support owned with the link in the description get yourself set up with a full
animated or static overlay pack and then you can come back and use this video to completely edit
and customize the entire thing so let's get into the nitty gritty of setting up streamlabs obs for
an absolute beginner when you first install streamlabs you'll most likely have either a
blank slate or you may have already taken a few steps ahead and installed a template overlay for
this i want to make sure that everyone is working from a blank slate so what we're going to do is
come down to the bottom left click this little drop down as shown on screen click manage all
and then once it opens click create new this will add a whole new blank stream lab setup
now don't worry if you did set up a template it is not completely gone if you want to swap back
go to the same process but don't click new instead click the overlay that you were on originally
okay let's give you a quick tour of streamlabs obs and then i'll deep dive into everything but
first you need to know your way around in the middle you have your display window this is
what you'd be broadcasting to twitch if you were live or if you were recording this is what you'd
be recording if we look below our display we also have our event feed this shows when people follow
sub or any other actions such as raids hosts or if you have streamlabs donations set up this is also
where those will appear below that we have three boxes on the far left we have scenes you'll set up
different scenes for different reasons for example you'll need a scene for gaming a scene for going
to be right back or a scene for just chatting to your viewers if we had those three scenes i just
mentioned already set up and we clicked between them then we would actually be transitioning
between the scenes in the middle we have sources these are the assets you have added to the scene
you've got selected on the left and on the right we have the mixer these are your audio sources
that will be transmitted out you can also control and edit the audio of those sources from here now
don't worry i know that sounds like a lot to take in i'll be deep diving into every single one of
these boxes throughout the video first you just need to know what is what so you can actually find
them when i mention them if we go further to the right and then up to the middle you can click on
this little arrow here which opens up your chat meaning you're able to read anything that comes
into your twitch chat while you are live or just in general while you have this open so now you
know where everything on the basic tour is i will also mention though that if you're struggling to
learn how to get your settings correct and make sure your stream is crystal clear and not laggy
then i really recommend the playlist in the description because it has a video there
all about streaming settings and all about how to diagnose why you might be lagging or why
you might not have the perfect quality for your stream so i'm going to show you how to install
this entire overlay in less than six clicks but first we need to start at the very basics so you
guys can understand how to edit and customize things by yourself later as i said on the
left we have our scene list i also mentioned that you'll be making scenes for different purposes for
example let's start out with a game scene now you should already have a default scene set up you can
right click it and rename it to the game scene now i might be setting up a game scene but i'll cover
everything you need to know to build any scene you want now that we've renamed this to game scene in
the middle we have our sources sources are all the media that are inside this particular scene
right now it is empty but if we click this plus sign here at the top we can add sources such
as a game capture you'll need a game capture in your gaming scene because that lets you actually
capture your game and display it in streamlabs obs there are other types of capture such as window
and desktop but most of the time you're best starting out and learning how game capture works
anything you want to add you'll do it with this plus sign this could be video graphics or it could
be still images or it could be any of the dozens of built-in widgets that come with streamlabs obs
for example we also want to add alerts so if someone follows while you're live and alert plays
on screen so we hit the plus and add an alert box your alert box will come with default alerts or
if you've already installed something those will be what shows up here but if you want to learn
how to make alerts and how to use the alert box perfectly i have that playlist in the description
which actually has a full deep dive in how to set up streamlabs alerts your game team will also need
a webcam most likely maybe some support bars for latest followers or subscriber and potentially
you'll want to add your chat on screen as well so let's start by adding a webcam we click on
the plus and we click video capture device we'll select our webcam and if we make sure we have
it selected in the source scene we'll be able to resize it down now the source list isn't actually
a random order it is actually a list from top to bottom imagine the bottom of that list is actually
behind everything else in 3d space so if we were to drag our webcam down below our game capture
it would then be hidden this means that anything you want to be at the top above everything else
should be dragged higher in the list now i want to add support bars so that when someone follows
me their name is on screen as my latest follower this means that people might follow just to have
their name on screen for a little bit longer we're going to do this by adding support bar graphics
all of the graphics i show in today's video are completely free from the stream scheme discord
all you have to do head down the description join verify yourself and you can start downloading them
and follow along exactly the same as what i do so how do we add things to our sources well we
go up here and we click the plus sign now i can either click add image if my support bar graphic
isn't animated or i can click a media source if my support bars are an animation my support bars are
in fact animated so i will click media source i'll find my animated bars from my computer and i will
add them in since they are animated i also need to make sure i double click my support bar source
so the settings open up and i click on loop or else it will stop playing after
the animation is finished any animation that you want to continue playing on your screen
needs to have loop turned on that process i just showed you a flicking plus and adding something is
the same process you'll use to add any media source or any image you want to your screen
so let's go ahead and add our webcam frame in and get that all lined up with our webcam
next obviously we need our support bars to actually have the follower name on them and
we also need to have the latest follower there so people know what the name is about what we're
going to do is we're going to head up here to the plus again and we're gonna add a stream label once
the stream label opens i will click on the drop down i will search for recent follower here i can
change the size the font and i can edit pretty much everything i want now i'm gonna increase
the font size to max and then size down my new stream label so it fits inside my bar the reason
i choose to go to max in font size and scale down is because it will be a lot less pixelated i see
a lot of people dragging to stretch things up rather than increasing the font size always
increase your font size and scale down rather than have a low font size and scale up stream
labels are simple to add but incredibly complex and powerful when you get into the nitty-gritty
that's why if you want to in the playlist i have mentioned in the description multiple times now
there is a video that is seven minutes long which will take you from beginner with stream labels
to a complete and auto pro this video would go on for far too long if i deep dived into everything
to do with stream labels now let's also add in the text to show people what that name is because
right now it just has my latest followers name we're going to do is we're going to head back to
that plus add a source and add a text gdi plus and i'm going to type in i want to say new follower
i'll increase the font size again and scale it down to fit next to it and voila we have got our
new follower and we also have our follower name appearing in our bar now what if i don't like my
support bars being at the top of my screen and i actually wanted to be at the bottom of my screen
well i could individually click them and drag them all down and align them again but that is a bit of
a pain so instead if i wanted to i could come down to my source list i could click on the text hold
shift and then click on the media source and this will select everything between those two sources
now i can click on any of the images inside and drag them down to the bottom but a much easier
way to do this is to instead select the folder button above sources and drag all of the sources
into one folder named support bars while we're at it let's also go ahead and add our webcam frame
and our webcam into a folder of their own as well now we do hit a small snag here depending on your
support graphics you might have three or four more blank spaces you need to fill and now you could do
the exact same process i showed you with stream labels but rather than add follower you could
add it as subscriber or whatever else you wanted or if you're just starting out and you just want
to focus on followers then you can go ahead and crop out the rest of them if we select the support
bars folder it'll select everything in there and now we're going to hold down alt and we're
going to drag from right to left and it will start cropping if you want to you can also crop from top
to bottom but in this case we do just want to crop off the extra three support bars this alton drag
also works for resizing your webcam when you're trying to fit it into a 4-3 box because sometimes
having a big 16 9 a wide screen webcam takes up too much space on your game screen if we follow
the process we showed earlier and we import a square graphic for a webcam frame then we're going
to be able to lay it over the top of our webcam and we can hold alt and we can drag the webcam
to be smaller and fit the box now the last step of our gaming scene is maybe you'd like to add a chat
box to the screen so that when people talk in your chat they also appear on screen to do this let's
head back in and hit the plus sign and then we're going to add a chat box widget now you'll probably
have the default chat box set up most likely and when you add a chat chatbox widget it will be
square at the top left of the properties when you double click on your chat box in the source list
you can actually change the height and width start by changing this to 1080 by 1920 and
then resizing it if that's too long for you you can obviously crop or or you can adjust those
properties yourself to try and get a better fit for what you're trying to put it in while we still
have the chat box properties open we can also turn on emotes and badges to appear in screen
now let's put this chat box over here next to our camera and our followers type something to test
and make sure that your chat box is actually below your camera in the source list but above your game
scene congratulations you pretty much understand the basics to getting all of this set up and you
have a game scene set up now but first we need to go ahead and add a just chatting scene which
i think that every single creator should have a just chatting scene set up for connecting one
to one with their audience to add a new scene we're gonna hit the plus above the scenes list
we're gonna name it just chatting and hit okay and holy crap all of the work we just did is
suddenly gone no have no fear if you click on the game scene it will transition you back
to the other scene where you had all your work a small safety tip for people if you're going to
transition to a scene that shows your desktop or your browsers or anything like that or you just
don't want to have to transition every time you click on a different scene and i recommend turning
on studio mode studio mode can be turned on if you go down to this little button in the bottom
left here so now when i click on the game scene it won't instantly transition me is that it will show
me what i've clicked on and i can click transition to move between and if i do it the opposite way it
is the exact same now you can go ahead and set up your just chatting scene however you want but i do
have a few recommendations for example i do really think you should make a large full screen camera
or at least a decent size of the screen as your camera i also recommend you should add your chat
to it and you should add your own support bars if that is the kind of thing you're looking to do
obviously you'll also want to add an alert box now when you're adding a lot of these widgets and a
lot of these sources you're going to follow the steps that i showed you earlier where you click
plus and then you go and select the widgets and when you do that it's actually going to say do you
want to add your alert box you've already added to a different scene or do you want to create a whole
new alert box now i recommend just sticking with having the exact same one in every scene for now
but again there's that guide in the description if you want to get down and figure out exactly
how to make everything work once you have all that set up one of the fastest and easiest ways
to add some polish and production value to your stream is to set up transitions and really make
them fancy let's quickly add some transitions to our overlay and then i'm going to show you
guys how to install our full free template so you don't have to worry about any of this
and of course how to set up all your audio so what we're going to do is we're going to click the cog
wheel above the scenes list click add transition change it to a stinger and then import your video
file that you want to use as your stinger now you'll want to be using a webm video stinger
because this means you'll have transparency now you'll want to change time to frame and then what
you do is you're going to set your transition point to whatever the frame is that your screen
is completely covered for me 30 frames is when my screen is completely covered so i'm going to hit
30. now what i want you to do is you should type 30 in and if it's too early or too late you can
adjust what your frame transition will be until it is correct once it's correct hit done now select
the new stinger as your default with this circle hit done click on the just chatting scene or the
game scene whichever one you had up and you'll see that it plays the transition now i actually have a
video that shows off 30 plus free transitions that you guys can download and try out for your stream
and it also has a deep dive into really polishing your transitions and really polishing those
stingers to make them as fancy as possible so if you want link in the description in
that playlist oh lj this has all been so much work i know it is actually a heck of a lot of
work to get all this set up by hand and we're barely even actually digging deep into all of it
so why don't we just set up a template for you guys so you can just go ahead and delete anything
you don't want rather than having to set up everything you do want the first thing you want to
do is get your hands on a dot overlay whether it's a paid one from own.tv or one of the free animated
ones from our discord linked in the description it doesn't really matter once you have your dot
overlay you're gonna head down to the cogwheel in the bottom left click on scene collection click on
import overlay and select your dot overlay file from wherever it is on your computer this will
generate a whole new list of scenes with all of their sources set up and organized into folders
it has a lot of different options to choose from and anything you want to edit or customize you can
just double click on now i will throw it out there any animated text can't be edited which means that
you can change your stream labels that are already custom built in for you but you won't be able to
change anything with big animations included now with overlays like this you will need to follow
the steps i showed you earlier in the video to add a game capture your alerts your chat box and any
other widgets you want to use because sadly with streamlabs we can't template in widgets to your
overlays if you need any further help with setting up your overlays alerts or any of that stuff as i
said there is the playlist in the description as well as a giant faq inside our discord
and 43 000 members there who can all help you get set up and get going that's all of our visuals
though and while visuals are pretty important actually at the end of the day it's your audio
and your sound that is the most important when it comes to getting a stream crisp and clean
so let's cover how to get your audio mixer all set up and good to go now if we select our game scene
or anything that has any animated files or media sources in them well then streamlabs is going to
assume there is audio with that as well if we look on the right or to our mixer they're going to be
included in our source list now we only really want to focus on two of these sources our mic
source and our desktop audio source i want you to click the cog wheel in the top right of your
mixer this will open up your advanced settings and first thing we have to do is hide anything that
isn't one of those sources as i mentioned you'll do this by clicking the hide in mixer box let's
click on the settings cogwheel in the bottom left of streamlabs obs and if we look over here on the
side you'll see audio i want you to click on this audio section and i want you to click on your mic
aux and select your microphone input whatever that might be called now they're all named differently
but it should say your brand name for example mine is my broadcast stream mix from my go xlr be
careful not to leave this as a webcam or something else that could be picking up audio or else it's
going to start sounding terrible make sure it is the correct microphone by usually clicking
or tapping on the end of your microphone without a noise gate on it you'll probably also want to make
sure that your desktop audio device is set up and set to default now if we go back to our mixer and
if we talk into the mic it is being picked up by these bars now your bars with a microphone should
be hitting into your yellow if they start hitting red i recommend lowering them down just slightly
because once they're in red there's not much room for if you start yelling without it cutting off
the audio and distorting it to sound terrible now any audio that plays through your computer
will actually be picked up by your desktop audio and that is what we can see here so we're playing
music that is being picked up and you can level the audio here to mute our microphone or desktop
audio we click this little button next to the mixer and to lower the volume you can click and
drag this the final step here is that you'll want to click the cog wheel in the top right of the
audio sources again open the advanced settings and on the right you'll see audio monitoring
now this will really help you when it comes to listening back to your own audio if it says
monitor off it means you can't hear this source through your headphones but your viewers can
monitor only means you can only hear it and then monitor and output means that you are transmitting
as well as listening back to it in your headphones remember though if you monitor only your mic to
listen back to but your desktop audio is set to monitor off then you'll transmit that audio from
your mic because you can hear it and that is being picked up by your desktop audio if you want to
full deep dive into audio and getting everything set up i have a video it is again linked in that
playlist called how to make any microphone sound better i cover leveling as well as a deep dive
into filters that you will need to have on your microphone but for now the most important thing
you can do is give yourself a pat on the back because congratulations the basic streamlabs obs
setup is done and you are able to start streaming like a pro or kind of like a medium level pro i
really recommend checking out that playlist and please comment down below oh snap if you managed
to watch all the way to the end of this video i hope it helped you guys and i'll see you next time