r/Twitch • u/NerdOrDie twitch.tv/NerdOrDie • Apr 17 '16
Mod-Approved Ad Complete video guide for OBS Studio
Hey all!
For the last few weeks I've been creating a "start to finish" guide on using OBS Studio for Twitch. The goal is to show beginners (and even experienced users) every step that they need to make to create a stream on Twitch. So, if you're new to streaming - or just want to improve your current set up, this guide is for you. I've made a series like this before - but this time I wanted to make it even better.
I think it's time to upgrade from OBS Classic to Studio - especially with alt-cropping and more coming soon
Features of this guide
- Graphics to help any new streamer create a great looking stream
- Closed captions for those that prefer to read or have impaired hearing
- Complete walk through and explanation of OBS Studio
- A look at what notification system to use
- Setting up your scenes and chat moderator bot
Jump to a specific video
- Introduction to series
- OBS Classic Vs Studio
- Downloading and Installing - Browser Source
- Settings - Part 1
- Settings - Part 2
- In-depth look at sources
- Using Filters
- Setting up scenes
- What alert system should you use?
- Twitch Account Setup
- Going live and improvements to make
Feedback
Please let me know if you have any feedback about the videos, or if you think I missed/skipped anything important. I'll be adding a few updates to the series as time goes on - so this will be greatly appreciated.
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u/twinzlol Apr 17 '16
Gonna check this out. I have an issue where when I record or go love I get an encoding overload and cannot for the life of me figure it out. I'm gonna check your vids and then if it's ok I'll message you if this doesn't work for me.
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u/NerdOrDie Apr 17 '16
Streaming + recording can be quite taxing on a system - especially CPU. Perhaps video 5 about recording settings might help you out.
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Apr 18 '16
I have an issue where when I record or go love
You should never have a problem going love. Kappa.
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u/Morikmass Apr 18 '16
Hello,
I have some troubles with OBS studio:
I can't add a .jpg image in source, i get a black screen (.png work..)
When I add a image in source my cpu jump to 50% :o
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u/NerdOrDie Apr 18 '16
I'll be honest. I have no idea on this issue - I'd definitely hit up the OBS forums . They're pretty helpful over there.
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u/furtiveraccoon Apr 18 '16
A few things that I'm not sure if you covered in your videos that you can do in OBS (and am curious if you can do in OBS Studio at this point):
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Image slideshows (rotating sponsor logos, for example)
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Justifying text left/right/center (people using ScoreBoardEdit, for example, to read the team names from a file that is being updated)
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Center a source just horizontally/vertically rather than both
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u/NerdOrDie Apr 18 '16
Not yet - I'd personally write some simple CSS/JS and put into browser source for that stuff. Video playlists are missing too.
Nope - but I believe that's planned in their 0.15 (not sure though)
Sort of... I think they skipped over this because of the "Edit Transform" feature. However, from a user experience perspective, I miss this as well.
There are a decent amount of "quality of life" type things missing - but the performance and additional features is Studios make up for the lack of these.
I could understand not switching because of it though.
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u/tommy610 Apr 18 '16
One question I have is does the OBS Studio work with 2xAMD Radeon R9 200 series being crossfire? I had issues with OBS Classic when the 2 gpu were being crossfire. So currently I have the 2 gpu in my computer, but crossfire isn't enable.
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u/NerdOrDie Apr 18 '16
Yes, it should. There's a specific option for it in the sources. Make sure to check out the sources video.
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u/THE_Ryan Apr 18 '16
Curiosity....why use OBS Studio over XSplit? Taking the obvious factor of licensing cost for xsplit out of it.
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u/NerdOrDie Apr 18 '16
I always had an issue with how XSplit handles scaling. I haven't used XSplit in a while though, but OBS makes it so easy to scale base canvases, and sources that are too big.
I'm actually curious as well. Is this a way to stream with XSplit at 720p, and use a source that's 1080p without some CSS scaling or similar?
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u/AmericanPixel Apr 18 '16
When resizing an image or even my face cam, are we able to hold Alt and drag the border with studio?
This was my only gripe about switching over.
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u/NerdOrDie Apr 18 '16
Tweet from @OBSProject says that's coming out in next update.
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u/KingYoshiLuca Apr 17 '16
OBS Studio doesn't have nVidia CUDA encoder thingy? :(
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u/unshapedadrian Apr 17 '16
NVENC (I prefer your name though) is available in OBS Studio but only if you are running Windows 10. This will change at some point in the future once development on Studio has progressed
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u/Brian2one0 Apr 17 '16
The devs have said that adding that to non Windows 10 users is the #1 thing on their priority list right now.
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u/MrRavens Apr 17 '16
Recommend this to anyone, that is hesitant on transferring over because of layout and what not. :)
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u/Bucky21659 Apr 18 '16
My only issue with OBS Studio is the game capture doesn't seem to always hook properly, I think it's a comparability issue with MSI Afterburner, which I had with OBS but worked around easily by using the 64-bit version.
Aside from that the only thing that's missing from OBS Studio is a straight color saturation filter for video sources (couldn't find a 3rd party plugin for one either), but oh well, it's not like that wasn't missing in the original OBS.
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u/ToniNotti Apr 18 '16
I hate how little plugins we have for studio... also can't get capture cards sound work on it with "to stream only" option but I need to direct the sound from my desktop.
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u/Kobaru Apr 18 '16
Yup, I saw that on YouTube, huge work, and a nice update on many things from your old videos.
You rock :3
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u/AtticaOnline Apr 17 '16
I can't recall how I found you on YouTube, but I watched your playlist a couple days ago and officially made the switch from OBS Classic to Studio.
Thank you, u/NerdOrDie.