Section 2. OBS Studio Interface & Settings

2. OBS Studio Interface

Sources

Can be your webcam, your whole screen, a specific window, etc.

Scenes

A collection of sources and how they are arranged.

Studio Mode

Shows 2 scenes: Preview and Program

In Preview Scene only you, the streamer, can see. And the Program is what your audience is seeing.

3. OBS Studio Basic Settings

The tutor suggests these options enabled

• General

  • Output
    • Show confirmation dialog when starting streams
    • Show confirmation dialog when stopping streams
  • Source Alignment Snapping
    • Enable
    • Snap Sensitivity 10,0
    • Snap Sources to edge of screen
    • Snap Source to other sources
  • System Tray
    • Enable

• Output

  • Output Mode: Simple

Section 3: OBS Instruments

4. OBS Studio Sources

• Webcam
• Display 1
• Display 2
• an image (e.g.: for a slideshow)
• the internal browser (if you wanna show a webpage)

5. OBS Studio Scenes

A collection of sources and how they are arranged.

The interesting part here is how to configure the transitions.

10. Effects

There are interesting things to do in:

• Right-click a source:
  • Transform (e.g.: rotate a sourcez)
  • Filters (e.g.: crop a source)

Cool way to add a circular webcam (with a border): https://youtu.be/lqh00nfr-UU

11. Tools

In the Tools menu, there's the Automatic Scene Switcher. Useful to change scenes based on some events.

14. Recording Testing

15. Stream Testing

Interesting lecture explaining simple ways to test streams on twitch and youtube.
https://www.udemy.com/course/ultimate-beginners-guide-to-open-broadcaster-softwareobs/learn/lecture/19554984#questions

19. VST Plugin

An useful plugin to make adjustments in the audio.