Sources docked in OBS, extra camera angles for
free, maximum control over your transitions, and color grading tools? OBS plugins can let you
unlock so much potential in OBS Studio. I love it. I'm EposVox the Stream Professor and last week
I showed you 5 OBS plugins that can improve the production value of your stream, today
let's talk about improving your streaming workflow with today's plugins video. I have
more exciting tutorials releasing every week, so hit the subscribe and notification buttons
so you can keep improving your stream. First up, we have Source Dock. This plugin
lets you add any source as a dockable panel within OBS Studio. Browser sources,
video and media sources, anything really. Add and remove these docks via Tools - Source
Dock. Choose a source and then drag it and fit wherever you like. If you can't snap it
into place, make sure your UI is unlocked by going to View - Docks, and unchecking
"Lock UI." Just lock it back when you're done. With your new dock, you can seamlessly interact
with browser sources - making for a much smoother navigation experience if showing
off webpages and other web tools, or control your media sources to get them to the exact right
spot, monitor and change audio levels, and so on. This takes multi-viewing to the next level and could really improve how
some streamers manage their streams. Next up is DroidCam: A OBS app and
plugin that lets you connect your phone over wifi or USB to add as a
normal video capture device source. This lets you use your phone as a webcam for your
main camera, or set up additional camera angles for wide views, overhead tabletop
shots, guest cameras, and more. The base app is free, but a
one-time paid upgrade unlocks higher resolution video and additional settings. DroidCam is available for both Android and iOS,
but currently the best features are Android-only, such as being able to turn off the screen
to reduce impact on your phone, as well as proper camera settings and controls. You already
have a phone, so this is a free upgrade to getting that "walk with me" stream camera, or
that extra angle you sometimes need, easily. DroidCam transfers both sound and video. What if you want your camera to look better
in OBS? Manual settings, of course - not sure why every TikTok Stream Tips person thinks
that's a revolutionary idea - but how do you tune manual settings just right? The Color Monitor
plugin helps you do just that by giving your a vectorscope, waveform, and histogram view for your sources to adjust your
exposure and color settings just right. You can either add them as sources to overlay
directly on your video - which hurts framerate a LOT to render and you obviously want to hide
them when you go live or record - or they've updated the plugin to add a dock for these tools
so you don't mess with what's shown to viewers. There are a ton of color grading tutorials
on YouTube using these tools in various video editors, so you can follow those and combine the
ideas with the built-in color correction tools in OBS or use the Color Grading tools given by the
StreamFX plugin for even more granular control. Our next plugin actually replaces
a plugin I used to recommend, the Transition Matrix. Exeldro has made an
updated, better version called Transition Table. By default, OBS uses whatever transition you have
set under "Transitions". As of a few updates ago, you could override this based on which scene
you're transitioning TO by right-clicking the scene and choosing "Transition Override".
But you can't do anything more than that. Transition Table expands this capability and lets
you fully customize which transition is used based on what scene you're transferring FROM, TO, or
BOTH, with duration control as well. So you can, for example, have your webcam scene always
transition away from itself with a specific transition, but then use different ones when
cutting TO that scene. This is really powerful and a MUST for setting up more dynamic stream
profiles, in my opinion. Exeldro, the legend. Oh, wait, this last plugin
is from Exeldro as well. This one actually makes a previous tutorial
as an "easy way" kinda redundant, too. Replay Source lets you capture replays from
specific sources and call them back in a media source. Even better, it can capture
high frame rates from capture cards or game capture sources and play them back in
slow mo. Exeldro says his plugin has been used with Golf events with cameras running at insane
framerates and slowed down just fine. Impressive. Some of you had said you don't like that
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