Automatic scene switching when you're in-between
matches, face tracking, background removal - OBS Studio plugins can do amazing things. It's been a while since I've talked about
them on this channel, so get ready, I'm hyped for today's episode. In this video, we're covering 5 OBS plugins
that can help increase the production value of your stream. I'm EposVox, the Stream Professor and I have
tutorials and guides on everything you could possibly need to know about OBS Studio - from
the basics to crazy advanced tricks. I'll be following this video up with one next
week talking about 5 more OBS plugins that help your workflow for your stream - so hit
the subscribe and notification buttons so you can stay informed. First up, an easy one. Tuna lets you easily display "Now playing"
information from a multitude of music streaming services OR a VLC source within OBS to show
album art, metadata and even a progress bar! Install the plugin and then go to tools - Tuna
Settings. Under basics, set a path for it to write the
album art and metadata to. We'll be adding image and text sources to
our scene that will read updates from these files. For a basic setup I just made an "OBS Tuna"
folder in my Documents folder and set up the cover, title, and artist files to write there. I also told it to remove file extensions from
the title, just in case. Then I set Song Source to VLC as I'll be using
a VLC playlist source within OBS Studio so music is already ready to go when I launch
my stream. Make sure you have VLC installed for that
to work. Then, add a VLC source to your scene. Here you can manage individual files, whole
directories, or playlists for VLC to queue up. And you know we're using Backing Track, my
music streaming service that you can download for free and use in your videos and streams. I've actually just finished converting a lot
of these files to FLAC specifically for this project and I'm releasing them with the free
downloads that you can get at Discord.gg/eposvox or if you want to stream them from your favorite
streaming service, head to BackingTrack.gg. I just added the individual album folders
to VLC since it doesn't seem to like loading subdirectories for me. Then back in Tuna settings, click the VLC
tab and choose your VLC source from the drop-down. If you don't see it, click refresh. Now go back to the Basics tab and click "Start"
at the bottom and close this window. Now we add our sources. Add an image source for album art, and text
sources set to load from file for metadata. There's also a progress bar source you can
add! You can stack all of this with custom fonts,
colors, other customizations, and so on. Pair it with the audio visualizer plugin for
some cool effects! Next, we have an a new tool to remove your
background from your camera without needing a green screen nor RTX graphics card. Keep in mind, however, that this does require
a lot of CPU usage, so it will be incredibly hard to run at 4K, and even at 1080p or lower
you'll probably want to only use it on a dedicated streaming rig. You can adjust threshold of the faux key,
smoothing of the edges, feather blending, and so on. There's 4 different person detection models
to choose from that perform differently at finding you in the scene. The only limitation is that it doesn't retain
alpha when it removes your background, so you then have to stack it with Chroma Keying
by choosing a background color in the removal and adding a chroma key filter after the fact. This may not be for everyone, but this could
easily unlock some doors for streamers wanting to key themselves in front of presentations,
gameplay, or just to more easily hide a messy backdrop. Next up we have an effect that was a TikTok
trend for a while: The Time Warp effect. This is pretty simple - a line draws across
the screen and creates a still image based on where your video is, stretching your face
and so on. It's pretty straightforward, install the plugin,
add an effect filter to the video source you want it to change, and change the settings. Here you can change the duration of the scan,
how long it takes to drag across the image - this is measured in ms, so 1000ms per second. You can change the line width, color, and
opacity to your liking. You can even change the rotation of the angle
so it can come in diagonally or something. Lastly, you can add a background image to
appear with the scan if you're applying the filter to a video with transparency, such
as a green screened camera view. The image it creates holds until you toggle
off the filter. The only real limitation right now is that
there is still no way to toggle filter visibility with hotkeys yet - at least not natively. You can set that up with the OBS-filter-hotkeys
script, though! Our second-to-last plugin today is one of
my favorites I've discovered in a long time. Someone by the name of Norihiro has built
a Face Tracker for OBS. Install the plugin, add the face tracker filter
to your camera and... it just works. Performance seems great, the panning and zooming
is SUPER smooth and eased just right, it performs MUCH better than Nvidia Broadcast's reframing
tool and better than some of the cheap AI tracking webcams we checked out on a recent
AFK Chat episode. This is wild. You have a ton of options for controlling
zooming and cropping. The main one to look at is the "Tracking Target
Location" section, where you can change the default zoom factor: I started with 0.5x,
and then the max scale so it doesn't zoom in too much. You can adjust the responsiveness of each
of the tracking factors, the sensitivity of the borders to detecting your face, and even
turn on the face-detect squares to see what it sees. Also, you can save preset configurations! Awesome stuff. This also means you can get the movie-style
dolly zoom going on your face. It's wild. Lastly we have an incredible tool that can
automatically switch scenes when your match in a game is over, when you get an alert,
and so on. It's called Pixel Match Switcher, but calling
it a plugin might be a LITTLE misleading as it currently requires a separate build of
OBS. I want to go ahead and warn you that installing
this "Atomic-Effects" fork of OBS Studio actually replaces your existing installation. I'm not a fan of this, especially since it
comes bundled with StreamElements' OBS.LIVE plugin, but oh well. This tool is INCREDIBLY powerful. I'm super impressed. Once you have everything installed and launch
OBS, go to Tools → Pixel Match Switcher. Then click "Enable Matching." Here, it will tell you it hasn't found any
Pixel Match Filters. Find your specific source or scene list that
you want to focus on, right-click, click filters and add a "Pixel Match" effect filter. Now close this window. Back in the main Switcher Window, it should
now detect this new filter and config. Under "Match Config #1" you can choose to
either Capture the specific region or image you want detected, or use a screenshot. I believe this build is disagreeing with my
Windows scaling, so the capture method is broken for me, so I just grabbed a screenshot
of the top-left-hand corner of my Discord window. I then pointed to that file. Now, this detects that capture based on its
positioning on the screen (with a flexible threshold) so you have to give it coordinates
of where the image is. I used ShareX to get the rough approximate
location and then moved around from there until it showed a 98% pixel match. Then you choose your Match Actions. You can do pretty much anything here: switch
scenes, run hotkeys, start or stop recording or streaming, take screenshots, just about
anything. For now we'll just be changing scene. So I have it set to switch scenes immediately
to my camera if it detects I pulled up my Discord Window. You could have it activate a blur overlay
or something instead. Now click "Enable Switching" and test. You can save different presets here, as well. Now, there is a feature to have actions when
this element is un-matched, but it doesn't seem to work for my test here. I believe that's because it has switched scenes
and the filter isn't active anymore, but if you're doing all of this on the same scene,
it should work. With this you can automatically switch scenes
when entering game menus, hide personal information, all kinds of stuff. It's really impressive, and the stacking and
advanced control possibilities here are endless, far outside of the scope of this one video. I'll be experimenting more as time goes. And there you have it: 5 OBS plugins (and
a LUA Script) to help increase the production value of your streams and do... just about
anything you want with it. This list really feels like a good filling
of fun and game-changing practical ideas and I can't wait to see what you do with it. Want to have your stream featured in Stream
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