Splitting file sizes, controlling your
home with OBS, zooming in on your cursor, Shadowplay alternatives - an entire world
of untapped potential for OBS Studio exists, and not enough people know about it.
Today we're talking about 9 OBS Studio scripts that can enhance your OBS
Studio experience and streaming. I'm EposVox, the Stream Professor, and OBS Studio version 21 introduced Lua and Python Script
compatibility, but not many people really knew what to do with them. After polling you on
the Community Tab, some of you said you had never even heard of it until now! Let's crack open
this functionality and reveal the possibilities. This video will be a 3-parter, this
first one focusing on OBS enhancements, the second one on cool on-screen widgets,
then lastly next-level ideas. So check the playlist link below and get subscribed
so you don't miss all the releases. ## OBS Enhancements The first type of script we'll be looking at
provides tweaks to OBS's functionality. These don't directly show up on your stream, but could
make your life easier as you record or stream. First up is AutoSplitter. This is a
basic script which will automatically split your recordings at a set interval,
measured in hours, minutes, and seconds. Unfortunately, this can't do it by file size,
but this is as close as you'll get for now. Automatic file splitting is actually one of the bounties that the OBS Team have set
up with their new bounty program, so hopefully a full implementation will come in
time - but for now this is the next best thing. Next up is a quick mention because I have nothing
to test this with, but there's a script to allow OBS to control the home automation system Home
Assistant based on states such as streaming, recording, and OBS even being open or closed. This
could be used to control your lights to automate setting up a nice moody scene, turn off
your noisy AC, and more. It's pretty wild. Next up is a silly one, but
one that some might still want: Open Last Recording. This can be set up to
automatically open Windows Explorer straight to your latest recording file as soon as you
hit Stop Recording, just to save an extra step. This is a bit of a silly workaround, though,
as you have to manually tell it your recording directory and the file extension - so it
doesn't work for remuxing, you'd have to tell it the MKV extension instead. BUT it still
could save you a click or two, regardless. Next up is a script project that lets you build
network-controlled tally lights for cameras. These use Raspberry Pis and let you immediately
indicate which camera is active in OBS, through OBS. Very useful for big multi-cam setups,
especially when you're the producer for a stream where other people are hosts,
or you just forget which camera to look out. This would be pretty involved, but
definitely worth it for some bigger setups. Do you want OBS to automatically load your
Starting Soon screen when you open it, so everything is ready to go? This
"Default Scene on Startup" script helps inch that automation goal
one step further. Pretty basic, but combined with other automation ideas
can help make your life a little easier. I've mentioned this one before,
but OBS-Filter-Hotkeys is an incredibly important script. As the name
describes, it lets you assign hotkeys to your filters on your sources - be it cool
effects like the Time Warp filter we showed before, chroma keying, color grading,
audio effects, anything. This helps take your management of special effects
and production value to the next level. Honestly, OBS needs to implement this
directly into the software anyway. SimpleSlides kind of addresses a big
limitation I ran into when trying to use cool topic indicators for my StreamerNewz
show: The default Image Slideshow source in OBS Studio has a memory limitation that only
allows you to use a small number of images. SimpleSlides acts as a slideshow
within a singular image source and does not have any memory limits. Instead,
your images DO need to be labeled in order, and it won't do any transitions -
but this is a sweet alternative. If you happen to edit video in Reaper, someone
has made a script and a control interface for it that let's you add markers to your recording
that can be read by Reaper. This is useful for marking edit points, important segments you want
to highlight, etc. I've been asking for someone to make a plugin that can do this for Resolve and
Premiere-compatible markers for a very long time, so it's exciting to see someone make
this for a NLE, even if it's not mine. OBS Notification Sound plays a basic sound when
you start recording or streaming so you get direct confirmation that you pressed those
buttons. I've used this for my video-shooting installation of OBS and haven't had any issues
with false starts shooting videos since! By the way, if you want dedicated videos
on any of these, leave a comment below. If you're watching this and have thought of some
cool script ideas that haven't been made yet, I seriously encourage you to contribute them back to the community - that's the
only way any of this is possible. Learning to script and improving your skills for future projects is
actually pretty easy with Skillshare. Skillshare is an awesome online learning community
where millions come together to take the next step in their creative journey. They have thousands of
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development. Skillshare is for beginners, pros, dabblers, and masters who want to
improve their skillset or learn a new skill entirely. No matter your goals, Skillshare has
classes to fit your schedule and skill level. If you want to do what I do, I
highly recommend checking out the YouTube course from Marques Brownlee or MKBHD. It's got some good stuff in there, I enjoyed
seeing how his team's workflow works, too. The first 1000 people to use my
link in the video description will get a free trial of Skillshare
Premium Membership. Check it out! There's a lot more to cover: This was originally
one video that had to be split up into 3 because there's just so much awesome stuff to be
done with Scripts. Join us on Discord to chat about these more at Discord.gg/eposvox.
Consider checking out this other video on 5 free streamer tools to keep yourself safe and be
more efficient. And remember: Be kind, rewind.
