How To Make An Animated Overlay For OBS FREE!

what's up my youtube friends i've done a few videos on creating animated overlays but they always require some paid software to pull it off a lot of you asked how this could be done using free software so i did the work to figure it out so today i'm going to show you how to create an animated overlay for your live stream using nothing but free software so let's get to it [Music] if you're always looking for tools tips and tricks to help make you a better youtuber or live streamer subscribe to the channel and click that bell so you don't miss any new content the free software we're going to use is davinci resolve it's a really impressive full-featured editing software that you can use totally free there is a paid version of davinci resolve but nothing i show you today will require you to upgrade it's all free if you want to download it and follow along the links are in the description i've got a lot to show you so let's get into it here we are in davinci resolve and i'm going to click new project going to name this project we're going to call it overlay tutorial and then i just click create now i want to make sure my project settings are correct so i'm going to go up here to file and i'm going to go to project settings now i need to make sure that my timeline frame rate and my playback frame rate are set to the same as my live stream i live stream at 30 frames per second but if you're a gamer or someone else who does 60 frames per second content then you're going to want to set this at 60 frames per second this should be the exact same frame rate that you stream at once you have it set you can click save now we're going to flip over into the edit tab and i'm going to right click on the media pool and i'm going to select new fusion composition i'm going to name this composition and we'll call it overlay tutorial again then i'm going to set my duration to 10 seconds because this is going to be a looping video it doesn't need to be much longer than that but you probably want at least 10 seconds so you can add a lot of variety in there and it's not too short then i'm going to adjust the frame rate if necessary and click ok now i'm going to drag the fusion clip from the media pool into my timeline and you can see it creates a little timeline object right there now we just need to go into fusion by clicking this icon down here in the bottom so we can start to set up our overlay now when you first start using fusion you're going to probably be a little confused if you've been using any other editing software it works on a node system so just follow along and you'll figure it out i'm going to go ahead and click here and drag this down this is a background when i have it selected i can change the color of the background i'm going to select this light blue color now i can just drag and drop it onto one of the view screens up here at the top and we only need one view screen right now so i'm going to just click this button right here and i'm going to set my view to 25 so we can see a little bit around our box now i'm going to go ahead and modify this box by dragging a mask in here and masks are called rectangles here in davinci resolve and then i'm going to just connect it using this little dot here to my background and you can see it puts a little square on our screen so i'm going to drag the edges of our little rectangle to the location in our main screen that i want it and that looks about right now over here on the right it gives us the properties for our rectangle or mask and we can adjust the corners so they have a little bit of a rounded radius now what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and invert our rectangle next i'm going to go ahead and drag another mask in here and i'm going to connect this rectangle to the other one and you can see that cuts out the inside of our box now i'm going to go into the original rectangle and select paint mode multiply you can see that rectangle actually disappears now i'm going to select the new mask i'm just going to drag this out and you can see when it finally comes over those edges it actually fills it in a little bit and i can come over here and adjust my corner radius and now we're going to have a nice little frame inside our box so one of these rectangle masks is the inside and one is the outside and we can select the one we need and just adjust the inside or outside of each of these boxes so i'm just going to move this in a little bit like this and there we go that's the kind of frame that i'm looking for next i'm going to drag another background in here and what i'm going to do is i'm going to change that background color to red and i am going to go ahead and add another rectangle we're going to connect this up and of course we're not seeing it on the view screen so what i'm going to do here is i'm going to go ahead and create that second view screen i'm going to drag it up onto the second view screen and i'm going to give it that fit 25 again and now i'm just going to adjust this to create another box and you can see the outline actually ends up on both screens so you can see where this is going to fall in your main view window i'm going to drag it over here to the right and i'm going to adjust the corner radius you could use something like this to post your chat in if you wanted to put a chat overlay on your live stream this is a box that you could use to do that or some kind of video or text or your social media or something like that and what we're going to do is we're going to add that second rectangle we're going to connect it up and of course when i say rectangle those are actually masks i'm going to select the first rectangle again i'm going to go to multiply and i'm going to invert it and i'm going to select that second rectangle and what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and drag this over and you can see it does create those little edges again now i have to just make this the right size drag the full box over here and i'll expand the size and i just need to round these corners and now you can see it kind of overlaps our main box so we're going to want to adjust this maybe move it around a little bit and you can do this by selecting each of the rectangles just keep in mind one is the inner boundary and the other is the outer boundary now what i need to do is connect these two nodes together so that we can see them both in the same view window now i can just drag the merge up here to the right view screen and we see these both combined now we're going to add another window we'll drag it up here to the left window and i'm going to change the color let's change it to a dark blue and now i'm going to add a mask and basically perform the same process we just did i'm gonna shape this the way that i want it to fit into our overall overlay and this is just gonna be another box you could put social media or something like that and you could do some sort of donation widget over top of this box we'll drag it out into its proper location make sure it has the right shape and we'll adjust that corner radius again so it matches up with the other objects in our overlay and now we need another mask of course so that we can create that boundary effect we're going to connect these up and in the first rectangle we're going to change it to invert and we're going to change the print mode to multiply again and we're going to select the second rectangle and we're going to move it down over top of the first one to give us that outline effect and we'll adjust our edges and location and stretch it out so it fits over our box we're gonna round our corner radius on this one again to make it match up and we have to shrink everything down a little bit move some things around and we'll go down and adjust the location of our other rectangle the inner boundaries and there we go make sure merge one still has our viewport and we're just going to combine this with merge one and now we're going to drag merge two to our viewport there we go now we have the right view sometimes you have to do this you have to mess around with the nodes it's not as intuitive as you would think but it does get more intuitive as you work with it more and more now when it's in the full view i can adjust it again a little bit just to make sure that everything seems to line up and make sense and be centered and all that kind of stuff and that looks pretty good now i want to add a little bit of a background to this lower circle so i'm going to drag another background on here and i'm going to select it and i'm going to choose this grayish color here i think and i'm going to drag this alpha up a little bit so that makes it semi-transparent then i can drag it up into the view window and you can see we can see the checkered squares behind it which means that it is transparent but just slightly now what i'm going to do is i'm going to put another mask on here another rectangle so to speak then i'm going to size it up so it fits within our little blue box here you just do that by adjusting these edges and moving it around slightly and we'll stretch it out here and we'll move it back into position and then we just need to round our corners and there we go now we have it all fit in all we need to do is add it below our blue background so in order to do this just going to take the blue background and drag it down and now we have another merge and we're going to disconnect that and we're going to connect to this merge up to there and there we go now we have everything displayed properly from merge 2. and i think that's going to be our final overlay so we need to add some animation to this if i drag merge 2 to media out that means our clip is going to be output to edit so if we go over here into edit we can see our output clip that's what our overlay would look like in obs so we'll go back into fusion and we're going to add some animation let's make sure we're seeing merge 2. i'm going to right click and go to add tool and you can see there are all kinds of tools in here and these are all in the free software so i'm going to go down to resolve fx lite and i'm gonna grab light rays and you can see it puts it in our node section here and i'm gonna drag a light rays up to the top left and of course we don't see anything so what we need to do is we need to add it to one of these other nodes so we can actually see it so i'm going to take this yellow and i'm going to just drag it to this merge and there we go now we see in the light rays one that it's merged and we're getting our effect we can see what our effect is and in the right pane we just have the merge viewpoint so if we go to media out and then we drag that up to our second pane window you can see that for now we're okay with having the two displays in different windows it'll allow us to easily see the changes that we're making so i'm going to select a light rays and we're going to play around a little here you can see when i move the x position it moves this little light dot around the screen and it makes those light rays reflect off of our boxes we can do it from an angle instead and we can just move the angle around gives you a different way to animate this we're going to do from a location and we can adjust the source threshold which adds different kinds of flare to our outline down here under appearance we can select ray drop off and keep shape of source which makes the shine just a little sharper and a little more dedicated to the way that the shape is i kind of like that because it keeps it more in line with the shape you can use all of these adjustments like brightness and everything else to change the way that the light plays in the scene and all of these can be keyframed to add different aspects to the rotation or whatever you want to do you can also adjust the color of the light so in this case i'm going to add a little bit of yellow color to my light we can soften it up which really kind of makes it lame and we can change the length of our light ray and as usual playing around in these settings you can get all kinds of cool stuff and you can add a composite type as well to tell it how to interact with your scene and a global blend which kind of turns it on and off we're going to actually animate the position of our light ray to make it move around our scene i'm just going to dial in my appearance a little bit so it's more like what i'm looking for and there we go i think i have everything set so what we're going to do is we're going to move our playhead to the very first frame and we're going to select x position and y position but first we're going to move our light ray to the location where we want to start our animation in this case i'm going to move it down here to the bottom left then i'm going to click on the x and the y position and this is the exact location that i want our animation to end so i'm going to move to the last frame and i'm going to click this little dot here to add another keyframe to the x and y position now i'm going to move it to exactly the center of our composition and i'm going to move the light ray up to the top right hand corner and this will add a keyframe there placing that light at the top right hand corner at exactly 150 frames so if i move this back you can see that it moves it diagonally across our animation so it would look like light is sweeping from the bottom left hand corner to the top right hand corner i'm going to move my playhead to the 75 frame halfway and move it down here to the bottom right hand corner and that adds a keyframe there and now you can see that it animates to that corner and then the top right now i'm going to move to the 225th frame and i'm going to move my light ray up here to the top left and that's going to add a keyframe there and now it's just going to animate all around our box making those lights dance as it moves around you can see if i click play it goes to the 75th frame in the bottom right and then 150 in the top right and then 225 in the top left and then all the way down and starts over again it's one big loop moving that light source around our frame basically animating the light and making the frame look more interesting but of course we don't have to stop there we can add even more effects to this if i connect light rays to media out we can go over into our edit and play it right here and see our light moving around as we would see it on our live stream but of course we don't have to just stop there let's go back into fusion and add another effect so i'm going to right click down here in the nodes and i'm going to go up to add tool and this time i'm going to add an effect and i think i'm going to add the raise effect and here we see raise is added and we want to be able to see what rays is going to look like so i'm going to drag it up here to the top left but of course we can't see our boxes so i'm going to add it to merge 2 and it's going to show us on the left what it looks like with rays and our light rays and now we can go up here to the top right and play with what we're going to get here now i think what we're going to do is we're going to animate this little blend here there we go that kind of has the effect that i'm looking for when i adjust the decay now the blend just kind of flares out our little boxes just a little bit so i'm going to turn it all the way down and i'm going to go to frame number one i'm going to add a keyframe there and i think i'm going to do this in quarters so we're going to go to the 75th frame and i'm going to move blend all the way up to make these kind of really flare out and that's good that adds a keyframe i'm going to go to the center of our composition the 150th frame turn the blend all the way down and then i'm going to go to 225 and i'm going to turn the blend up again and then i'll move my playhead to the end and we'll turn it all the way down again and this will kind of give a little bit of a pulse to it now what i need to do is make sure that that all gets to the output so i'm going to drag light rays down on top of rays so we have this merged output and i'm going to drag that over to media out and now we should have both of our effects merged into our media out so you can see we get that pulse effect and we get our light ray moving all around our scene perfect that's exactly what we're looking for and you can add as many effects on here as you want there are just so many different effects in here that you could use and all you have to do is keyframe them at different times in your overlay it's really easy it's all works exactly the same as what i showed you here now if we go back into edit and we click play it's going to play all the way through our little timeline animation for our overlay so the next thing we have to do is export this overlay so we can bring it into obs to do that we're going to go down here to the bottom right and click deliver now up in the top left you want to change your file name i'm going to call this fusion overlay then i'm going to click browse and i'm going to tell davinci where i want this file to be saved now if i scroll down to go to format and i'm going to go to quicktime and then under codec i'm going to select uncompressed we have to select uncompressed so we can export our alpha the alpha is the background that is transparent and we want this to be transparent so under type we have to select rgb a 8-bit and the a stands for alpha now we can go down here and export our alpha you want to make sure that that is checked as well and then all we have to do is add it to the render queue and then click start render and this is going to render out our animation once it's finished you can just save your project in davinci and close it down now i'm going to use a free application called stutter encoder there's a link in the description if you want to check it out it does accept donations but you can actually download it for absolutely free if you'd like and if you like the app i do suggest that you donate to it this guy did a lot of work to give us this encoder and it works really well so once we're here in the encoder i can click browse to my file location and i just want to select our overlay file it's fusion overlay right here and open it and there it is listed in the list i'm going to choose my function we're going to go down here to output codecs and select vp9 this is a webm codec which works in obs and it's very small now over here on the right we are going to go down to advanced features and we're going to select enable alpha channel and that's so that we get our transparent background i'm going to go here and change the output destination so it's going to go into the correct folder and i'm going to select that folder and then i'm just going to go up here to the top right and i'm going to click max quality this creates a really small file so you don't have to worry too much about it you can do it in your max render quality then i'm going to go down and click start function and this is going to export our alpha overlay so that we can use it in obs and once it's finished you can just click out and close shutter encoder now let's open up obs and i'm going to add my camera to my scene so i'm just going to click the plus and i'm going to go to video capture device i'm going to change my device so it is my cam link and set this all up with the proper resolution and the proper microphone and now that that's all set up i'm going to go ahead and click the plus again and select media source i'm going to call this media source overlay and once in here i'm going to select local file i'm going to go to that fusion overlay vp9 and click open i want this to loop it's only 10 seconds long and we want it to continuously run you can see down here that you can adjust the speed so if you'd like it to animate slower or faster you can do that right here and then once i'm done i'm going to click ok and boom there's our overlay all animated up and looking pretty you can adjust the size of the overlay if you want to what i'm going to do is i'm going to adjust the size of my camera a little bit to put it inside this box and i could even crop it if i wanted to just hold down the alt key and drag these little edges i can do that if i like but there you go now this overlay is big and clunky and it's probably not something you're going to want to use but you can see how easy it is to set up and how much that you can do to configure up something like this so you can make it look however you want in this case it's probably a little too big and you know it's maybe too chunky and it's not very slick but this is like i said just a simple example of how you can make an animated overlay i could have made all the edges sharp i could have made cool lines i could have added all kinds of different effects a lot of times you're going to want to take a picture of the background image that you're going to use for your live stream and then you can fit your overlay in over that so when you're creating it you have your background image sitting there you know what it looks like and then you can create your overlay around how your live stream usually looks and this is probably a more effective way to get the kind of look that you like but all the tools are available in davinci resolve all you have to do is hop in there and experiment and have some fun and i sure hope you do now this is a super basic layout for an overlay there's so much more you can do and so many amazing effects that you could use to add animations the only limit is your imagination so give it a try create the one i made and then once you get the hang of it create your own and if you want to see how to create a stinger transition for your obs live streams for free in davinci resolve check this video out and if you're always looking for tools tips and tricks to help make you a better youtuber or live streamer subscribe to the channel my name is michael fire jr thank you so much for watching have a great day and i'll see you in the next one

Channel: Michael Feyrer Jr.

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Length: 21min 9sec (1269 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 05 2021