What is up guys, my name is Pete from the Gaming Careers YouTube channel and today we're going to be looking at OBS Studio again, specifically how you add sources to OBS Studio, so things like your game, your webcam, your overlay, things that really make your stream standout and look more appealing to viewers. Now I'm hoping a lot of you have already seen our OBS Studio tutorial, where we looked in depth into the setting behind OBS Studio, things like which Twitch server to stream to, what bitrate, what FPS, what resolution. We covered a video really in detail looking at the settings behind OBS Studio, so if you haven't already seen that and set up your OBS Studio then you can click the annotation up here which will link you to the really in-depth 20 minute tutorial which is going to get your OBS set up in the perfect way. If you're confident that you're completely set up in terms of OBS settings then let's jump into adding sources in OBS studio. So as you can see we're now in OBS studio and I've just got an example scene up with multiple different sources, the kind of thing that we're going to be creating today. So as you can see in the scene we've got a webcam, we've got a game, we've got an overlay and we've got some text which are the four different sources that we're going to be covering in this video. So it's worth quickly mentioning what the difference between a Source and a Scene is, because if you're new to OBS you might not quite understand the terminology. If you look down in the bottom left you can see that we can have multiple different Scenes in our OBS window. A Scene is basically a collection of Sources so you could have different scenes for different games if you're a variety streamer or you could have maybe one which just has your webcam and chat on for if you're in between queues in a competitive game but effectively a scene is a collection of sources that appear on screen together. So a Source is effectively something that appears on screen within one of your scenes. So something like your video game that will be a source, your webcam would be a source, your overlay and some chat or text that could also be a source. So a source is something that appears on screen and a scene is a collection of sources. So the first thing we're gonna be covering in this video is how you add your video game to OBS. The first thing that you need to make sure that you have is your video game running on your computer, when you're in your video game it's worth just quickly looking at your game settings. So if you go into your video options from within the game and see what you have selected for display mode. Typically if you have it set to full screen that should give you the best frame rates in game but it can give you some heavy delays when Alt Tabbing. Which is probably something you are going to have to do a fair amount especially if you only have a single monitor and you're going to want to be reading Twitch chat. If you are going to be Alt Tabbing a lot, you don't have a second monitor that you can quickly refer to, then you're probably going to want to set the game to run in a borderless window. This basically makes the game seem like it's running full screen, but it's actually running in a window so you can Alt-Tab much much quicker but it will be at the expense of some FPS loss. So now you've got your game running and you have your display mode set how you want it, you want to go back to OBS and there's a few different methods that you can use to capture your game, some methods work better than others and it completely depends on the game. Since every game is coded differently by different companies, they may require a slightly different set ups in OBS. There's absolutely loads of information on the OBS forums which I've linked in the description below, so if you're having issues with a specific game make sure you go to the OBS forums and see if anyone else had a similar issue. Now there are three different methods that I would recommend for capturing your game, I would start with Game Capture and if that doesn't work go to Window Capture and if that doesn't work finally go to Display Capture. I'm going to cover all three of them quickly now. So if we start with Game Capture, if you go down to the menu and click the + icon or you can right-click and choose add, and we want to select Game Capture. Here you can enter the name of the application if you want to, I would just recommend entering the name of the game that you're gonna be capturing. Now the default mode that should pop up should say "capture any full screen application", I've had some trouble with this it doesn't seem to always be able to find my game running, so sometimes you'll have to change this mode to "capture specific window" and then select the right window in the drop-down below. And you can leave the window match priority on executable name. Multi adapter settings, this is an option if you're using multiple graphic cards, so something like crossfire or SLI technology then you want to be enabling this option just to get the full performance benefits of having multiple graphics cards. The force scaling option is useful for downscaling resolutions, so if you need to do that you can enter your custom resolution here. You can leave allow transparency unchecked because not many games need transparency, but if you do require this option then this is where you can enable it. Now the limit capture frame rate option is if you are capturing a game at a very high frame rate, so let's say you're playing something like CS:GO or Overwatch and you want to keep a high frame rate in game, something like 144 FPS because you have a high monitor refresh rate. If you enable this option, it would let OBS capture at a lower frame say 30 or 60 FPS because that's what you're actually streaming at. So it can be useful to test this option if you're having some sort of FPS issues. I actually leave it unchecked because I've got quite a good computer but I have used it in the past when I've had a worse system. The capture cursor options does exactly as it says allows you to be able to capture your mouse. Now there's a lot of debate around the use anti-cheat compatibility hook option, this basically just may need to be enabled for OBS to work with some games. So if you're having trouble capturing a game maybe you're just getting a black screen even though you've selected the exact game that you want to capture, you may just be worth enabling this option to make sure that it's not the anti cheat that is stopping you from being able to capture the game in OBS. If you wanna be able to capture your overlays like Steam overlay, then you can enable "capture third party overlays" but I don't really know why you'd want to do that. Hopefully by now you should have a preview of your game and you can hit OK and you can see the game in your stream. As I mentioned before, Game Capture is the method I would mostly recommend because if it does work for you then it should give you the best performance of capture both in game and in OBS. If however you've been unsuccessful in getting your game to show in OBS using Game Capture and you've tried using the capture specific window and enabling the anti-cheat hook and it still hasn't helped at all, I would recommend then going to Window Capture. Adding the window capture is pretty much the exact same as a game capture, click the + icon and choose window capture and then the settings are pretty self-explanatory. If you're still having issues capturing the game using window capture and the last option I would try is Display Capture, where you actually choose one of your monitors to constantly capture. Obviously the downside of this is that it captures everything within the monitor, so if you Alt Tab to a window behind the game like Spotify or your chat, then the stream will also show that which it wouldn't for Game Capture or Window Capture. Hopefully using one of those three capture methods you now have your game running in your stream, so you can finally just move it around and size it to make sure it fills the whole window. The next thing we're going to be adding is an overlay now overlays really give you the opportunity to make your stream stand out from every other stream on Twitch, you can use some personal branding and color schemes that you kept consistent throughout your Twitch streams and YouTube channel. You can also promote your social media through images on your stream through overlays. Now i'm not going to go through where you should get your overlays from, there are absolutely loads of websites offering both free and premium stream overlays, so if you just Google search for Stream Overlays or something similar, you'll get absolutely loads of options. However if you are good with photoshop, I would recommend designing your own stream overlay, that way you're going to be completely unique to anybody else on the internet and on Twitch. If there's enough of a demand for this I'll create a video on how you create your own overlays in Photoshop so let me know down in the comments if that's something you'd like to see. So to add an overlay we're gonna go to add and then image, I would recommend here naming it something easy so you can identify it, you don't want to accidentally disable this if it's going to be constant on your game. Next you want to be browsing for the image on your hard drive that you want to use an overlay and there's an option for unloading the image when it's not in use, but I'd recommend leaving this disabled. Now you should see your image on screen with a red box around it. You can resize this just like you would in Photoshop just by dragging the bottom corners, and you can also move it around by holding the mouse button and dragging it around the stream preview. Since this is my webcam overlay, I'm going to be moving this up into the top left corner and sizing it appropriately. Also a neat little trick is you can hold down the Alt Key on your keyboard and you can crop the sides of the image so if you want to get it closer positioned in the top-left like I do here, you can see I'm holding down Alt and cropping the image that I can move it closer to the corner. If you right-click on the image, you can go down to transform and you can do some transformations such as flipping it horizontally or vertically, or rotating the image. It's also worth mentioning here that in the sources window down here, you need to make sure you have things layered on top of each other as you want to see them on stream. So if you see that I put my overlay below my game, it no longer appears on the stream because it's below the game window. So I move it back above and you can see it on top of the game window again. Right I'm pretty happy with that the now until we add our webcam but next we're going to be looking at adding text into our stream. So as I'm sure you've guessed by now you go down to the plus icon again and add Text(GDI+), name it something so that you don't forget what it is and here you can now select your font, font style, font size and any effects. I really have to stress something here, if you want to make your text bigger or smaller you should absolutely be coming back into the properties window and changing the font size. You shouldn't be dragging the corner of the text and scaling it to make it bigger, because as you can see here it starts to look quite pixelated. So to get back to font size, just right click on the text layer, click on properties and you'll be back and you can then change the font size here. The read from file option allows OBS to take its text input from a separate text file, this is useful for things like now playing bars where you want to show the music playing from a music player, but this is something that we're going to be covering in a separate specific guide so make sure you check out the Gaming Careers YouTube channel for when that's released. So in this box you want to be typing in the text you want to display and you can select the color of the text as well as the opacity. If you want to apply a gradient to your text color then you can set that here and here for a text background. And finally here is where you can select the text alignment and if you want to use some custom text extents, but the majority of users probably won't need to be touching that. Just as with your overlay image you can now drag your text around the screen and position it exactly where you want it to be positioned, just make sure again that it is in the right layer it should be above your overlay if you wanting the text to appear aobve an overlay. Now although I've just created that text for my webcam overlay I actually have already created something in Photoshop which also has the YouTube logo, so I'm going to add it back as an image and I'd recommend doing the same. The text in OBS is decent and you have a lot of customization but you don't have the same level that you would in Photoshop and since you can set the stream up exactly as you want to, create something that looks appealing in photoshop and then just import it as an image into OBS. The final thing we're going to going through in this video is adding a webcam to your stream. So to add a webcam you want to press the + icon and then go to video capture device. Select your webcam from the device list, make sure it's all plugged in by USB and all that kind of stuff, here you can see I've added my webcam. So deactivate will disable the device so it will disable the webcam in this case. Configure video, this opens up the device settings so when you first installed your webcam to your computer you will have probably installed some kind of software. If its logitech then there's some logitech software and it enables you to make some changes to the settings of the webcam. Configure crossbar this is really just an advanced option for people that are using capture cards, because this is also how you would set up a capture card through video capture device. So you don't need to worry about that for a webcam. Resolution and FPS type, this just enables us to directly configure the devices resolution and FPS so if you want to play around with custom resolution or different FPS then this is where you do that. Everything else really can just be left on its default, most of them are people that are trying to configure their capture card and want some more advanced settings. Finally we want to play around with the scale and the position and the cropping of the webcam to make sure it fits into our nice little overlay. Remember the trick that I told you about holding down Alt so that you can crop the size of the webcam and finally you want to make sure that your positioning this below the overlay but above your game in the OBS window. That's pretty much it guys, so hopefully by now you have a stream setup with game, overlay, webcam and some text. We're going to be doing more advanced guides on adding sources like your music tickers, your Twitch alerts, Twitch chat, things like that in specific videos coming up on the Gaming Careers YouTube channel, so make sure you subscribe if you haven't already. I have a good Question of the Day today, it's going to be which method of capturing your game did you end up using and what game were you trying to capture. So was it game capture, window capture, or display capture. If you can leave that down in the comments that's going to be super helpful for people that stumble across this video and are looking to stream the same game that you are and have struggled with maybe one of the options and can read in the comments how you captured that specific game. So for me, I'm going to say Overwatch and I used game capture. Thanks so much for watching guys, if you have enjoyed this video and watched it to this point please do give it a thumbs up, that that really does help us grow. And I will see you guys in the next video! Peace!
