Setup Song Lyrics In OBS - Display Livestream Lyrics For Your Church

it is great to see a creator this video is going to review how to set up song lyrics in obs we're going to go over two ways to do it we'll review the features and benefits of both you're going to love the detail and the ease of this tutorial let's get some if you're new to this channel i want to welcome you you can think of me as a video software technology explorer i'm always uncovering new software techniques in my tutorials to broaden your horizons in regards to making your videos more cool and more engaging if this is something that interests you subscribe and click the bell for new video notification every single week let's go okay the first method that we're going to install is the lewis grip method that can be found on the obs forum's website so what we're going to do is we're going to type in the word obs lyrics into google hit enter and scroll down until you see this one link obs lyrics obs forums click that and it will put you on the right page but on the wrong tabs it defaults to discussion where i want you to go is the overview tab just so that you can read the how to use text if you like and you can download the program by clicking the white button in the upper right hand corner so click that and download the source code zip file that's what you want to download to your computer hit save and we'll move on to the next step okay upon downloading the zip file expand it so that you can see the contents and the file of importance is the lyrics dot lua file this is what powers the program and we need to install it into the right place so they can it can be used by obs properly so copy that file ctrl c go into obs and click tools and select scripts now click the plus sign in the lower left hand corner and what we're doing is we're understanding where to put this thing and as you can see it defaults to a location on your c drive which is bullets program files obs dash studio data obs dash plugins front end tools and scripts that's where we need to put this thing so that we can select it for use so let me do that now i'm going to go into my c drive i will go into program files scroll down obs desk studio data obs plugins front end dash tools scripts and then control v for paste boom we're done okay briefly let's go back to the contents of the zip file i want to bring your attention to the readme.md file if you double click that and take a look at it the how to use instructions will be covered in this video so you really don't have to worry about that but i do want you to take a look at things to know take a look at the append pound pound to the end of the line to display it by itself use forward slash forward slash to write a comment that will not display to your viewers these little tips are important to know so review those and i also want to bring delight the person responsible for creating this script his name is amir chev and he has spent all this time programming the script so that you can enjoy it look at all the work that he's done in this scripting language it's quite remarkable i want to tell you thank you so very much for the hard work amir chev it means everything to us we love you brother thank you so very much and if you feel the same way why don't you go into comments it at the blue website that i just referenced earlier chime in and tell him how much you appreciate all his hard work on the script this lua script is a time saver because all you have to do is copy all your lyrics and paste it into the script and then hit a hotkey and the script will take a look at the block of text and only reveal the amount of lines that you tell it to show the other way of approaching this is to create cells and paste in the one two or three lines of text that you wish to show and then you advance from one cell to the next that's the version two that we'll be reviewing so if you're interested in doing it that way stay tuned we're going to talk about it but this method is superior because you don't have to create those individual cells it's a time saver okay okay let's open up obs for the first time and we will go to tools sub choice scripts and select the plus sign in the lower left hand corner and select lyrics.lua we'll hit open and here is the interface for the first time you can see all kinds of crazy parameters don't let that bother you too much we'll get through this song title is anything you want in regards to the lyrics that you're posting in this case we're going to use the marine hymn so i will type in marine song now we have to paste the lyrics in here so i've already gotten them set up i'll go into my uh explorer here and find it where are we here we go it's in here anthem lyrics here we go marine core lyrics and they look good no spaces no funky characters just periods looks good i will copy this and i will go back into obs and paste it into the lyric field paste and now i will click save song good now the next thing that we want to do is create a text to apply this function to it so go back into obs i'll close out of here go back into your main obs click the plus sign in sources and select text gdi and we will type in the word lyrics just to remind us hit ok and just you can type anything in the text field because it will be replaced by the lyrics select the font and type in size of 100. now you may want to change the size of this after you see the lyrics appear for the first time but for now we'll just type in 100 hit ok you can also change the colors you can make you can put two colors applied to your text you can also outline your text with different colors all kinds of neat stuff but we won't worry about that right now as long as you understand it's possible we'll hit ok alright so the the source that represents the text is called lyrics now right click on the word text and this is important now select transform and edit transform and select positional alignment of center i repeat this is extremely important if you don't do this you won't see it and you'll be like no why it's just one of those things that you have to remember to do hit close okay so now the text is looking good go back into tools go into scripts and scroll down and designate the text source of the name that we just created in this case it was lyrics now i don't see it right now because the system can't automatically show you what you created you have to click the refresh key and sometimes it goes away when you click it don't let that scare you go back into tools go back into scripts again and now when you click the text source pull down lyrics appears so i repeat when you click that refresh button don't get freaked out when the screen goes away that's if it does sometimes it doesn't sometimes it does just go back in and then select the text source okay we're looking good now after doing that all you have to do is click prepare song and then click show hide lyrics and as you can see it shows up in the preview screen and the next step is to designate your hotkeys to advance the next set of lines and before i move on i want to let you know also that there is a parameter that shows you lines to display so you can tell the system to display three lines here i'll move the screen over so you can see what i'm doing four lines five lines as many lines as you want but in most cases i think it would be two in most cases so i'm going to bump it back down to two hit close and now we can start to set up our hotkeys in other words we're going to assign commands to our keyboard to advance to the next two lines here we go go into your obs click settings then click hotkeys and if you scroll down from the top you will see advanced lyrics go back lyrics show hide lyrics prepare next and prepare previous so advanced lyrics i would recommend that you hit the forward arrow on your keyboard and then for go back lyrics i would recommend you hit the back arrow show hide lyrics um i'm gonna put let's see show hide lyrics i think i'm gonna do the h key and prepare next will be let's see the j key and prepare previous will be the k key these can be anything that you want okay it's purely up to you i'm just sort of shooting from the hip in regards to what i'm selecting right now just to show you i will hit apply and okay okay now i want to cover how to add a new song and it's not clearly evident but when you understand it it's very easy i wanted to chime in real quick and provide some clarity the program allows you to store multiple lyrics so what we're doing now is setting up a second lyric so that you can choose from either one down the road highlight the existing title and type in the new title of your song in this case it's going to be amazing grace add your lyrics here they are here ctrl a control v for paste and then hit save song now when you click save song if you notice here in the preview window the lyrics from the previous song are still there and the reason why is you have to click some buttons first and foremost you have to click clear prepared song then click prepare song and then click show hide lyrics and boom there it is so these three buttons i hold up my three fingers these three buttons here okay are required to switch the songs so you have to hit the clear button the prepare button and then the show hide button three buttons to switch okay in part two of this video i'm going to provide a link that you can click that will take you to the next video that will explain how to use google slides and what you do is you break up your lyrics into two or three line sections put them in individual slides and then when they move from one slide to the next with a keystroke your lyrics will slide in with animation capability it's going to be really cool it's going to use green screen and i look forward to explaining it to you with the next video coming right up i'll present that link right now as i sing the marine core hymn the hot keys and showing you the lyrics in action here we go from the halls of montanuma to the shores of tripoli we fight our countries battles on the land as on the sea first to fight for right and freedom and to keep our honor clean we are proud to claim our title of the united states marines you

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Published: Tue Nov 17 2020