Streamlabs OBS For Brand New Streamers (Creating Scenes, Adding Widgets, and MORE)

getting everything set up in streamlabs obs can  be pretty confusing and streaming isn't meant to   be confusing it is meant to be fun right today  you'll go from having absolutely nothing set   up to having this awesome overlay setup as well  as understanding how to add customize and edit   every single thing you need and  want inside streamlabs obs let's go   not only are you gonna go from an absolute  beginner who knows nothing about streamlabs   over yesterday and become an absolute pro but i'm  also going to sneak in a bunch of small little   tips that you probably don't know about that  are going to blow your mind i'll be covering   every single step you need but most importantly  i'll also be referencing a playlist that is in my   description you see streamlabs obs is incredibly  complex at the end of the day and if you want to   learn how to deep dive into things like stream  labels alerts and all those things well don't   worry you'll get a beginner's understanding  today and then when you're ready to deep dive   you can check out the playlist in the description  there are also time codes in the description so   you can skip ahead to whatever section you're  specifically trying to set up and get it running   but most importantly in the description is  a link to our sponsor own.tv owned.tv are   a massive supporter of this channel but most  importantly they are a huge supporter when it   comes to streaming they are your one-stop shop for  all things stream resources whether you're looking   for a full stream package emotes sound alerts or  anything else you might need they have it but the   best part is they've turned installation into  an art if you are a beginner and you're using   streamlabs obs well then you can go over to  own.tv grab one of their full stream packages   and literally the installation process is a  few clicks so if you want to support me guys   go and support owned with the link in the  description get yourself set up with a full   animated or static overlay pack and then you can  come back and use this video to completely edit   and customize the entire thing so let's get into  the nitty gritty of setting up streamlabs obs for   an absolute beginner when you first install  streamlabs you'll most likely have either a   blank slate or you may have already taken a few  steps ahead and installed a template overlay for   this i want to make sure that everyone is working  from a blank slate so what we're going to do is   come down to the bottom left click this little  drop down as shown on screen click manage all   and then once it opens click create new this  will add a whole new blank stream lab setup   now don't worry if you did set up a template it  is not completely gone if you want to swap back   go to the same process but don't click new instead  click the overlay that you were on originally   okay let's give you a quick tour of streamlabs  obs and then i'll deep dive into everything but   first you need to know your way around in the  middle you have your display window this is   what you'd be broadcasting to twitch if you were  live or if you were recording this is what you'd   be recording if we look below our display we also  have our event feed this shows when people follow   sub or any other actions such as raids hosts or if  you have streamlabs donations set up this is also   where those will appear below that we have three  boxes on the far left we have scenes you'll set up   different scenes for different reasons for example  you'll need a scene for gaming a scene for going   to be right back or a scene for just chatting to  your viewers if we had those three scenes i just   mentioned already set up and we clicked between  them then we would actually be transitioning   between the scenes in the middle we have sources  these are the assets you have added to the scene   you've got selected on the left and on the right  we have the mixer these are your audio sources   that will be transmitted out you can also control  and edit the audio of those sources from here now   don't worry i know that sounds like a lot to take  in i'll be deep diving into every single one of   these boxes throughout the video first you just  need to know what is what so you can actually find   them when i mention them if we go further to the  right and then up to the middle you can click on   this little arrow here which opens up your chat  meaning you're able to read anything that comes   into your twitch chat while you are live or just  in general while you have this open so now you   know where everything on the basic tour is i will  also mention though that if you're struggling to   learn how to get your settings correct and make  sure your stream is crystal clear and not laggy   then i really recommend the playlist in the  description because it has a video there   all about streaming settings and all about how  to diagnose why you might be lagging or why   you might not have the perfect quality for your  stream so i'm going to show you how to install   this entire overlay in less than six clicks but  first we need to start at the very basics so you   guys can understand how to edit and customize  things by yourself later as i said on the   left we have our scene list i also mentioned that  you'll be making scenes for different purposes for   example let's start out with a game scene now you  should already have a default scene set up you can   right click it and rename it to the game scene now  i might be setting up a game scene but i'll cover   everything you need to know to build any scene you  want now that we've renamed this to game scene in   the middle we have our sources sources are all  the media that are inside this particular scene   right now it is empty but if we click this plus  sign here at the top we can add sources such   as a game capture you'll need a game capture in  your gaming scene because that lets you actually   capture your game and display it in streamlabs obs  there are other types of capture such as window   and desktop but most of the time you're best  starting out and learning how game capture works   anything you want to add you'll do it with this  plus sign this could be video graphics or it could   be still images or it could be any of the dozens  of built-in widgets that come with streamlabs obs   for example we also want to add alerts so if  someone follows while you're live and alert plays   on screen so we hit the plus and add an alert box  your alert box will come with default alerts or   if you've already installed something those will  be what shows up here but if you want to learn   how to make alerts and how to use the alert box  perfectly i have that playlist in the description   which actually has a full deep dive in how to set  up streamlabs alerts your game team will also need   a webcam most likely maybe some support bars for  latest followers or subscriber and potentially   you'll want to add your chat on screen as well  so let's start by adding a webcam we click on   the plus and we click video capture device we'll  select our webcam and if we make sure we have   it selected in the source scene we'll be able to  resize it down now the source list isn't actually   a random order it is actually a list from top to  bottom imagine the bottom of that list is actually   behind everything else in 3d space so if we were  to drag our webcam down below our game capture   it would then be hidden this means that anything  you want to be at the top above everything else   should be dragged higher in the list now i want  to add support bars so that when someone follows   me their name is on screen as my latest follower  this means that people might follow just to have   their name on screen for a little bit longer we're  going to do this by adding support bar graphics   all of the graphics i show in today's video are  completely free from the stream scheme discord   all you have to do head down the description join  verify yourself and you can start downloading them   and follow along exactly the same as what i do  so how do we add things to our sources well we   go up here and we click the plus sign now i can  either click add image if my support bar graphic   isn't animated or i can click a media source if my  support bars are an animation my support bars are   in fact animated so i will click media source i'll  find my animated bars from my computer and i will   add them in since they are animated i also need  to make sure i double click my support bar source   so the settings open up and i click on  loop or else it will stop playing after   the animation is finished any animation that  you want to continue playing on your screen   needs to have loop turned on that process i just  showed you a flicking plus and adding something is   the same process you'll use to add any media  source or any image you want to your screen   so let's go ahead and add our webcam frame  in and get that all lined up with our webcam   next obviously we need our support bars to  actually have the follower name on them and   we also need to have the latest follower there  so people know what the name is about what we're   going to do is we're going to head up here to the  plus again and we're gonna add a stream label once   the stream label opens i will click on the drop  down i will search for recent follower here i can   change the size the font and i can edit pretty  much everything i want now i'm gonna increase   the font size to max and then size down my new  stream label so it fits inside my bar the reason   i choose to go to max in font size and scale down  is because it will be a lot less pixelated i see   a lot of people dragging to stretch things up  rather than increasing the font size always   increase your font size and scale down rather  than have a low font size and scale up stream   labels are simple to add but incredibly complex  and powerful when you get into the nitty-gritty   that's why if you want to in the playlist i have  mentioned in the description multiple times now   there is a video that is seven minutes long which  will take you from beginner with stream labels   to a complete and auto pro this video would go on  for far too long if i deep dived into everything   to do with stream labels now let's also add in  the text to show people what that name is because   right now it just has my latest followers name  we're going to do is we're going to head back to   that plus add a source and add a text gdi plus and  i'm going to type in i want to say new follower   i'll increase the font size again and scale it  down to fit next to it and voila we have got our   new follower and we also have our follower name  appearing in our bar now what if i don't like my   support bars being at the top of my screen and i  actually wanted to be at the bottom of my screen   well i could individually click them and drag them  all down and align them again but that is a bit of   a pain so instead if i wanted to i could come down  to my source list i could click on the text hold   shift and then click on the media source and this  will select everything between those two sources   now i can click on any of the images inside and  drag them down to the bottom but a much easier   way to do this is to instead select the folder  button above sources and drag all of the sources   into one folder named support bars while we're at  it let's also go ahead and add our webcam frame   and our webcam into a folder of their own as well  now we do hit a small snag here depending on your   support graphics you might have three or four more  blank spaces you need to fill and now you could do   the exact same process i showed you with stream  labels but rather than add follower you could   add it as subscriber or whatever else you wanted  or if you're just starting out and you just want   to focus on followers then you can go ahead and  crop out the rest of them if we select the support   bars folder it'll select everything in there  and now we're going to hold down alt and we're   going to drag from right to left and it will start  cropping if you want to you can also crop from top   to bottom but in this case we do just want to crop  off the extra three support bars this alton drag   also works for resizing your webcam when you're  trying to fit it into a 4-3 box because sometimes   having a big 16 9 a wide screen webcam takes up  too much space on your game screen if we follow   the process we showed earlier and we import a  square graphic for a webcam frame then we're going   to be able to lay it over the top of our webcam  and we can hold alt and we can drag the webcam   to be smaller and fit the box now the last step of  our gaming scene is maybe you'd like to add a chat   box to the screen so that when people talk in your  chat they also appear on screen to do this let's   head back in and hit the plus sign and then we're  going to add a chat box widget now you'll probably   have the default chat box set up most likely and  when you add a chat chatbox widget it will be   square at the top left of the properties when you  double click on your chat box in the source list   you can actually change the height and width  start by changing this to 1080 by 1920 and   then resizing it if that's too long for you you  can obviously crop or or you can adjust those   properties yourself to try and get a better fit  for what you're trying to put it in while we still   have the chat box properties open we can also  turn on emotes and badges to appear in screen   now let's put this chat box over here next to our  camera and our followers type something to test   and make sure that your chat box is actually below  your camera in the source list but above your game   scene congratulations you pretty much understand  the basics to getting all of this set up and you   have a game scene set up now but first we need  to go ahead and add a just chatting scene which   i think that every single creator should have  a just chatting scene set up for connecting one   to one with their audience to add a new scene  we're gonna hit the plus above the scenes list   we're gonna name it just chatting and hit okay  and holy crap all of the work we just did is   suddenly gone no have no fear if you click  on the game scene it will transition you back   to the other scene where you had all your work  a small safety tip for people if you're going to   transition to a scene that shows your desktop or  your browsers or anything like that or you just   don't want to have to transition every time you  click on a different scene and i recommend turning   on studio mode studio mode can be turned on if  you go down to this little button in the bottom   left here so now when i click on the game scene it  won't instantly transition me is that it will show   me what i've clicked on and i can click transition  to move between and if i do it the opposite way it   is the exact same now you can go ahead and set up  your just chatting scene however you want but i do   have a few recommendations for example i do really  think you should make a large full screen camera   or at least a decent size of the screen as your  camera i also recommend you should add your chat   to it and you should add your own support bars  if that is the kind of thing you're looking to do   obviously you'll also want to add an alert box now  when you're adding a lot of these widgets and a   lot of these sources you're going to follow the  steps that i showed you earlier where you click   plus and then you go and select the widgets and  when you do that it's actually going to say do you   want to add your alert box you've already added to  a different scene or do you want to create a whole   new alert box now i recommend just sticking with  having the exact same one in every scene for now   but again there's that guide in the description  if you want to get down and figure out exactly   how to make everything work once you have all  that set up one of the fastest and easiest ways   to add some polish and production value to your  stream is to set up transitions and really make   them fancy let's quickly add some transitions  to our overlay and then i'm going to show you   guys how to install our full free template  so you don't have to worry about any of this   and of course how to set up all your audio so what  we're going to do is we're going to click the cog   wheel above the scenes list click add transition  change it to a stinger and then import your video   file that you want to use as your stinger now  you'll want to be using a webm video stinger   because this means you'll have transparency now  you'll want to change time to frame and then what   you do is you're going to set your transition  point to whatever the frame is that your screen   is completely covered for me 30 frames is when my  screen is completely covered so i'm going to hit   30. now what i want you to do is you should type  30 in and if it's too early or too late you can   adjust what your frame transition will be until it  is correct once it's correct hit done now select   the new stinger as your default with this circle  hit done click on the just chatting scene or the   game scene whichever one you had up and you'll see  that it plays the transition now i actually have a   video that shows off 30 plus free transitions that  you guys can download and try out for your stream   and it also has a deep dive into really polishing  your transitions and really polishing those   stingers to make them as fancy as possible  so if you want link in the description in   that playlist oh lj this has all been so much  work i know it is actually a heck of a lot of   work to get all this set up by hand and we're  barely even actually digging deep into all of it   so why don't we just set up a template for you  guys so you can just go ahead and delete anything   you don't want rather than having to set up  everything you do want the first thing you want to   do is get your hands on a dot overlay whether it's  a paid one from own.tv or one of the free animated   ones from our discord linked in the description  it doesn't really matter once you have your dot   overlay you're gonna head down to the cogwheel in  the bottom left click on scene collection click on   import overlay and select your dot overlay file  from wherever it is on your computer this will   generate a whole new list of scenes with all of  their sources set up and organized into folders   it has a lot of different options to choose from  and anything you want to edit or customize you can   just double click on now i will throw it out there  any animated text can't be edited which means that   you can change your stream labels that are already  custom built in for you but you won't be able to   change anything with big animations included now  with overlays like this you will need to follow   the steps i showed you earlier in the video to add  a game capture your alerts your chat box and any   other widgets you want to use because sadly with  streamlabs we can't template in widgets to your   overlays if you need any further help with setting  up your overlays alerts or any of that stuff as i   said there is the playlist in the description  as well as a giant faq inside our discord   and 43 000 members there who can all help you get  set up and get going that's all of our visuals   though and while visuals are pretty important  actually at the end of the day it's your audio   and your sound that is the most important when  it comes to getting a stream crisp and clean   so let's cover how to get your audio mixer all set  up and good to go now if we select our game scene   or anything that has any animated files or media  sources in them well then streamlabs is going to   assume there is audio with that as well if we look  on the right or to our mixer they're going to be   included in our source list now we only really  want to focus on two of these sources our mic   source and our desktop audio source i want you  to click the cog wheel in the top right of your   mixer this will open up your advanced settings and  first thing we have to do is hide anything that   isn't one of those sources as i mentioned you'll  do this by clicking the hide in mixer box let's   click on the settings cogwheel in the bottom left  of streamlabs obs and if we look over here on the   side you'll see audio i want you to click on this  audio section and i want you to click on your mic   aux and select your microphone input whatever that  might be called now they're all named differently   but it should say your brand name for example  mine is my broadcast stream mix from my go xlr be   careful not to leave this as a webcam or something  else that could be picking up audio or else it's   going to start sounding terrible make sure it  is the correct microphone by usually clicking   or tapping on the end of your microphone without a  noise gate on it you'll probably also want to make   sure that your desktop audio device is set up and  set to default now if we go back to our mixer and   if we talk into the mic it is being picked up by  these bars now your bars with a microphone should   be hitting into your yellow if they start hitting  red i recommend lowering them down just slightly   because once they're in red there's not much room  for if you start yelling without it cutting off   the audio and distorting it to sound terrible  now any audio that plays through your computer   will actually be picked up by your desktop audio  and that is what we can see here so we're playing   music that is being picked up and you can level  the audio here to mute our microphone or desktop   audio we click this little button next to the  mixer and to lower the volume you can click and   drag this the final step here is that you'll want  to click the cog wheel in the top right of the   audio sources again open the advanced settings  and on the right you'll see audio monitoring   now this will really help you when it comes  to listening back to your own audio if it says   monitor off it means you can't hear this source  through your headphones but your viewers can   monitor only means you can only hear it and then  monitor and output means that you are transmitting   as well as listening back to it in your headphones  remember though if you monitor only your mic to   listen back to but your desktop audio is set to  monitor off then you'll transmit that audio from   your mic because you can hear it and that is being  picked up by your desktop audio if you want to   full deep dive into audio and getting everything  set up i have a video it is again linked in that   playlist called how to make any microphone sound  better i cover leveling as well as a deep dive   into filters that you will need to have on your  microphone but for now the most important thing   you can do is give yourself a pat on the back  because congratulations the basic streamlabs obs   setup is done and you are able to start streaming  like a pro or kind of like a medium level pro i   really recommend checking out that playlist and  please comment down below oh snap if you managed   to watch all the way to the end of this video i  hope it helped you guys and i'll see you next time

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Length: 18min 10sec (1090 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 16 2021