my ultimate, almanac of everything i know about OBS for live streaming and recording, to be updated every year and every quarter with the latest tips and tricks, hardware and tools for maximum engagement for entrepreneurs, streamers, e-sports and offline recording.
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| The Complete Open Broadcaster (obs) Almanac for 2020 |
DEVELOP AND ACTION
this is a brand new format i've developed in that i've created a bunch of sections that allow you to jump in and 'cherry pick' information when you need it, not only do we go from basic setup but we also deep dive into elements that the other courses just don't cover
i've taken what i learned from my mini courses and looked how i could improve on stepping through with you in terms of what you might need in the moment, what might go wrong, how you can fix that, how you develop your engagement with live streams and how you can be more productive and effective with offline recorded streams.
BE READY TO 100x YOUR OBS KNOWLEDGE - ARE YOU READY?!
over 100+ video parts, the most complete obs course you will find on udemy.
POWER OBS SESSIONS
Starting from Zero to Hero in less than an hour?
Scene Transitions — Setting up a ‘Stinger’
Scene Transitions — What are Swipe, Slide, Fade to Colour & Lumi Wipe?
Cropping Layers and Weirdness in Scaling
Custom Scene Transition Overrides
Converting a Video from .mp4 to .webm for size/speed
Converting a .MKV to .MP4 with redux
Using Advanced Settings for Colour Correction
Getting your Green screen Perfect in OBS
Locking Elements in Place, Why?
Displaying a Universal Chat with Restream
Copying Filters from Sources & Scenes
The Nightmare of Copying -- Duplicate or Reference
Scenes have Sources, But Sources can be Scenes (whoa)
Let’s get in depth with the Audio Mixer and VST Plugins (free!)
Using hotkeys, make your show building easier
Looping a Video in OBS
Setting up Audio Globally
Why I like a default fullscreen video + audio shot as a scene
Adding a Webcam in OBS
Creating a Picture in Picture in OBS
SCENES & SOURCES 101
Sources — Audio Input Capture
Sources — Audio Output Capture
Sources — Browser (read, slow!)
Sources — Colour Source & Power Tips (single colours & filters!)
Sources — Display Capture
Sources — Image & Image Slideshow (great for sponsors & qr codes)
Sources — Lua & Scripts will Appear Here (tools > scripts)
Sources — Media Source
Sources — Scene (my favourite productivity hack)
Sources — Syphon Client
Sources — Text (is clunky mostly)
Sources — VLC Video Source
Sources — Video Capture Device (elgato etc, better than capture screen!)
Sources — Window Capture
Right Click Source — Grouping Selecting Items & Limitations!
Right Click Source — Filters — let’s talk about them!
Right Click Source — Order — layering up your scenes sources correctly
Right Click Source — Transforming Assets
LOCAL RECORDING POWER TIPS
Start recording, pause recording, start again!
Record to the fastest drive you can buy
Lag and latency with kill your local recordings
Redundancy of recording with Blackmagic hardware
ADVANCED OBS
building scenes as sources, why they are powerful
organising your layers like a boss
Recording and Streaming — save to the fastest drive you can!
BONUS OBS LEARNING
Why you should use mkv for recording (bsod, power outages)
Stopping dropping frames and why that happens
Backing up and Exporting your OBS Settings
OBS broke with Catalina, what you can learn from this (wait until it’s officially supported)
What is the Different between RTMP and FTL on mixer?
Why streaming to periscope gives you extra social media reach!
Deep Dive the Output Tab in Settings (confusing!)
Using Stream Delay in Advanced to Reduce Stream Snipers (live streaming)
Dynamically changing your bitrate is not a great fix for a bad quality setup
Why a second screen makes so much sense
OBS BUG HUNTING
Weird resizing bugs, use that ALT key to fix all
Always make text big and scale down, not the other way
Hidden and Visible, Arrangement and Grouping
KEYNOTE ANIMATIONS
Let’s build a ‘stinger’ in keynote and convert to .webm
making layered masked images to build up virtual sets like dr disrespect
EXTERNAL TOOLS
Miro Video Converter — convert from .mp4 to .webm fast! (Free)
Blackmagic speed test — test those drive speeds! (Free)
smarturl-it or geni-us for tracking links
using zencastr to do live podcasting as a group
Using mumble for live streaming audio capture
SETTINGS FOR GOXLR & OBS
Walkthrough and setup of goxlr for obs (referral links in here)
STREAMDECK AND OBS SETUP
Why streemdeck is the perfect choice for new users
Building Advanced Setups with Streamdeck
Using your iPad for Mobile Recordings & Events
MAKING ASSETS IN SCREENFLOW 8 FOR OBS
Let’s Make! - Building a Lower Third Animation
Let’s Make! - Creating an Animated Facecam
Let’s Make! - Making Subtle Call’s to Action (qr codes)
Let’s Make! - Text File Update-able Schedule!
Let’s Make! - Intros and Outros
For more tips and walkthroughs take my screenflow course!
STREAMING & SETTINGS PER PLATFORM
Setting up for Streaming — Twitch
Setting up for Streaming — Youtube
Setting up for Streaming — Facebook Live
Setting up for Streaming — Mixlr
Setting up for Streaming — Periscope (twitter)
Setting up for Streaming — Vimm (decentralised)
Got Further Questions — 1-2-1 Video chat ready!
ESSENTIAL STREAMING & BANDWIDTH ISSUES
Latency, what is it and how can I stop it
Think Minimal, Lean and Clean
Build your own Streaming Steps List
Don’t click links in your chat
Less is more in Obs
Hardware over Software
Know what’s happening on your Network
Failover and Local Recording
Streaming to Multiple Website @ Once
Who this course is for:
- anyone wishing to live stream to facebook live, twitch or youtube
- brand advocates, interns, marketing department, social media guru
- entrepreneur, stay at home mum business, niche companies
- cybercafes, co-working hubs, startups and mom and pop stores
