The Complete Open Broadcaster (obs) Almanac for 2023

it’s been a long time in the making, but it’s FINALLY HERE!

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.

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 Websites

Rating Distribution

• 1 stars: 2 votes
• 2 stars: 5 votes
• 3 stars: 43 votes
• 4 stars: 154 votes
• 5 stars: 324 votes

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