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Post by Guacamole Anderson on Apr 4, 2020 18:38:36 GMT
Thought it would be good to start a general advice thread for streaming...share your tips here!
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Post by Guacamole Anderson on Apr 4, 2020 18:48:55 GMT
Broadcasting in Black & White
In one of my streams, tigerstripepro asked: Do you know a way to make a video black and white in OBS?
So I did some digging and it's pretty easy:
* In the Sources field, right-click Fire Pro * Choose Filters * Click the Plus sign * Choose Color Correction to add the filter
* In Color Correction settings, drag the Saturation slider all the way to the left (or set the value to -1)
That's it! It's 1959 all over again.
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Post by amsterDAN on Apr 5, 2020 19:35:59 GMT
Good idea for a thread! I'd like to toss out a question for people experienced with streaming, since I just got a new PC and am trying to get streaming myself, but have found myself kinda struggling to get comfortable with my setup.
What's everyone's preferred way of monitoring their live stream?
I find myself constantly caught between the pros and cons of watching through OBS, watching the game window directly (important if I wanna be able to manually override a camera angle), or watching the Twitch stream output straight up. So far I've settled on watching through OBS and just alt+tabbing over to the game window if I absolutely must intervene on the camera, and then keeping an eye out for stream problems by watching the Twitch stream in another window, or even on a separate laptop or my phone. Curious to hear other people's preferred ways of going about it, since I'm just flinging shit around and seeing what sticks at the moment.
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Post by Dawnbr3ak3r on Apr 5, 2020 20:35:47 GMT
Good idea for a thread! I'd like to toss out a question for people experienced with streaming, since I just got a new PC and am trying to get streaming myself, but have found myself kinda struggling to get comfortable with my setup. What's everyone's preferred way of monitoring their live stream? I find myself constantly caught between the pros and cons of watching through OBS, watching the game window directly (important if I wanna be able to manually override a camera angle), or watching the Twitch stream output straight up. So far I've settled on watching through OBS and just alt+tabbing over to the game window if I absolutely must intervene on the camera, and then keeping an eye out for stream problems by watching the Twitch stream in another window, or even on a separate laptop or my phone. Curious to hear other people's preferred ways of going about it, since I'm just flinging shit around and seeing what sticks at the moment. I run the game in full-screen, usually alt-tabbed, watching in real-time with the SLOBS stream broadcasting window. I've got a dual monitor setup, so I'm able to have my actual stream open in a Chrome tab on the other screen to interact with others, even if I don't really need it. I've enabled low-latency stream delay so there's less gap between what's happening in real-time and what's coming up on the stream. It makes things less spoilery, and easier for others to follow what I'm doing (since I usually build edits on stream). It's also easier for viewers to ask me questions as I'm working through each part of edit creation. Dual screens is highly recommended if it's affordable ~ can be a bit pricey, but the convenience makes up for it. Dual screens is pretty much the standard for streamers. Some use up to four monitors to track different things. It really depends on what you're doing and what you want to do. Other than that stuff, I don't really do anything else special. No mic, no webcam. |
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Post by Zealot on Apr 5, 2020 21:04:46 GMT
Before I got dual screens, I had my desktop PC running Fire Pro, OBS, and a video player if needed for taped matches. I responded to Twitch chat with my Macbook. Now, I currently run everything on the desktop, but age is catching up to it and the video processing is becoming pixelated junk. I may revert back to the old setup until I get a new PC.
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Post by TigerStripePro on Apr 8, 2020 2:14:24 GMT
I am running a single screen desktop PC with windowed fire pro, and streamlabs OBS. I cannot speak for the regular OBS since I haven't used it since 2018ish, but streamlabs OBS seems more user friendly. Being in Montana and living in a basement, my internet is up and down so I try to record my shows while I stream.
Spunk and SCFL have a setup I am curious about. |
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Post by fullMETAL on Apr 12, 2020 23:19:32 GMT
As a super basic barebones thing, when I streamed Arena Rising, I had OBS, Media Player Classic (with the pre-recorded match videos), and the Twitch stream (on a Chrome window) running on a single laptop, and on wi-fi as opposed to wired.
There was a fair amount of real-time tweaking and troubleshooting during the thing, including actually running MPC at about half size to lessen the load on the stream and keep video weirdness to a minimum; in total, I ran the show as 3 separate streams back-to-back (pre-show, main show part 1, main show part 2) to also avoid hiccups, since the whole thing clocked in at just under 6 full hours as a whole.
About halfway through the show, somewhere about halfway to 2/3rds through the longest match (the Battlefront Championship match), my entire laptop literally just crashed and I had to restart the stream entirely, starting from that match; luckily most of the viewers were reasonably patient about it and the rest of the show broadcast without any further issues.
Thus, my advice if you're running the whole thing from a single laptop: to keep "costs" down, make sure you've got a good fan, keep window sizes of the game itself small if you can (480p should be okay), try not to have a ton of things running other than OBS/game/Twitch, and if you're incorporating outside graphics resources into the presentation, put those all into one folder so you don't have to find them on the fly.
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