Highlighted in red, this displays recent donations from your audience, and also displays the data on top of the game/screen capture. The data in this case is pulled via Streamlabs, which links to your Twitch/ YouTube account, and is added as a 'Browser' source type. Highlighted in yellow, this OBS overlay displays recent followers, and displays the data on top of our game/screen capture so that both are visible to the audience. As you can see, our second scene is called ' Screen Capture' which consists of a few sources that we will break down step by step. With our second scene that you can see above, there is a lot more happening.

Within the ' Intro Screen' scene, you will notice that the only added 'source' is an image file. We will switch to ' Screen Capture' once we want to start our broadcast. The below example shows a typical OBS configuration for a beginner streamer that has an ' Intro Screen', and a second scene called ' Screen Capture'. In this scenario, we could configure two scenes with different elements and sources added via OBS.

However, you will probably want another scene with your alerts once you start broadcasting. How OBS scenes workįor example, you may want a scene for your stream with “ starting soon” text. Overlays play a huge part in making your stream visually appealing, and unique to you.Ĭongratulations! You now know how to make a scene on OBS. This is the process that streamers go through to add both alerts and overlays to their streams. The handy thing is, once you have added a source in one scene, you can easily use it again in another.

This brings up the various sources you can choose from for your newly created scene. Once you have added your scene and named it, make sure it is selected and move to the box on the right side of the image below to click the plus sign. All of your overlays, sources and general on-screen elements will need to be added via a chosen scene. Once you have clicked this, you will simply be asked to choose a name for the scene. How do you add scenes to OBS?Ī scene can be easily added in OBS by clicking on the plus sign displayed in the image below.

They are among the key OBS settings, enabling you to change your layout, add live feeds from your webcams, live streaming cameras, and other devices. You can think of scenes as visual templates that show various elements on screen for your audience.

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