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title: 'Meld Studio Using Spout2 for VTubers — A Beginner''s Guide and Tutorial'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujq2eiwBcTQ'
video_id: 'ujq2eiwBcTQ'
date: 2026-07-31
duration_sec: 419
---

# Meld Studio Using Spout2 for VTubers — A Beginner's Guide and Tutorial

> Source: [Meld Studio Using Spout2 for VTubers — A Beginner's Guide and Tutorial](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujq2eiwBcTQ)

## Summary

This beginner's guide walks through setting up Meld Studio, an OBS alternative tailored for VTubers, using Spout2 to bring in your avatar. The tutorial covers downloading and installing the app, importing OBS settings, enabling Spout2, adding sources like video, games, and browser overlays, and configuring stream output for Twitch or YouTube.

### Key Points

- **Download Meld Studio** [00:16] — Visit meld.studio, click Download, select Windows, and install the beta application.
- **Initial setup wizard** [00:45] — Click through prompts (choose No for the built-in VTuber prompt), allow microphone access, then click Next and Get Started.
- **Import OBS session** [01:11] — Use File > Import OBS Session to bring existing OBS scenes and settings into Meld Studio.
- **Spout2 compatibility** [01:26] — Spout2 currently supports only VN, with VSeeFace and VTube Studio support coming soon.
- **Enable Spout2 in VTuber app** [01:40] — In your VTuber software, open Settings, click the webcam icon, scroll to Spout2 config, and hit Activate.
- **Add VTuber avatar as source** [02:07] — Click the + icon, choose Video Device, and select your VTuber Spout camera (e.g., VTube Studio Cam).
- **Add game capture** [02:35] — Click +, choose Display Game on Full Screen, then pick the game from the window list.
- **Keep avatar on top** [03:02] — Ensure your VTuber Spout source is the top layer so it appears above game/image sources.
- **Green screen method** [03:16] — If using Display Capture for VTube Studio, set its background to green (background #8) and apply a Chroma Key effect in Meld.
- **Adjust Chroma Key threshold** [04:05] — Set threshold around 0.4 for VTube Studio, then use the crop/move tool to position your avatar.
- **Add browser source** [05:05] — Click +, select Browser, and paste your Stream Elements/Streamlabs alerts URL.
- **Go live output settings** [05:33] — Open File > Preferences, add Twitch/YouTube output, log in, set bitrate to 6000 (Twitch) or 10000 (YouTube-only), and choose Best Quality.

### Conclusion

Meld Studio offers a familiar OBS-like workflow while adding VTuber-focused features; this quick setup gets you live with your avatar, camera, and overlays in minutes.

## Transcript

directly competes with OBS studio and in today's video I'm going to show you on how to set up meld studio in just a few minutes also if you found today's video useful make sure you hit that subscribe button and help me reach my goal of
100,000 subscribers here on YouTube by the end of 2026 first thing we're going to do is head over to meld studio. and click on the download button links for this are in the description
then we're going to select on a download for Windows and let it download now what we're going to do is click on meld studio. beta and install the application screen saying hey this might not be saved we just want to click on
install now meld will pop up and say let vtubers out there we're just going to click no for your flesh tubers out there now I'm just going to click
access our microphone and then we're just going to click on the next and then get started the vast majority of you are coming from OBS so what I highly highly
highly suggest is you go to file and then click on import OBS session that's going to import basically everything that you already have in OBS into meld studio for this next section for spout 2 it does appear that it only supports at
this current time v-n but it will support things like vtu studio and even possibly VC face in the very very near future you want to make sure spout 2 is enabled on the application of your choice I'm using vtu Studio I know right
will be in the nearer future so we're going to hit on settings we are going to click the webcam icon on the top left hand side and we are going to scroll down to about to config and we're just going to click on the activate button if
v-nand or VC face make sure you do the same thing right now again v-nand is absolutely supportive VC face and vtube Studio not quite yet but this tutorial will still apply for you in the near future next thing you got to do in meld
left hand side click the little plus icon click on video device and then under select a device you're going to find your ban uh your vtube studio or
your VC pH whatever you are using it will appear here uh I'm going to just borrow vtu Studio Cam and just use that and well there I am but this is the exact method you would do to add your spout to capture things like video games
all you got to do is click on the plus icon under layers and go to display game on full screen and all you got to do is just select it in the window down below but for me I'm just going to use an image and I loaded up my image by
going to plus and then clicking image you want to make sure if you have an image or if you have your scenes or layers or all that fun Jazz that your vtube studio spout or whatever you're using to capture is on the very tippity
top for the people that want to use the green screen method this next section is for you now that we have mailed open all I'm going to do is right click on my this purpose I'm just going to leave it as scene under layers we're going to
click on the plus sign go down to display capture make sure our vtube studio is full screen in the background you cannot have it minimized we're going to click on select display or window and we are going to find vtube studio and
we are going to find vtube studio and then click okay and there I am for vtube Studio we got to unfortunately make sure we have a green screen until well Mel add support for spout so we want to click on the change background and make
sure we go to background number eight which is the green screen and then click select now back on Mel Studio what we want to do is click on the effects button click on the little plus icon find choma key and click on it and
you'll notice that the background disappears you might want to click on this little button here to adjust the threshold as in how strong we want the chroma key to be and I think point4 is pretty good for vtube studio and then we
just want to make sure we hide that and uh that's good so far now we want to little bit so we're going to click on the middle icon right here which allows us to crop and move it down so we're going to move it a little bit to the
left there and a little bit down and that's looking pretty good so now we can move our character to where we want it fully adjust to the size we want and I don't know I think that looks pretty good now if we want to add a game
click on the plus click on display capture make sure our game is open and full screen then you'll find it somewhere in the background all you got to do is Select it and well make sure your avatar is on top so the game is in
the background for example as you can see I loaded a image and it looks like my class room so what I'm going to do is make sure my vtu studio is above the image itself and again I will adjust my
avatar to where I want it that's looking pretty good now to add a browser Source all we got to do is again click on the plus icon click on browser and then put in the browser source that you need to put in in the URL on the right hand side
so this would be your stream elements alerts or streamlabs alerts all that fun Jazz goes right here now you're probably wondering well how do I go live with Mel well I'm glad you asked little Timmy and let me show
you what we want to do is click on the file on the top left hand side and go down to preferences as you may see this looks kind of familiar you can pretty much copy your OBS settings one to one and
just make it what it should be but for us to add something like twitch or YouTube all we got to do is click on ADD output click on Twitch or YouTube click on log in log in to your Twitch or YouTube like you normally would and well
you're good to go now that I'm logged into my twitch and my YouTube for that going to go down to video bit rate make sure I set it to 6,000 cuz that is the maximum that twitch can support or 10,000 if I'm only streaming on YouTube
quality preset I'm just going to set that to best quality cuz that's what I leave as default same thing with pluggins Advanced and pretty much every other little tab here I'm just going to leave it as default for now
and that's how you set up meld studio for your vtuber this was a very quick and basic tutorial on how to get started with M if you want something a little bit more detailed make sure you let me know in the comments down below again
I'm your V2 Senpai I stream here every Friday 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time and upload here every Wednesday 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard time so come on bye say hi and well I'll catch you all in the next one bye