Best OBS Studio Tutorial for Beginners + Streamlabs Plugin (Settings & Alerts)

[00:01] empty OBS screen to a fully setup stream that's ready for you to press go live I've made countless OBS tutorials in the past and then most of them I've been using streamlabs for the chat on screen for the alerts we always set it up on

[00:14] the streamlabs website then imported it into OBS to get our alerts on screen and now just a week ago streamlabs contacted me about their new plugin which people have been using from streamlabs to import into OBS studio and they made

[00:27] a plugin from it and in this video I'm going to show you everything that you need to know in order to go live and stream we'll be doing OBS studo settings then adding all the graphics adding your webcam your game adding alerts on top of

[00:40] using the streamlabs plug-in maybe for the graphics I need to check it out I think they have thems available they are sponsoring this video but everything and as I said I've been talking about them for years now if you haven't

[00:53] downloaded OBS St yet you go to OBS pro.com you can download it there so this is the empty obs window let's make it full screen and when you start this up for the first time then the auto configuration wizard will probably pop

[01:06] up you can use this and it will do some things for you but it won't be perfect now what I'm going to do now is give you a quick overview of what OBS studio is otherwise it will be hard to follow this tutorial so let me give you a really

[01:19] done this a few times in the past on the bottom left here you see the scenes and the sources now the scenes this can be for example starting soon and these sources here on the right so in the ingame scene for example in the sources

[01:34] then you can click on the plus icon and at game capture for example this is to some things to set up I'm just going to click okay now and then now we have a source here our game in the in game scene and if we go to starting soon then

[01:46] it's still empty scenes as well and that's how the scenes work as folders one level above this and those are the collection so on the top you can see you will see that right now we are in

[01:59] collection and then for example call this streaming and then you can make recording and this is because your streaming layout will be different from example I'm recording my screen with this here and I basically just have a

[02:14] scene with a display capture I'm just recording my screen so then let's say will just click scene collection go to streaming and then boom everything I've set up for streaming will start to load and we will be working in the streaming

[02:27] scene collection right now now all these separate things here that you see on the bottom these are docks and I just messed up my docks because I have tabs here now so a way to fix this is Click one of them and then drag the title and they

[02:39] will have it separately so now I can just reposition the sources were here so audio mixer and so what I was going to say is you can grab this audio mixer anything up or you want something extra you can go to docks on the top and there

[02:54] you can disable or unable them so we're almost finished with the overview of OBS the audio mixer here all your audio will come like your microphone volume your game volume your desktop volume there are ways to separate all your audio

[03:07] Whatever scene you're in on the left will be displayed here and will be on on the right are the settings it's a pretty big thing they will determine the together with you so this was the overview of OBS what we'll be doing

[03:22] right now is install the streamlabs plugin then we will do the settings here stream and after that we will set up a Bo of sources and also scenes so that you can add graphics you can add alerts you can add your game your webcam your

[03:35] first thing we're going to do is download the streamlabs plugin for OBS the plugin I will link this in the description you will find everything I it's downloaded we're going to run it now once the streamlabs plugin has been

[03:51] installed you have to restart OBS studio and then a few things have changed so on this is extremely handy you can also manage your alert here the sound you can label so if you want the top donator to be the one from today then you just

[04:06] restart the session you can reload widgets when anything's going wrong and then on the right we have the streamlabs chat however the biggest changes on the logged in already you will have to log in with a streamlabs account you can

[04:19] link it to YouTube twitch all that stuff and then once it's installed on the left you have a bunch of stuff and one of it is overlays you can also add a filter you can filter on free and animated and then on the right you can sort by

[04:31] popularity I've done it already there's a bunch of stuff you can check out there's an animated kick pack I'm really curious for this so I'm going to check overlay and so it says I have to restart OBS so let's do that so once you've

[04:44] installed the kick pack or any pack that will be part of their overlays free or premium we checked out free packs now they have a subscription streamlabs Ultra let's check yes included with ultra there's a bunch of stuff included

[04:57] overlays and today's video I want to keep things free if you want to check it will add a link in the description this here is an overview of most things that includes they have a clip Creator you get the pro version in Ultra you can

[05:11] they have software to record group conversations a podcast editor video collaboration software and also not unimportant you get 20% on Logitech G stuff so if you're in the US this might be worth it for you but anyway we have

[05:26] all our stuff here and how to understand what we installed or how to set this up you need an understanding of these sources what they do and we will go over pack or how to install your own stuff but before setting up these graphics and

[05:39] over the settings and honestly the settings are pretty simple in the general tab there's not really much you need to know this might be useful here you can disable snapping if you're trying to align elements move it closely

[05:52] next in the Stream tab this is where you link to your account right now we're going to the next tab the output Tab and on top we're going to change the output mode to Advanced and the only tab we need right now here is a streaming tab

[06:05] bottom it's pretty simple first thing you want to do is you want to enable twitch Vault track if you stream on Twitch so our stream audio will go to track one and then our vault audio will go to track two I will later explain

[06:17] what this means now the video encoder this is really really important if you have an AMD GPU select this one and viia GPU select this if you don't have either select the last option but most people will get one of these I'm going to

[06:30] select Nvidia right now most of the settings will be very similar you can just follow this explanation now as a rate control select cbrr this stands for constant bit rate and the bit rate is what we need to set up below and this is

[06:42] the amount of data we're sending to the streaming servers each second and then they redistribute across all your viewers this is the basic image of how this works and so what you set up here is dependent on your internet speed so

[06:54] just do an internet speed test with any service that you want mine just finished I'm not going to go in depth on this it's very simple just take your calculator enter your upload speed and then multiply this by 700 and so this

[07:08] could handle in order to stream however 29,000 is way too high so let's go back to OBS we need to choose our bit rate here and pretty much the highest you want to enter here is 8,000 if you stream on YouTube they accept higher bit

[07:22] rates 10,000 might be good here however you need to keep into account what result you got if your result looks something like this below 8,000 then just enter the number that you got right here so 10,000 for YouTube 8,000 for the

[07:35] rest and if your result was lower than any of those two then enter the result that you got by calculating our upload speed available for streaming I will enter 8,000 the key frame interval you want to set this to 2 seconds then the

[07:47] preset for now we're going to set it to P6 I will come back on this later the tuning don't touch it multip pass two pass quar the resolution don't touch the basically don't touch the rest so the the only variable option here right now

[08:01] is the preset if you finish this whole video you finish the settings you finish the graphics and they do a test stream if your PC cannot handle it then this is the option that you want to lower so seven is the highest quality one is the

[08:13] lowest you start from six and then you check your PC if it's too hard you go to Five you go to four lower than four isn't recommended but if your PC can't handle it you will have to so next we go to the audio tab you want to set a

[08:25] sample rate to 48 then your desktop audio you set this to the def fault and what this will do is copy whatever is set up right here so this will probably this case anything that's being sent to your headphones will also be sent to the

[08:39] stream so that's your game sound your music that's playing and then is your mic audio one here you just select your microphone in my case it's the beacon mic by the way really good microphone it is expensive but it's a USB mic I didn't

[08:51] set up anything in terms of settings my voice is just like it sounds out of the box I really love this microphone I will link it below if I don't forget but but it is a premium microphone I will also link my best budget option I will link a

[09:03] can choose whatever your budget is and this is all you need to set up right here your 48 your headphones here and then your microphone and then we can go to the video tab this is very simple 1080p 1080P and 60 then the next step is

[09:17] the hot keys I'm not going to go over all of these but you can read some stuff here now to be fair only these here are the basic ones all the rest are just options based on whatever scenes or sources we have added since we have a

[09:29] bunch of scenes and sources here there's options for all of them for example to mute the audio of a source to hide the source from the stream reappear the basic ones are things like a keybind to stop streaming start streaming and

[09:41] change anything if these settings aren't similar to mine just change them and the rest here is some stuff for recording we can click on okay this one's really know in terms of the settings of course next is setting up these Graphics so

[09:55] that's overlays your game your webcam alerts very important now I went back to going to set up different Graphics choose a different overlay I don't want focus on now is two things all these things here what they mean how you can

[10:10] up the alerts because that's going to be very important so what we're looking for is the alerts and it's all under widgets the event list so this is recent follower top donation then the alert box is obviously alert for new follower new

[10:24] donation then the chat box this is to have your chat on the screen live and can go through this you have a follower goal viewer count all that stuff what I want to set up now is alert box I'm going to click on ADD if I close this

[10:37] right now there's an alert box being added on the screen and so this will in if you want to test what it looks like right now you go to streamlabs let's move this a bit okay like this because then on the menu you can see

[10:50] test events you can click on this for example twitch follow and then let's see okay this is what it looks like and W these are alerts that I set up years ago probably so for you these will be the basic alerts I'm not going to show you

[11:03] show you the basics whatever is shown in this red box here whenever you get an alert that is decided by the settings right here under alert box and for that they will send me to their website and then these are all the settings for the

[11:16] alerts how you want stuff to appear on top of an image under an image then you go to specific ones change the gift as being the Spate change the sound all that stuff I can't go over all of this right now I did make a tutorial on this

[11:28] in the past and it seems like most of the stuff is kind of the same so the video might be up to date I will link it in the description if my video is not up on YouTube available for streamlabs alerts and then whatever you set up will

[11:41] you could do right now is add a new scene for example in game we'll set up again the in game we can go to streamlabs to alert box click on ADD and then boom the widget is added right here as well this will display the same thing

[11:56] you can choose a new position for example for in game you can make it which might be the starting scene for example you can make it appear here and different position different size and the same thing can be done for these

[12:10] other widgets for example event list you click on ADD boom it's being added and this will just show whatever is happening a recent follower a recent donation and if I click back on streamlabs the same widget will probably

[12:24] exactly you can customize it right here there are beautiful ones on top but I assume this will be part of streamlabs ultra under widgets let's select alert box let's also select event list and maybe chatbot install team okay I do

[12:39] have it available here on the top right I'm going to simulate an event to check this so on the menu you can see test events on the widgets page you can also test events let's try follow on Twitch ah all right it appeared right here the

[12:51] video Earth follow let's test the subscription event I want to see it changing here on the top right let's keep looking at it okay it does animate also install the alerts that's the last thing I want to check before adding

[13:04] thing I want to check before adding other Graphics test event twitch follow it should appear here ooh that looks nice all right so we have our events we have our alerts if you want to add your game then you click on the plus icon now

[13:16] have three options here and actually let me go over these because you will have to skip over some because the explanation would be too long or maybe too in-depth we will stick to the basics so on top application audio capture this

[13:30] is to separate sources in your mixer so if you're adding your desktop volume so your headset for example as the audio device then all your audio will appear on the stream your music your game everything but let's say you just want

[13:42] to capture your game or just your music or maybe you want to capture both an application for example Chrome and then this will capture the audio of chrome and not of your whole PC so this way you can change the volume of this

[13:55] one program Spotify your game anything else disc and it won't affect what you hear it will only affect what your stream is hearing now if you do this very important go to your audio and don't select your desktop audio here

[14:08] either you select your headphones here and then all your PC audio will be going to the stream or you disable this and then you add all your audio separately capture and then you have to do it in all your scenes very very useful but it

[14:22] can be confusing now next audio input capture this is the same as the audio settings but just for this scene so if I add my microphone right here then the but when I switch the scene the microphone will be gone whereas if you

[14:35] go to the settings and then to the audio tab if you had your mic right here it will be in every scene then the next thing audio output capture this is the same for output devices next we have browser this is very simple yet very

[14:47] in-depth this is to add a URL and so this is basically what the alert Box is doing so we added the alert box with a streamlabs plugin but if you double click it this is a browser source and it adds the URL from the Stream streamlabs

[14:59] website and this is to grab anything that's being displayed some tools like for example the streamlabs alerts will be showing your alerts on a specific URL and then you import that URL in a browser Source in OBS studio and then

[15:11] whatever is entered as a URL will be displayed in this case a web page and you can take this literally if I go to TVN shop.com which is my mouse website that just launched and I click on okay it will literally go to the website now

[15:24] scroll so I can't show you the other designs we're working on a lot by the way you can check it out it will definitely be linked below now next is color Source this is just adding a plain color on your stream then display

[15:37] for now quickly do the rest and then come back because the gaming is important image this is just adding an image from your PC on your stream slideshow is a slideshow of images media Source this is adding a video you click

[15:50] and then the video will be playing this is how you add animated overlays for example if you download an overlay and it's animated you have to add a med enable Loop cuz when the animation of the overlay is finished then it will

[16:04] that's how they are designed but you have to enable Loop here okay then scene I've cut it out of the video so in that case I will re-explain this is to add an existing scene in this scene the reason

[16:17] something similar to a bunch of different scenes and you want to be able to change it so for example you can make a new scene and then you can add example TV onsh show.com Shameless

[16:29] and let's say you want to promote this on the top of your stream but whatever you want to show on top sometimes changes in that case you rename the scene you call it promo for example and then in another scene the in-game scene

[16:42] for example you click on plus you click on scene then you select this promo scene promo scene and then boom what is displayed here will be the whole scene because now you can add this to a bunch of scenes and then if you want to make

[16:55] changes you want to change this to TVN you click on okay you you can just reposition this rescale this and if you go to in game then it will also be importing the whole scene this is really useful for some cases now what is left

[17:08] we have text I just showed this it's to add text if you want to add scrolling text it can be in depth but I'll show it really quickly because many people are Source you enter some text you click on okay and then you right click it you go

[17:21] to filters you click on the plus icon you select scroll click on okay and then now you set up a horizontal speed so you increase it a bit then it will be horizontally scrolling and then you just click on close and now you have this

[17:34] stitch together and when the text ends the text and then what you want to do now is you just want to add spaces here however many you need click on okay let's make this a bit smaller and so

[17:48] left to right for example this is really handy you can fit this with an graphic for example so if you calculate correctly you can make it go from one side of the screen into another this is really useful let's change this to TVN

[18:02] then of course as you can see it's very very slow so you can go to filters you can just increase the speed a bit and then boom now it's much quicker and it'll keep going the whole stream now two things left adding your webcam and

[18:15] adding your game the webcam is very simple you just add a video capture your webcam there's a bunch of virtual webcams here but this is how you do it you will get your webcam you can reposition it position it in the corner

[18:28] know besides rescaling your webcam you then you can cut off a side so for example you can do it like this and then you can be vertical making yourself pretty big without taking up too much

[18:41] example and then speaking of game the last thing we want to add is our game think I mentioned before but I'm not sure you have display capture game capture and then window capture the best way is always to go game capture however

[18:56] sometimes there are games that aren't support Ed by game capture and you will get a black screen for example csgo maybe now it's updated but back in the day and maybe also now you can't capture it with game capture so you have to go

[19:08] with window capture with window capture you select a window or a program on your PC and that will be displayed in OBS studio if window capture or game capture capture and this will capture your whole screen you just select your monitor

[19:23] monitor 1 monitor 2 I'm not sure how many monitors you have but whatever you select is what will be be displayed in OBS but this is very resource intensive course you want to make screen recordings like I'm doing right now I'm

[19:36] using display capture to capture my whole screen but the best option is game capture and what you do is you select capture specific window and then as the one running and then that will capture

[19:48] best way now when you're done setting everything up you might want to check your audio to make sure if it's working if your mic is sounding good I think we separate capture but anyway you just select the three dots you go to Advanced

[20:02] Audio properties then you locate your microphone and then you change the monitor mode to one of these two now if you select this and you can't hear it in your headphones now what you need to do is go to the settings to audio and then

[20:14] here under Advanced change a monitoring device to your headphones whatever device is displayed here as a monitor device let's go back to the advanced audio settings that device will play whatever Source you are sending to the

[20:26] monitoring I'm going to turn this off now one last important thing really settings what we set up before in the output tab is here the audio tracks our stream is audio track one and then our twitch vault is audio track two you can

[20:39] see that in the audio mixer if you go to the advanced audio settings again we changed the monitoring here but on the right you will see audio tracks and here you can choose what is going to track one 2 3 4 5 everything is enabled by

[20:52] default what you can do then is choose your music Source here make sure it goes to track one which is a stream but then disable it for your Vault track this way when your Twitch VA is being saved it won't have music because you deselected

[21:04] track two here all the rest is going to track two so is going to the Vault the download the Vault and then use it to edit now one of the next videos I will be uploading is a very important one for people who want to stream it's an audio

[21:16] filters tutorial it's to make your microphone sound better take a cheap microphone make it sound like this one it actually works there's a bunch of filters you can add to OBS Studio to an audio source to your mic phone you can

[21:29] all of these in depth it's a really important video I have versions from previous years I will link them in the description but I will upload an updated one in a few weeks so definitely look out for that thanks a lot for stream for

[21:42] amazing service I've been using them without this plugin the only thing the plugin does is bring everything into OBS Studio they are great even if you just use them for alerts everything discussed will be linked in the description thank

[21:55] you so much for watching this video and I hope I will see you in the next one I hope I will see you in the next one have a nice day