How to Install & Use Overlays in OBS | Tutorial

[00:00] making your stream look good and stand

[00:01] out to others is not really that hard

[00:03] I'm going to show you step by step

[00:05] exactly how to do that from where to

[00:06] actually get these overlay packages and

[00:08] how to actually install them in OBS

[00:09] without further Ado let's Dive Right In

[00:11] now there are a ton of different places

[00:13] to get these overlays from whether they

[00:14] be free or custom made or even just a

[00:17] couple of bucks like 40 or 50 but

[00:19] personally I recommend you starting out

[00:20] with one of these three places I

[00:22] mentioned or another place that might

[00:23] just have pre-made assets reason why you

[00:25] want to use pre-made stuff when you

[00:26] first start out is because if you start

[00:27] using this and you decide this really

[00:29] isn't the look you're going for a few

[00:30] months down the road it would be really

[00:32] upsetting if you spend a few hundred

[00:33] dollars and then you wasted that versus

[00:35] if you only spent like 20 or 40 bucks on

[00:37] a package and then stopped using it

[00:38] after a couple of months all right so

[00:40] the three places I recommend are either

[00:41] going to be visuals by impulse nerd or

[00:43] die or owned or own 3D I don't I don't

[00:46] know which one it really is but either

[00:48] way they'll be down in the description

[00:49] below these can be three places that

[00:50] I've used before personally myself and

[00:52] I've also seen them in the industry for

[00:53] a very long time so I highly highly

[00:55] recommend checking these places out as

[00:57] they have reasonable prices and some

[00:58] pretty good overlays to start out with

[00:59] especially when you're new to streaming

[01:01] now personally in this video I'm going

[01:02] to be using visuals by impulse I'm

[01:04] actually going to show you a free

[01:05] package I found and if you guys want to

[01:07] download it as well Linked In the

[01:08] description that way you guys can follow

[01:09] along and you can see how installing it

[01:11] actually works alright so first things

[01:13] first let's go to visuals by impulse

[01:16] okay head over their website then we're

[01:18] going to want to go over to the store

[01:19] and once we go to the store we'll want

[01:22] to scroll down so here you can drill

[01:23] down into the different categories they

[01:24] have whether it's animated stream

[01:26] packages stream deck icons that kind of

[01:28] stuff we're just gonna hit free and yep

[01:30] so you can see all these free icons here

[01:32] for your stream deck there's a pizza

[01:33] party bundle but the one I'm going to be

[01:35] showing you guys how to install and how

[01:36] to use today is going to be luxury right

[01:40] here this one so this is a free package

[01:41] that comes with everything that you

[01:42] pretty much need whether it's you know

[01:44] overlays different scenes they're also

[01:46] animated too or not animated depending

[01:48] on if your computer can handle animated

[01:50] or not so you get both of them which is

[01:52] going to be pretty awesome so if you

[01:53] guys want go ahead and download this

[01:54] right now all you have to do is hit add

[01:56] to cart you check out it's name your

[01:57] price you don't have to name any price

[01:59] you can just download it for absolutely

[02:01] free now that we got our overlays go

[02:02] ahead and over to OBS and start

[02:04] installing it all right so this is what

[02:06] the bare naked OBS looks like by the way

[02:09] before we go any further if you guys

[02:10] don't have this downloaded make sure you

[02:11] guys go download OBS also we have a full

[02:13] tutorial on the best settings for OBS so

[02:16] in case you haven't followed that guide

[02:17] please make sure you guys go check it

[02:18] out should be right up above me and then

[02:20] once you guys complete that come back

[02:21] here and we'll continue the how-to video

[02:23] on how to add your overlays now if

[02:25] you've already done that Kudos and if

[02:26] you actually watch our video double

[02:27] kudos to you for doing that we

[02:29] appreciate it so without further Ado

[02:30] let's go ahead and create all the scenes

[02:32] that we need so we're going to go over

[02:33] to our scenes right here and we're going

[02:34] to click on just chatting

[02:37] we want a starting soon screen

[02:42] gameplay scene and then maybe

[02:45] intermission and ending

[02:48] soon alright so let's go ahead and go to

[02:51] our gameplay scene and we're going to

[02:52] start setting this one up first you'll

[02:54] see why afterwards so what we want to do

[02:56] is we want to add a webcam so let's go

[02:58] ahead down to video capture device we'll

[03:00] hit Elgato Basecamp and perfect there we

[03:04] go we have our ghetto FaceCam added I'm

[03:06] actually still really surprised by how

[03:07] good this actually looks so now we have

[03:09] the Elgato face cam so let's go and add

[03:11] our border to this so go down to where

[03:12] it says sources hit the plus button

[03:14] again now this is where it gets tricky

[03:16] if you found a static overlink which by

[03:18] the way static overlay does use less

[03:20] resources so if you're doing a single PC

[03:22] stream or if your computer is a bit

[03:23] older I recommend doing static because

[03:25] it's not going to take up as much

[03:26] resources as an animated package would

[03:29] if you're doing a static overlay you're

[03:31] going to want to go ahead and add image

[03:33] and that's going to be what it is is

[03:35] that they're all just basically images

[03:36] because they're not moving and they're

[03:37] not movies or anything like that now if

[03:39] you have an animated overlay like the

[03:41] one we just downloaded the luxury one

[03:42] you want to go ahead and do a media

[03:46] source as that's exactly what that is so

[03:48] we're going to add media Source do

[03:50] webcam overlay and then we're going to

[03:52] click OK browse now one thing I didn't

[03:55] actually mention to you guys make sure

[03:56] you know where this is actually at so

[03:59] personally as a recommendation I have a

[04:01] whole folder says assets so usually I

[04:04] have like a stream folder in here that

[04:05] has all the stream assets I have

[04:06] transitions in here text music clients

[04:09] that I'm working with all the assets

[04:10] that they use it's really really helpful

[04:12] to have this organized that way you can

[04:13] go ahead and know exactly where it's at

[04:15] in case there's any issues with it you

[04:16] need to re-add it or anything of that

[04:18] nature or if you remove OBS and

[04:20] reinstall OBS it's very very helpful

[04:22] knowing exactly where it's at so let's

[04:23] go ahead and drill down into where we

[04:25] put it I just put this one in the actual

[04:26] project folder since this is what I'm

[04:28] working on probably bundles luxury

[04:31] perfect so now we're going to go to

[04:33] overlays animated and there we are now

[04:36] we have our webcam overlay right here

[04:38] we'll click ok now if you guys are doing

[04:40] an animated overlay you want to make

[04:42] sure that you do a loop I'm going to

[04:44] show you guys why because technically

[04:45] this is a video file that plays for so

[04:47] many seconds if you don't choose use it

[04:49] to Loop it will basically just play for

[04:50] the first time and then it will

[04:51] disappear so make sure you guys hit Loop

[04:52] if you're doing an animated package if

[04:54] you're doing a regular package or a

[04:56] static looking image you won't have to

[04:57] worry about this I'll go back through

[04:59] and I'll show you how to do this static

[05:00] one as well but just in case you want to

[05:01] add animated since they're so cheap

[05:03] nowadays and very easily accessible

[05:04] we're doing it this way and click OK and

[05:07] there we are and now we have the two

[05:10] things now we just gotta basically line

[05:11] it up and make sure everything looks

[05:13] good on our webcam so we'll go ahead and

[05:16] do that we can just use our arrow keys

[05:19] to make sure it's lined up perfectly and

[05:21] there we go now we have our animated

[05:22] webcam overlay already and then also

[05:25] what's really cool from here is if you

[05:26] guys want you can actually select this

[05:28] hit shift and select this other one when

[05:31] you right click it you can then also

[05:33] group these together we can just call

[05:34] this

[05:35] webcam so now what's really cool is we

[05:38] can lock so we can now move this as a

[05:41] group so that way if we resize it it's

[05:43] going to resize the whole thing and it's

[05:45] not going to change the size of the

[05:46] webcam or the overlay so we can go ahead

[05:48] and move this to wherever we want to so

[05:50] in case you want it over here or you

[05:51] want it over here it makes it super easy

[05:53] so that you can just move them together

[05:55] without worrying about you know moving

[05:57] one versus the other and then messing up

[05:58] how they're actually overlaid there we

[06:00] go that is how to add the animated

[06:02] webcam to your webcam overlay now as I

[06:05] said before I do want to show you guys

[06:06] how to add the static one as well so

[06:08] what we're going to do is we're

[06:08] literally just going to go down here to

[06:10] this plus symbol again we're going to go

[06:11] to add image this time and we're going

[06:13] to do webcam overlay static now we're

[06:17] going to go to browse overlay static

[06:19] click webcam so now because if you

[06:21] notice when we're looking for the

[06:23] animated it didn't show it because

[06:25] that's not an image now we go to static

[06:27] and there we go that is it which is

[06:29] perfect click OK and that's it and then

[06:32] all you have to do is just line this up

[06:34] the same way we did before all right

[06:36] let's just say that's good technically

[06:38] you can just take this and drag that

[06:40] down and boom there you go now you have

[06:41] one that's static that's not moving so

[06:43] less resources being used or you have

[06:45] one that is animated that's gonna be the

[06:48] only difference while we're going

[06:48] through this is that if it's not

[06:50] animated it's just an image if it's

[06:51] animated that is a media source all

[06:54] right let's move on to the next all

[06:56] right so let's go to our starting soon

[06:57] so we're gonna again just click on the

[06:59] starting soon scene and then we're gonna

[07:01] go down here to the plus button

[07:02] underneath sources

[07:03] and then we're going to add media Source

[07:06] we're gonna do starting soon screen all

[07:10] right now we're gonna go to browse all

[07:11] right so from here you want to go to

[07:13] screens animated and then you're going

[07:15] to want to do the starting soon screen

[07:17] and again you want to make sure you Loop

[07:18] this click OK and there we go luckily

[07:21] this package also comes with text that

[07:23] are already pre-made for us so we can

[07:24] just go ahead and hit this plus button

[07:25] we're gonna add images and we're gonna

[07:28] do starting

[07:30] soon text browse and we'll do starting

[07:34] soon there's stream starting and there

[07:37] we go so we can literally just leave it

[07:39] like this and we'll just let this play

[07:40] until we actually want to start our

[07:42] stream and then once we do we can just

[07:43] hit our gameplay or we can do our just

[07:44] chatting all right so for the next scene

[07:46] let's go ahead and set up our

[07:48] intermission so once we go to

[07:49] intermission now we can hit this plus

[07:50] button right here and what we're gonna

[07:52] do is we're going to add a media source

[07:53] and we'll hit intermission screen browse

[07:58] screens animated

[08:01] I will do intermission then boom there

[08:04] we go now the cool thing is is once

[08:06] you're trying to add an asset that

[08:07] you've already added in as a source you

[08:09] can just hit this plus button so for

[08:11] instance our webcam which should be

[08:12] right in the middle there go ahead we'll

[08:13] hit oh

[08:15] wait you see that I made a mistake I

[08:17] didn't press Loop and that's what

[08:19] happens when you don't Loop it it turns

[08:20] off so if you notice now it's going to

[08:21] continue playing once this timer

[08:23] actually hits seven

[08:25] [Music]

[08:30] there restarts now if I took Loop off of

[08:33] this and it gets to the end

[08:36] turns off don't be like me and don't

[08:38] forget to turn on the looping effect

[08:40] okay so now we need to add our webcam

[08:42] since we have a big Blank Space right in

[08:44] the middle so go ahead and hit add

[08:45] Source go to video capture device now if

[08:47] you notice there's an existing right so

[08:49] this already exists we've already made

[08:51] this source so click OK and there we are

[08:54] now one thing that's weird about this is

[08:55] that our webcam is actually laying on

[08:58] top of this so in case you didn't know

[09:00] this the order in which you have things

[09:02] down here does make a difference so what

[09:04] you want to do is you want to take this

[09:05] and drag this down so that way we have

[09:07] our webcam underneath our actual overlay

[09:10] now it looks kind of weird because it's

[09:12] just my face and it's got some weird

[09:14] moving screen right so we want to go

[09:15] ahead and add the words intermission to

[09:17] this which luckily this package has that

[09:19] so go ahead and hit the plus button and

[09:21] then we're going to add an actual image

[09:23] and we're going to say intermission text

[09:26] all right we'll hit browse and we'll go

[09:28] to oh no screens text

[09:33] intermission there we go now we know

[09:35] it's an intermission screen so in case

[09:36] you wanted to sit there you want to chat

[09:38] with people this is a great way to do it

[09:39] intermission hey we're just taking a

[09:41] break whatever you know get up P move

[09:43] around you know get some water drink

[09:45] some more coffee and now we have an

[09:47] intermission screen so next up we're

[09:49] gonna go ahead and do the VR we'll do a

[09:51] BRB actually I totally forgot about that

[09:53] let's do BRB be right back so we just

[09:56] created the new scene so again come to

[09:57] this plus button underneath sources go

[09:59] ahead and add media Source we'll do B

[10:02] BRB screen

[10:05] click OK browse greens animated be right

[10:09] back Loop go and now we want to make

[10:12] sure that we add the text to it as well

[10:14] so it's an image because it's a PNG vrb

[10:17] text browse sorry I know I'm going a

[10:20] little bit fast but again we just gotta

[10:22] go through the folders be right back

[10:24] find out where they're at and then there

[10:26] you go be right back so that way you can

[10:29] go ahead and change it to where if you

[10:31] need to get up and go use the bathroom

[10:32] or something like that or you just want

[10:33] to let people know they're going to be

[10:34] right back you can go and do that boom

[10:36] there we go BRB and then we'll go and do

[10:37] the stream ending since that is the last

[10:39] scene we need to make so let's go ahead

[10:40] and click on stream ending hit plus and

[10:43] then we'll go to the media Source

[10:47] extreme ending well browse screens

[10:51] animated

[10:54] stream ending Loop

[10:59] Loop it

[11:00] then we'll add the text so again we'll

[11:02] come down that plus button we'll go to

[11:04] image stream ending oh

[11:09] text all right stream ending there you

[11:12] go

[11:13] so technically right now we have

[11:16] everything we need set up

[11:18] so we can literally just sit here and if

[11:20] we want to do starting soon we have our

[11:22] starting soon screen we have our

[11:24] gameplay screen we have intermission

[11:26] screen ending and also be right back

[11:28] screen as well now one more thing I'm

[11:30] going to show you guys how to do since

[11:31] it is including the package is the

[11:33] transition transitions are kind of cool

[11:35] they just add a little bit more of like

[11:36] flair to your stream when you're

[11:37] changing from scene to scene then we're

[11:39] going to go ahead and do a stinger so

[11:42] we're gonna hit yes to the Stinger now

[11:43] once we have this singer added we're

[11:45] going to want to go ahead and change the

[11:47] transition point to about 2 000

[11:49] milliseconds what this means that

[11:51] there's going to be a delay between when

[11:52] the actual scene changes and when it's

[11:54] going to the next one the reason why is

[11:55] because when it's used like this notice

[11:57] how it says a we do preview transition

[11:59] this closes and comes back and now it's

[12:02] B and that's what we want we want to

[12:03] make sure that the transition fully

[12:05] closes and then it goes to B so now that

[12:07] we have that properly set up where it's

[12:08] at 2000 milliseconds if we go to change

[12:10] our gameplay screen to our starting soon

[12:12] it should look like this

[12:17] bam and there we are and there we go

[12:19] adding overlays and sourcing them has

[12:21] been that easy hopefully you guys

[12:22] thought so too if you guys thought this

[12:23] was an easy awesome tutorial go ahead

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[12:29] and until next time my name is Ivy Paula

[12:32] I'll see you in the next one