[oo2] #tenminteach -- Playing with OBS Overlays and Dynamic Text -- Don’t Worry, Back to Basics Next Episode! :)

Had such a cool little stream last night and the first video I made was well received that I just had to get this done today, I don’t have much time because I’ve gotta head out. I realise that this video is a bit more advanced that just setting up from yesterday but I had a reason to jump forward and make custom overlays and dynamic text because it makes making the animated thumbnails just so much easier and hopefully inspire you!

The idea is simple, make some overlays, that you can put over the top of your movement (could be you, game, chat, whatever) and then you can just screen cap a gif and upload it straight to the web, then you can simply save that to your machine or copy and paste that straight into a blog post, it certainly speeds up the making process.

Because I’m making a lot more courses and regular live streams having good thumbnails that stand out are important so that’s why I fast forwarded this episode, I realise it might be a little advanced from yesterday but I promise we will drop back to some more basics and pick up from episode one in the next video, this just helps me with putting videos out.

If I forgot to mention it in the vide, I converted the keynote .mov outputted files into .webm (google video) format to bring the size of the files down but also for the amount of memory that obs uses to store them in, they just run faster and keep the OBS memory usage down — I used the free Mac tool Miro Video Converter to do that, dead simple.

The dynamic text is easy too, just make yourself a .txt file (textedit) and then just have a couple of lines with some text that fits in the space that you have made on your movie overlay, this way every new video you make you just change the text and save and it loads it on the overlay automatically — another speed hack there for faster production and output! :)

I really hope you are enjoying this new series, don’t forget to upvote me, I’m looking to build a new streaming computer so that I can actually stream games and go part time streaming on dlive helping you all get started streaming but also run live video chats sessions that up to twelve people can join in on! :)

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