Speaker 1: What's going on guys and welcome back. Today we're going to be talking about how to set up scenes and sources in OBS. Now before we get started, let's define what we mean by scenes and sources. Essentially, a scene is a collection of sources that you want to display on your video or stream. Examples of some sources include things like your webcam, your monitor's display, audio, or a game that you're playing. Now a source is an individual element that you can add to a scene. You can think of it like a layer in a graphic design program. Now generally, a scene is made up of a bunch of sources and you can arrange them however you like. But now that you've got a basic understanding of what scenes and sources are, let's dive into OBS and I'll show you exactly how to add scenes and add sources to your scenes. Alright guys, so the first step is opening up OBS. Now, I'm going to show you guys how to create a scene. So the first thing you guys are going to want to do is come down here under scenes. You won't have anything here if you're just setting this up for the first time. These are the scenes that I use. You're going to hit the plus sign and you're going to name your scene. I'm going to name it test scene. Now, you can't see anything right now, but that's because in this scene there are no sources. So I'm going to just click the plus sign under sources and I'm going to add a display capture so you can see my screen. There we go. Next, I'm going to add my camera that I'm using to the stream so you guys can see me. So I'm going to come down to the plus sign and I'm going to hit video capture device. My camera is already added. So it's right here. I hit add existing Canon DSLR. If you're creating a new one right here, I'll show you what you could do. You can name it anything. Let's just say test camera. You're going to hit OK. And then what you're going to do here is select your camera. My Canon is plugged into a Cam Link 4K, which is why I have that selected. If you're using a webcam, you'll see the name of that webcam here. You could select it and then select the correct settings for your device down here and hit OK. But for me, like I said, we already have my camera. So I'm going to add my existing Canon DSLR. Hey, there I am. We're going to shrink it down just like that. Put it right here in the corner and I'm going to lock it so that I cannot accidentally move it. Now I can delete that test camera layer that I created and we're back to square one. Perfect. So in this scene, these are the only two sources, my camera and my display, which is being captured behind my camera. If you want to move any elements of this scene, you just select the source. You'll get this red outline around the source. You can drag it around. You can resize it like that. And if you want to resize it and maintain the aspect ratio, you don't hold any buttons down besides clicking and dragging. If you want to kind of free transform it, you can hold shift and you can shrink it or squish it, whatever you want to do. So once you have your source in the spot that you want it, you want to always lock it because this way you can you can't accidentally move it. See, I can click around. I can do whatever I want and I can't move it. If I have my camera unlocked and I'm moving around and I accidentally, oh, I move my camera. Now I got to move it back. Maybe I had it in the perfect spot. Who knows? But you want to always lock your sources once you add them to your layer and get them to the spot that you want. Now, let me break down for you guys what each of these sources are because when you go to add a source down here, there's a lot of options. So let's talk a little bit about what each of these are. The top option here is a beta feature. It's the application audio capture. And what this does is it will allow you to capture audio from a specific program that's running. So let's say you don't want all the audio from your PC going to your stream or your video. You just want to capture the audio from Discord or Spotify. You would select application audio capture, hit OK, and then you would select the window of the program that's running right there. So if I wanted to only capture audio from Spotify, make sure Spotify is open. It'll pop up here as a window and you select that and now Spotify will be captured as an audio device. Next on the list here, we have audio input capture. This captures audio from a specific input device such as a microphone. To use this source, select the input device you want to capture audio from in the device drop-down menu. Audio output capture captures audio from a specific output device such as speakers or headphones. Browser. This will display the contents of a website as a source. To use this source, just enter the URL of the website you want to display in the URL field and adjust any other settings as desired. So what we can do here is if we were adding some alerts or we wanted to just have a website being shown here or anything that is a URL, you would just enter it in right here and hit OK and then it would pop up on your stream. Next on the list, we have color source. If you wanted to just add a swatch of color to your stream anywhere and use it as like a green screen or anything like that, but I doubt most of you will be using that. Display capture captures a specific display or all displays connected to this computer. To use this source, just select the display you want to capture from the drop-down menu. Simple. You guys saw I did that earlier. If I wanted to add one of my other monitors, I can click right here, hit a new one, and then you choose the monitor from there. Okay, game capture. This is what a lot of you probably want to know. Game capture is great if you're trying to stream or record your game. So what you're going to do is you're going to hit OK. Let's say I'm capturing Escape from Tarkov. We're going to hit OK and you have to have the game running for the first initial time or you can just have it capture any full screen application. This is what I suggest you guys use. Keep it on capture any full screen application. So any game that you're playing, as long as it's in full screen mode, OBS will pick that up and display it. One thing you guys do have to understand is that your sources within your scene, right down here, this is actually layered, right? If you've ever used any design program, layers are exactly what it sounds like. So if I have my game in full screen above my camera, you will not be able to see my camera while my game is open. Right here, this is the screen that you guys are seeing. If I drag this screen above my camera, what happens? My camera disappears and you guys can no longer see me because my camera was behind that layer. So when you add your game capture source, you want to drag that below every other element in your scene because you want that to kind of be the backdrop and any other sources that you add on top of that, you want to be displaying on top of your game. Next up here, this is pretty self-explanatory. We have image. If we wanted to add an image, we would just select this, hit OK, and then browse to find whatever image we want displayed on our scene. We can do the same thing with an image slideshow, self-explanatory, if you wanted to add a slideshow of images. Media source, this is just a fancy way of saying video. Let's say you have any video that you want playing in a specific scene. You would select this right here and then you would select the video file. You can loop it and there's a couple other settings here. You can slow it down if you want, but that's pretty self-explanatory as well. Next on the list here, we have scene. This is a little bit complicated to understand, but you can technically add an entire full scene that you have created as a source in a specific scene. For example, so let's go to my Be Right Back scene. We're now on my Be Right Back scene. You guys see what it looks like. I'm going to go back to the test scene right now. You guys saw what that looked like. So now we can go down here, add a source, and we're going to add a scene and I can select my Be Right Back scene and now it's in this scene as a layer, right? So let's say you just have a scene somewhere that is playing a video that you switch to every now and then and you just want an element from that in this scene. You would add the entire scene as a source. A little weird to understand at first, but you'll get it as you go. Text GDI+. This is so that you can add text on screen. I'll show you real quick. Let's do test text. Kind of hard to say that fast. We'll leave it as Arial and we'll write, this is a test message. You can hit OK and now we can see we have this text on our screen. You can move it around, you can resize it, you can use different fonts, whatever you want to do. Video capture device next on the list. This would be your camera. Like for me, it's my Canon DSLR, which would be my Cam Link 4K. If you have a webcam plugged in, this is how you would add it. Like I showed you before, you would come down here, you would click that. Let's rename it just webcam and then your webcam will show up right here as a device and then you could select the settings for your webcam right here. Click OK and it will pop up as full screen and then remember when you want to resize it, let's just for the record, it's going to pop up like this in full screen and you want to resize it. So you're going to click it. First, make sure it's unlocked and then we can drag it to the size that we want, pull it to whatever side that we want or wherever we want it and then we're going to lock that layer. Next here, we have window capture. Let's say you want to capture a specific window. You would click this. Let's say you have like Google Sheets open and you're trying to show your Google Sheets. You would just type Google Sheets here and hit OK and then select that window. As long as the window is open, OBS will recognize any open window. All right, and next on the list here, the last thing we have is group. We can group elements of our scene together so we can move them around so that we can link them together. So this is good for something like this. Let's for the record here, I'm going to add a media source. I'm going to add my camera border. So this is the design that usually goes around my camera. I'm going to shrink it down, put it over my camera and I'm going to lock that layer. Now you guys see down here in our scene, we have my camera border and we have my camera. What happens if we move my camera above the border? My camera is now covering half my border. You always want your camera below the border because the border is supposed to be on top of the camera frame. So what we want to do here is let's say you have two elements like this that go together. You would want to come down, add a group and we're going to call it camera group. Right now we have this empty group. If we hit the drop down, nothing comes out of it. What we're going to do is drag the border into that folder. We're going to drag the camera into that folder. Just make sure that the border is above the camera. And now if we drop that down, we have this entire group as one element. If we want to move the whole thing instead of moving the border and the camera, look at this. We can move the entire folder together so it'll move my camera and the border at the same time. It's actually an extremely useful feature. Then we're going to lock that and now that's all set. So there's the basics of adding sources to your scenes, creating new scenes. It's pretty simple. And to be honest guys, the more you mess around with it, the more you're going to learn and the more comfortable you're going to get with messing around with some of these sources. Starting out, if you're trying to just stream a game and you want to have your webcam, very simple. Like I showed you, we just add a video capture device, select your webcam, add a game capture, make sure the webcam is over the game, resize everything, and you're good to go. As far as someone else, let's say you just want to have your webcam full screen. It's as simple as just adding a video capture device, selecting your webcam, and leaving it full screen. But I do hope that this video was able to help you guys. I get a lot of comments on my other videos saying, can you do a video on how to add sources to scenes? 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