This is going to help us out when we stream because sometimes when we stream we are going to do some different things.
A scene is basically a collection of sources that can be customized per section. Let’s create a scene to store our source into. We are going to hit Ok and now our first global source is created and can use it in any scene we’d like.
Last, make sure to hit the plus to add the video into the Playlist Editor. Now type \ + the name of the file (don’t forget to include the extension such as. We can highlight the location and hit CRTL+C to copy and then paste it in the area for File Path or URL Pointing. The easiest way to find this location is by navigating to your video > right click it > hit properties > location section. In the section that says enter a File Path or URL Pointing we are going to want to enter the location of our video. This setting is perfect for something like an animated background as it is going to allow our video to play on a loop. The only other setting I am going to change is the Playlist Setting, for this I am going to enable Playlist Looping. I am going to set my video settings to using Video Width at 1920 and Video Height at 1080, this is the resolution of the video I am using. Now, I am going to see the video source settings, these are the settings that are going to be applied to the source any time you use it in any scene. I am going to name my global source ‘Animated Background’ and hit OK.
If you are not sure how to add images yet, don’t worry we are going to cover that in a little bit. For my stream I am going to use a video for an animated background, however if you do not have a video and want to use an image instead, simply select Image. This will open up the global sources menu. To create a global source click the Global Sources button. Since we are going to use a video for an animated background across many of our scenes, let’s go ahead and create it as a global source. When making global source it is important to choose what is and what isn’t going to be used across multiple scenes. This is going to help us a lot down the line. They available to use, and constantly running, at any point during your streaming session. A global source is basically a source that can be added to any one of your separate scenes while sharing the same settings. Using global sources is something I wished I learned the first time I launched OBS. With OBS open let’s take a second to talk about global sources. If everything was done correctly, then OBS should start right up without any warning messages. Now that we have all of our plugins and dependencies properly installed let’s go ahead and launch the 64-bit version of OBS. Thanks /u/EasilyRead on Reddit for this reminder! OBS Global Sources
NET installation to 4.5.x, the web install or offline install can be found at these links. Click download and choose the x86 or 圆4 accordingly.
You might need to upgrade your MS Visual C++ Run Times to 2013. Again, I recommend installing both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions. We are going to install this plugin the exact same way we did with the Video Source Plugin. If you can’t find this on their front page simply search Google for CLR Browser OBS plugin and you should find it as the first result. There are a lot of great applications that you can take advantage of by utilizing this plugin. For me the CLR Browser is one of my favorite additions to OBS. While we are at it lets grab our second plugin called the CLR browser plugin. This will be located in Program Files x86 > OBS > Plugins. Just simply download the 32-bit files and then install them into your 32-bit OBS directory. I recommend installing the 32-bit version of this plugin as well. We now have the capability of using video sources in OBS 64-bit.