5 EASY OBS TRICKS All The Pro Streamers Are Using!

[@nuttylmao]

Who wants to see a tour of my OBS layout?

[@NumberStations_LiveUK]

Me

[@BBTFRG]

Hell yea

[@serkan.tetik.ozturk]

👋 Me too!

[@WB3D]

OBS? I tought you are using SLOBS :v

[@ChiragHasyagar]

I would like to see that as well! Thank you!

[@imikorari]

Yes please make a video about your OBS scenes! Especially interested in the difference resolution source section and how that plays with everything else.

[@YaNeK92]

Love how KZbin serves me this video as Christmas is approaching (2 years after getting published) 😆🤙🏼 Need that full tour of your OBS still! 💯

[@ThatOnePerfectionist]

5:27 Yes! I would be very interested in a video tour of your entire OBS Setup. You are a source of inspiration, Nutty!!

[@KenRossPhotography]

Have been using the nested scenes and scene filters for a while but love the organizational tips, both the "tags" and the scene separators. Thanks!!

[@JarredRidley]

Have been using nested scenes a bit for a while now. Was starting to explore them further, and you just opened a world of opportunity. Or pain. Probably both. I think I blew a valve contemplating all the potential things I can do with your suggestions.

[@SilvaShadow1990]

Blursed XD

[@SaltyMaud]

I've been using photoshop for like 2 decades now, whenever something doesn't have layers I'm at a loss for what to do. Not having nested groups in OBS hurt me deeply, took a while to figure out you can achieve the same with nested scenes. It's _really_ not the most intuitive way to deal with layering, but jank like this is just a good reminder that OBS is a open source hobby project rather than a professional production tool.

[@cliffcreates]

Love the self-deprecating Editor Notes lol - your humour has always been top notch. Also, HTML source fonts was a new one for me. Keep up the great work Nutty!

[@kattphloxworthych]

Hey! Got a long-ish one here, but I gotta tell ya, your tips here do help make a streamer's life so much easier. Two techniques you covered here I make extensive use of in my OBS Studio setup: 1. Nested scenes! This one, I learned from another person's stream. This helps me ENORMOUSLY. I use it for abstraction, mainly. Example: For a visual source, I add a game, then make sure it fills the canvas. No, it's not gonna fill the screen, but instead, it's going to be included in another scene which is sized to fit in a PNG frame., and THAT scene is included in the final scene. I also use it to build up overlay abstraction scenes so I can flip between KZbin and Twitch streams. Selecting that and other scenes which allow me to select which music I open and close my streams with are also in scenes. Again, I flip visibility depending on whether it's a Twitch or KZbin stream. And if an abstraction scene is set up so that only one layer is visible, I use Exeldro's Source Toggler Lua script to help out. ENORMOUSLY useful! For programming sources, I will have several scenes, like: - Game scene -- Game capture - Game scene -- Window capture (some tougher games, like Nation Red, require this). - KZbin source -- I use YTCP to show some livestreams in my streams, where I have a control panel in a web panel and the program panel as a browser source. - Browser source -- In case I want to browse the web but not with a web browser, I'll set up a browser source, then set the source to "interact" with it. Should work for web games as well, e.g. Mahjong Soul. - Browser capture -- Just a window or display capture of a web browser. Duh. - Anything else I then full-size the source while a conduit scene has all the source classes bundled together, and then I just alter the visibility of the source I want people to see, again, it's full-sized, but I don't have to mess with it whenever I use a new source. I also have a bottom graphic I try to never make invisible so that if I mess up, it'll tell me on-screen, "Hey, you dolt! You don't have source class (xyz). Check it!" That way the system will practically troubleshoot itself. Finally, I use a final source to include the above abstraction scene, acting as an "endpoint" for the source pipeline. It's permanently sized to fit the area where it will be shown on-screen. And with all that insane amount of abstraction I create with conduit and endpoint scenes, as well as the sources that go through those conduits and displayed by the endpoints, how do I tell what's what? That brings me to: 2. Separators! This one, I figured out on my own. My biggest gripe is I wish I could reuse separators. You CAN with Streamlabs, but you can't with OBS Studio. However, I'm digressing a little, so allow me to get back on track. I use a couple levels' worth of labeling. I create wide-spaced, right-justified labels for classes of item blocks in the scenes, e.g. scenes that face the viewer, scenes that are conduits for abstraction, endpoints that end up on my layout that goes out on stream, and, of course, the all-important sourcing scenes. They're big and right-justified so I can find them as I twirl my mouse wheel. Then I use smaller-spaced text with "borders" so I can sub-classify scenes therein. My biggest gripe about doing it this way without a dedicated "marker/remark" scene is that a lot of programs that grab a list of the scenes via Websockets, e.g. LioranBoard's receiver and other programs that allow me to pull down a list of scenes, that's a bigger payload of stuff for these programs to pull down. Worse, it may not be in the same order as they are in OBS itself. So you may have all your labels at the very top, then all your scenes below. That's where it may pay to tag those scenes the same way you suggested tagging sources. Also, just like how you can't use HTML tagging on scene names, likewise you can't assign colors to them. Oh well. Anyway, lots of good stuff! I may do something like you may do and that's give a tour of my own setup. I'm already setting up a tutorial for migrating from SLOBS to OBS Studio (yes, I know, there are already plenty of those out there, but I'm in the VTuber community, so this may resonate with VTubers more, plus there are VTubing-related things to account for, too). Thanks for putting this up! While I already used those two techniques I mentioned above, you gave me more ideas of what I can use!

[@smirkstudios]

Combining overlay stuff into a nested scene is going to save me so much time!!! Thank you!

[@ToryC_86]

Thanks for this informative video on Nested scenes and other tips. Appreciate the help dude. Merry Christmas!!

[@Pablo]

The last tip is amazing man! Hopefully you can make a video showing how you make your templates with Affinity Designer 💪🏼

[@jefffuhr2393]

Your separators for Scenes, Filters, etc. and tagging for Sources is genius for organization.

[@itskiggu]

For your scene setup you should do a longer format livestream event for it where you can deep dive into all the details of how you have it set up. I love your professional production quality with focus on memes which makes it unique, high quality and a great time.

[@DCP12]

I just reinstalled windows cus I did some component upgrades and wanted to start fresh, so I am going thru all of my OBS and setting it up again, this video is such a savior! YOU DA MAN NUTTY!

[@DCP12]

And YES I would love to see how you set up all of your OBS stuff!

[@zDamascus]

As a former copy and paste abuser, I learned about Nested scenes from one of your old videos and I can't believe I used OBS without nested scenes before. Absolute life changer!

[@xiiguardian]

Recently discovered nested scenes to do audio and its the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Now, thanks to your video, i am so excited to go update my OBS

[@blakepace]

I love the sotto voce mumbling deep truths sprinkled everywhere! Proof yet again Nerds ARE profound, deep inside...

[@FullPayGaming]

For sure have gotten some great tips 4rm ya. Nested the webcam with background and webcam border was a life saver for me.

[@MrClassicRobot]

Your template idea is so simple I feel stupid for not having thought of it before. Last stream I had I was literally complaining about not having alignment options like in graphic design software and how useful that would be in OBS. I’ll definitely be doing that in the future.

[@StrayingBat]

You always seem to post videos as soon as I need the information. Thank you for all of this free info. I really appreciate you

[@WizardWayKris]

Yes please to you making a full explanation of your OBS set-up! I have ideas I'd love to realize, but the technical organization of the scene layers is where I trip myself up every single time!

[@BionisGuy]

You have been a lifesaver for me when it comes to understanding OBS better. If it wasn't for a video of yours i didn't even know about nested scenes. Thank you for all you do.

[@ThreatByte]

I love your humor as much as your advice!

[@Rawr_means_iloveyou_XD]

I love watching your obs videos because it is always giving me new ideas for my stream

[@shaunplays_]

yessss i would love to see your entire obs setup!!!

[@rommiemex9532]

I remember when they added nested scenes. Good times. I'd love to see a full walkthrough of your OBS setup

[@GagePerez]

Thanks for the tips Nutty, I've been subscribed for a couple months now and all of your videos are super helpful and professional!

[@kallisto_ofzo]

6:30 Is there a reason why you use a browser dock for "StreamElements Activity" instead of the default "Activity" dock? If I'd had to guess: because of the (sound)alerts?

[@omahashaw4609]

I have been rocking those nested scenes, tagged, and the scene separator. Awesome video as usual!

[@aspenjade8895]

You repeatedly save my assss Nutty. Thanks for making these that we can always refer back to. You are the best.

[@DamagedPlushie]

I've been wondering how to nested scene, tyvm merry holidays!

[@drzeppers6548]

Love the “Seperators”. I actually started doing this a while back and I was always wondering if it could cause any trouble, it didn’t appear to. Seeing your doing it… must not!

[@JangleBoy]

Happy Holidays man! Thank you for the hottest of tips. :)

[@Sammiverrr]

The man at the top of the OBS game back at it again! Love to see these kind of videos Nutty!

[@deldarel]

One of the most powerful things I found with nested scenes that wasn't really touched upon was the ability to turn off a certain source in all scenes it appears in. Do you switch between game streams and watching videos on youtube streams and you have several different sized scenes? Just put the browser that in its own scene and only use this scene nested in other scenes where you want the browser visible. One click and the browser is gone everywhere and you won't have an incident where your twitch dashboard lays on top of a scene where you forgot to remove it, or in a new scene you forgot to add to individually toggle in the macro

[@thevelvetyear]

Literally googled how prime subs work so I could give you one. Keep making the great videos

[@BluTheDragon]

Yo I saw you had some poll colour sources in obs at 7:40 Is this a custom poll? OR does it display the twitch poll on your stream? Or is it something else? In any case, would love a tutorial on it! Also, thanks for all the videos as well, you're a bloody legend!

[@connectthedots5678]

I like the structural setup of the scenes and all the stuff.

[@nanizartv6296]

Thank you for always teaching us cool stuff Nutty!

[@slurpwis]

THE RETURN OF THE KING

[@MerlinSpace]

Can we somehow get this guy to 100.000 for Christmas? Anyone in any big Facebook groups or something?

[@DigitalHi5]

Do you have a video explaining your camera stack sources? most of it I get without going into details of the FX layers. but why does layer 1 have nothing and just points to layer 2? Whats the logic behind that?

[@InnsAndOddities]

"Nobody is reading this right now, but I’m filling this out with text so it looks like I’m putting in effort." I see you Nutty

[@jasonzdora]

Tagging and Separators is a great idea. Thank you very much!!

[@transmutedelf7453]

Lets get you out of the rookie numbers and help you get that plaque. Your videos have been a major help in getting me up and running in OBS. Im now going back to some of your vids as I keep trying to improve upon what I have.

[@ManiYaStreams]

Thanks, man! Very informative.

[@BenjiDWJ]

Awesome tips & tricks as always Nutty! 😄👍👍 Cheers! 🥃🥃

[@corporalcuddles]

Almost at 100k Subs. Keep up the great work!

[@MoleTown]

i am going through all of your videos trying to find help on 1. how to make your camera change size and swap places with your game so you can have a just chatting/gameplay scene pretty much bundled into one 1! 2. how you blur your source such as gameplay behing your camera while just chatting

[@RinVindor101]

Love the Source Tagging tip, definitely something I'll have to revise my own setup for.

[@dallyvfx3d]

I found this video very helpful. Thanks for making it and also not being boring lol

[@KarlWitsman]

Nice! I didn't know about using HTML tags for sources. That is going to help. Yes, it would be cool for Scenes too, that would rock.

[@ItsBrickel]

the amount of organization is unreal

[@Casey-hz1sn]

Holy crap, thanks for sharing the alt key function.

[@gus8696]

Hey nutty really love your videos!

[@QFour]

I finally understand how to use Nested Scenes. Thanks to this video. 👏 Now if you're inclined to, a walkthrough of Making a Template with Affinity Designer would be so cool! Merry Christmas!

[@Infinite1564Gaming]

The separators are the only thing that keep my scenes in order and from me losing my mind. I've used nested scenes since you taught me how to last year...appreciate that

[@mrgusse]

Love your videos, not only are they informative but I also love the vibe, the humour. Keep it up !! Oh and btw, I use nested scenes already but the tip about planning the layout in Affinity Designer is something I'll start doing. VERY NIICE (Borat impression)

[@DiligentCalLive]

Hello, your vids helped me add snap camera to OBS but I am having difficulty flipping the camera horizontally as it won’t let me configure the video. Could you help at all?

[@aaron_martin]

Oh this is good stuff. Thanks man! PS: as a coder I'm quite disappointed in myself for not doing this already... 😅

[@frankduffy7471]

You earned you YT Plaque today, dude!

[@SlightlyWilsonGaming]

I started yesterday starting to nest sources, have some good ideas

[@Badlex727]

Can’t wait for the hour long OBS tutorial

[@crosscrew]

Omgosh it's us in your Activity Feed at 6:16 :)

[@SesentaErreDos]

great video! I would really love a tutorial on the unregistered hypercam 2 scene please!

[@vampiressviolet]

I'm new to OBS and getting things set up bc i'm one of those Losers that used SLOBS and any question I have your videos always seem to pop up for me and they have been so helpful. Thank you for this video now i can plan my OBS better!

[@EmilyBlueJaye]

I loved these tips! Anything to help me better organize I'm there for! Thanks!

[@MachineDaena]

Nutty on stream a few days ago "You guys LOVE lists, wait for the next vid!"

[@nuttylmao]

I wasn't lying lol

[@TheLonelyViper]

Why are tags better than using folders?

[@MoonlightSocial]

Hello. You are helpful and entertaining. Thank you.

[@richardjaimepr]

How about making just one seriously badass, super complicated, mega pro-looking scene and explaining how you did it. That would be cool. ... Oh thank you for all the hard work you do,

[@8Pit]

"I want my layouts to be pixel perfect" *proceeds to make DS Screen 100 pixels tall*

[@Der_Ady]

Thx for your videos. I love it. Where can i get the templates? Greets from Germany

[@SplatDroid]

Dang the tagging one is my favorite I just started using it. Great for when I'm programming a Stream Deck button that changes like 20 different sources lol

[@KingznQueenzEntertainment]

Yesss Thanks for the Awesome Tips with nested scenes. You explained this perfectly and we will def try it out on our upcoming 2022 shows. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you Fam Big Up 🎁🌲🎅🎉🥂❤️

[@djlefave]

Nice video Nutty. I'm just here to help the algorithm. Go get that plaque, yo.

[@TerenceKearns]

Awesome. Love your vids my dude.

[@nicecapelul6664]

I have a question. Is it really so good to use scene nesting and not groups? I think its better for the performance to use groups except of tons of scenes. Correct me if im wrong but thats what i thought about 😄

[@supermanflip19]

would love to see a follow up video about making the templates

[@Scharrizardd]

love all the info you give, how did you learn all of this??? good stuff ty

[@nuttylmao]

I have no love outside my computer

[@EliteSix.]

What's the difference between nested scenes and groups??

[@thederpykrafter]

Is there any reason to prefer layered scenes over groups?

[@nullx8]

Nested scenes are really a game changer ... i just lazy onm the naming and put a _ before the sub-scene names ;) but the idea is pretty much the same .. also controlling them via streamdeck is then possible too, like turning off the camera you just add the command to the subscene and you go dark regardless what scene is active, that's impossible to do without nested scenes)

[@treliq]

Me: having only one scene with a free layout and struggling. The guy on KZbin video you are watching at 5am scrolling through scenes like Dr. Strange going through all the 14.000.605:

[@NicolasjbM]

I definitely want to see your OBS layout!

[@BoardRoomGamer]

Ima try that template layout thing!

[@XCurvyBarbieX]

Everything is lovely! I have one question only ... what is your cpu at in OBS? lol I am scared to put in so many scenes so sometimes I make different profiles... how much is too many scenes? lol

[@Tyler10192]

I want to see a OBS layout tour!

[@Tigernemesis]

Another great video! 👏

[@vault334]

dude youre a genius lol a wizard on obs

[@kielmcgettigan5192]

How often do you change layouts between games? I get different scenes between ds and pc cause of the screen. But playing doom, or minecraft I would think you would have the same layout. Just different boarders.

[@frankduffy7471]

Please man, do tell me over and over because I really am dumb on this stuff! I appreciate YOU!

[@SarahJRawr]

I’d love to know the Letter meaning for every letter? As I’d love to use the abbreviation for all the different items i’m better visually without colors :)

[@hell_sparrow]

I just love nested scenes, the only problem with them is wen I use mirrored video sources inside multiple layer nested scene I need to go one by one and reactive them before start streaming or every time I restart OBS

[@showtime2wavy]

infinity or affinity designer?...and is there a way to see your layouts and maybe customize them to our liking?

[@MasterBlek]

Can't wait for the tutorial of how to make a filter with effects.

[@wooobat]

Hey Nutty, how did you hide the icons for your sources in the sources window?

[@jseanjx]

is it really helpful if making more scenes would only afford more power from cpu/gpu? In that case I don't think making that many scenes really benefits besides organizing tho.. Just my opinion cause I have barely minimum experience with jt

[@thederpykrafter]

I need this dudes hair care regimen asap

[@wagonet]

Love the content. Nutty do you recommend nesting every single scene. Or just the main ones?