Setting up different presentation layouts for teaching with OBS

[@pera_pera]

Finally! After watching many convoluted tutorials on OBS, this is the first one that makes sense. Thank you.

[@DoryVideo]

Gpad you found it useful!!

[@ComeAlivewithMK]

Finally!!!! A natural teacher instead of someone trying to prove how smart they are!!!

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks!

[@aijanamanbaeva3665]

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[@wernermarinus1174]

You can tell there's a skilled educator at work here in this (and other) tutorials from Dory Video. I picked up some very useful tips & tricks for my own presentations (getting my colleagues familiar with a new software package and new internal operational processes).

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks for your feedback, very much appreciated.

[@abdulaijawobah2203]

Exactly what I was looking for. The presentation is well articulated and phenomenal. Just subscribed to your channel. Would love to follow up on all your videos whenever they are out. You are a blessing to us in Low-income countries. I accessed this video from a village in one of the poorest countries in West Africa where there is no electricity, no good roads, and running water, just using a small solar pannel. That is how much impact you are creating James.

[@DoryVideo]

Glad to be of help

[@abdulaijawobah2203]

@@DoryVideo Sierra Leone to be specific, I lecture Pharmacology at the only Medical and Pharmacy School we have. Once again Thanks, will share with my colleagues

[@DoryVideo]

Please share as much as you like. So glad to be of help to you and your colleagues!

[@drewsimonphotography9678]

Good old fashioned teaching! No trendy loud music and fast talk!! Excellent. Although on Mac my window source does not find application windows on other desktops.

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks, OBS does have this functionality on different OS, I’m using it on windows As well and this function does exist but maybe it’s found in a different menu

[@drewsimonphotography9678]

@@DoryVideo Ah thought you maybe on windows. My flirt with OBS has been cut short due to the programs ability to ramp up my Macs fans.

[@DoryVideo]

Ha yes it can do that! It’s quite tough on the processor

[@MrTerryRay1]

This is one of the most helpful explanations I've seen regarding how to configure OBS and Powerpoint to make a Presentation. Thank you very much.

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure! Glad you found it useful Terry

[@homeostaticcalibration4532]

Thank you. I've been using OBS for 4 years and I didn't know I can copy and paste sources till I watched this video. I had to meticulously add them into each scene every single time!

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure

[@overcomingjeff]

This is an extremely well-done and CONCISE explanation of how to set up scenes with a PowerPoint (or Keynote) presentation in OBS. I’ve watched several others that made the process seem daunting and convoluted; they were also MUCH longer. Thank you for simplifying this … and for delivering the material so pleasantly!

[@DoryVideo]

Glad you found it useful

[@srowley85]

I will point interested colleagues in this direction. You give a concise summary of the setup. I’ve done much with OBS, but it has taken quite a bit of faffing about on my part to get there. Having access to concise tutorials will encourage others to use OBS, which I find to be most helpful for teaching remotely.

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks Steven, much appreciated!

[@snibushds]

A very orderly and clear presentation as to how to join OBS and PowerPoint. Well done. Thank you. You have been helpful.

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure!!

[@HichamRachidiGofti]

Well done. Clear english and well explained. Thank you.

[@jfjoubertquebec]

MERCI beaucoup! I'm a teacher here in Québec... and you've just made me save hours of fiddling about! Subscribe, bell and recommend!

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks! Glad you find them useful. I will be adding more as the first semester rolls on

[@bereketamare1425]

Hello Dr. James clark, Thank you for this video it is very useful especially for teachers like me who went to share their slides for the students in this time of the pandemic. We need more videos like this! Bereket Amare from Ethiopia

[@DoryVideo]

Glad it’s helpful! I’ve got 60 other videos on this channel on similar topics

[@HemantJanAwatade]

Excellent 👌 Precise 👌 Informative👌 Elaborate 👌 In all the best 👌👌👌Video James👍 Greetings from INDIA 🇮🇳🙏

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks

[@LinusHaferkemper]

Best OBS Tutorial for Trainers and "educational" content creators. Thank you SO MUCH!! Very well done! The Application topic now has a few changes with the new OBS update, but that's doable.... Any tips for Google slides presentations from anyone?

[@DoryVideo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@feliperamirez-rodriguez446]

You are amazingly clear and pleasant when explaining things. Wow!!!

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks!

[@JaapVanderHorst]

Cropping can also be done by Alt Key and mouse on the resize selectiondots.

[@DoryVideo]

Good tip

[@patrickt.4121]

Nice video (Super clear enunciation!). If you load an empty PPT (or PDF in my case) and select "match title, otherwise find window of same executable", you'll find the layout more portable. Reference to Blue Peter was wild, thanks for that :-)

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure!

[@VelichkoGeorgiev]

Thanks very much! Very useful. Can I do the same but with scrooling text instead of slides? I am going to use all for tutorials.

[@olachristianbardsen3171]

Very nice tutorial. Loved your clear English😄

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks

[@AbdKarimAlias]

Hi James, thanks for this OBS video. Very clearly explained. Very useful for new OBS users. I have subscribed to your channel.

[@DoryVideo]

Glad you found it useful

[@PaulJLange]

So awesome. Thank you. Now I just need to figure out how to either make Google Slides do the same thing or load a PDF that I can walk through instead. I've figured a dirty workaround with Google Slides but still looking to make it more elegant. A PDF I can click through would be preferred so I'm going to go through your channel and see if there is anything about that. Either way though this has to be the absolute best presented tutorial I have seen in decades!

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks so much, glad you found it useful! You can always do the same with PDF or other apps if you have them full screen and share the screen in OBS.

[@jessicawilcox8439]

Does anyone else not have the crop option at @6:16 ? Mine only has display

[@DoryVideo]

Jess, this was the Mac version. I’ll check on the PC version and see if the options are there. Might that be the issue?

[@grindel324]

@@DoryVideo that's exactly the issue - it's not available within the window for the PC version. Workaround for PCs - Right-click on the source and select Filters. Click the + button and select Crop/Pad. Mod as needed and click Close. It's a few extra steps, but more convenient than buying a second computer.

[@zerihunhailu8922]

Thank you for this clear and easy to follow tutorial. Very helpful, but in my case on my slide scene the PowerPoint don't shows up in the drop down window

[@DoryVideo]

Hmmmm. Are you sure it’s running and “presenting” in the window before you add the element in the scene. Do all other apps/windows show up? Mac or PC?

[@zerihunhailu8922]

@@DoryVideo I am using Macbook pro M1. My PowerPoint is not showing on a single display. On dual display I don't have any problem. I prefer using a single display (selecting "0" ), this allows me to position myself in the best lighting and clearest spot in the house.

[@DoryVideo]

Well that’s very confusing! Sorry.

[@DoryVideo]

Are you meaning when you insert a screen capture in a scene you cannot find PowerPoint as an option to capture?

[@DoryVideo]

Have you tried PowerPoint in “windowed” mode

[@asestrand]

Very useful! Thanks! Can I use a scrolling PDF file instead Power Point but in the same way as you explained it? Thanks! Just subscribed.

[@DoryVideo]

Of course you can!

[@asestrand]

@@DoryVideo Thanks a lot!

[@ervinvandermerwe4134]

Excellent video! I agree with the complimentary comments below!

[@DoryVideo]

Many thanks, I appreciate that!

[@Pameliux23]

Thank you very much for this very calmed and greatly explained tutorial! I’m a language teacher and I share my iPad screen with my presentation so that I can annotate directly on them. But I would like to have a way to also display my students sharing on zoom so I see if they’re doing the exercises right. I’m still searching for a way to do it, but I guess it won’t be possible. Please if you know, help me out with this need I have. Thanks again! Great video!

[@DoryVideo]

You're very welcome!

[@homeostaticcalibration4532]

Hmm, I think you might need a dual monitor set up. I am not an iPad user but a regular PC user, so I present the slides on my main display while interacting with students on the secondary monitor. One other professor I know actually opens Zoom on two devices, one on her iPad and another on her laptop so she could teach while interacting with students.

[@DoryVideo]

I have three monitors, I was using this to demonstrate that it can be done on one

[@Style-plus-renovations-NZ]

Nice presentation 👍

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks

[@alexifidon5250]

My scene at obs is hidden but I can see my source and other features I can see. Where should I navigate to show my scene.

[@DoryVideo]

Right click on the block above the source and show the scenes back again

[@เบญจมาศสังข์ด้วง-ฮ2ฆ]

At about 6:09 when you set the display capture function, your screen shows "Display and Crop" button and you can crop "To window" at Crop button. But I can't do like that. Mine does not have "Crop", but just have "Display"button.Could you help me to solve that, please?

[@DoryVideo]

Sorry I can’t help, I don’t know which version of OBS you have or what platform you are using. Also I don’t work for OBS, I’m just an end-user like you, sorry. Best ask the guys and gals at OBS

[@manuelmaximilianriolo5545]

A really useful tutorial. One question: it is possible to add an image on the background behind the ppt. and the cam instead of having a black screen? Thanks.

[@DoryVideo]

Of course

[@grindel324]

With your scene selected, go to Sources, and click the + to add. Select Image. With Create New selected, name your image something useful, and click OK. Click Browse, select your image, and click OK. Crop the image as you see fit, and position it wherever you want. Then just move the image name to the bottom of the list of sources to move it to the background. I do this for split screen backgrounds and scroll bars at the bottom of my streams.

[@rjvidalt1]

Excellent, veryu useful. Thanks for this

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks

[@83syun]

Hi, I have one question - if i wanted the camera to be at the same height like the presentation but in a narrower width?

[@richardpransky462]

good demonstration

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks!

[@meigenii6503]

This is so useful, thanks James

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure

[@CultureTripGuide-HilmarHWerner]

hi there! thanx for your obs-demo! for a newbee there remain some questions open. say I want to record a presentation (power point or the like = pp), show myself (greenscreen or not) on top or not, and be able to read a script. so I guess I'll have to open three programs on a screen simultaneously at least: the presentation-program, obs (wherein my camera is visible in a scene as source) and a text-program, so I can see and manipulate everything (selecting scenes and/or layers). but how can I now make sure best that the viewer (streaming or not) sees just the main-screen of my pp (without controls), with me on top or not, as I chose? would/could I just use the pp in a scene as source or could/should I chose a section of my huge screen (= mainscreen of pp) with everything on it?? / and what would I do to run everyhing as noiseless as possible: 1. on a pc without fan, i.e. a "mini-pc" (performance requirements??), 2. touch-pad instead of mouse and possibly a remote control for my pp? so could you please demonstrate or explain how you see all the sources, but limit the presentation to the main-screen (without the controls, e.g. the slide-overview...) thanx for answering these questions regarding a probably very usual pratical situation!

[@DoryVideo]

you can do it all on one screen if you have the resolution, you can use PPT in Window presenter mode rather than full screen and then arrange the rest of the software around the screen.

[@gracechew6747]

good sharing. thank you Dr.

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure! I am glad that it has helped you.

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

Question, why didn't you create a "common" scene with all what is common: camera, mic etc) and imported that scene inside the other ones you need? Is there a specific reason for this? Thank you. P.S. very useful the mouse-highlighter. Something I have not yet found for OBS

[@DoryVideo]

No real reason but it’s just nice to be able to tweak each scene

[@Barokimistari]

Very useful video for teachers like me

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks!

[@gcmdigital]

It is not very convenient to show the powerpoint without notes. I wonder if there is a way around to show the powerpoint with the notes that do appear only to the presenter

[@DoryVideo]

Sadly Microsoft didn’t think about this when they designed their software!!!

[@nicolepinheiro]

Exactly what I needed. Thank you very much!

[@DoryVideo]

Glad it was useful.

[@smartpakistanfacilitysolut3733]

It is nicely explained but not working in OBS 27.1.3, 2021 version

[@DoryVideo]

Please explain what is not working?

[@smartpakistanfacilitysolut3733]

@@DoryVideo Thanks for early response, cropping option was not appeared as shown in video, later I found it. Now issue is resolved.

[@DoryVideo]

Glad to hear it. They do move things around sometimes and different menus lead to different functions.

[@universidadefalada7614]

Excellent

[@DoryVideo]

Glad you found it useful!

[@CikguYeppi]

Nice video and very useful👍🏻👍🏻thanks james

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure plenty more on the playlist and more to come :-)

[@Deepsim]

Thanks for you clear tutorial~

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure glad you found it useful

[@basavarajchougala3384]

Dear Sir, Really Useful Video....🙏

[@DoryVideo]

So nice of you

[@Barokimistari]

Thank you very much teacher

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure

[@thermalflyer3601]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure!!

[@feryalrada5340]

Hello, first I like to thank you about this lecture , and I hope to help me to make video lecture of 25 slide with size less than 200 mb.( how can I set the OBS studio to reach this goal). Thank you for cooperation with regards

[@DoryVideo]

Hi, not sure what you’re asking here. Do you want your PPTX file to be less than 200Mb? Do you want to make a video less than 200Mb? 25 slides, but how long? You’ve got to be much more open with what you’re trying to do here :-)

[@mehmetaliozer2403]

Thanks a lot, i also want to share something. Unfortunately your settings suggestions seems wrong, for example you should not use mp4 output because it exports the recorded video in the end of the recording process (when you click stop recording). It is problematic because in a case of errors, power corruption or software runtime exceptions, you will lost all record file. So this is why .mkv is recommended, it saves each frame of video on your disk. The other issue is using stream quality high will give you huge file, it is hard to store, upload, share. As an instructor we generally share a document, power point etc, audio quality is important but video frame rate can be reduced or simply use other resolution with same ratio (16:9), it does not affect the material quality if we use medium standart. Regards.

[@DoryVideo]

I know what you're saying but I've never had it drop out while recording. Also with tools like Handbrake you can recomress high quality recordings to small sizes for distribution, I always record at the best quality and then re-encode to a lower quality afterwards, so I always have the best material to work with.

[@DrFurb]

This is precisely how I've been doing it.

[@DoryVideo]

Good to hear it!

[@thebestmathacademy8838]

Thank you

[@DoryVideo]

My pleasure!

[@corinnewilhelm101]

BRILLIANT!!!!

[@DoryVideo]

Thanks

[@RajinderYadav]

A monitoring device should be headphone, never speakers, since you're introducing feedback which will be picked up by the mic. for frame rate 30 fps is fine, you're not broadcasting to a tv, so PAL or NTSC don't matter.

[@DoryVideo]

I get what you’re saying about the frame rate but 25fps will use less processor than 30 and no one will tell the difference.

[@grindel324]

Problem - My version doesn't have that cool crop ability! Anyone using the PC version will likely have this problem. Solution - Workaround for PCs - Right-click on the source and select Filters. Click the + button and select Crop/Pad. Mod as needed and click Close.

[@DoryVideo]

The cropping is in the OC version as I use it all the time. It’s there under “edit transform”