At the bottom of this post, you’ll see instructions from Professor Claypool on how to do it right.

One effect that interests those who want to try lightboard video production is “Flip Horizontal.” In the interest of full disclosure, I tried simulating a lightboard in my basement for the purposes of this blog post. You can apply affects to these sources, too.

In another scene, I may need a different combination of sources.

For example, in one scene I may need a window capture of my browser plus a video capture of myself, talking. Different scenes might call for different inputs. A scene is a collection of inputs, called sources, that you want to work with. On the bottom left of the interface you can preload “scenes”. This switching lever can be loaded with your favorite transition like cut, dissolve or wipe – more on transitions in OBS here.īut what’s nice about OBS is that – as a digital tool – it enables you to have more choices at your fingertips than a traditional tv studio, for a lot less investment. In between you have a sort of switching lever for moving your input choices from the preview monitor to the program monitor. In studio mode, you can see a preview monitor and a program monitor. In some ways OBS works like a traditional television studio. But you can find a bevy of support articles in the help section of the obsproject website and videos with an internet search. That being said, as an open source tool, there isn’t a customer support hotline you can call for help.

OBS is free and works well on Windows, macOS and Linux systems. OBS – short for Open Broadcaster System – is an open source software for video streaming and recording.

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