Question / Help Is there some easy ways to create lower thirds on OBS ?
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Narcogen
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You can create any lower third content you like as a scene with a collection of text, image, and media sources, and then embed that scene in another scene.
In OBS lower thirds are just collections of individual sources like any other scene; they have to be built and assembled manually.
In OBS lower thirds are just collections of individual sources like any other scene; they have to be built and assembled manually.
Dihelson Mendonca
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Thanks, Narcogen. In the broadcast, I saw only 2 people running the show and the audience sent material like photos and videos, and this material were integrated "easily" to the live content and using lower thirds. The man on the machine should be very good on that ( I mean: I don´t really know if they were running OBS ), because he needed to keep changing cameras, inserting commercials, recorded videos, and amazingly, he would design and write the lower thirds a few seconds before the presenter would announce the subject. All that without mess around, no mistakes. Perhaps he would be running Wirecast instead, or something like. It´s very easy to make terrible mistakes running OBS live shows, dense, with much material like a normal TV without making any mistakes. But there are people good on that, though...
Narcogen
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Well there are ways of making things a bit easier.
For instance, even if you don't know what all your lower thirds are going to be in advance, if you have an idea of how many segments you're going to have, so you know how MANY lower thirds you need, you can set up duplicate scenes and sources in advance, and link them to text files on the system, so you could quickly change the text just in an editor and see the changes reflected in OBS.
Changing cameras would be done with hotkeys, and you'd have set up in advance any other graphics you needed in combination with those cameras, with other scenes set up in advance with media sources for commercials.
If you've got the advanced scene switcher module, some of those switches can be automated-- at least if you know the timing of all the media files in advance, which you should.
Commercial packages like Vmix have advantages in these areas, but it's still possible to do quite a lot with OBS-- there just aren't easy ways of downloading a file that has that all done for you already.
For instance, even if you don't know what all your lower thirds are going to be in advance, if you have an idea of how many segments you're going to have, so you know how MANY lower thirds you need, you can set up duplicate scenes and sources in advance, and link them to text files on the system, so you could quickly change the text just in an editor and see the changes reflected in OBS.
Changing cameras would be done with hotkeys, and you'd have set up in advance any other graphics you needed in combination with those cameras, with other scenes set up in advance with media sources for commercials.
If you've got the advanced scene switcher module, some of those switches can be automated-- at least if you know the timing of all the media files in advance, which you should.
Commercial packages like Vmix have advantages in these areas, but it's still possible to do quite a lot with OBS-- there just aren't easy ways of downloading a file that has that all done for you already.
Thanks. I think you are right. Perhaps, the secret is preparing things in advance. To have a set of lower thirds awaiting only for the texts, and using hotkeys to control the entire OBS. One way that could speed photos sent by WhatsApp and online would be using Whatsapp web and capture a region of the screen. This wouldn't need to download the pictures. One could build a scene or more for these pictures, prepared with a background, Lower thirds, and other elements. So, the secret for speed may be prepare everything in advance.
I wonder if anyone else is experiencing this problem. I set up my scene collection and want to insert text but while the lower third GDI+ text box accepts my text in the properties box it doesn't put them on the screen. I'm using the Deepshockz font in bold at 72 pixels. The screen is black with a white text box that can be made active. Any ideas as to what's going wrong for me?
Hi, is there way to make a lower third appear on click and disappear automatically after a certain time?
William Maddock
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None of this is helpful to me right now.
I am looking for a method of adding a lower third to an already playing camera shot or video clip, using a hot key.
For example, the on-screen talent mentions a phone number or website and, using a hot key, you have the relevant lower third fade in when they say it.
I am looking for a method of adding a lower third to an already playing camera shot or video clip, using a hot key.
For example, the on-screen talent mentions a phone number or website and, using a hot key, you have the relevant lower third fade in when they say it.