Question / Help Lower Thirds/Movies
- Thread starter KnoxVegas
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If english isn't your first language, I would not trust the translate program you are using. I haven't the slightest idea to what you are talking about.
Rude much? It's a simple question about lower thirds that have been created using AE (After Effects) into small movie files. Then asking how you're able to display them on a stream randomly, in timed amounts such as, so many seconds, so many minutes, or so many hours. Sorry if my English above did not work for you. Next time if you don't know what someone is talking about just don't post.
There is no rudness is saying your translation program didn't come out properly but I just do not understand what you are asking. please be more clear. maybe with a picture.
if you know what OP is asking for, please explain.
my only assumption is you both are talking about a bar at the lower third of the stream which will be a place for text or caption.
if so, just create an identical scene but with a lower third how you want it then set a hotkey for each. ease as that.
Sapiens
Forum Moderator
@dping He wants to use a video file with a transparency/alpha layer for his overlay instead of a static image or browser source content or whatever. More or less an animated overlay.
@KnoxVegas You can try the Video Source plugin at https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/video-source-plugin.20/ or install OBS Studio and try its Media Source type. The first uses VLC and the second uses FFmpeg so hopefully one or both will handle your video correctly. I don't think either will do random selection, but Video Source will let you make a playlist and loop it at least, and Media Source can be pointed at an m3u8 playlist file.
@KnoxVegas You can try the Video Source plugin at https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/video-source-plugin.20/ or install OBS Studio and try its Media Source type. The first uses VLC and the second uses FFmpeg so hopefully one or both will handle your video correctly. I don't think either will do random selection, but Video Source will let you make a playlist and loop it at least, and Media Source can be pointed at an m3u8 playlist file.
FerretBomb
Active Member
Yep, the Video Source plugin won't do randoms, or play with a delay timer.
Problem is, you can't chromakey the VS plugin on Classic, and the version on Studio doesn't appear to support playlists; just one video file per source, even if that one video could be looped.
If you can export to AVI-with-alpha, OBS Classic should be able to handle the alpha transparency natively for things like fades or slide-in/outs. At least that's what I'm told by someone who used it, I don't myself as I have yet to learn AE. Would recommend slapping together a test item first to make sure the VS plugin does keep alpha.
You could then have a reusable 'spacer' video at that point that's just a single frame of alpha the same size as your template lower third, and insert it into the playlist however many times to allow a variable delay between the content videos. Also shouldn't be too big with essentially a single frame and a long duration.
After that, just set up a long playlist in the Video Source plugin and set it to loop, and make sure it's a Global (otherwise it would reset each time you switched scenes to the first video on the list).
Alternately, you might be able to embed the videos via a local HTML file of some sort and do flow control with CSS or javascript, and run that through the CLR Browser plugin. But that one gets more involved.
Short version, no, there's no turnkey solution for that.
But there are ways it could be worked around creatively.
Problem is, you can't chromakey the VS plugin on Classic, and the version on Studio doesn't appear to support playlists; just one video file per source, even if that one video could be looped.
If you can export to AVI-with-alpha, OBS Classic should be able to handle the alpha transparency natively for things like fades or slide-in/outs. At least that's what I'm told by someone who used it, I don't myself as I have yet to learn AE. Would recommend slapping together a test item first to make sure the VS plugin does keep alpha.
You could then have a reusable 'spacer' video at that point that's just a single frame of alpha the same size as your template lower third, and insert it into the playlist however many times to allow a variable delay between the content videos. Also shouldn't be too big with essentially a single frame and a long duration.
After that, just set up a long playlist in the Video Source plugin and set it to loop, and make sure it's a Global (otherwise it would reset each time you switched scenes to the first video on the list).
Alternately, you might be able to embed the videos via a local HTML file of some sort and do flow control with CSS or javascript, and run that through the CLR Browser plugin. But that one gets more involved.
Short version, no, there's no turnkey solution for that.
But there are ways it could be worked around creatively.