Question / Help Manually cueing a given sequence of scenes

[PastorSteve]

Is there a way to cue a given list of scenes manually using one hotkey or tab or something. What I'm thinking of is the way lighting is set up now for plays. I would like to do this for my video feed. Having a hotkey for each scene is getting very cumbersome, especially when I'm also doing the content piece. I would just like to hit a tab or something to move to the next scene. I use at least 12 scenes for every broadcast.

 

[FerretBomb]

You may be able to do this with the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin. There's a Sequences feature available.
You also could consider installing a third-party piece of software like AutoHotKey... it should be possible in that to have a per-press macro that steps through a series of keypresses in order. Then you'd just set up your hotkeys in OBS, and set the order in AHK, and off you go.

In stock OBS, no, there's no way to set a scene order and progress to the next like a set of slides.

 

[PastorSteve]

I looked at the Advanced Scene Switcher but it appeared to me that the Sequences feature is only for timed sequences. It won't let you manually cue from one scene to the next. I'll have to check into the AutoHotKey thing. Thanks for the tip.

 

[SALTOhio]

I am very new to OBS and have exactly the same need as PastorSteve. I'd like to preset my scenes in order, then sequence through them manually as needed...but I'm guessing this is an unusual application?

 

[FishBytes]

I would suggest looking at the Elgato StreamDeck, you can assign scenes / sources to the buttons making it pretty simple for an operator to move through the scenes, you can even put pictures on the buttons to help identify the different scenes.

 

[FerretBomb]

I am very new to OBS and have exactly the same need as PastorSteve. I'd like to preset my scenes in order, then sequence through them manually as needed...but I'm guessing this is an unusual application?

Yes, OBS is meant as live production software, rather than as a slideshow or preset sequence. The assumption being that during the production, the presenter (or technician, in a multi-person production) would switch to the scene needed.
You could again use third-party software like AutoHotkey; it allows setting up a single button to step through a sequence of button-presses with each consecutive press. At that point you'd just set up that sequence to press the hotkeys assigned to specific OBS scenes in the order you like. I believe you can also set up a second key to step-back, in the event of an accidental double-press.

I would suggest looking at the Elgato StreamDeck, you can assign scenes / sources to the buttons making it pretty simple for an operator to move through the scenes, you can even put pictures on the buttons to help identify the different scenes.

Good for direct access, but will not allow a stepped sequence like they want; though that would be a great addition to the Multi-Action action type, if Elgato were to add it.

 

[@Privacycoop]

There's a script available OBS Lua - Next Scene and Previous Scene Hotkeys | OBS Forums (obsproject.com) It's remarkably simple and does the trick! You can assign two hotkeys that will simply transition to next/previous scene in the order of your current scene list. Awesome.