Question / Help Multi-cam previews and Lower Thirds Setup

[jeremyflint]

We are streaming our church service using OBS and 3 PTZ Optics cameras. I am still learning the software, but wanted to jump ahead to see if I could get some info on a few things:

1. Previewing inputs. We have 3 cameras. I am using Studio mode, which lets me preview a scene before I transition to it. Is there a plugin or some other method that I can use to preview the multiple cameras without having to switch to them?

2. Lower Thirds. We show slides during our sermon time. I am currently just switching full screen between the camera and a display capture of Keynote on the mac. Is there a way to show a persistent lower-third to put things like speaker name, sermon title/points, etc?

 

[Narcogen]

Create your lower third as a separate scene. Then you can add that scene to the scenes you use for camera switching.

No way that I'm aware of to view more than one preview input at a time. OBS is a decent free replacement for a real video switcher, but it can't do everything :)

 

[lebaston100]

1. This feature is coming in the next release so stay tuned.
2. Like Narcogen said but you can also use HTML overlays with the browser source(nodeCG)