Question / Help Newbie looking for advice Please

Hi, I'm in search of some sound advice. I have recently started looking into live streaming with a brand new Canon XA11 and have started looking at OBS and Deck stream. I'm asking if someone could direct me in the direction on how I can start an intro before my stream starts and finish with an ending.

Id appreciate any help

Thanks

Darren
 

koala

Active Member
It depends on how you want your intro and outro look like. The most simple variant is a short video clip you prepare. One for the intro and one for the outro.
Create one scene for the intro, one (or more) scene for your regular stream, and one for the outro.
In the intro and outro scenes, add a media source for the corresponding clip. Activate "Restart playback when source becomes active". This way the clip will play from the start when you switch to that scene.
Create another scene, a "Starting soon" scene. In this scene put an image source with a static image, showing a message like "Welcome! Stream is starting soon." in a more or less fancy way.

With that, you can run your stream like this: While you get ready yourself, start OBS and change to the "starting soon" scene. Then click the "start streaming" button. Now your online status is announced to your prospective viewers and they chime in. They will see the "Welcome! Stream is starting soon" and will wait until you start to perform. You get yourself ready, prepare your desktop and do whatever you need to do, and after 5 to 10 minutes you switch to the intro scene. The intro will play back automatically. After it finished playback, you switch to your regular stream scenes and perform whatever you intend to perform. After you have finished, you switch to the outro scene and the outro will play back automatically. After that, you click "stop streaming".
 
Hi Koala, Thanks for your reply. I already have an intro and ending ready, they are in my scene section. As I'm new to all this I couldn't work out how it all came together. So reading your reply which I'm grateful for can you advice me where I can find the "Restart playback when source becomes active" is please as I've searched.
So reading it you start the intro, then start the stream and once finished you start your ending and the turn of the stream. I also have no sound at present on OBS.

Again thanks

Darren
 

koala

Active Member
In case you're asking why the "starting soon" scene: The moment you start your stream by clicking the "start streaming" button, you don't have any viewers. Your followers are notified in the moment you click that button, but they are not already connected. If you immediately start your intro or your action, nobody would see this. You need to give your viewers a few minutes to connect. This is the time you show the "coming soon" picture. If you feel there are enough viewers connected, you actually start by switching to your intro.
 
So I'm going to be using a camera, I gather I stop intro and then switch to camera mode and away I go and when complete just switch on the ending scene?
 
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