Powerful tool, but please…

[Johannes Hinterberger]

Hey guys!
First of all: Open Broadcaster Software is genius! I like to use it very much. Can't wait for my new ordered equipment-packages to use it more professional. Hope these will arrive till Friday, so I can start to do experiments in real broadcasting quality. Currently, I use OBS Studio on a MacBookPro (High Sierra).

While my work I noticed some things that might be very practicable, if they would be implemented (or I haven't found it till yet, in case, please help me):

• simple color-border for each (visible) source in x pixels
• drop-shadow feature for each (visible) source in x pixels, color x and blury-amount
• "free transform" (similar to illustrator) on 4 edges for (visible) sources (to place for e.g. media source into a virtual 25 degrees onscreen-monitor)
• Group-feature to group resources into for e.g. background, midground, foreground, top, bottom, left etc.I know, that I can group it into szenes and use szenes as resource. But a deeper layer structure (or groups) could help me to get not so confused :D while streaming.
• please add more shapes to color source (square, rectangle, circle, stars...)
• a transition-filter for resources would be genious!
• and finally a touch control for a separate window or screen to switch scenes/activate deactivate resources

THANK YOU so much for that piece of software! And also thank you so much for showing me ways to do it in OBS, if I still have not found a function for it.

Greetings from Austria,
Johannes

 

[NLeseul]

I just posted a plugin that allows you to apply your own shaders to your sources; see here. Example shaders to apply colored borders to a source or add a basic drop shadow are included in the package. Someone sufficiently clever with shader code could probably also use it to provide "free transform"-like effects or render geometric shapes.

 

[Johannes Hinterberger]

Thx for the moment, I'll check it out. Currently, I'm watching the video.

Edit:
Wonderful, powerful and a huge potential! Well, now I have to learn to compile this for Mac (I was always looking for a reason to learn this. Now I got one!)

Edit 2:
The big run to "how to make this source working for mac" has been started. Seems to be that I need a special IDE to get this working. Maybe I need some more OBS classes. The out-of-the-box make file.c gave the output "nothing to to".

Edit 3:
Got https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/getting-started-with-obs-development.21326/, but it seems to be that this is too complex for me that moment to get your plugin working for mac. Who knows, maybe in future this is implemented within obs directly (as preseted filters). Till this time, I have to design everything with motion graphics software and media files.