TickleMeOzmo
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First, I LOVE OBS. It works, it works great, it is phenomenal! Kudos to the devs.
I know OSX support is coming along, and I want to help shape the landscape if permitted.
I currently capture Heroes of the Storm (a Blizzard game) with overlays, browsersource, and webcam and find myself running out of room with all the scenes and sources I have. The boxes are so TINY :/ I tend to use scenes as "groupings of sources" and switch them quite a bit depending on what's happening. There's not enough room for my descriptions :(
http://imgur.com/1Skmsky.png
I know that Hotkeys on OSX are soon(ish), and that would be WONDERFUL. But until then, perhaps a more "producer" view would serve content producers better.
In this view, the outgoing content would be secondary (in terms of space in the window) rather than primary). The goal would be to have those elements take up more space (and thus be larger for more content), and have the viewport take up less space (I would still like to enlarge the viewport so I can see detail before streaming).
Examples:
Now, I'm not suggesting it be as complicated as a "TriCorder" (the Gold Standard), but the interface could use some love as others have suggested.
What would I love?
I know OSX support is coming along, and I want to help shape the landscape if permitted.
I currently capture Heroes of the Storm (a Blizzard game) with overlays, browsersource, and webcam and find myself running out of room with all the scenes and sources I have. The boxes are so TINY :/ I tend to use scenes as "groupings of sources" and switch them quite a bit depending on what's happening. There's not enough room for my descriptions :(
http://imgur.com/1Skmsky.png
I know that Hotkeys on OSX are soon(ish), and that would be WONDERFUL. But until then, perhaps a more "producer" view would serve content producers better.
In this view, the outgoing content would be secondary (in terms of space in the window) rather than primary). The goal would be to have those elements take up more space (and thus be larger for more content), and have the viewport take up less space (I would still like to enlarge the viewport so I can see detail before streaming).
Examples:
- http://volarvideo.com/images/pt_screenshot.jpg
- http://www.filedudes.com/images/screenshots/30077.jpg
Now, I'm not suggesting it be as complicated as a "TriCorder" (the Gold Standard), but the interface could use some love as others have suggested.
What would I love?
- Scene Previews - Selecting my scene from a list of pictures rather than a list of text. (Like the CAM row in this screenshot http://www.creativeobserver.com/img/931_livestream_studio_switcher_software_screenshot_lg.jpg )
- Design a scene "warm" - I would like to design a scene while live, but not have that editing session be streamed. Stream Scene 1, while editing Scene 2. This would be like a mixer board "Send to Live" feature. There's an editing window, and when you find that what is in your preview window is great, you hit "Send to Live" and now that snapshot of settings is streamed. In mixing, selecting a scene doesn't "Send to Live", you have to intentionally send a scene to live. I don't ever want to accidentally send the webcam stream during "wife and kids not home weekends".
- Fade. Not every transition that's on a mixer board, that's OBS 2.0 ;) but "Send to Live" should come with a fader (a slider of immediately to 2 seconds, plus fade to black or fade to next scene options)
- Autoplay movie on scene switch - I have a bumper that I want to play from the start on scene switch, right now, it constantly plays. That's great, I love that option, but need one to start when switch to it.
- Snap to Guidelines - Center / Upper Third / Lower Third, just like you snap to edges.
- Movement with the keyboard - Sometimes I want to nudge something by ONE pixel!!
- Color / Element change SOMETHING when I'm on air. How will I know if it's safe to pick my nose or scream at the kids to get off my lawn? ;)
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