I am new to OBS and am playing with streaming of church services. I have a slide show I am playing as part of a live service stream which displays the words to go with a recorded hymn. Unfortunately the music is not of fixed length verses as there is variable length instrumental sections between them, so the change to the next slide is not a regular time interval. Is there any way in which variable times can be used to move from one slide in the slide show to the next so the captions for the next verse can be synchronised with the music?
Slide Show Interval Time
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Lawrence_SoCal
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Are you using pictures, and OBS' Image Slide Show? or are you using PowerPoint (like I am)?
Within PowerPoint, you can set a separate timer per slide for auto-advance to next slide. Because our service mixes live and pre-recorded content, I just manually advance the slides... but this has me thinking, on some slides I could automate a couple of the page change in PPTx... I should have thought of that earlier....
As for OBS' native Image Slide Show view [if that is your use case] ... not that I've seen (only fixed time per image???) ... but not my area of expertise
I suspect you'd be looking for a plugin, or slide show viewer, if you wanted to time image changes to be programmable/variable
OR in the keep it simple mode, why not just use key press / hotkey and manually advance image (slide)?
Within PowerPoint, you can set a separate timer per slide for auto-advance to next slide. Because our service mixes live and pre-recorded content, I just manually advance the slides... but this has me thinking, on some slides I could automate a couple of the page change in PPTx... I should have thought of that earlier....
As for OBS' native Image Slide Show view [if that is your use case] ... not that I've seen (only fixed time per image???) ... but not my area of expertise
I suspect you'd be looking for a plugin, or slide show viewer, if you wanted to time image changes to be programmable/variable
OR in the keep it simple mode, why not just use key press / hotkey and manually advance image (slide)?
Thanks Lawrence. I am using the OBS native Slide Show resource and as far as I can see, the only timing option is a fixed interval to advance the individual images, hence my question. Perhaps somebody else can help, or advise a workaround?
Thanks Rich but that doesn't really help. The problem is that I have a song that is playing and a slide show synchronised to the verses that bring up the words as captions. However, due to instrumental sections, the gaps between the sung sections is not consistent so the captions are not changing in synchronism with the sound. IO have got round the problem by slitting the slides into four different sections and played the single sound track across 4 separate scenes and with careful timing of scene switching have managed to achieve the desired objective, but it is hellish complicated!
Lawrence_SoCal
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Actually R1CH was spot on for a work-around to inconsistent timing (ie you manually advance each image using hotkey). You appear to want an automated option so went complex..
I think the answer would be to NOT use OBS's picture slide show
for our church live stream with pre-recorded videos, normally we have a service bulletin in PowerPoint as I mentioned. but for mimic'ing lower thirds type display, recently we've had our video editor (who crops the videos, color balances, etc) add the lyrics direct into the video. So for OBS, I simply play the video. This is by far a better approach, but would require someone with enough info to add lyrics to the video. This is a relatively simple task in a video editor. For example (with loss of video quality, most likely) I could add lyrics to a video using iPad iMovie in under 10 minutes