Question / Help Stream Uptime or Highlight Plugin?

[Lemur]

Is there a way to make an uptime counter begin and displayed on stream whenever I begin streaming?

I'd like to make it easier to create highlights for my YouTube channel, so something like that would help because whenever something happens, I can glance at the uptime and just write it down. It'd make it a lot easier to find when going through the VOD later.

 

[Lemur]

Hello?

 

[Sapiens]

Did you look in the Resources section for a relevant plugin? And do you really want the timer on the recording itself? Seems like starting a separate timer (outside of OBS) would be easier and cleaner.

 

[Lemur]

Did you look in the Resources section for a relevant plugin? And do you really want the timer on the recording itself? Seems like starting a separate timer (outside of OBS) would be easier and cleaner.

Well, if I use a separate timer, then it won't be there when I go back and watch the VOD and therefore I won't know where to skip to in order to get to my highlight(s). I haven't found anything personally though, no, which is seriously surprising since I've seen a lot of popular streams do this and it seems like a pretty simple task.

 

[Sapiens]

The local file/VOD will obviously have a playback timer too, which would correspond to the time you kept while streaming, but maybe I'm missing something.

A search for "timer" or "clock" in the Resources section yields a lot of results. Here's one from the first page - https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/s-tnt-a-simple-timer-and-more.196/

 

[Lemur]

The local file/VOD will obviously have a playback timer too, which would correspond to the time you kept while streaming, but maybe I'm missing something.

A search for "timer" or "clock" in the Resources section yields a lot of results. Here's one from the first page - https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/s-tnt-a-simple-timer-and-more.196/

I've seen that one but it didn't look like it starts automatically when you begin streaming. Thank you for the help though.

 

[FerretBomb]

Normally I just use a $T in part of my local-recording filename, and one in my Replay Buffer filename (set to 1 second). I just hit my 'save replay buffer' hotkey, and it dumps a second of video out... more importantly named with a timestamp. A little math tells me where it is in the main cast recording.

That said, it'd be a lot more convenient if the timestamp or durationstamp was saved to a textfile named the same as the video. Not possible in Classic as far as I'm aware, with its restriction on plugins using hotkeys, but maybe in MP. Doesn't seem like it'd be too hard to grab the time/date and-or uptime and write it out like that to wherever the video is currently being saved.