Question / Help Total Beginner Looking for Help with Basics

[molly789]

Hello,

1. Can you have text over the live stream? Thinking just in the corner or bottom to say what area the recording is of.
2. Can there be 3 live streams shown at once?
3. Can the screen be split into or 4 sections? Thinking 3 live streams and then a small strip of branding at the top or bottom of the screen.
4. How do you add a logo (small in the corner) to the screen?
5. If this is going to be streamed to a monitor that is hung on a wall in a lobby, how would you suggest we mount the other necessary equipment or should that be housed elsewhere? What would that other equipment be? So far I know I will need cameras, cable to link the cameras (power and data), some large monitor and some mini recorder (any ideas on which or the difference between different kinds?).
6. Once we get the screen set up the way we want can we just continue the stream for extended periods of time or can this not be left running indefinitely?

Any basics help for a beginner with anything technical is super helpful! (Please explain any fancy technical lingo you use)

 

[Narcogen]

1) That's a text source.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/Sources-Guide

2) Not sure what you mean by "3 streams". If you mean streams to separate platforms (youtube, facebook, twitch) then no, not without either additional software and configuration (nginx + rtmp) or an additional service provider (restream.io).

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/

3). Yes. You can add 4 video sources to a single scene and size them all to fit. Assuming your computer can have that many sources and handle rendering and encoding them.

4) That's an image source.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/Sources-Guide

5) Not sure what you mean by "streamed to a monitor". OBS is for streaming to online platforms like youtube, twitch, or others. Not necessarily for streaming to a physical display. It does have the facility to send video to an external device.


It might be helpful if you explained your intended use case in more detail to help determine if OBS is the right tool or not.