Question / Help Total Novice… Please help with OBS and my Mac.

[Matthew Jenkins]

Hi all, hope somebody can help?

Im a lifelong (25+ years) Macintosh user. Im fairly computer savvy, but a total novice when it comes to streaming, YouTube, Twitch, OBS, Elgato etc etc

I want to start streaming my gameplay on YouTube and bought an Elgato HD60S to do It. I have a MacBook Pro 2014, I no Its not great to use the HD60S with but It does work. However some of the features I was most interested with, overlays, adding of text, StreamLab notifications don’t currently work with Mac OS.

I was hoping It would be almost “plug and play” and as such It wasn’t.

I thought Id try It with OBS now this Is where I kind of sound a total amateur.

Ive searched hundreds of sites, read countless articles and watched more YouTube videos than I care to think about, but as a total novice I really need some help setting up my Mac with OBS so Its as best It can be and as lag free as I can get It! Ive been trying now for maybe 2-3 weeks and I must of scraped and restarted hundreds of times! Is there somebody that can point me in the direction to get help with set-up? Im at my wits end and get so down when I see these wiz kids on Twitch and YouTube streaming games and have donation counts, subscription counts, moving text banners and Im having trouble sorting my sources from my scenes. I really need somebody’s help with setting all this up, a bit like “OBS for dummies”. Sorry if this has been asked millions of times but as I said Im at my wits end and In need of help and patience.

Really hope there some one out there with help and bucket loads of patience!

Thanks in advance!

-MJ-

 

[Fenrir]

Unfortunately Elgato doesn't provide Mac drivers that work with OBS, so you can't add the Game Capture HD as a video capture device. You'll have to run their software in fullscreen and capture the window instead. Support won't be added until Elgato releases proper drivers. A video tutorial is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO0zrNzDhVE

 

[TickleMeOzmo]

Yeah, while this is an option, you don't want to do this. The Elgato has a 2-3 second delay.

I returned my Elgato and bought a Magewell XI100USB-HDMI. Easy, peasy. Did exactly what I wanted it to.

OBS will do everything you want, ( overlays, adding of text, StreamLab notifications ), but Elgato is at fault for not making an OSX driver.