OBS-Studio/C2/Getting-familiar-with-OBS/English

Title: Getting familiar with OBS

Author: Nikita Misal

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide: Title	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Getting familiar with OBS interface.
Slide: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn about the OBS work area. We will also learn to Use Edit menu Take Screenshots Use Filters in OBS Use Transform options and Cropping .
Slide: OS and Versions	OBS Studio can run on any of the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 8 or higher versions GNU/Linux OS 18.04 or higher versions Mac OS X 10.13 or higher versions.
Slide: Prerequisite	To practice this tutorial, you should have basic knowledge of computers. You should also know how to use a web browser.
Slide: System Requirements	This tutorial is recorded using Windows 10 OBS Studio verion 27.0.1 and Firefox web browser. You can use any web browser of your choice. The steps demonstrated are exactly the same on Linux and Mac OSX.
Click on Search>> Type OBS>> Double-click on OBS Studio icon.	Let us open OBS Studio. For that, click on the Search icon at the bottom left of the screen. Type OBS in the search bar and press Enter. Double-click on the OBS icon to launch it.
Point to the Scenes and the associated Sources.	We see that the interface reflects all the activities done in the previous tutorial. We see scenes with the names Opening Scene 001 and Scene 002. We also see sources listed as Screen capture 001, Screen Capture 002. And Arvind’s external mic.
Only narration	First of all, let us learn how to Lock Screen Preview using the Edit menu.
Click on Edit menu >> Click on Lock Preview option >> Point towards ✓ symbol.	To do so, click on the Edit menu on the menu bar. Then from the sub-menu, click on the Lock Preview option.
Click on Edit menu >> Point to the Lock Preview option >> Point towards ✓ symbol.	Click on Edit menu, then move cursor towards Lock Preview to view the tick mark. A tick mark symbol appears in front of the Lock Preview option.
Point towards ✓ symbol. Text on screen:“Lock Preview prevents the editing of any scene by accident.”	The tick mark indicates that we cannot edit the source position or size in the Preview window. This setting prevents the editing of any scene by accident.
Click on Edit menu >> Click on the Lock Preview.	Click on Lock Preview option again to enable editing in the Preview window.
Only narration.	Next, let us learn about Preview Scaling.
Right-click on the Preview area. Preview Scaling>>Output(1024*614).	To scale the Preview window to a fixed size of output, right-click on the Preview area. From the context menu select Preview Scaling. From the sub-menu, select Output (1280x720) option.
	On my system, 1280x720 is the current output resolution. Choose the option that appears in your system.
Point towards the enlarged Preview. Hold Spacebar and drag the window first to the left and then to the right.	Notice that the Preview size has enlarged. Hold Spacebar key and with the mouse drag and navigate the Preview window.
Only narration	Next, let us learn how to take a screenshot in OBS.
Point to the Scene menu. Right-click on Opening-scene-001 >> select Screenshot (Scene).	To do so, go to the Scene menu at the bottom left of the screen. Right-click on Opening-scene-001, and from the context menu select Screenshot (Scene).
Click File >> Show Recordings. And point towards the PNG files.	All screenshots are saved in PNG format under the same directory as the recordings.
Only narration	Likewise, try taking some more screenshots of other Sources on your own.
Only narration	Next, let us learn about filters in OBS.
Right-click on Opening-scene-001 >> select Context menu select Filters.	To apply a filter, under the Sources pane right-click on Opening-scene-001. From the context menu select Filters.
Point towards Filters button on the Source toolbar	Alternatively, you can click on the Filters button on the Source toolbar too.
Point towards Opening-scene-001 dialog box.	Filters for Opening-scene-001 dialog box opens in the first case. Whereas, Filters for Screen Capture 001 opens up in the second case. This is because, in the second case we have selected the source.
Point towards Effect Filters.	On the left side we see Effect filters.
Click on the + button.	All the filters that we add will be visible here. Let us see an example. On the bottom left click on the + button.
Point towards all the filters >> Select the Luma key.	A context menu with a list of filter options opens up. Here, we will select the Luma key.
Filter name dialog box. Click on the OK button.	Filter name dialog box pops up. I will not change anything here and then click on the OK button.
Point to Luma key filter settings. Change the value of Luma Max to 0.7000 .	On the right side, a number of Luma key filter settings appears. Here, let’s change the value of Luma Max to 0.7000 . We will leave the other options as they are.
Click on the Close button.	Now, click on the Close button at the bottom right of the dialog box to complete the changes.
Point towards the white colors turned to greyish black.	In the Preview window notice that the white colors have turned to greyish black now.
Press CTRL Z	Select the Preview Area and press CTRL Z to undo the changes.
Only narration.	Now, we will learn about Transform options in OBS.
Slide: Transform.	Transform option changes the appearance of the video It helps control the size, mirroring, rotation and cropping of the video.
Right-click on Sources >> select Display Capture. Context menu select Transform.	To transform source, right-click on the Screen Capture 001 in the Sources list pane. From the context menu select Transform.
Click on the Edit menu >> Transform. Click on Edit Transform.	Alternately, click on the Edit menu on the Menu bar, and click on Transform. From the context menu, click on Edit Transform.
Point towards Scene Item Transform dialog box. Rotation >> 90	Scene Item Transform settings dialog box appears. Under Rotation, we’ll change the value to 90.
Click on the arrow besides Position Alignment. Select Center-Left.	Then click on the arrow besides the Position Alignment field. From the drop-down, select Center-Left.
Click on the Close button.	Click on the Close button at the bottom right of the dialog box to complete the changes.
Point towards the Preview screen.	Notice that in the Preview window the alignment of the scene has changed.
Only narration.	This method of transformation is very useful while creating long duration video films. It helps to keep all the scenes in uniform size and proportion throughout the video.
Press CTRL Z	Press CTRL Z to undo the changes.
Only narration	Next, let’s perform manual transformation of the source in the Preview window. We do manual transformation to resize the screen visually as per our requirement.
Move the cursor a per the narration.	Move the cursor over a small red square handle at the bottom right of the source bounding box.
Click and drag the mouse as per the narration >> release mouse button.	Click and drag the mouse diagonally towards the left side and release the mouse button. This will resize the screen keeping the original height and width proportions.
Press CTRL Z	Press CTRL Z to undo the changes.
Point to the side handles for height and then for width.	We can also change only the height or width by resizing using the side square handles.
Only narration	Next, let us learn how to crop the screen in OBS.
Slide: Crop	Crop option removes unwanted portions of a video to create focus on the composition. We can crop an image from either left, right, top or bottom.
Press and hold the Alt key.	To crop, press and hold the Alt key on the keyboard.
Move the cursor a per the narration. Click and drag the mouse as per the narration.	Move the cursor over the small red square at the left side of the source bounding box. Click and drag the mouse towards the right side.
Point towards green color.	Notice at the left, the bounding box turns green in color. Which means the cropped side of the bounding box is in green color.
Release the mouse button + Alt key	Now release the mouse button and the Alt key. This is how we crop the screen and remove unnecessary footage.
Press CTRL Z	Press CTRL Z to undo the changes.
On OBS >> click X icon.	Let’s now close the OBS interface by clicking on the X icon.
Only narration	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
Slide: Summary	In this tutorial, we learnt about the OBS work area. We will also learnt to Use Edit menu Take Screenshots Use Filters in OBS Use Transform options and Cropping.
Slide: Assignment	As an assignment Scale the Preview screen to the maximum size. Navigate the screen using Spacebar. Apply the color correction filter. Adjust the settings and observe the difference in the color. Transform the screen to Rotation 180.
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Slide: Acknowledgement	Spoken Tutorial project is funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India.
	This is Arvind Pillai along with Nikita Misal from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for joining.

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