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We will also learn to

• Use Edit menu
• Take Screenshots
• Use Filters in OBS
• Use Transform options and
• Cropping .

• Microsoft Windows 8 or higher versions
• GNU/Linux OS 18.04 or higher versions
• Mac OS X 10.13 or higher versions.

You should also know how to use a web browser.

• 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.

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.

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.

Then from the sub-menu, click on the Lock Preview option.

A tick mark symbol appears in front of the Lock Preview option.

Text on screen:“Lock Preview prevents the editing of any scene by accident.”

This setting prevents the editing of any scene by accident.

Preview Scaling>>Output(1024*614).

From the context menu select Preview Scaling.

From the sub-menu, select Output (1280x720) option.

Choose the option that appears in your system.

Hold Spacebar and drag the window first to the left and then to the right.

Hold Spacebar key and with the mouse drag and navigate the Preview window.

Right-click on Opening-scene-001 >> select Screenshot (Scene).

Right-click on Opening-scene-001, and from the context menu select Screenshot (Scene).

And point towards the PNG files.

Context menu select Filters.

From the context menu select Filters.

Whereas, Filters for Screen Capture 001 opens up in the second case.

This is because, in the second case we have selected the source.

Click on the + button.

Let us see an example.

On the bottom left click on the + button.

Here, we will select the Luma key.

Click on the OK button.

I will not change anything here and then click on the OK button.

Change the value of Luma Max to 0.7000 .

Here, let’s change the value of Luma Max to 0.7000 .

We will leave the other options as they are.

• Transform option changes the appearance of the video
• It helps control the size, mirroring, rotation and cropping of the video.

Context menu select Transform.

From the context menu select Transform.

Click on Edit Transform.

From the context menu, click on Edit Transform.

Rotation >> 90

Under Rotation, we’ll change the value to 90.

Select Center-Left.

From the drop-down, select Center-Left.

It helps to keep all the scenes in uniform size and proportion throughout the video.

We do manual transformation to resize the screen visually as per our requirement.

This will resize the screen keeping the original height and width proportions.

• 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.

Click and drag the mouse as per the narration.

Click and drag the mouse towards the right side.

Point towards green color.

Which means the cropped side of the bounding box is in green color.

This is how we crop the screen and remove unnecessary footage.

Let us summarize.

We will also learnt to

• Use Edit menu
• Take Screenshots
• Use Filters in OBS
• Use Transform options and
• Cropping.

• 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.

• The video at the following link summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
• Please download and watch it.

• We conduct workshops using spoken tutorials and give certificates.
• For more details, please contact us.

Thank you for joining.