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Over the past several weeks, we’ve been discussing Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), an open-source video product application. You can catch up on the previous articles and learn how to use this free application:

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2. Open Broadcaster Software Reviews
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4. Best Open Broadcaster Software
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• Video Production with OBS: What It Is and Why You Should Use It
• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS): Installing and Configuring
• OBS Chapter 3: Sources and Scenes
• Open Broadcaster Software – Part 4: Recordings and Streams
• OBS Chapter 5: Hotkeys, More Sources, and Resources

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Now, OBS is quite powerful and adequate for many consumer and even professional video live-streaming or recording use cases, but it can have its limitations. In today’s article, we’ll discuss why it may be more advantageous to look at commercial apps and talk about the features of some of the more popular Mac video production apps. In addition, if your budget is limited to the free OBS application, we’ll talk about how to get support.

Reasons to Not Use OBS

At the end of the last article in this series, I noted that “while OBS is a great way to start getting into livestream production, it’s an example of ‘You get what you pay for’ in that it lacks good support, unexplainable bugs sometimes crop up, and it doesn’t have built-in features that can make your livestream work even easier.“

One of my pet peeves was when I was looking for plugins for OBS. I’d see one that added a feature I really wanted, only to find out that it was only available on the Windows version of OBS. When I run apps, I no longer want to run them in a virtual machine or have to reboot my Mac into Windows running on Boot Camp. Especially with video, the best performance comes with a native app or plugin. Not having access to many of those plugins will crimp my style a bit, but at this time I’ll have to make do with those plugins that work on the Mac platform.

For companies or individuals who are using OBS for profit, support can be an issue as well. Let’s say you have a scheduled show ready to go live in two hours, and all of a sudden OBS is crashing every time you boot up. Although you can get support through the OBS community, chances are good that your show will not happen. Commercial software companies can provide you with real support, although that often comes at a cost.

Finally, there’s another limitation — the user. Many people just getting into live-streaming can find sources, scenes, overlays, and even just setting up a single stream to something like YouTube to be overwhelming. The user interface of OBS isn’t exactly its top selling point, and trying to remember hotkeys or even which Stream Deck button to push can be confusing in the middle of an on-air interview.

Let’s take a look at three alternatives to OBS.

mimoLive

The first alternative I’ll discuss is mimoLive from Boinx Software. The app is free to try for 14 days, and if you’ve tried OBS as a result of this series, you’ll be familiar with the setup and terminology. Pricing is $20 per month for non-profit organizations (mimoLive Non-Profit), $70 monthly for commercial use (mimoLive Studio), and $200 per month for broadcast organizations (mimoLive Broadcast). Boinx offers discounts for annual and three-year purchases that are quite reasonable.

For your average person or business that wants to set up a daily or weekly livestream, monetize a livestream on YouTube, government organizations and universities, churches, and so on, the Studio version is perfect. That $70 monthly subscription gets you a lot — an app that is optimized for Mac and constantly updated, has a wide range of built-in features, and support. The Broadcast version comes with what’s called “Fastlane Support”, which is expedited support for those TV stations and other broadcast organizations that need answers immediately.

What you get with mimoLive is a full-featured live video suite. As you can see in the image at the start of this section, you have the familiar “Program Output” window, which is what the audience will see, as well as a number of other sources. Boinx provides other sources as well — mimoCall is a way to have other guests show up on your show (audio only) by just opening a URL in a web browser, while mimoLive Reporter is free iOS software that works with mimoLive to give “roving reporters” a way to send video back to your studio.

Many of the fancier features of mimoLive are based on its ability to “stack” various sources: start with a live feed, then add a lower-third graphic or perhaps an animated news ticker. The graphic below shows a “news show” with an anchor live feed, an animated green screen backdrop, and an “infoboard background” with titles in the corners and a lower-thirds graphic.

eCamm Live

Next up as an OBS option is eCamm Live from eCamm Software. Like mimoLive, eCamm Live also comes with a 14-day free trial. There are two versions: Standard ($15/month or $120/year) and Pro ($25/month or $240/year). The difference between the two versions is that the Pro version offers a virtual webcam, 4K streaming, widget overlay support, live video monitoring to any display, auto Facebook page crossposting, real-time bandwidth statistics, and VIP tech support.

Of the OBS alternatives we’re looking at, eCamm Live seems to be the best for people who don’t want the complexity of a solution like OBS or mimoLive, and just want to have good looking streams with anywhere from one to six people participating in a discussion.

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eCamm seems to have put a lot of work into making sure that many popular DSLR and mirrorless digital cameras can be used as high-quality video sources, and it’s the only product to add support for Restream.io’s chat aggregation. The latter feature means that you can see and even display chat comments from up to 20 different social media platforms.

eCamm Live also records the video locally for posterity, editing, or redistribution to other sources, and is probably the most “Mac-like” of the OBS alternatives. My only concern is eCamm Live’s use of Skype for video connections — in my experience, Skype is about the least useful and most technically problematic of the video conferencing apps.

Wirecast

Really want to go pro? Telestream’s Wirecast is a solution that’s used by such big names as Fox Sports, the British Prime Minister’s office, and France Télévisions, as well as by some top vloggers. Available in both Studio ($599) and Pro ($799) versions, Wirecast is quite impressive in what it brings to the game.

Wirecast users can add an unlimited number of inputs and use a proprietary videoconferencing system called Wirecast Rendezvous to bring up to 7 remote guests (2 for Studio) into the broadcast. It handles up to 4K project resolution and can encode at 4K as well, features social media integration, and can provide users with custom transitions or video playlist capabilities.

I think one of the best features of Wirecast has to be its integrated Stock Media Library. Let’s say you’re doing a livestream and talking about farming. Want some stock footage of a farm harvest or wheat waving in the wind? You’ve got it — access to over 500,000 royalty-free images, videos, songs, lower thirds templates, and more. That access is dependent on a support contract ($299 annual cost) but is well worth the cost to livestream professionals.

Telestream also adds NewBlue Titler Live Express for creating your own animated titles and graphics, and the Pro version upgrades that software to Titler Live Pro.

Wirecast also supports unlimited output destinations and the ability to record the stream to multiple disks simultaneously. For the most efficient bandwidth usage, you’ll probably still want to use Restream.io or Telestream’s own Telestream Cloud service to send your stream to multiple services.

Having used a previous version of Wirecast, I know that it has a bit of a learning curve. Spending some time going through the huge number of video and PDF resources about Wirecast is a great idea if you want to learn how to use this tool.

We hope you have enjoyed this series on Open Broadcaster Software. If you are currently using OBS or another video production alternative to livestream a show, please let us know about it in the comments.

Related:
• Video Production with OBS: What It Is and Why You Should Use It
• OBS Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the App
• OBS Chapter 3: Sources and Scenes
• OBS Chapter 4: Recordings and Streams
• OBS Chapter 5: Hotkeys, More Sources, and Resources
• OBS Chapter 6: Open Broadcaster Software Limitations and Alternatives

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Welcome back to our continuing series on Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). If you missed the first three chapters in this online tutorial series about the free, open-source video production application, you can catch up by following these links:

• Video Production with OBS: What It Is and Why You Should Use It
• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS): Installing and Configuring
• OBS Chapter 3: Sources and Scenes

In this article, we’ll discuss how to use OBS to create recordings or livestreams — in other words, how to output your scenes so that others can view them.

Recordings

The first and easiest thing to do is take your OBS scenes and output them to a local recording. The recordings can be in a variety of file formats that can be uploaded to websites, YouTube, Facebook, and a host of other services. You might use OBS to create a fancy interview video or courseware, then use the recorded file for people to look at “after the fact.”

For this example, we’ll use the scenes and sources that were created in the previous article. For simplicity’s sake, there are only two scenes — a “pre-roll” splash screen and a live camera view with a lower-third title.

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Launch OBS, then click the Settings button under Controls in the lower right corner of the app window. When the setting window appears, click on the Output button in the left sidebar. You should see something similar to this:

You’ll notice that there are several warnings listed at the bottom of the screen. These indicate things that we should take care of prior to making our recording. The first notes that the streaming service I’m set up for (Facebook) has an upper streaming audio bitrate of 128, so I will change the Audio Bitrate to 128 bps, which will eliminate the warning.

The second warning says that “Recordings cannot be paused if the recording quality is set to ‘same as stream’”. We can change that to “High Quality, Medium File Size” if we want to be able to pause a recording for any reason while streaming at the same time, although this generates another warning about high CPU usage.

I’m going to select the mp4 recording format, although this also generates a new warning message. I’ve also changed the recording path to my Downloads folder for easier retrieval.

At this point, everything is set up for us to do a video recording. Since we want to do a professional-looking recording, we need to talk about transitions. Transitions are how we get between scenes. You’re familiar with them — any movie, TV show, or ad that you’ve ever watched has at least a couple of transitions.

Transitions come in two major types in OBS — cuts, and fades. A cut is a quick jump between scenes, what you’re used to seeing in most TV shows and movies, where the camera (source) shows one character in closeup, another in closeup, and then perhaps a medium shot with both characters in a location. The transition between those shots is a cut.

A fade is that gradual dissolve between one scene and another, taking perhaps a second to make the transition. There are a number of other transition types, but for now, we’ll just stop at cuts and fades.

It helps to think about how you want your show to look before you get started with your recording or livestream since you can pre-set all of the transitions between scenes. In this case, we’ll make the transitions quite simple — we’ll start the recording or stream with our pre-roll image scene, then fade to the live image with lower-thirds. When the recording is done, we’ll fade back to the pre-roll image, and then fade to black.

In real-life live video productions, things are a bit more hectic than this! There are often multiple cameras, image sources, image slideshows, and more, all of which are controlled in real-time by a director who is literally “calling the shots” — telling the rest of the production crew which camera scene is about to go live, then switching to that scene or doing a smooth fade transition. I do volunteer work for a group that does very high-quality live video production work, and it’s not surprising to see 5 – 10 transitions per minute!

Let’s get back to OBS. In order to see what is going to appear on the recording or livestream, we’ll click the Studio Mode button in the lower right corner. The screen displays two video windows — one marked Preview and the other Program (see image below). Preview is used to show the next scene, while Program displays our output, either to a recorded file or a livestream.

In between Preview and Program are the controls for Transitions. By default, three quick transitions are shown — Cut, Fade (300ms) and Fade to Black (300ms). It’s possible to click on the “down arrow” on any one of the transition buttons to change the type of quick transition or — in the cast of Fade and Fade to Black — change the duration from the 300 millisecond (.3 second) default.

To start our recording, begin by clicking on Preshow Roll in the Scenes pane. We see the static image in both the Preview and Program screens. To queue up the live video “Livestream” scene, we click on LiveStream in the Scenes pane and now see our live video with the lower-thirds title on the left in Preview, with our Preshow Roll static image on the right.

Now let’s click the Start Recording button in the lower right corner. The button turns into a blue “Stop Recording” button, and there is a pause button as well. At this point, the recording is showing nothing but our Preshow Roll — this is actually quite useful for live-streaming since we can get things going while letting viewers know that we’ll actually be live in a few minutes.

After a few seconds of our Preshow Roll image on the recording, let’s click the Fade (1000ms) Quick Transition button to gradually fade to our live video. We’ll record as long as necessary, with a counter on the bottom of the OBS window showing how long we’ve been recording, what our current CPU usage is, and the recording frame rate.

Finally, click the Fade (1000ms) button once more to go back to the Preshow Roll, then click Fade to Black (300ms) to go dark before ending the recording. Here’s the result of our test:

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Yeah, so that’s an unexciting little video, but it’s just to illustrate the concept of transitions…

What if you have multiple scenes or sources set up and want to switch smoothly between them? OBS has what is called “Multiview”, which shows the Preview and Program windows as well as up to 8 other scenes. When Multiview is in Fullscreen mode, you see just those windows and none of the controls. That’s where it can be useful to set up Hotkeys — shortcut keys that make it easy to switch quickly between scenes without using the mouse. We’ll discuss them in more detail in the next chapter of this series.

Streams

You already know the basics of setting up sources, scenes, and transitions, as well as how to record video to a file. Setting up a stream is fast and easy.

For this example, I’ll assume that we want to send our video to a Facebook page — for a company, group or website. Just below the banner for a Facebook page is a Create pane with buttons for Live, Event, Offer, and Job (see image below). Click Live.

The Live page is initially set to Stream Setup. This is where we can set up a number of characteristics for the stream on Facebook, including a Title (show name, for example), a comment about the stream (today’s guests are…), and so on. The important detail for OBS is getting a stream key and Server URL from Facebook so your video stream goes to the proper Facebook page.

Next to Get Started, click the Use Stream Key button (see image below). Next — if you’re going to be doing live-streaming regularly — click Use a Persistent Stream Key under Setup Options. This ensures that you do not have to change the streaming settings in OBS every time you stream.

In OBS, click the Settings button and then click Stream. Select Facebook Live from the list of live-stream hosts, then copy the Facebook Stream Key and paste it into the Stream Key field before saving the setting by clicking OK.

At this point, make sure you’re ready in OBS, then click Start Streaming. At the bottom of the OBS screen, you’ll see that it shows “Live” and the time that you’ve been streaming, as well as the number of dropped frames — an indicator of stream quality.

Want to make sure that things are working properly? Go into Facebook and look at the Live page now. Scroll the window to the top to see a full-sized display of your stream, or you can look at a thumbnail of the stream if you’re looking at settings.

There is a noticeable lag between what is being sent to Facebook from OBS and when it actually appears on OBS. This is normal, and it can be confusing if you’re live-chatting with viewers who are “behind” what you’re currently saying onscreen!

Setup for YouTube, Twitter, and other social media sites is similar, or you can send your livestream to a number of destinations at one time with Restream. For example, if I wanted to stream to Facebook, YouTube and Periscope (Twitter) simultaneously, I can add those channels to Restream.

Restream then provides a server URL and stream key, similar to what Facebook provides. Placing that information into the proper fields under OBS Stream settings for Restream.io (RTMP) allows me to send my stream to all three sites at the same time (see image below).

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What’s Next?

In the next installment of this series, we’ll discuss Hotkeys and how to set them up to speed transitions between scenes, talk about additional sources for OBS, and have a short discussion of filters.

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• Video Production with OBS: What It Is and Why You Should Use It
• OBS Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the App

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• OBS Chapter 3: Sources and Scenes
• OBS Chapter 4: Recordings and Streams
• OBS Chapter 5: Hotkeys, More Sources, and Resources

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• OBS Chapter 6: Open Broadcaster Software Limitations and Alternatives

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