**New Features and Changes in OBS Studio**

OBS Studio has recently released new features and changes that are sure to excite users. Among these, one of the most notable additions is the ability to start and stop streaming from change scenes, adjust sources, and perform various other functions. This new functionality allows for a wide range of possibilities, including the use of additional plugins and stream bots to manipulate OBS in even more creative ways. The developers have taken a cautious approach by disabling this feature by default, allowing users to choose their level of control over these advanced settings.

The ability to draw safe areas over your stream is another exciting new feature that will benefit accessibility-focused streamers. This allows for the creation of bars or indicators that show where certain elements, such as the lower third preview in YouTube, will be positioned, ensuring that graphics are placed correctly on all platforms. This feature was previously only available in multiview mode but has now been extended to normal mode, making it more accessible to a wider range of users.

**Fixes and Bug Repairs**

In addition to new features, the OBS team has also addressed several issues and bugs reported by users. Auto-remux is now working with replay buffer clips, which was previously a point of frustration for some users. The developers have also made changes to media sources to reduce CPU overhead and improve performance, as these can be significant contributors to frame rate issues.

Furthermore, the missing files dialog box has been improved with several key changes. The new feature allows for stinger transitions to be handled more effectively, including the ability to manually search for files and disable the dialogue from appearing on startup. Hidden or invisible sources in the sources list now have dimmer text, making it easier to distinguish between visible and hidden sources.

Other bug fixes and improvements include:

* Animated GIF sources now animate in preview mode when using studio mode.

* Drag-and-drop support has been restored for Linux users.

* The AMD Video Encoder has been fixed to work properly with the dynamic bit rate option.

* The OBS settings video, which addressed several user complaints, now includes a more comprehensive fix for this issue.

**Conclusion**

The latest release of OBS Studio marks an exciting milestone in the software's development. With new features and bug fixes addressing user concerns, it's clear that the developers are committed to creating a robust and reliable tool for content creators. While some features may require additional development or testing, the overall update promises significant improvements and opportunities for creative expression.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyoutube chat integration control your stream on youtube from obs fancy stinger transitions that can use hardware accelerated decode the mad labs have done it obs version 27.1 is in its release candidate form which is the first testing phase or beta of the latest update obs studio which brings a few new features quite a laundry list of bug fixes and of course the big one being that youtube integration that the youtube devs themselves have helped with we're going to be covering everything you need to know in this episode of stream guides i'm eposvox the stream professor hit the subscribe and notification button so you can stay informed about your stream you know the shield let's jump in we're gonna cover new features first and then some fixes that you should know about when it comes to obs studio as well in this update obviously the big huge one is that there's finally a youtube integration if you're unaware last year or the year before they started adding integration support to be able to sign into your twitch account or other account mixer at the time to then automatically get docs in obs for your stream chat for controlling your stream things like that but youtube was just never included and managing your youtube chat in a custom browser dock in obs studio was always a hassle because you had to refresh it every stream sometimes it was just a whole mess and a whole ordeal and the youtube devs have pitched in helped the obs team develop a really awesome youtube integration which means you can connect to your account with no stream key copy pasting you can automatically schedule live streams update the title the description the privacy settings and more you get chat docs for public and unlisted streams unfortunately you cannot chat in these chat docs yet it's only read-only but they're working on that and a couple other features it's pretty cool you just go to settings stream sign in with your account and then you will get the docs and the controls and this is really awesome for those who are on youtube streams myself who runs my weekly youtube streaming show which there should be a streamer news tomorrow the day after uploading this by the way so go check that out i will be managing this from this update from now on because this will save me a ton of time and hassle i wanted to clarify detail about the youtube workflow that may be a little bit confusing for some people so when you link your youtube account you are automatically given after you hit apply a chat doc which doesn't work until you start streaming of course which is fine but then there's no indication of what you're supposed to do and i'm currently advocating in the obs discord to change this and make it more intuitive accessible indicative of what you're supposed to what the workflow is but in order to actually schedule your streams or start streaming or whatever you actually hit the start streaming button there's no extra dock that brings up the stream scheduler you hit start streaming and this pulls up this whole dialog to either make a new stream event in which case you can schedule it or do it immediately or select a previous event that you've already made over on youtube so this is pretty cool i do wish there was a better indication that this existed before you hit start streaming because typically you don't want to hit that until you're ready uh and there's no custom thumbnail support currently but i just wanted to provide the tutorial part here because i quickly ran into some confusion with this next up they also updated the multi-view mode which allows you to basically dedicate a monitor to scene all of your different scenes at once so you can easily choose between them how a lot of broadcast mixers and the like works you now get in 18 view mode for the multi-view which is really cool and powerful they've also updated the stinger transition feature to give you a mask only mode so stinger transitions are a form of transition where a graphic comes onto the screen typically fills the whole screen to hide the cut point of a transition and then goes away that was added quite a while ago and then in a recent update they added stinger transitions with mask support which means you could have a stinger side by side with a black to white transition that kind of matches the stinger to then fade the sources between each other and have different cutouts and things like that instead of just being the graphic over top and a hard cut well now you can just have the mask support so this is basically luma mat transitions but you get to use your own custom ones and this is really powerful and the cool thing here is the wipe only or mask only mode for this transition does not require alpha which means if you're if you haven't seen my videos about media formats check those out uh for stinger transitions and stuff typically stingers because they require transparency and alpha channel there's no format in obs that supports alpha transparency and hardware accelerated decoding which means your cpu is hit pretty hard whenever you're using stinger transitions which is a big point of lag and frame rate drops for a lot of people mask only stinger transitions while you don't get the graphic coming on stream you can still get cool effects as the scenes transform into each other you don't need alpha for that because it's just black and white layers which means you get hardware accelerated decoding which means cpu performance is not impacted pretty much at all and those of you on older you know like 4th gen i7s and stuff will have a much easier time here which is freaking awesome i have a couple demos that i've been showing on screen here and previously by the way if you haven't checked it out over on my discord server i regularly release free resources and things like that for streamers and content creators to make better content i just a week ago released a whole big pack of like 10 or so different stinger and track mac transitions that are in the glitch or analog vhs style and was really happy with those but they did require that alpha transparency i'm going to so go check those out if you haven't seen them already but i will be releasing some that are just the mask only mode which don't require alpha transparency and still get you some cool glitch effects and i am super stoked for that so head over to discord gg eposvox if you want to learn more about that next up you can now control obs more with a browser source previously this was locked down so that browser sources could not control obs for obvious security security reasons but now they have an opt-in with granular control tiers drop-down menu in the browser source to control what level a browser source have has access to obs studio which means browser sources can now start and stop streaming change scenes adjust sources do all sorts of stuff which will allow the world of additional plugins and stream bots and things like that to really manipulate obs to get even more wild and i am pretty stoked for that and i'm glad that they have it disabled by default and then you choose the level of control that you want to give it i'll probably have more videos coming soon on this because that's a really advanced topic and we gotta wait for some tools to be developed for it for it as well lastly in the new features section you can now draw safe areas over your stream which means you can put you know bars that indicate where say the lower the little player preview in youtube is going to be or things like that to make sure your graphics are in the right places most streamers probably aren't going to care about that but those are who are trying to make sure everything is accessibility focused and you know able to be seen on all players and things like that will benefit from this this was something previously only available in multiview and is now available in the normal mode this is all right let's talk about fixes because there's some important stuff here especially given some complaints that you all have had in my previous like obs settings videos and things like that first and foremost auto remux now works with replay buffer clips it was really annoying that it didn't before does now media sources themselves got a fix so that they should use less cpu or require less cpu overhead sometimes which is really nice to see because that's i think media sources and i made a whole video about this at one point but media sources are one of the like silent killers of your stream performance because they can do a lot of funky stuff to your frame times and things like that that you may not always notice so anything that reduces the performance hit that they have is always a win next up are some changes to the missing files dialog box that they had just recently added it now works for stinger transitions which is great because especially because i keep accidentally moving my stinger transitions there's now a menu out option to actually pull up this dialog because previously it just opened whenever you launched obs you can now go to the scene collection menu and pull up this dialogue so you can manually hunt for files and you can now disable that dialogue from ever popping up with a startup flag which i don't currently have yet but i have asked in the obs discord so hopefully someone will tell me it is dash dash disable dash missing dash files dash check which i will have on screen i literally just got the answer as i'm recording this now for a visibility and usability update hidden or invisible sources in your sources list will now have dimmer text so you can more easily immediately know which sources are actually visible on stream and which are not which is great gif sources gif image sources now animate in the preview mode when you're in studio mode previously they would just show one frame or not at all now they actually animate in studio mode which is great drag and drop support is back on linux awesome game capture source has gotten some fixes so that it doesn't keep having to re-hook as off which should help performance and render frame times and things like that and then lastly a big one which a lot of you complained about in my seven obs settings video that you need to know about is the dynamic bit rate option which allows the bit rate of your stream to automatically kind of adjust if suddenly your network gets congested and you can't stream the full bit rate you were streaming this didn't really work on hardware encoders uh you know invinc or quick sync or what have you this for whatever reason was broken and just would totally freak out it is now fixed so now if you're using invinc or quick sync or amd's video encoder you can now enable dynamic bitrate and it should be fine obviously again this whole thing is a release client it is a release candidate you'll always want to correct me on that it's a release candidate it is effectively a beta you're here to test it it may not work fully yet but by time the full update comes out it will and i just wanted to let you all know about all the features because i am stoked the youtube integration is awesome and the transition possibilities here i was actually pretty frustrated that i couldn't use custom luma transitions before this is great so download links will be in the description below as always as will be the link to our merch if you want some really awesome desk mats or pins or stickers in our classic stream professor vhs style i highly recommend you go to episode gg merch you also get a free trial to nebula my own video streaming service where you get early access to videos they're ad free higher quality and all of that hit the like button subscribe and join us on discord discord gg slash evilsbox remember be kind rewindyoutube chat integration control your stream on youtube from obs fancy stinger transitions that can use hardware accelerated decode the mad labs have done it obs version 27.1 is in its release candidate form which is the first testing phase or beta of the latest update obs studio which brings a few new features quite a laundry list of bug fixes and of course the big one being that youtube integration that the youtube devs themselves have helped with we're going to be covering everything you need to know in this episode of stream guides i'm eposvox the stream professor hit the subscribe and notification button so you can stay informed about your stream you know the shield let's jump in we're gonna cover new features first and then some fixes that you should know about when it comes to obs studio as well in this update obviously the big huge one is that there's finally a youtube integration if you're unaware last year or the year before they started adding integration support to be able to sign into your twitch account or other account mixer at the time to then automatically get docs in obs for your stream chat for controlling your stream things like that but youtube was just never included and managing your youtube chat in a custom browser dock in obs studio was always a hassle because you had to refresh it every stream sometimes it was just a whole mess and a whole ordeal and the youtube devs have pitched in helped the obs team develop a really awesome youtube integration which means you can connect to your account with no stream key copy pasting you can automatically schedule live streams update the title the description the privacy settings and more you get chat docs for public and unlisted streams unfortunately you cannot chat in these chat docs yet it's only read-only but they're working on that and a couple other features it's pretty cool you just go to settings stream sign in with your account and then you will get the docs and the controls and this is really awesome for those who are on youtube streams myself who runs my weekly youtube streaming show which there should be a streamer news tomorrow the day after uploading this by the way so go check that out i will be managing this from this update from now on because this will save me a ton of time and hassle i wanted to clarify detail about the youtube workflow that may be a little bit confusing for some people so when you link your youtube account you are automatically given after you hit apply a chat doc which doesn't work until you start streaming of course which is fine but then there's no indication of what you're supposed to do and i'm currently advocating in the obs discord to change this and make it more intuitive accessible indicative of what you're supposed to what the workflow is but in order to actually schedule your streams or start streaming or whatever you actually hit the start streaming button there's no extra dock that brings up the stream scheduler you hit start streaming and this pulls up this whole dialog to either make a new stream event in which case you can schedule it or do it immediately or select a previous event that you've already made over on youtube so this is pretty cool i do wish there was a better indication that this existed before you hit start streaming because typically you don't want to hit that until you're ready uh and there's no custom thumbnail support currently but i just wanted to provide the tutorial part here because i quickly ran into some confusion with this next up they also updated the multi-view mode which allows you to basically dedicate a monitor to scene all of your different scenes at once so you can easily choose between them how a lot of broadcast mixers and the like works you now get in 18 view mode for the multi-view which is really cool and powerful they've also updated the stinger transition feature to give you a mask only mode so stinger transitions are a form of transition where a graphic comes onto the screen typically fills the whole screen to hide the cut point of a transition and then goes away that was added quite a while ago and then in a recent update they added stinger transitions with mask support which means you could have a stinger side by side with a black to white transition that kind of matches the stinger to then fade the sources between each other and have different cutouts and things like that instead of just being the graphic over top and a hard cut well now you can just have the mask support so this is basically luma mat transitions but you get to use your own custom ones and this is really powerful and the cool thing here is the wipe only or mask only mode for this transition does not require alpha which means if you're if you haven't seen my videos about media formats check those out uh for stinger transitions and stuff typically stingers because they require transparency and alpha channel there's no format in obs that supports alpha transparency and hardware accelerated decoding which means your cpu is hit pretty hard whenever you're using stinger transitions which is a big point of lag and frame rate drops for a lot of people mask only stinger transitions while you don't get the graphic coming on stream you can still get cool effects as the scenes transform into each other you don't need alpha for that because it's just black and white layers which means you get hardware accelerated decoding which means cpu performance is not impacted pretty much at all and those of you on older you know like 4th gen i7s and stuff will have a much easier time here which is freaking awesome i have a couple demos that i've been showing on screen here and previously by the way if you haven't checked it out over on my discord server i regularly release free resources and things like that for streamers and content creators to make better content i just a week ago released a whole big pack of like 10 or so different stinger and track mac transitions that are in the glitch or analog vhs style and was really happy with those but they did require that alpha transparency i'm going to so go check those out if you haven't seen them already but i will be releasing some that are just the mask only mode which don't require alpha transparency and still get you some cool glitch effects and i am super stoked for that so head over to discord gg eposvox if you want to learn more about that next up you can now control obs more with a browser source previously this was locked down so that browser sources could not control obs for obvious security security reasons but now they have an opt-in with granular control tiers drop-down menu in the browser source to control what level a browser source have has access to obs studio which means browser sources can now start and stop streaming change scenes adjust sources do all sorts of stuff which will allow the world of additional plugins and stream bots and things like that to really manipulate obs to get even more wild and i am pretty stoked for that and i'm glad that they have it disabled by default and then you choose the level of control that you want to give it i'll probably have more videos coming soon on this because that's a really advanced topic and we gotta wait for some tools to be developed for it for it as well lastly in the new features section you can now draw safe areas over your stream which means you can put you know bars that indicate where say the lower the little player preview in youtube is going to be or things like that to make sure your graphics are in the right places most streamers probably aren't going to care about that but those are who are trying to make sure everything is accessibility focused and you know able to be seen on all players and things like that will benefit from this this was something previously only available in multiview and is now available in the normal mode this is all right let's talk about fixes because there's some important stuff here especially given some complaints that you all have had in my previous like obs settings videos and things like that first and foremost auto remux now works with replay buffer clips it was really annoying that it didn't before does now media sources themselves got a fix so that they should use less cpu or require less cpu overhead sometimes which is really nice to see because that's i think media sources and i made a whole video about this at one point but media sources are one of the like silent killers of your stream performance because they can do a lot of funky stuff to your frame times and things like that that you may not always notice so anything that reduces the performance hit that they have is always a win next up are some changes to the missing files dialog box that they had just recently added it now works for stinger transitions which is great because especially because i keep accidentally moving my stinger transitions there's now a menu out option to actually pull up this dialog because previously it just opened whenever you launched obs you can now go to the scene collection menu and pull up this dialogue so you can manually hunt for files and you can now disable that dialogue from ever popping up with a startup flag which i don't currently have yet but i have asked in the obs discord so hopefully someone will tell me it is dash dash disable dash missing dash files dash check which i will have on screen i literally just got the answer as i'm recording this now for a visibility and usability update hidden or invisible sources in your sources list will now have dimmer text so you can more easily immediately know which sources are actually visible on stream and which are not which is great gif sources gif image sources now animate in the preview mode when you're in studio mode previously they would just show one frame or not at all now they actually animate in studio mode which is great drag and drop support is back on linux awesome game capture source has gotten some fixes so that it doesn't keep having to re-hook as off which should help performance and render frame times and things like that and then lastly a big one which a lot of you complained about in my seven obs settings video that you need to know about is the dynamic bit rate option which allows the bit rate of your stream to automatically kind of adjust if suddenly your network gets congested and you can't stream the full bit rate you were streaming this didn't really work on hardware encoders uh you know invinc or quick sync or what have you this for whatever reason was broken and just would totally freak out it is now fixed so now if you're using invinc or quick sync or amd's video encoder you can now enable dynamic bitrate and it should be fine obviously again this whole thing is a release client it is a release candidate you'll always want to correct me on that it's a release candidate it is effectively a beta you're here to test it it may not work fully yet but by time the full update comes out it will and i just wanted to let you all know about all the features because i am stoked the youtube integration is awesome and the transition possibilities here i was actually pretty frustrated that i couldn't use custom luma transitions before this is great so download links will be in the description below as always as will be the link to our merch if you want some really awesome desk mats or pins or stickers in our classic stream professor vhs style i highly recommend you go to episode gg merch you also get a free trial to nebula my own video streaming service where you get early access to videos they're ad free higher quality and all of that hit the like button subscribe and join us on discord discord gg slash evilsbox remember be kind rewind\n"