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OBS Studio

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.

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Features

High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Create scenes made up of multiple sources including window captures, images, text, browser windows, webcams, capture cards and more.

Set up an unlimited number of scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.

Intuitive audio mixer with per-source filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin support.

Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.

Streamlined Settings panel gives you access to a wide array of configuration options to tweak every aspect of your broadcast or recording.

Modular ‘Dock’ UI allows you to rearrange the layout exactly as you like. You can even pop out each individual Dock to its own window.

OBS supports all your favorite streaming platforms and more.

Create Professional Productions

Choose from a number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between your scenes or add your own stinger video files.

Set hotkeys for nearly every sort of action, such as switching between scenes, starting/stopping streams or recordings, muting audio sources, push to talk, and more.

Studio Mode lets you preview your scenes and sources before pushing them live. Adjust your scenes and sources or create new ones and ensure they’re perfect before your viewers ever see them.

Get a high level view of your production using the Multiview. Monitor 8 different scenes and easily cue or transition to any of them with merely a single or double click.

Collaborative Creativity

OBS Studio is equipped with a powerful API, enabling plugins and scripts to provide further customization and functionality specific to your needs.

Utilize native plugins for high performance integrations or scripts written with Lua or Python that interface with existing sources.

Work with developers in the streaming community to get the features you need with endless possibilities.

Browse or submit your own in the Resources section

How to Use StreamElements OBS.Live Plug-In

As a streamer, your stream management is everything. Not only is it where you place your stream controller for easy clicking, but even as simple as where your chat and activity feed windows are on your screen. You need to make sure that you have a space for OBS, your chat window, your activity feed, the game you are playing. Yeah, it can be a lot.

All of these pieces play a critical role in providing an interactive stream to your audience. But with so many windows open, it can get overwhelming on where to place all of them so it isn’t a cluttered mess. What if I told you that you there is a plug-in that cleans up everything AND lives right in OBS?

Enter OBS.Live from StreamElements.

What is OBS.Live?

OBS.Live is a free OBS Studio plug-in that provides a suite of amazing features to make stream management a breeze. The biggest benefit of OBS.Live is that it integrates with Twitch, YouTube, or Facebook Gaming chat right into OBS. It has no delays and operates exactly like a pop out window would from your browser. Your chat, activity feed, and stream controls all seamlessly integrate right into OBS’ console so you only need one window to run everything!

If you use StreamElements for your overlays, you can also replay, skip and mute alerts at the push of a button. It gives you more control over when your alerts go off. This is perfect for when you don’t want to be interrupted while talking or when you are at a part in a game that you don’t want alerts to go off.

StreamElements also made sure that the plug-in works with any system. It is optimized for OBS so it has very little CPU usage overall. This is a huge benefit because multiple tabs in Chrome can drag a good system down with excess CPU and memory usage.

How do you use OBS.Live?

Getting started with OBS.Live is super easy!

Once installed and opened, you’ll see that OBS now has the Activity Feed and Chat as an OBS Dock!

If you navigate to the top, there is also a “StreamElements” tab now that allows you to adjust settings. You now have quick access to your overlays, bot settings, tipping page, cloud backups and more. It’s that simple! When you go live next, the Activity Feed and Chat will begin populating and you are ready to go!

OBS.Live Tips and Tricks

OBS.Live is very simple in concept, but it has a lot of cool hidden features and things that make it even more powerful. We put together some quick tips and tricks to expand OBS.Live’s functionality tenfold!

StreamElements continually adds awesome tools like OBS.Live that make streaming better. Adding OBS.Live into OBS Studio adds a ton of functionality to OBS, but also helps declutter your screens and make it easier to engage with your audience. OBS.Live also has a lot of other cool features like custom bot names and Stream Deck Actions to make it even more powerful. Stay tuned for more about OBS.Live!

If there are other tools that you use as a creator, make sure to let us know down below! We might add it as a new tool in our next post!

Thank you for reading, keep on creating, and GLHF!

Настройка OBS для стрима на Twitch

Шаг 1: Загрузка OBS

У большинства пользователей, читающих эту инструкцию, уже есть установленная копия OBS на компьютере. В таком случае мы советуем удалить все ненужные сцены и источники, чтобы заняться чистой настройкой для стриминга на Twitch. Кто еще не загрузил программу, может перейти по ссылке ниже и сделать это.

Скачать OBS

Шаг 2: Загрузка StreamElements

StreamElements — вспомогательное программное обеспечение, позволяющее добавить в OBS огромное количество виджетов, упрощающих стриминг и мониторинг текущей трансляции. Можно обойтись и без него, но это очень удобное решение, имеющее массу преимуществ и различных инструментов, по умолчанию отсутствующих в OBS. Мы будем использовать StreamElements для вывода чата, активности на канале и упрощения настройки трансляции перед запуском.

Если OBS находится в запущенном состоянии, закройте ее и откройте повторно. Н не удивляйтесь, что внешний вид немного изменился — это вызвано добавлением элементов StreamElements, с чем мы далее и разберемся.

Шаг 3: Основная настройка StreamElements

Сейчас время разобраться с основными параметрами добавленного только что StreamElements, поскольку после инсталляции программы внешний вид и функциональность OBS претерпели небольшие изменения.

Шаг 4: Подключение Twitch для стриминга

Если вы ранее уже хотели организовать свой стрим или смотрели уроки по этой процедуре, наверняка знаете о том, что для подключения аккаунта в OBS приходилось открывать настройки, получать ключ трансляции, привязывать его и выполнять еще несколько других действий. С установкой StreamElements все становится проще, поскольку аккаунт уже подключен, и остается только выбрать тип вещания в параметрах самой программы.

Шаг 5: Основные настройки трансляции

Поговорим об основных свойствах трансляции, относящихся к параметрам OBS. Сюда относятся: качество вывода, битрейт, используемый кодировщик и многое другое. Рассмотрим оптимальные значения с поправкой на разные сборки компьютеров и требования пользователей.

Видео

Разделим этот этап на три части, в каждой из которых поговорим о важных параметрах трансляции. Первое меню отвечает за видео, то есть картинку, выводящуюся пользователям, просматривающим поток.

Вывод

Параметры вывода отвечают за используемый кодировщик, общий битрейт и предустановки для самого кодировщика. Это наиболее важный момент, от которого зависит качество трансляции и нагрузка на железо. Расскажем об этом конфигурировании в общих чертах и оставим ссылки на вспомогательные материалы, которые пригодятся при выборе значений.

Как и обещали, оставляем вспомогательные ссылки с профилями настройки трансляции для Twitch и YouTube. Первый использовать приоритетно, но если вы производите два одновременных вывода, полезно заглянуть и в материал от разработчиков видеохостинга, подобрав оптимальные параметры.

Что касается переключения на видеокодеры и изменения других параметров при возникновении проблем с перегрузкой, советуем обратить внимание на руководство от нашего автора, где рассказывается о вариантах снижения общей нагрузки на железо.

Аудио

С выводом изображения разобрались, осталось только наладить аудио, ведь вещание должно захватывать как минимум звук с рабочего стола и микрофон.

Шаг 6: Добавление последних донатов

При настройке StreamElements мы продемонстрировали добавление вспомогательных панелей с чатом и активностью, но, к сожалению, эта программа пока не позволяет показывать последние донаты, поэтому стримеры часто открывают их в окне браузера напрямую через DonationAlerts. Это не всегда удобно — особенно когда можно вывести последние донаты как отдельную панель в OBS с автоматическим обновлением, что производится так:

На нашем сайте есть статья о добавлении донатов для стрима на YouTube через OBS. В ней мы показываем, как вывести оповещения о пожертвованиях прямо в трансляцию в режиме реального времени. Эта инструкция актуальна и для Twitch, поэтому можете ознакомиться с ней и добавить соответствующий источник при настройке сцены.

Шаг 7: Настройка сцен

Настройка сцены подразумевает добавление всех элементов, видимых для зрителей стрима (есть исключения в плане некоторых источников, но в большинстве случаев их добавление не нужно). Рассмотрим пример создания стандартной сцены для стриминга игры с выводом веб-камеры, а вы оптимизируйте ее для своих целей, организовав кадр так, как это необходимо.

С остальными источниками, поддерживающимися в OBS, дела обстоят аналогичным образом. Выше мы уже говорили о добавлении оповещений о донатах — оно тоже выводится как источник. Вам следует выбрать тип «Браузер» и вставить ссылку, которая размещена на сайте DonationAlerts в разделе о донатах. Впрочем, это все вы узнаете из упомянутой статьи о настройке доната на YouTube.

Шаг 8: Вывод чата на стрим

Разберем еще один важный процесс, позволяющий вывести чат прямо на стрим. Это позволит зрителям, не читающим чат на сайте, быть в курсе последних сообщений. Такой же подход полезен, когда стрим ретранслируется еще и на другие площадки и зрители попросту не могут зайти на Твич для чтения чата. Добавление источника происходит при помощи специального сайта.

Существуют и другие методы вывода чата на стрим при помощи специальных сайтов и отдельных программ — информацию об этом вы без труда найдете в интернете. Мы же привели в качестве примера самый популярный и удобный веб-сервис, который отлично справляется со своей задачей и подходит для рестримов.

Шаг 9: Первый запуск трансляции

Все настройки выполнены, а это значит, что пришло время запустить пробную трансляцию и удостовериться, все ли хорошо работает или нужно изменить конкретные параметры. Останется осуществить всего три два простых шага, после чего открыть стрим и проверить вывод изображения.

Отметим, что почти все действия, описанные выше, являются только основными примерами правильной настройки трансляции на Твич. Можете не загружать StreamElements, а вручную изменить каждый параметр при помощи встроенной в OBS функциональности. Нет ограничений и в плане источников — если не хотите, не выводите пожертвования или не добавляйте чат. Все зависит только от ваших желаний и видения того, как должен выглядеть стрим.

Last updated on February 18, 2020

Have you noticed that your favorite big-name Twitch streamer has upgraded their alerts recently? Do they seem less worried about scummy chargeback donations? If you haven’t noticed these trends among your followed channels, you soon will. Why? Because there’s a new streaming software called OBS.Live that’s blazing its way through the Twitch community. And while streaming software comes and goes, OBS.Live is burning through the competition and doing so in style.

It raises an eyebrow to think a streaming software can enter the game so much later than the competition and still turn heads so quickly. There’s got to be a reason for OBS.Live’s early success, right? There most definitely is. Let me show you what OBS.Live brings to the table and why a rising Twitch streamer should seriously consider adding this software to their setup.

Video Guide

As with all of our guides, below I have included a full video tutorial if that is your preferred method of learning.

Thanks to StreamElements, OBS.Live could make many other OBS add-ons a thing of the past.

What is OBS.Live?

OBS.Live is a robust, customizable add-on that integrates directly with OBS to provide a Twitch streamer with a seamless streaming experience that can’t be matched. This extension will turn OBS into an all-in-one stop where you can view your Twitch chat and an activity feed without ever having to open another window.

But ease of access is just the beginning of what OBS.Live has on tap. Through a browser-based dashboard, you’ll have access to a whole suite of features including a free overlay library, a modular chat bot, and the most secure tipping module to date. Thanks to StreamElements, OBS.Live could make many other OBS add-ons a thing of the past. If I’ve got your attention so far, keep reading and we’ll go through how you can have access to all these features (and more) by your next stream session.

Running OBS.Live

Follow this link to the StreamElements website and you’ll see the download button for the newest version of OBS.Live.

Once the installer is finished downloading, boot it up and move through the basic steps. There will be a point when the installer will ask you if you’d like to download OBS Studio, but most of you should already have OBS. If not, make sure that box is checked.

Current OBS users, listen up: OBS.Live is a plugin that adds to OBS, not overwrites. I’m sure a lot of you already have great looking scenes that took time to build. Rest easy, none of your work in OBS will be overwritten by installing OBS.Live!

Open up OBS, either through allowing the installer to do so or as you normally would and notice that things are already a little more…colorful in OBS.Live. OBS.Live isn’t just innovative and feature-rich, it’s also pretty to look at.

You’ll notice that the OBS preview window is now a portal into OBS.Live’s integration. You’ll need to use the “Connect With Twitch” button to continue the integration process.

NOTE: For some of you, this step may already be done. If you’re seeing a little robot (who may or may not be asleep on the job) in the bottom-left corner of your preview window, then OBS.Live already connected to your Twitch account.

The next thing you’ll see is a prompt to connect the StreamElements Chat Bot to your Twitch account. There is a button to “Connect”, and feel free to do so at this time if you’d like, but right now I’m going to “Skip” and return to this bot in just a few.

The next step will be very similar, this time asking you to connect a Paypal account for future tips (oh, boy, there’s some other cool stuff going on here too) but I’m also going to “Skip” this for now.

Whether you’ve connected these two modules or skipped past them shouldn’t matter; the next thing you should see is your OBS preview window as you would usually see it, along with some new additions on either side.

To the right of your OBS preview window, you’ll now see a Twitch chat window. No, not just any chat window, your Twitch chat window.

To the left of the preview window, there’s now an activity feed that will populate with any new information regarding your stream. This includes new followers, hosts, and more. If ever you’d like to remove certain types of activity from showing up in this feed, the “Filter” drop-down on the left-side of the feed will allow you to pick and choose what you’re notified about. In the bottom-right of this feed, there’s even a viewer counter.

It should be noted that you can also move these new windows around to better suit your tastes. Grab either the “Activity Feed” or the “Chat” by their title bars and drag them to wherever you’d like!

StreamElements Dashboard

As I said earlier, bringing Twitch chat and an activity feed into OBS is just one of the many things this add-on is capable of. There’s still so much to show. And since I’m a sucker for vanity, we’re going to look at OBS.Live themes next.

Everything that follows is done through StreamElements browser-based dashboard. Head to the StreamElements website and login through the top-right tab. (You’ll be using your Twitch credentials to login.)

If you’ve already made the decision about taking your stream to the professional level (and you’re serious) but you’re still not seeing the growth you would hope, check out our guide to why you aren’t growing on Twitch.

StreamElements Themes and Customization

On the left-hand side of the screen, you’ll see an options menu that’s so stock-full, it might as well be a buffet line somewhere on the Vegas strip.

Near the top, you’ll see “Themes Gallery”. Click it.

Subscribers will know, I’ve done in-depth guides on how to find and implement a perfect overlay onto your stream in the past. Sometimes this process can be a lengthy one, but it’s always worth it in the end. The team at StreamElements must also love overlays, but it seems they didn’t care much for the time it took to make it happen… because they made that problem disappear.

The “Themes Gallery” is a library of high-quality overlays that are ready to be placed into your stream through OBS.Live with only a few simple clicks. You can browse a list of over one-hundred totally free overlays and find dozens of themes that are based around some of today’s most popular games like Fortnite and Rocket League.

The themes included in the “Super Themes” category come with 5 individual, similarly-themed overlays, each used for different aspects of your stream (“Stream Starting Soon”, “Stream Ended”, etc.). And it doesn’t cost a dime.

To show just how easy it is to go from browsing a theme to using it on your stream, click on one of the themes that catches your eye. Use the “Create My Overlay” button and name the overlay however you’d like.

A series of 5 unique links will appear, each representing 1 of the 5 overlays that are included within the theme. Copy the top-most of these links (usually “In Game”) and leave the browser window open so we can grab the rest in a moment.

Heading back into OBS.Live and into your Game Scene, add an additional Source (+ Icon) and make it a “Browser” Source. Name this Source in a way that corresponds with the type of overlay you’re adding. Since the top-most overlay link was for when you’re in-game, name the source “Game Overlay” or something along those lines.

In the window that appears, paste the link you’ve copied into the “URL” field and also make sure to set the “Width” and “Height” fields so they correspond with the resolution of your OBS canvas (if unsure, set it to 1920×1080). Hit OK and reposition the overlay to perfectly frame your beautiful face. That’s all she wrote.

This process will need to be repeated for all the remaining links of the overlay, but for those of you who haven’t manually implemented an overlay in the past, just know that StreamElements has stream lined the hell out of this process. It’s something they should be commended for, truly.

Although, it’s not entirely true that you’re ready to stream. Most of the overlays included in the various themes have placeholders for your social media profiles but of course, StreamElements isn’t going to know what those are.

Back into the StreamElements Dashboard, you’ll find the “My Overlays” tab underneath “Themes Gallery”. Here, you’ll have access to every theme that you’ve used so far. They’re organized by thumbnail, giving you a good idea of which ones may need a custom touch given to their killer design. Sometimes it may be all of them!

Using the Pencil icon found on each thumbnail, you’ll be able to customize each of the overlays to include the information that’s relevant to your streaming presence. Of course, this isn’t limited to adding your social media information; you’ve got full control over the looks of these overlays. Remove graphics, add more, whatever you want to do. This is one of those “didn’t know I needed it until it existed” sort of things. Make sure you’re taking advantage of this.

Alerts

These Super Themes are the gift that keep on giving. As we now know, the activity feed on the left-hand side of our OBS preview window (unless you moved it!) will now notify you of any new activity on your stream. Anybody who’s watched a Twitch stream knows that this information isn’t just for your eyes only.

Let the people know, I say! And the Super Themes agree! Each Super Theme is equipped with theme-fitting alerts that will appear on-stream each time you gain a new follower, a host, or a subscriber (plus more!).

To clarify, if you’ve added a Super Theme to your stream, you don’t have to do any work to get these alerts working. In the words of Anakin, “It’s working!”

Just like the overlays themselves, these alerts can be customized through the Pencil icon on the overlays that the alerts are attached to. Within the overlay editor, you should see a box outline called “ALERTBOX”. Click on these boxes, find the specific type of alert you’d like to change, and use the Gear icon to make changes to the language or the look of the alert. Everything, I mean everything, is customizable with StreamElements.

NOTE: Just like with the social media information on individual overlays, you may have to make changes to each overlay in a theme if you’re changing alerts.

There’s more to be explored within the options found on the StreamElements Dashboard, but many of those options are best explored on your own. However, there are two standouts that deserve to make the highlight reel: the chat bot and the tipping module.

StreamElements Chat Bot

The StreamElements Chat Bot is undoubtedly a worthwhile addition to any stream. If you went ahead and connected this during the early setup, you may have already begun to see the dear ol’ bot in action.

Head to the “Chat Commands” tab in the options menu. It’s near the bottom in the section so aptly named “Bot”.

The first things you’ll see in this area are the “Custom Commands” you can make for your bot. For most Twitch streamers, the commands found in the “Default Commands” tab is enough to get the job done. Being that there are over 50 commands that the bot can recognize by default, it’s fair to say your bases are pretty well covered.

On top of the 50+ commands, there are modular widgets that can be added to the bot. Click on the “Modules” tab in the same “Bot” section of the options menu. You’ll find a whole heaping of useful/fun actions the bot can execute automatically in chat while you stream.

Some standouts include the Twitter mod, which will update your Twitch chat with the tweets of your chosen accounts as they go live. This is useful for knowing when fellow Twitch streamers are going live, accounting for who you could raid or who might be looking for a host.

The Chat Alerts module will populate your Twitch chat (found on the right side of OBS.Live) with the activity as it happens in your feed (found on the left side of OBS.Live). What’s the use of this? Well, IRL streamers, who only can see the chat as it populates to their mobile device could really benefit from seeing all this information in one continuous feed.

And hmmm, who else have we talked about in the past could benefit from having everything on one screen…Oh yeahhh, the single-monitor streamers out there! I haven’t forgotten about you, my friends.

Tipping

There’s been a lot of value demonstrated in StreamElements OBS.Live, of that there’s no question. But you still might wonder what would cause big names like Shroud and Sodapoppin to dismantle their old stream alerts and overlays for a relatively new extension…

I can’t speak for the superstars, but my experience in the streaming world and the full-time career it’s turned into has given me a good idea as to why such successful Twitch streamers would pick OBS.Live over any other streaming software.

Tipping is one of the primary revenue sources for a streamer. As with all the other major OBS extensions, OBS.Live’s tipping features are high-quality. If you hop into the “Revenue” section of the options menu, you’ll find that it’s everything you could ask for; clean imagery, a customizable donation page, and a detailed “Revenue History” tab that’s great for analytics.

Sometimes people suck. Twitch streamers know this better than most. A common practice for some sucky people is to donate to a streamer only to then challenge the donation as a fraudulent charge on their accounts. This leads to a chargeback, which almost always comes out of the streamer’s pocket.

Which streamers have to deal with this more than the rest of us? The big fish, of course. Chargebacks can differ in how much but there’s always a charge. This is only compounded by the number of people who are pulling this slimy act. The bigger the streamer, the more slimeballs.

How to Stream on YouTube with SE.Live

Since you can make your YouTube Live channel more entertaining, interactive, and professional with StreamElements’ Overlays, ChatBot, Alerts, and Tipping, why stop there?

Today we are excited to announce that YouTube streamers can now use StreamElements SE.Live!

SE.Live is a free plugin for OBS Studio that makes stream management easy.

This doesn’t replace your current OBS Studio installation, but enhances it with a little bit of StreamElements magic — reducing CPU usage so you have more power to stream with!

Click this big red button to download SE.Live, or keep reading to find out what makes it so great!

Below are setup instructions on how to Stream on YouTube with StreamElements and SE.Live. Scroll down to learn more about StreamElements features.

How to Setup SE.Live for YouTube Live streaming

Login to StreamElements

In order to start streaming with SE.Live, do the following after downloading and installing it:

2. Sign in with your YouTube channel Gmail account

3. Select your YouTube channel and grant StreamElements permission to your Google Account. Don’t confuse it with your regular Gmail account.

4. Copy your YouTube Stream Key from your Live Streaming Dashboard.

5. In SE.Live, Click “Settings” > Stream > Under server select “YouTube / YouTube Gaming” > Paste your stream key and click OK

Activating StreamElements ChatBot, Tipping and Overlays.

After logging in for the first time, you will be directed to StreamElements onboarding, which will enable StreamElements ChatBot and Tipping. You can always finish onboarding by clicking the StreamElements tab in the upper menu followed by “Bot and tipping setup”.

Modding the StreamElements ChatBot

Get tips with StreamElements

StreamElements SuperThemes are ready to use, stunning, designer made Overlays packages. There are dozens of themes to choose from, each includes 5 different scenes (Starting soon, Talk show, Gameplay, Be right back and Stream ended) and all of them are 100% free.

Each overlay can be edited and customized to your likings and includes both animated and static version.

You can launch the Themes Gallery from the StreamElements Tab on SE.Live, be sure to check out SuperThemes blog and Overlay editor tutorial to take them to the max.

How to add an Overlay to SE.Live

StreamElements Overlays load from a single browser source, and can be launched on any device, anywhere in a few seconds. StreamElements is cloud-based, which means your alerts appear on screen faster than competing solutions.

How to stream on YouTube with SE.Live

Going Live with OBS.Live is super simple.

After you finished setting up OBS.Live and StreamElements click “Start Streaming”. A window will pop up where you can choose to use your default Live streaming dashboard settings or create a stream with a new title and description.

Don’t forget to copy your tipping link URL and paste on the stream description!

StreamElements SE.Live features

Check Your Chat and Activity While You Stream

No more searching through a million and one browser tabs to see what your viewers are doing.

SE.Live for YouTube Live puts your Chat and Activity Feed right in OBS, so you won’t have to miss a thing.

Drag and drop the position of Chat and Activity in OBS so that at a glance, you can see who has subscribed, tipped, or posted a new message in chat. YouTube-only alerts such as Super Chats and Channel Memberships are supported by SE.Live too.

Use ChatBot to Keep Your Chat Fun and Friendly

No one likes a toxic chat and with the StreamElements Chatbot, you can keep things fun and friendly. There are different strictness levels and tools such as banned word filters, user timeouts, and viewer whitelists.

Get Your Stream Looking Fresh With Overlays

StreamElements has been making easy to use Overlays for a while now. Our SuperThemes overlays are free, professionally designed, and cloud-based so they can be used from anywhere!

We’ve made this is a big part of SE.Live too. Now, when you update your Overlay in the StreamElements Overlay Editor on desktop, you can quickly make those changes live using SE.Live.

Get Paid Doing What You Love With Tipping

With StreamElements, you can get paid doing what you live. Our tipping tools allow you to take tips from viewers who want to support you and your content. You can get tips with PayPal, and other payment methods such as SE.Pay (StremElements payment service), G2A, DonateRU, and ByNoGame in eligible countries.

It’s easy to start taking tips. Go to “Tipping settings” on your StreamElements dashboard to get set up. Then, put the link to your tipping page in the description of your YouTube Live stream, located on your “Live Dashboard”.

SE.Live and the Activity Feed lets you see tips as they come in, so you can thank your biggest supporters.

Use Alerts to Share the Big Stream Moments

Don’t keep your channel growth to yourself! Use Alerts to tell your viewers who has just tipped, purchased a channel membership, or subscribed to your channel.

In SE.Live for YouTube Live, you can also pause, skip, or mute Alerts. So if you don’t want any distractions when you make it to the final circle in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or you reach the top five in Fortnite, you can turn Alerts off without leaving OBS.

Create Emotesplosions with KappaGen

What’s better than one emote? Hundreds of emotes, filling the screen!

KappaGen is a widget that can be used to grow viewer engagement. The widget will display emotes posted on your chat and it can also set off emotesplosions which are explosions of emotes that decorate the screen with the dazzling little characters.

New subscribers and tips can be all be used to set off emotesplosions. It’s a good way to get everyone having fun.

To add KappaGen to your Overlay, add it from the “Widgets” menu inside your Overlay editor.

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Join our fun and friendly Discord community, where we offer legendary support, 24/7.

For more tips on making the most of your YouTube channel, visit our Creators Center knowledge base.