Hey, this is Dustin from Streamlabs.
Today I'm going to show you how to download,
install, and quickly go live with Streamlabs
OBS.
Before we get started, let’s get into a
few of the reasons why many streamers have
Streamlabs OBS as their go-to choice for streaming
software.
Streamlabs OBS takes 4 windows that are essential
for every streamer (chat, live stream preview,
recent events, and OBS Scene Switcher) and
condenses them into 1 tab in Streamlabs OBS.
This preserves valuable screen real estate,
reduces cpu load, and you can lower cpu load
to leverage a higher quality stream.
The Streamlabs theme library is the largest
library of themes and widgets in the world.
The theme library provides $1M worth of content
available for free, with one-click installation.
With Streamlabs OBS, you can set up to go
live in mere minutes with our Optimization
feature, quickly import scenes & settings
from OBS, and have easy one-click installation
of themes and widgets.
First, you’ll want to go to Streamlabs.com
and click on the download button located on
the Streamlabs website homepage.
After you’ve downloaded Streamlabs OBS,
go to your downloads folder and double click
on the executable file to begin the installation
process.
Follow the prompts for the License Agreement,
then choose where on your system you’d like
to designate the program to be installed.
After the installation is complete, you can
click Finish and have Streamlabs OBS launch
automatically if the “Run Streamlabs OBS”checkbox
is checked.
Once Streamlabs OBS starts, you’ll be prompted
to log into your platform of choice: Twitch,
Youtube, or Mixer.
After logging in with your credentials, you
may need to authorize Streamlabs OBS for the
platform.
After authorization, if you have existing
Scene Collections within Streamlabs.com, you’ll
be shown which Scene Collections will be automatically
imported into Streamlabs OBS.
Click Continue and you’ll be brought to
the Streamlabs OBS Editor tab.
If you’ve used OBS Studio, you’ll be prompted
to Import from OBS or Start Fresh.
We’re going to Start Fresh to get started
on a clean slate.
Next, we can choose to add Widgets, which
are a variety of Streamlabs tools that help
your stream right out of the box for streamers.
We’ll skip these for now, since we’ll
be taking advantage of the free library widget
setups.
After that is the option for Optimization.
This lets the software analyze your internet
connection and hardware setup and chooses
the best options for you.
You can tweak these settings later at any
time.
Since we want to get started with streaming
right away, we can click Start.
Once the Optimization process finishes, click
Next.
Now, we’re on the Editor tab and can get
started on installing one of the great library
scene and widget themes, so let’s click
on the Themes tab on the top left.
We want to get up and running right away,
so we’ll choose the clean Swirls Scene theme.
Go to the top right and click Install Overlay.
After installing the Scene theme, we’ll
be brought back to the Editor tab with the
Swirls theme installed.
On the bottom left, we can see all the Scenes
available.
We have a Starting Soon scene for right when
we go live.
We also a Live Screen scene, Be Right Back
scene, Stream Ending scene, and Offline scene.
Our Live Screen scene has a Background to
show what it would look like with live gameplay,
but we can delete this, so we’ll select
it and delete it with the delete key.
After you’ve started your game, you can
use a Game or Window Capture source to capture
your gameplay for your stream.
We’ll drag this beneath all the other sources,
so that it doesn’t cover our webcam or other
overlay elements.
We want our Starting Soon scene to be the
first thing that viewers see, so we’ll select
it.
To make sure we can keep track of any new
followers, tips, or hosts, we’ll click on
the Live tab on the top left.
We also want to make sure we can see what
all our viewers type in chat while we’re
streaming, so we’ll click on this arrow
on the right border of Streamlabs OBS to see
our chat window.
Right before we go live, let’s throw up
a tipping link on our profile, so we’ll
go to our Dashboard tab, and navigate to Donation
settings.
Click on Paypal and put in your Paypal email,
so any tips can go directly to that account.
Then we can copy the tipping link url right
above and go to our profile and add it, so
that viewers can click it and tip us.
Now we’re ready to Go Live, so we’ll click
the Go Live button and we’ll be asked to
set a Stream Title and Game.
After that’s all set, click Confirm & Go
Live and now you’re streaming!
Be sure to download Streamlabs OBS by visiting
Streamlabs.com and hop into our Discord server
at Discord.gg/stream for live community support.
Check out the links in the description below.
