Investigation Post - OBS Studio

Seeing as how I've been focusing on my livestream recently, I felt as though it would be good to make an investigation on the software I have been using, known as OBS Studio. OBS Studio, OBS being an acronym for Open Broadcasting Software, is an Open-Source Livestreaming application. The newest version, called OBS Studio, contains certain features that were added to the application by outsiders due to its open source nature that have now become standard for livestreaming. Things like Browser Source (which capture a webpage itself) or Sliding Text are just a few of the features that are built in to OBS Studio that were not in the original release of OBS.

Here is an example of a standard stream layout. On the bottom we have Scenes, Sources, and an Audio Mixer, as well as Transition Settings and the various standard buttons for broadcasting.

Scenes are the various layouts of the video being broadcast, sources are the various elements contained in the scene, and the mixer controls various audio inputs, including the desktop audio.

The buttons on the right side are the standard buttons for the typical usage of OBS. Start Streaming will broadcast a video to a streaming site like Twitch, Start Recording with record a video file to the computer, Studio mode switches to a different mode that displays a preview for editing and a preview for broadcasting simultaneously, and exit closes the application.