fjord-online / obs-panels

Overlays and lower thirds for OBS live streams

OBS Panels

Overlays and lower thirds content for OBS live streams

OBS Panels provides highly customisable overlays for your content. Use them to show the names of your speakers, or to provide context in the action.

(coming soon) Use overlays to show more content, such as titles, paragraphs, bullet points, images etc.

Installation

Unlike many OBS plugins, all content required for OBS Panels is available immediately online. This removes the installation step, and will soon unlock additional collaborative tools and features. The online version is always up to date with the latest release.

Online

Config panel

In OBS, go to View > Docks > Custom Browser Docks.

Enter a dock name (e.g. OBS Panels)

Enter the following URL in the URL field: http://fjord-online.com/panels/config.html

View

Add a new source: Sources > Add > Browser * Set the URL field to the hosted URL: http://fjord-online.com/panels/view.html

Set the width and height to match your project resolution (e.g. 1920 x 1080, 4k is also supported)

Uncheck the box 'Refresh browser when scene becomes active'

Press OK

Ensure that the browser layer is at the top of your display: Right click > Order > Move to top

Local (offline)

Download a recent release from the releases tab, or download a specific branch.

Extract the zipped folder into a suitable location (e.g. user_folder/OBS-Panels)

Follow the instructions for online installation, but replace the URLs with paths to your local config and view files

Need more docs?

If you need more help, please just make an issue, or drop us a line at [email protected]. This is a new project - no question is too silly!

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please consult the issues tab for improvements and fixes which are in progress.

If your issue/new feature is not listed, please make an issue, or even better make a pull request!

License

Anyone can use, share, fork. May be used in commercial live streams or recordings, but this may not be embedded or used in any commercial product offering - i.e. no resale of the features or code offered here. Share alike license.

obs-panels's Issues

Add persistence

Offline/localstorage can be cleared apparently randomly. This can lose the user's configuration.

Add an export or online persistence system to allow the user to save and restore content in the event localstorage fails.

This system should involve minimum user interaction - i.e. auto save and load wherever possible.

In order to enable auto-sign in for persistence, the installation step could be augmented with a unique token for each user.

Add slides

Add a slides editor with online persistence forming a link from the browser to the OBS control panel (and view).

This allows users to add/edit/delete supplementary content to their live streams, and to sequence overlays in an easy-to-design manner.

This system will be named The Keyframes Editor