I have unlocked the power known as "OBS Stinger Transition Masking" and now I'm passing the savings on to YOU!
What the hell are you talking about?
If you stream using OBS, there's something called a "Stinger Transition" that lets you create custom fades between two different scenes. So if you have a static "be right back" scene separate from a live streaming scene, a transition will fade between the two.
A "Stinger" transition is something OBS added that lets you substitute a video file as the transition fade. Essentially, you'd have a (usually transparent) video file and at a specific point, that stinger video would cover 100% of the stream, at which point you'd tell OBS the time code of 100% coverage so it could secretly swap scenes underneath it.
But then OBS added "Track Matte" which lets you do fancy masking. Now there's a whole complicated process where, if you want full color animated transitions, you have to generate a special split video but that's too fancy for me. What isn't too fancy is just basic mask transitions, like the GIF you see above, and "Track Matte" lets you take the easy way out and do this instead. I promise, it's not hard!
So, I went through and converted my favorite gradient transitions I have for Vegas to work with OBS's Track Matte Stinger Transition Masks (wow, what a mouthful). And! I'm letting you download them and giving you instructions on how to use them. Before we get to how to install and use them, some credits:
Default Sony Vegas Gradient Transitions
Diagonal Wipe
Side Wipe
Swirl
Puzzle
Curling Smoke
Floral Growth
Iris In
Iris Out
Barn Door Open
Barn Door Shut
Shutters Open
Shutters Shut
Horizontal Alternating Bars
Vertical Alternating Bars
Gradient Transitions I Borrowed From My Old Roxio Gamecap
Quad Clock
Many Clocks
Maple Leaf
Mandelbrot Fractal
Bytes
Star Wipe
Butterfly Zoom
Blobs
Chomping
Diamonds
Checkerboard
Crusty
Balls Out
Burst
Swooce In (Pictured above!)
Swooce Out
Draw Box
Draw Box Smaller
Splat Top
Splat Explode
Overlay Stars
Stargate In
Stargate Out
Scraps
Pinch
(I may have gotten creative with some of those names)
Gradient Transitions I Made Myself
Pixel Infection
Scratches
Slime
Yoshi's Island Wipe
How To Install These
Download your chosen flavor:
OBS Stinger Masks [720p].zip
OBS Stinger Masks [1080p].zip
Extract all the MP4 files somewhere. Preferably to their own folder, and possibly somewhere inside your OBS install if you can help it.
Open OBS. You should have a little menu called "Scene Transitions."
If you don't have this visible, in the drop down menus at the top, click on "Docks" and make sure "Scene Transitions" is checked.
With your Scene Transitions panel available, click the + (plus) icon and select "Stinger."
This will prompt you to give your new Stinger transition a custom name and take you to the customization menu.
In the "Video File" field, we just point it towards one of the MP4s you just downloaded and extracted. In this case, I have chosen "Swooce In.mp4"
You can probably ignore everything else, but make sure to check "☑ Use a Track Matte" and under the "Matte Layout" drop down, make sure it's set to "Mask Only." The other two Matte Layout settings are for the fancy full-color alpha transparency video transitions, but we're just doing simple black-to-white masking.
At the very bottom of the menu (I'd have to scroll down on my sample image) there should be a "Preview Transition" button if you'd like to see a sample of what it looks like in motion.
Click okay, and you should be done! As long as the custom stinger you just made is the one selected under "Scene Transitions", every time you change scenes, it will blend between them using the video you selected.
Can I make these any faster? Or slower?
Not within OBS, no. You would have to change the speed of the video file itself. I tried to be mindful of how good these looked at what speeds, but if you think they're the wrong speed, you'll have to crack open a video editor for yourself and figure out how to change the playback speed.
And, obviously, if you have even minor experience with video editing, you can probably grasp the concept of how this works pretty easily, meaning it should be pretty easy to make your own stinger masks with all kinds of fun patterns. As long as it goes from black to white!
You could also be a psychopath with Adobe Premiere and learn how to do the full color animated transitions too, if you want. This seems like a pretty decent tutorial on how to do that, but like I said, that's way too much work for me.
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