I create instructional videos for channel members, and I've been wanting to add something like that on the screen to show things to highlight important points while I speak. This is perfect! Thank you for saving me hours of thinking about and investigating solutions! 😀❤
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I've also been using Google Slides but wasn't sure how to get the semi-transparent backdrop. I also download all of the slides as JPEGs and then use an Image Slide Show source in OBS instead of using Window Capture, and this hack works the same. Thank you!
Thank you sir! we will use this in the church livestream service, since this our first time also using obs, we find it hard to put the lyrics at the bottom, thank you sir! God bless!
Thanks Mina. I have your suggestions dialed in for Sunday. PS: it's not as clean, but you can use presenter view in Google slides so you can then click around to lyrics as the worship leader leads. More like one of the specific worship programs and a little more flexibility than just going linear from one jpg to the next as someone else asked below. Thanks again.
Hi my name is Susie, than you so much you are a blessing. I have created and done all the instructions above but how do you show your lyrics we created in zoom please.
I discovered that OBS hotkeys work even when another app is selected. In OBS I set the number keys above the letters to select each scene, and set the number 0 on the number keypad to be "Cut". OBS picks these up even when, say, Powerpoint is selected. Just be sure not to assign a Powerpoint hotkey to OBS or they will BOTH respond! This lets me control OBS and the slides without clicking on OBS. Thank you for this how-to!
Life saver, I've been running powerpoints with the worship camera in the top corner for the last 4 months because i couldn't figure out how to do lyrics to the lower thirds in OBS without a pricey solution like ProPresenter that i wasn't willing to commit to the money for just yet
Thanks so much. Btw, if you have a spare laptop, you can always use remote desktop such as VNC or Radmin and run the slides on that laptop, and ask someone in your church to help you change the lyrics. I found it to be much easier to work with.
wow thank you so much sir. I've been struggling doing my research to add lyrics but now I watched this video I think I can do it. I will try this one later. Thanks again
So I made the google slides with my lyrics, then i went into obs made a scene selected windows capture. But google slides wasn't showing up as a window even though I had google slides up. Can you help me?
Awesome! Thank you so much, just saved myself a heap of time trying to play around with the settings in OBS. Great video, well presented and very clear.
We do something similar to this. We use the Open LP program and break up screen into 2 screens. Just started following your page. Very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks so much Nathan But now would like to inquire do I need two monitors (second screen) to use OBS With any software that displays scripture, lyrics ect. Or just one PC is enough
Thank you for this, so useful. I used Powerpoint in the "Browsed in an individual (Window)" mode and I can run the presentation and OBS on the same screen. ..... Now if I can only work out how to run the sound desk, the camera, run OBS and run the presentation all at the same time... and maybe strap some cymbals to my knees.
Hey to quick crop you should be able to Alt+drag the edges of the source (that’s on windows) and it will do the same as editing the crop numbers but I find it faster. Just a heads up !
Is there a way to preview what slide you will click on instead of just clicking through the presentation? You know in case the worship leader starts to sing the chorus again, meaning you would have to click back to it? Thanks for this - super helpful!!
I am curious why not just use the slides in OBS. I'm using Canva to make green screen slides and then I make an obs slide show for the service. This lets me stay in OBS for moving the slides.
But the Google slides will have green background for those viewing in the church whilst the viewers online watching the livestream see nice lyrics with semi transparent background.
Awesome video. Thanks for the help! Quick question. Over on the google slides window, are you able to see which slide you're choosing as opposed to just scrolling through the slideshow? Like if the singer sings something out of order can you select the correct slide?
what if there are multiple worship songs? Do you suggest just put the lyrics of all songs together in one? Is there a way have google slides for each song, and then do the transition between different ones?
Why not export your slides as jpg or png images and set them up as a slideshow in OBS? That would get around the issue of not being able to advance if you are not in the Google Sides window.
You could certainly do that as well. Might be better for some situations. It does seem like alot more work to go through and export each slide (i don't think you can mass export pngs from google slides) and then upload them all to OBS. I used pngs for my transparent chord sheets when I did Christmas tutorial livestreams and I had similar issues with the slideshow in that if I clicked on something else in OBS, the hot keys would stop working for the slideshow
@@stuff.church I think there are two ways around that... 1. Use the free/open source OpenOffice equivalent to PowerPoint to generate the slides, and save them as images in bulk from there. I think this might be the most direct and simple way to do it. Or 2. From Google slides, save the presentation as a PDF (File | Download | PDF Document), and then open the downloaded PDF in Adobe Acrobat. From within Acrobat, you can go File | Save As | Image and render the slides out as images from there. That's a little roundabout, but should work. I wonder if your issue with the hotkeys failing might be an problem with what keys you mapped. I haven't had any issues with advancing slides in OBS. I use CTRL LEFT and CTRL RIGHT and there doesn't seem to be any issue with them failing on my system. I also drop copies of my slide shows into the background (hiding behind a full screen black image) in OBS into all my scenes so that the hotkeys continue to advance the slides even if the slideshow isn't intended to be visible in a particular scene (this is more for sermon slides than it is for lyric slides).
@@jimfergusson All sounds good! I check the key mapping and the arrow were only assigned to the slideshow so I'm not sure what was goin on there. Thanks for all that info, its always good to know multiple ways to do something!
You don't have to use Google Slides. LibreOffice Impress works just as good. I know because I tried it. If you have Microsoft PowerPoint I'm sure it would work fine too.
Hi, why is it that when i click present on google slides the screen is just at the google slides and when on obs it's still has its green background :-(( someone help me please :((( thank you all
I am using a Mac and have trouble with window capture. Instead of Google I created an animated text with green background using Keynote (mac's powerpoint). It saved as a gif so I added it back in as a media. Chorma key worked but the overlay did not. Any ideas? The biggest struggle I have with OBS is to stream to zoom and want to use zoom to bring in other in our our lead singer in form her home.. zoom is not in the list of drop down choices. I did down load NDI and I even had to down load telestream audio because I cannot hear the audio form my media source but I see the sound is there in the mixer. Appreciate your help. God bless.
Sound like you have some hardware/software issues. You may want to consider using another service, such as facetime or skype to bring the other person into OBS so you dont have 2 zoom sessions going. I don't know why you can't hear your media source
I will try skype. Do you have a you tube video that explains the set up you? Maybe a list? I committed to helping out and just not sure If I have the right set up. Thank you for being so helpful! God Bless.
@@ReawakenHymns Yes, it's ok now, thanks a lot again mate. Sorry to trouble you, got a lot to learn that's why. Trying my first time to do up a video, I let you know when it's done yah. Cheers!
I was also trying to post a couple of links to give you more information but YT is being a dickhead by automatically deleting the comments. Do a web search for "NDI newtek" and it should give links that will give you more information. Convert the following into a working link: newsandviews dot dataton dot com slash what-is-ndi-network-device-interface .
@@stuff.church I have google slides within the google.com. I'm not understanding I guess. When I add the window capture, I get several choices but not google slides.
@@stuff.church Ok so I've purchased and downloaded the google slides app. It still isn't recognizing it....frustrated to say the lease. I know there has to be one step I'm missing...HELP!
@@firstbaptistchurchcantonil9179 purchased? Google Slides is free, I'm not sure what you are using. You can go to this link, www.google.com/slides/about/ then click "go to google slides". Now go to zoom and share window, It might not be called Google Slides, It might just be called whatever browser you are using
Finally someone showing a solution for actual subtitles and not Close Captioning. Thank you!
So far this is the easiest, simple and most affordable way to do it. Thanks!
I've been here in youtube for like 3hours searching for this!!! THANK YOUUUU SOOO MUCHHHHH
And it's just happend to be in the suggestion videos🤣
Awesome!
I create instructional videos for channel members, and I've been wanting to add something like that on the screen to show things to highlight important points while I speak. This is perfect! Thank you for saving me hours of thinking about and investigating solutions! 😀❤
Glad I could help!
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I've also been using Google Slides but wasn't sure how to get the semi-transparent backdrop. I also download all of the slides as JPEGs and then use an Image Slide Show source in OBS instead of using Window Capture, and this hack works the same. Thank you!
Glad you found it!
That’s awesome. Thank you for this video. Very helpful. Now quick question: can this be done with a program called Proclaim?
I've been searching for this for a while. This is exactly what i need. Thank you so much. God bless
Glad it was helpful!
This is so educating and exciting. Can you make a tutorial on how to display scriptures?
Thank you sir! we will use this in the church livestream service, since this our first time also using obs, we find it hard to put the lyrics at the bottom, thank you sir! God bless!
Thanks Mina. I have your suggestions dialed in for Sunday. PS: it's not as clean, but you can use presenter view in Google slides so you can then click around to lyrics as the worship leader leads. More like one of the specific worship programs and a little more flexibility than just going linear from one jpg to the next as someone else asked below. Thanks again.
This is so far the easiest tip I've found on UA-cam! Thanks a lot!! God bless you
Glad it helped!
Hi my name is Susie, than you so much you are a blessing. I have created and done all the instructions above but how do you show your lyrics we created in zoom please.
I discovered that OBS hotkeys work even when another app is selected. In OBS I set the number keys above the letters to select each scene, and set the number 0 on the number keypad to be "Cut". OBS picks these up even when, say, Powerpoint is selected. Just be sure not to assign a Powerpoint hotkey to OBS or they will BOTH respond!
This lets me control OBS and the slides without clicking on OBS.
Thank you for this how-to!
Thank you, awesome tip!
Really love this thanks so much for sharing!
Glad I found this! This is exactly what we needed as well. May God Bless you brother :))
Glad it was helpful!
Best tutorial I’ve seen for displaying lyrics onto OBS! Thank you so much🫡
Thank you very much for this video. It helped a lot!
Life saver, I've been running powerpoints with the worship camera in the top corner for the last 4 months because i couldn't figure out how to do lyrics to the lower thirds in OBS without a pricey solution like ProPresenter that i wasn't willing to commit to the money for just yet
You are heaven sent sir!😮
Thank you so much!
God bless you!♥️
Thank you!
@@stuff.church i tried to use MS Powerpoint. It's just the same with Google slides 😊
@@berlynbecolero9771 thanks for this. I also wanted to ask this qtn. Glad they works the same 😊
Does obs have a single standalone plug-in that automatically make or convert anything that have text .. as a transparent lower third ?
Thank you! This is so helpful. I’ve been looking for a way to do this for a while. God bless you!
Thank you!
Thanks so much. Btw, if you have a spare laptop, you can always use remote desktop such as VNC or Radmin and run the slides on that laptop, and ask someone in your church to help you change the lyrics. I found it to be much easier to work with.
Good idea
can you give more insight on this please
wow thank you so much sir. I've been struggling doing my research to add lyrics but now I watched this video I think I can do it. I will try this one later. Thanks again
You are welcome
Or GoogleSlides/PowerPoint with NDI...works well.
So I made the google slides with my lyrics, then i went into obs made a scene selected windows capture. But google slides wasn't showing up as a window even though I had google slides up. Can you help me?
You're a life savior!
You can also use easyworship aside from google slides or PowerPoint and still have ta dark object behind the lyrics. Thanks for this, man. 👌🏼
thank u so much! super big help to our church. glory to God!
Hi! Thank you for this! This is very very helpful. Praise God!
Is there any way we can use this into zoom? Hehe
You mean without OBS?
Awesome! Thank you so much, just saved myself a heap of time trying to play around with the settings in OBS.
Great video, well presented and very clear.
Thank you!
We do something similar to this. We use the Open LP program and break up screen into 2 screens. Just started following your page. Very helpful. Thank you.
Nice! Thank you
Thanks so much Nathan
But now would like to inquire do I need two monitors (second screen) to use OBS With any software that displays scripture, lyrics ect. Or just one PC is enough
You can use one computer but will most likely need 2 monitors
@@stuff.church Thanks so much
Thank you - Praise God
Thank you so much..great help
How do you control the slide show while in presentation mode and in obs
You just need to make sure you are clicked on the slides window and then use the left and right arrows
@@stuff.church Hi, Can you please elaborate more on that? Been trying, but still don't know how to do it.
Hey, that was very helpful. Happy new year, God bless you, your family, and your church too. :)
Thank you for this, so useful. I used Powerpoint in the "Browsed in an individual (Window)" mode and I can run the presentation and OBS on the same screen. ..... Now if I can only work out how to run the sound desk, the camera, run OBS and run the presentation all at the same time... and maybe strap some cymbals to my knees.
How to enable this?
Hey to quick crop you should be able to Alt+drag the edges of the source (that’s on windows) and it will do the same as editing the crop numbers but I find it faster. Just a heads up !
Yes, i just found that out myself! saves so much time
But this has actually been really great 👍🏾 many thanks
Clever workaround. Cheers bud.
Thank you so much for the transparency! Really useful!
Dude, this was awesome. Thanks!
You are welcome
Exactly what I was looking for!!! Would the same concept work with pwp or any slide type program?
It should yes
What website do you use?
Nice.. A trick would be to do the same using scriptures showing the verses and text..
thank you brother for this video i will apply it in our church. here in philippines
You are welcome
Hi! Thanks for this but is it possible to incorporate other softwares such as Easyworship for this?
Yes, as long as you can screen capture the window in OBS
Dude, I used to have the exact same model of toy dinasaur! So cool to see someone else with it
awesome!
Is there a way to preview what slide you will click on instead of just clicking through the presentation? You know in case the worship leader starts to sing the chorus again, meaning you would have to click back to it? Thanks for this - super helpful!!
I don't think there is
thanks, be blessed
I am curious why not just use the slides in OBS. I'm using Canva to make green screen slides and then I make an obs slide show for the service. This lets me stay in OBS for moving the slides.
I just found it easier and quicker with google slides, but do whatever is easiest for you
But the Google slides will have green background for those viewing in the church whilst the viewers online watching the livestream see nice lyrics with semi transparent background.
This technique isn't for live services
Awesome video. Thanks for the help! Quick question. Over on the google slides window, are you able to see which slide you're choosing as opposed to just scrolling through the slideshow? Like if the singer sings something out of order can you select the correct slide?
Yes you can if you keep google slides out of presentation mode
God bless you
this video is booftin
simple and to the point love you bro
Holy moly. You're a gem. 🙌
Thank you!
what if there are multiple worship songs? Do you suggest just put the lyrics of all songs together in one? Is there a way have google slides for each song, and then do the transition between different ones?
Put them all in the same doc with blank slides in between
Why not export your slides as jpg or png images and set them up as a slideshow in OBS? That would get around the issue of not being able to advance if you are not in the Google Sides window.
You could certainly do that as well. Might be better for some situations. It does seem like alot more work to go through and export each slide (i don't think you can mass export pngs from google slides) and then upload them all to OBS. I used pngs for my transparent chord sheets when I did Christmas tutorial livestreams and I had similar issues with the slideshow in that if I clicked on something else in OBS, the hot keys would stop working for the slideshow
@@stuff.church I think there are two ways around that...
1. Use the free/open source OpenOffice equivalent to PowerPoint to generate the slides, and save them as images in bulk from there. I think this might be the most direct and simple way to do it.
Or
2. From Google slides, save the presentation as a PDF (File | Download | PDF Document), and then open the downloaded PDF in Adobe Acrobat. From within Acrobat, you can go File | Save As | Image and render the slides out as images from there. That's a little roundabout, but should work.
I wonder if your issue with the hotkeys failing might be an problem with what keys you mapped. I haven't had any issues with advancing slides in OBS. I use CTRL LEFT and CTRL RIGHT and there doesn't seem to be any issue with them failing on my system.
I also drop copies of my slide shows into the background (hiding behind a full screen black image) in OBS into all my scenes so that the hotkeys continue to advance the slides even if the slideshow isn't intended to be visible in a particular scene (this is more for sermon slides than it is for lyric slides).
@@jimfergusson All sounds good! I check the key mapping and the arrow were only assigned to the slideshow so I'm not sure what was goin on there. Thanks for all that info, its always good to know multiple ways to do something!
so I need two monitor screens to operate the slide change? because i tried doing it in a laptop and i cant change slide
Yes you will need 2 monitors
I have Google Slides open, but it does not show up on Windows Capture.
I have no idea, mine always does
So we do announcements and such before the service, so do I have to click on google to bring the lyrics out when we're ready?
Yes
Shout out to my mans Ronald! great vid
god bless you
Thank you very much!! But how can I do this with Pro Presenter 6. I can't find any videos like that.
Propresenter has a output for a stage display you can use
Another way is to show the google slides as a window capture resized to the upper right or any other corner.
Just one quick question, is it possible to use MS Powerpoint instead of Google Slides? Thank you in advance!
Yes
Thanks for the idea😊
You don't have to use Google Slides. LibreOffice Impress works just as good. I know because I tried it. If you have Microsoft PowerPoint I'm sure it would work fine too.
Any slide app will do
Thanks. This is very useful. How can i add scripture to obs
Copy and paste it.
Hi, why is it that when i click present on google slides the screen is just at the google slides and when on obs it's still has its green background :-(( someone help me please :((( thank you all
Did you add the luma key and set it to green?
I just need to know how you click on google slides without changing the screen on OBS, thanks
I just click back on the google slides window. You will need 2 computer monitors to do this
@@stuff.church Thank you very much mate..Cheers!
You are a blessing! Thank you!!
I am using a Mac and have trouble with window capture. Instead of Google I created an animated text with green background using Keynote (mac's powerpoint). It saved as a gif so I added it back in as a media. Chorma key worked but the overlay did not. Any ideas? The biggest struggle I have with OBS is to stream to zoom and want to use zoom to bring in other in our our lead singer in form her home.. zoom is not in the list of drop down choices. I did down load NDI and I even had to down load telestream audio because I cannot hear the audio form my media source but I see the sound is there in the mixer. Appreciate your help. God bless.
Sound like you have some hardware/software issues. You may want to consider using another service, such as facetime or skype to bring the other person into OBS so you dont have 2 zoom sessions going. I don't know why you can't hear your media source
I will try skype. Do you have a you tube video that explains the set up you? Maybe a list? I committed to helping out and just not sure If I have the right set up. Thank you for being so helpful! God Bless.
@@teresalee5095 I do not have a Skype video, but just search "Skype NDI in OBS" and you should find a tutorial
thank you, thank you very much, that's exactly what I was looking for! blessings!
Glad it was helpful!
the best thing I've watched and I've watched wayyyyy too many!
Thank you!
Oh My GOD thank you so much!!! God bless you!! this is really helpful
Glad it was helpful!
thanks a lot sir.. God bless you.
Thank you so much brother, May God bless you!! ✨
Thank you!
Hi mate, can you teach me how to add text when doing recording in OBS? anyway, I can get some personal help from you? Will be very grateful, thanks
Do you mean in some way different than the video?
@@stuff.church I try to figure it out more or less already, thanks a lot, man. You did a very good video here!
@@stuff.church I try recording but not able to record my voice, which part did I miss out mate? thanks
@@raychng8420 Did you add your microphone as an audio source in OBS
@@ReawakenHymns Yes, it's ok now, thanks a lot again mate. Sorry to trouble you, got a lot to learn that's why. Trying my first time to do up a video, I let you know when it's done yah. Cheers!
Can i use PowerPoint presentation instead of google slides?
Yea
Thanks a lot
Thank so much this video is really a big help
Omg thanks very much ! ✨
You're welcome!
And how do we share this on zoom screen?
Try this: ua-cam.com/video/GyrAq2IJEQk/v-deo.html
How do you make it pop up on the windows capture ? Google slides doesn’t pop up on mines
If the window is open it should be an option, so im not sure
Would this also work for Streamlabs?
I believe so
Thank you so much for this tip!
Helpful thanks
Perfectly done... Thanks
Is it possible to do this using PowerPoint rather than google slides?
I think so. You just need to select the PowerPoint window instead of Google Slides window.
Yes, just like It's Pauchii said
Thank you so much. 🙏
You’re welcome
Thank you! You helped actually a lot
Glad it helped!
Thanks alot!! helpful indeed!
Perfect! Thank you!
So have Pro presenter what is NDI???
NDI (Network Device Interface) is a protocol that allows you to send NDI over your gigabit network, typically over ethernet.
I was also trying to post a couple of links to give you more information but YT is being a dickhead by automatically deleting the comments. Do a web search for "NDI newtek" and it should give links that will give you more information. Convert the following into a working link: newsandviews dot dataton dot com slash what-is-ndi-network-device-interface .
newsandviews.dataton.com/what-is-ndi-network-device-interface
I find it helpful.. Thank you so much 🙌🏻🥹😊
Dose it work with PowerPoint as well?
Yes it would
My MAC doesn't recognize the Google slides. Suggestions?
Google slides is a web app, so it shouldn’t matter what OS you are on
@@stuff.church I have google slides within the google.com. I'm not understanding I guess. When I add the window capture, I get several choices but not google slides.
@@stuff.church Ok so I've purchased and downloaded the google slides app. It still isn't recognizing it....frustrated to say the lease. I know there has to be one step I'm missing...HELP!
@@firstbaptistchurchcantonil9179 purchased? Google Slides is free, I'm not sure what you are using. You can go to this link, www.google.com/slides/about/ then click "go to google slides". Now go to zoom and share window, It might not be called Google Slides, It might just be called whatever browser you are using
thankssss!!! it helped alot
Thanks for doing this! This is really helpful
Glad it was helpful!
thanks this is very helpfull