Live Streaming Using OBS and Zoom

Startup

1. Open all PowerPoints
   • Worship PowerPoint
   • Message PowerPoint
   • Downloading the songs beforehand if any.
2. Start OBS and VirtualCam
3. Start VoiceMeter
4. Login to Zoom

Settings

PowerPoint Settings

NOTE:

• You can’t open two PPT at the same time in the old version of PowerPoint. Open another PPT as an administrator instead.
• Adjust the PPT window to make sure the presentation window can fit the window size in OBS
• Have a Word doc of all the lyrics as a reference.

Worship PPT

Tips:

• The slide must have a certain ratio to be properly integrated into OBS
• Words on the PPT is limited to 2 sets of lines
• It is suggested to have a font size of 50

Settings:

1. Size
   • Design tab > Page Setup > Slide Size for: Customer; Width: 23 inches; Height: 2.5 inches;
   • The Width and Height of the slide must be this ratio
2. Slide Show > Slide Show Setup > Set Up Show > Show Type >
   • Select Browse by an individual(window)
   • Unselect Show Scrollbar
3. Press F5 start the show

Message PPT

1. Slide Show > Slide Show Setup > Set Up Show > Show Type >
   • Select Browse by an individual(window)
   • Unselect Show Scrollbar
2. You may need to adjust the PPT file contents to reserve the spaces for pastor window

OBS Settings

Output Settings

• Settings > Output > Streaming > Video Bitrate: 2500 kbps / Encoder: Hardware(NVENC) / Audio Bitrate: 160

Audio Settings

• Settings > Audio > Devices > Desktop Audio and Desktop Audio 2: VoiceMeeter Input(VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIO)

Video Settings

• Settings > Video > Base (Canvas) Resolution: 1920 x 1080 / Output: 1920 x 1080 / Downscale Filter: Bicubic / FPS: 30

VitualCam

Get the instruction on how to install it in OBS from this link.

1. Select Tools -> VirtualCam in the main OBS Studio window
2. Press the Start button, then close the dialog
3. Open your program (Zoom, Hangouts, Skype, etc.) and choose OBS-Camera as your webcam

Re-Link Worship PPT:

• Select scene Worship/Sub > Properties > Window: Select Worship PPT > OK
• Resize in PPT window or OBS if necessary

Re-Link Message PPT:

• Re-link message PPT to scene Pastor/Slide

Re-Link Songs

• Select MP4 scene
• Go to MP4-File sources properties and find the MP4 file
• Uncheck Loop
• Select do nothing when finish

VoiceMeter

Hardware Input #1 > Select Input Device > WDM: Microphone (Scarlett 2i4 USB):

ZOOM

• Setting > Enable Original Sound
• Make sure the participants are not allowed to unmute themselves

Audio

• Microphone: VoiceMeeter Output (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIO)
• Speaker: Realtek Digital Output(Realtek High Defination Audio)

Video

• Camera: OBS-Camera

OBS Tips

How to convert .mkv to .mp4?

Usually OBS recording is in .mkv format. It can’t be imported to Davinci Resolve 17 to edit.

You can easily convert the file to .mp4 format by follow these steps in OBS:

From OBS > File > Remux Recordings

Select the .mkv file you want to convert, name the target file and click Remux to convert it to .mp4 file.