Obscene Studio Faq

• A recent Windows or Mac Computer (Intel or prefereably M1)

• Optionally, but very recommended, a MIDI Pad device from the supported list

• Any other MIDI controllers

bscene Studio is available as a native Mac M1 application. You don't need Rosetta. The entry level Mac Mini is enough for an excellent Obscene Studio experience.

Check out the MIDI Section in the manual.

Yes, you can use Obscene Studio with only the mouse (or Touch Panel in Windows). You can define "virtual midi knobs", that will show as regular mappings.

Installing new templates in Obscene Studio is really easy:

• Download the template from the obscene market

• Drag the file into the running Obscene Studio window.

• Enjoy your new template !

Please check out the step by step guides in the Manual.

Animations and high quality video are always demanding operations no matter the computer power. But there are a couple of things you can check out to improve the performance:

Enable Hardware Acceleration

Please make sure Hardware acceleration is enabled in OBS.

• A recent version does it automatically. You might need to upgrade your version of OBS.

• To check if Hardware Acceleration is enabled, enter the following url in the Browser Source URL of OBS; chrome://gpu

• You will see detailed status about the hardware acceleration. For best performance, most items should be green.

Increase Frame Rate

• Set 50 as the frame rate of the Browser Source in OBS.

Check that your computer is up for the job

Open "Activity Monitor" (mac) or a similar tool, to check that your CPU is not clogged. If your CPU is at 100%, there is not much you can do other than simplify your storyboard or upgrade your computer.

• Press F11, select it from the Menubar (mac only), or head to SETTINGS > ADVANCED

From the Obscene Studio Manual

You need to start OBS with a special parameter so Obscene Studio Overlay has access to the Video Cameras:

On Apple Mac computers

Please make sure OBS is closed, then open a Terminal (Utilities > Terminal) and type the following code:

/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/obs --enable-media-stream--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream

On Windows computers

Please make sure OBS is closed, then open a Command Prompt and type the following code:

"C:/Program Files/OBS Studio/obs.exe" --use-fake-ui-for-media-stream --enable-media-stream

• The application may be installed elsewhere. Just look for it in the usual Windows folder for installed applications.

Please check out this section in the manual.

Emojis are provided as a system font and normally updated with the operating system. Each Operating System manufacturer has a different policy regarding how emoji should look.

There are 2 procedures for that:

• Open YouTube^TM in a browser, then drag a video and drop it inside Obscene Studio.

  • Alternatively, drop it in a existing YouTube layer, and its video will be replaced

• Press "Add Media" icon, then in the Search Box just type the URL of a YouTube^TM Video.

• Just drag and drop files from your computer. The following file types are supported:

  • MP4 and WEBM Video Files
  • WAV and MP3 Audio Files
  • PNG, JPG and GIF images

• Files are copied inside the storyboard project.

• Remember to fill out the Content Atribution details.

When you create storyboards in Obscene Studio, you can add:

• Arbitrary content from your computer, like Videos, Images or Audio tracks
• Public content from third party services like Giphy, UnSplash or YouTube, reusable under specific licenses.

Obscene Studio recollects author and license information as you add stuff to your storyboard. In the case of local content, you can specify also author and attribution metadata.

All storyboards created by Obscene Studio automatically include a dynamic license, with information about all the media used in the different scenes, its source domain, author name and link to the original content.

Obscene Studio Users are also encouraged to include this attribution information in a "Credits" scene. Obscene Studio provides widgets to create cool credits sequences !

• When you package one of your storyboards as a template, and submit to us for distribution in the Obscene Market, you will be required to complete any missing attribution information. This way, all attribution information will be included in the template and, when reused, inherited by the child storyboards.