The argument in one line.
A polished, multi-camera stream is built from roughly two dozen specific OBS plugins, each solving one concrete problem — transitions, camera masking, audio routing, dock clutter — not from a hundred plugins or raw production effort.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You already stream on OBS and want your visuals — transitions, camera shapes, drop shadows — to look less like a default install.
- You're juggling more than one camera or more than one streaming platform and your current setup can't keep up.
- You want concrete plugin names tied to specific problems (messy per-app audio, dock clutter, hunting for one source among hundreds), not generic streaming tips.
SKIP IF…
- You don't use OBS — these are OBS-specific plugin recommendations, not general workflow advice.
- You're just getting started and haven't hit the problems (audio routing, dock clutter, camera switching) these plugins solve — most of this will be premature.
The full version, fast.
After years of refining his OBS setup, a streamer walks through roughly two dozen specific plugins rather than the "100+" the title claims, organized by problem: an auto-launcher and update-checking plugin manager before OBS even opens; ATEM Vertical and Multistream for running horizontal and vertical canvases across multiple platforms at once; the Move plugin for animated transitions plus browser-based and rule-based transition plugins; NDI and phone-camera plugins for a wireless multi-camera rig; per-app audio routing; camera masking, source cloning, and shader-effect plugins for the visual layer; and dock-preset, search, and source-dock plugins to keep a 350-source, 90-scene project usable. The consistent theme: pick one plugin per specific problem instead of accumulating tools generically.
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00:00 – 02:14
01 · Cold open, streamer bible, sponsor
Before/after promise, six years of stream refinement, a running public 'streamer bible' notes page, and a mid-roll sponsor read for a Windows/Office key reseller.
02:14 – 03:30
02 · Before OBS even opens
An auto-launcher plugin opens (and closes) every companion app with OBS, and a plugin-manager add-on flags out-of-date plugins with a direct download link.
03:30 – 04:30
03 · Multistreaming
Two fully separate canvases — horizontal and vertical — plus a dedicated multistream plugin broadcasting to Twitch, Kick, YouTube, and enhanced broadcasting simultaneously.
04:30 – 06:57
04 · Transitions
The Move plugin drives smooth animated scene/source transitions; a browser-based transition (built via Nerd or Die) replaces heavier pre-rendered video transitions; a transition-routing plugin assigns different transitions to different scene changes.
06:57 – 09:02
05 · The camera rig
A five-camera setup including a wireless gimbal camera connected over NDI (no physical cable needed) and a phone used as a live camera via a companion app.
09:02 – 09:51
06 · Audio
A per-application audio-capture plugin routes each program (music, game, chatbot) to its own mixer fader without dedicated audio-routing software.
09:51 – 11:51
07 · Stream visuals
PNG masks and a live masking plugin shape the cameras; source cloning plus a blur filter and a drop-shadow/glow filter create a layered 'floating window' look for the gameplay feed.
11:51 – 14:10
08 · Special effects speedrun
A rapid-fire run through single-purpose effect plugins — 3D tilt, freeze-frame, gradients, noise, a general shader filter, pixelation, recursive patterns, individual-source recording, and a full-canvas downstream keyer.
14:10 – 16:19
09 · Taming the dock chaos
A dock-preset plugin saves named panel arrangements for different tasks (streaming vs. stream management), alongside self-built browser-source widgets for cross-platform title updates and polls.
16:19 – 18:21
10 · Finding one source among 350
A searchable source/filter finder plugin, a trimmed-down scene dock of only the 10-15 scenes actually used live, and a source-dock plugin for previewing and swapping cameras mid-scene.
18:21 – 21:10
11 · Grab-bag plugins and sign-off
Native closed captioning, a whiteboard/annotation plugin for calling out on-screen changes, and a scene/source export plugin, followed by a candid ad-revenue admission and a membership pitch.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- A creator who built his brand on 'top 5 OBS plugin' videos runs roughly two dozen plugins in his actual live setup, not the '100+' the title claims to have tried.
- Two fully separate OBS canvases — one horizontal, one vertical — let a stream broadcast native layouts to landscape and vertical platforms instead of cropping one from the other.
- A dedicated multistream plugin can sync scene transitions across every simultaneous output platform, not just relay the same feed to each.
- Browser-based (HTML) scene transitions are less resource-intensive than pre-rendered video transitions and can be recolored or rebranded without re-exporting a video file.
- A wireless gimbal camera connected over NDI removes the need for a physical USB run back to the PC, even across a room.
- A phone can act as a full second streaming camera through a roughly $5 companion app, with latency low enough to use for live close-up shots.
- Per-application audio capture lets a streamer put music, game audio, and a chatbot on separate mixer faders without installing dedicated audio-routing software like VoiceMeeter.
- Duplicating a video source, blurring the copy, and layering it behind the sharp original — plus a drop shadow — creates a 'floating window' depth effect with no compositing software.
- A masking plugin that lets you drag the crop angle live beats a static PNG mask whenever the crop needs to change often.
- Downstream-keyer-style plugins are the only way to apply a visual filter to an entire canvas output, since normal source filters only affect their own layer.
- Dock-preset plugins let a streamer save and swap entire panel arrangements — a 'streaming' layout versus a 'stream management' layout — instead of leaving every plugin's panel open at once.
- Past roughly 350 sources spread across 90 scenes, a searchable source/filter finder plugin stops being optional — manual hunting through nested scenes doesn't scale.
- A trimmed-down scene dock holding only the 10-15 scenes actually used live, out of 90 total, keeps the working view usable without deleting the unused scenes.
- A source-dock plugin can preview any camera continuously even when it isn't the active output, which is how a 5-camera rig gets swapped mid-scene without guessing.
- Native closed-caption plugins add a platform-level CC toggle, separate from burning captions directly into the video.
A polished stream runs on roughly two dozen specific plugins, not effort.
WHAT TO LEARN
The visual complexity of a professional stream comes from a small, well-chosen plugin stack layered together — camera masks, source cloning, dock presets — not from constant manual tinkering.
01Cold open, streamer bible, sponsor
- Keep a single, continuously updated reference (a public notes page or wiki) listing every tool in your workflow, so a video made months ago still points people to your current setup instead of going stale.
- A multi-year setup evolves in small increments — treat 'what plugins do I use' as a living document, not a one-time video.
02Before OBS even opens
- Use an auto-launcher plugin to open every companion app — music, lighting control, chatbot — the moment your streaming software opens, and close them automatically when it quits, so setup and teardown take one click instead of five.
- Install a plugin manager with a built-in update checker so out-of-date plugins get flagged with a direct download link the moment you launch, rather than silently breaking mid-stream.
03Multistreaming
- If you stream in both horizontal and vertical formats, keep them as fully separate canvases rather than cropping one from the other, so each platform gets a layout actually designed for its aspect ratio.
- When multistreaming to several platforms at once, use a dedicated multistream plugin rather than a generic relay — it can sync scene transitions across every output canvas simultaneously.
04Transitions
- Smooth animated transitions (sliding sources, morphing cameras, filter fades) come from one plugin category, not custom code — it's the single highest-leverage 'polish' upgrade to add to a plain switcher.
- Reserve heavy pre-rendered video transitions for a special-occasion feel; an HTML/browser-based transition renders the same animated effect live and is far lighter on system resources, plus it's editable without re-exporting a video file.
- Give scenes explicit transition rules (e.g. 'starting-soon to main always uses transition A, everything else uses transition B') instead of one blanket transition — a dedicated transition-routing plugin makes that conditional logic possible.
05The camera rig
- A camera doesn't need a physical USB run back to your PC — a wireless NDI-capable camera plus an NDI-receiver plugin lets you place it anywhere in a room and connect over Wi-Fi.
- Your phone is a legitimate extra camera: a low-cost companion app plus the matching capture plugin gets low-latency phone video into your software, and a lock-screen shortcut can make it a one-tap close-up camera.
06Audio
- Route each application's audio to its own separate mixer channel with a per-app audio-capture plugin instead of dumping everything into one 'desktop audio' fader — independent volume control per source without a hardware audio-routing tool.
- Group multiple similar sources (several games, for example) onto one slider inside that same plugin so your mixer doesn't grow one fader per program.
07Stream visuals
- Static camera shapes can be done free with pre-made PNG masks, but if you need to adjust the crop angle often, a masking plugin that lets you drag the cut line beats regenerating a new PNG every time.
- Stack a source-cloning plugin with a blur filter to duplicate your gameplay feed, blur the copy, and layer it behind the sharp original — combined with a drop-shadow/glow filter, that's the whole 'floating window' depth effect, no compositing software required.
08Special effects speedrun
- A general-purpose shader filter plugin that lets you stack arbitrary visual effects on any source covers most one-off gimmick effects without installing a separate plugin per effect.
- A freeze-frame filter turns any camera into a reusable 'stamp this reaction' redeem or alert without pre-recording a clip.
- Full-canvas filters, affecting the entire output rather than one source, need a dedicated downstream-keyer-style plugin — a normal source filter can't reach past its own layer.
09Taming the dock chaos
- When a growing list of plugins each adds their own dock/panel, don't leave them all open — a dock-preset manager lets you save named arrangements and swap the whole UI with one click depending on the task.
- Build custom lightweight browser-source widgets for repetitive admin (updating your title across platforms at once, running a poll across platforms) instead of alt-tabbing to each platform's dashboard separately.
10Finding one source among 350
- Past a certain source count (dozens of sources across dozens of scenes), a searchable source/filter finder plugin stops being a nice-to-have — hunting manually through nested scenes doesn't scale.
- Build a trimmed-down scene dock containing only the scenes you actually use live, separate from your full scene list, so your working view isn't cluttered with scenes you built once and never touch again.
- A source-dock plugin lets you preview any camera or scene continuously, even when it isn't the active output — useful for swapping cameras mid-scene without guessing what you're about to cut to.
11Grab-bag plugins and sign-off
- Native closed captions reach more of your audience than burned-in captions alone — enable the platform's CC toggle and, if you have layout room, also print the captions directly onto the canvas.
- A whiteboard/annotation plugin is a fast way to call attention to something viewers otherwise won't notice, like a new UI element or stat.
Terms worth knowing.
- NDI
- A protocol that sends video and audio over a local network instead of a physical cable, letting a camera connect to streaming software wirelessly.
- PNG mask
- A transparent cutout image layered over a camera source to crop it into a custom shape, like a circle or angled slice, without needing any plugin.
- Downstream keyer
- A layer that applies visual effects to the entire final output canvas at once, rather than to one individual source.
- Multistream / enhanced broadcasting
- Sending one live stream to several platforms simultaneously — such as Twitch, YouTube, and Kick — instead of running separate broadcasts for each.
- Stinger transition
- A short pre-rendered video clip, often seen in sports broadcasts, that plays as a scene changes; distinct from a transition rendered live in HTML.
- Source clone
- A duplicate of an existing video source that can have its own separate filters applied without altering the original source.
- Dock (in OBS)
- A movable panel inside the streaming software's interface — for scene lists, audio mixers, or plugin controls — that can be rearranged, saved as a preset, or hidden.
Things they pointed at.
02:34toolAuto Starter (OBS plugin)
03:01toolStreamUP (OBS plugin manager/updater)
03:36toolATEM Vertical (OBS plugin)
03:41toolATEM Multistream (OBS plugin)
04:30toolMove (OBS transition plugin)
06:35toolTransition Table (OBS plugin)
07:42productOBSBOT Tail Air (PTZ tracking camera)
07:57toolDistroAV (NDI plugin for OBS)
08:28toolDroidCam OBS (phone-as-camera plugin)
09:15toolWinCaptureAudio (OBS plugin)
10:18toolAdvanced Masks (OBS plugin)
10:39toolStroke Glow Shadow (OBS plugin)
10:56toolSource Clone (OBS plugin)
11:15toolComposite Blur (OBS plugin)
12:12tool3D Effect (OBS plugin)
12:28toolFreeze Filter (OBS plugin)
12:29toolGradient Source (OBS plugin)
12:42toolNoise (OBS plugin)
12:52toolOBS Shader Filter
13:09toolPixel Art (OBS plugin)
13:17toolRecursion Effect (OBS plugin)
13:31toolSource Record (OBS plugin)
13:57toolDownstream Keyer (OBS plugin)
14:44toolJR Dockey (OBS dock preset plugin)
19:40toolQuick Access Utility / QAU (OBS plugin)
20:23toolSource Dock (OBS plugin)
22:32toolClosed Captioning (OBS plugin)
22:44toolDraw (OBS whiteboard plugin)
23:28toolSource Copy (OBS plugin)
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“Guys, I don't know how much longer I can keep milking it. It's been, like, six years.”
07:14
“If you wanna see how I rigged up, like, 50,000,000,000 cameras in my streaming setup, do me a favor and subscribe. Okay? Otherwise, my channel will die, and then it will be all your fault.”
11:25
“That subtle drop shadow sort of makes my gameplay look like it's a floating window.”
13:00
“I made this effect right here that makes it look like I'm going through one of those portals from Apex Legends.”
20:26
“My YouTube ad revenue has fucking plummeted in the past six months.”
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This is how I took my OBS from looking something like this to something like this. I have tried basically every OBS plugin worth using at this point.
I've spent years refining my stream layout, optimizing my workflow, obsessing over every single detail of my stream. I basically built my entire brand behind top five OBS plugin videos.
Guys, I don't know how much longer I can keep milky. It's been, like, six years. So I thought it was finally time that I showed you not just which plugins I've been using, but how I've actually been using them to get my stream to look like this.
Not just all of the fancy animations and the graphics, but also all the little utilities and custom docs that I use to manage my streams. I've started writing my own streamer bible, which you can find on my website, by the way, nutty g g. I have been documenting every single plugin I use, every single piece of software I use for my workflow, everything I use in my stream setup, like the cameras and that that bar thing behind me that everyone keeps asking me about.
I will try to keep it up to date. So by the time that you watch this video in the future, it should be current as long as I'm not dead.
But in my streamer bible, there will be a section for my OBS plugin tier list. So if you wanna get an up to date list of every single plugin that I'm actually using, you can check it out in my streamer bible. This won't be a full tour of my OBS setup.
I have, like, 90 scenes in OBS. We'd be here for, like, four years if I did all that, but there should be enough inspiration in this video for anyone looking to tinker with their streams. Stop being cringe at paying full price for Windows with our sponsor VIP SD keys.
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I think it's best to demonstrate the plug ins I use by just walking you through my setup, and it all starts before I even open OBS. There's a bunch of tools that I need while I'm streaming apart from just OBS.
I use Spotify for my music, Lumia Stream for controlling all of my LED lights, and, of course, StreamerBot for my chatbot.
So rather than open up each program individually, I use a plugin called Auto Starter, which basically allows me to launch all of my different programs that I use in my stream automatically right when I start OBS.
There's even a little setting that can automatically close each application when I close OBS. Highly recommend this one if you run a lot of programs. Now before I get into all of the plugins I use, one of the most annoying things about OBS is making sure all of my plugins are up to date.
They're currently working on an official OBS plugin manager, but that's probably not gonna be done for several years at this point. So instead, I've installed the StreamUp OBS plugin. This plugin adds a bunch of features to OBS, but really the only one I actually use is the built in plugin updater.
Every time I launch OBS, OBS will notify me if I have any plugins that are out of date, and then it will give me a direct link to where to download the plugin. Now first big thing you'll notice in my setup, I have two canvases.
I currently stream to Twitch in both horizontal and vertical formats, and for that, I use ATEM Vertical and ATEM Multistream. There's a few different plugins that you can use to do this, but ATEM Vertical and ATEM Multistream are just the simplest and most reliable plugins right now.
ATEM Vertical just adds that second vertical canvas to OBS, so you can make a completely separate layout just for your vertical platforms. I also stream to Kik and YouTube right now.
Plus, I also stream using the enhanced broadcasting feature. It's a very complex setup, and ATEM multistream just handles multistreaming better than any other plugin I've ever tried. You can even set it up so that your scene transitions are synced between both of your canvases.
Speaking of transitions, let's talk about those for a sec. Because as you can see, I have, like, these really smooth animated transitions between my scenes. This all comes from a plug in called Move.
This one won my GOBS POAT award a few years ago, greatest OBS plug in of all time. And, yeah, that's still the case.
You could do so much with this plugin, not just smooth transitions, but you could slide individual sources around the screen, smoothly transition individual filters on your sources, even full blown animations where your camera's moving all over the place.
I've talked about this plugin in several videos at this point. I even have a full master class just on this plugin alone. But in short, if you're looking for a way to impress your viewers and just add that little level of polish to your stream, yeah, the Move plugin is probably the first plugin you should install.
I do use other types of transitions. This animated transition here is, in fact, not a Stinger transition. I know a lot of you were probably thinking it's a stinger transition.
That's not what this is. A stinger transition is like a type of cool animation that happens in between scenes.
You see this a lot in sports broadcast where it plays like this this full animated video whenever you go from one scene to another. This is a little like that, but instead of playing a video, it uses a browser source.
So rather than playing a video every time you hit a scene transition, this one renders the transition in HTML, which is way less resource intensive, and it gives you the advantage of being able to customize, like, the colors and the logos without having to rerender a whole new video.
It's called browser transition. It sounds really complicated, but Nerd or Die actually has a website where you can customize your own transition and use it with this plugin. I have two browser transitions that I customize with Nerd or Die.
One that spells out my name Nutty in the blue and purple bisexual colors that I love, and one that does like this pen pen pentagonal.
Is that a word? Pentagonal transition.
I also use a plug in called transition table. If you want full control over which transitions play, for example, whenever I'm going from my starting soon screen to my main scenes, I want it to play this browser transition.
But for all of my other scenes, I just wanted to use a standard mood transition. Transition table is what you're looking for. You may have noticed, yes, I do have a five camera setup in my stream.
It's that it's actually more than that. This probably deserves an entirely different video on its own. If you wanna see how I rigged up, like, 50,000,000,000 cameras in my streaming setup, do me a favor and subscribe.
Okay? Otherwise, my channel will die, and then it will be all your fault. I'll talk about my entire camera setup in a separate video because it's it's pretty involved.
I do wanna talk about one of these cameras, though. I always get asked what this camera is at the back of my room. How do I connect my camera to the PC when it's, like, so far away from my PC?
Like, am I just using, like, a really long USB cable? Like, what what's going on with that? So this camera is actually the OBSBOT Tail Air.
I've done a video on this. It's a full body tracking camera, which pivots.
It's got, like, a gimbal. It follows me as I walk around my room. But more importantly, it's wireless.
It's connected to my PC using NDI. I installed a plug in called Distro AV, which allows me to connect NDI devices to OBS. I'm not gonna get into the technical details, but TLDR, NDI is a way to connect video and audio devices over your local network, which means I don't need the camera to be physically connected to my PC.
It just connects to my PC over Wi Fi. While we're on the topic of cameras, I can also connect my phone to my PC using a plug in called Droid Cam OBS. It's really simple.
You just install an OBS plug in, install the app on your phone, and then you can use your phone as a camera in OBS. I even set up a shortcut on my lock screen.
So whenever I'm streaming and I wanna show something up close with my phone, I just grab my phone, unlock it, automatically connects to OBS, and I'm streaming I'm streaming the video from my phone. The app is, like, $5 on the App Store.
It is super worth it, though. The quality and the latency is really good. So if if you are looking for a simple way to connect your phone to OBS, DroidCam OBS is what you want.
In terms of audio, there's really just one plugin that I use. If you're looking for an easy way to split up your audio for all your different programs for Spotify, your game audio, what have you, without having to install something like VoiceMeeter or Wavelink, WinCaptureAudio is the plugin that you want.
Basically, it adds the option to add individual programs as audio sources in OBS. So instead of all your audio being combined together as desktop audio, you can have them split up in your audio mixer directly in OBS.
Now you can technically do this without any plug ins, but this plug in lets you group programs together. So if you have eight different games and you don't want a separate slider for every single program, you can combine them together as a single slider.
I should probably talk about the visuals on my stream. We already talked about transitions, but you may have noticed that I've got my cameras cut up in these unique shapes.
These are just PNG masks in OVS. You don't need a plug in for these. However, if all you're looking to do is cut out basic shapes like circles or add a rounded border around your camera, the advanced mask plug in might be a better option.
You can see this used in my triple camera scene to slice up my cameras at an angle, and this plugin is much more convenient than using PNG masks because if I wanna change the angle or move where the slice is, I don't have to generate a new PNG every single time. I also use the stroke glow shadow plugin to add these subtle drop shadows to make it look like the cameras are layered on top of each other.
It looks really cool in my desktop scene. I've created a copy of my gameplay using the source clone plugin.
Source clone is a plugin that allows you to create a copy of any source in OBS, and then you can apply filters to that clone without affecting the original source.
So in this scene, I used the source clone plugin to make a copy of my gameplay source, and then I added a blur effect to that source using another plug in called composite blur.
And then I layered it underneath my gameplay. And then adding that altogether with that subtle drop shadow sort of makes my gameplay look like it's it's a .
It's like a really unique look, at least it was a unique look until all you bitches started copying me years ago. I can tell instantly, by the way, if someone's watched my YouTube videos.
If they use that blurry background thing, I know I know where you got that from. Okay? I I can see you.
Okay? I also run a bunch of special effects in my stream, you know, for fun.
There's a bunch of plugins that I use get extra filters that I can apply to any source that I want. I will now speed run through all those plugins because I couldn't think of a clever way of narratively stringing them altogether.
Three d effect is a plugin that that allows you to tilt sources in three d space. I use this one on my just chatting scene to make a tilted copy of my gameplay in the corner. Freeze filter is a plugin that lets you freeze frame your camera, which I use for this thug life redeem.
Gradient source lets you create gradients. I use this for that colored bar that you see at the bottom of my stream, and I even stacked a scroll filter in it to make it kinda look like this . The noise plug in lets you create these fractal noise effects like this purple mist pattern that I use in my starting soon screen.
OBS shader filter adds a ton of filters you can add to any source like this shake filter. And if you're clever enough, you can stack filters on top of each other. I made this effect right here that makes it look like I'm going through .
Pixel art adds a pixelated effect that you can use to censor parts of your screen. I use this for the Game Boy camera effect that I have on my stream that takes a picture of my camera, and then it prints it on these little physical receipt papers.
Recursion effect allows you to make these repeated patterns. I use this on my rate alert. Source record lets you record individual sources.
I gotta be honest. This plugin is kind of buggy, but I use it in my TikTok redeem where this phone pops up, and then it records a little clip of my stream and then uploads that little video to my Discord server.
Normally, all these effects that you're seeing right now can only be applied to individual sources, but what if you wanted to apply effects to the entire canvas? And for that, I use a plugin called downstream keyer.
With this plugin, I'm able to apply effects like this wavy pattern effect, not just to my camera, but to the entire screen.
By the way, it is not lost on me that this must be a lot for you to process. So if the if you're getting really overwhelmed right now, just take a break. Just relax.
And then we got more, baby. I'm trying to cram like 30 plugins into one video. I get confused looking at my OBS.
Almost every plugin I use adds some kind of dock to OBS, and trying to fit all that into one screen is just impossible.
That's where JR Docky comes in. Of all the plugins I use, this is the one I can't live without.
Like, literally, I would I would actually kill myself without actually talking over that far. JR Dockey allows you to set up dock presets. So instead of every single dock open at all times, you can just create these arrangements of docks in OBS.
For example, when I'm streaming, all I wanna see are my two canvases and a list of scenes to transition to.
But if I wanna manage my stream, maybe change my stream titles, make a new poll, I've got an entirely separate dock preset, which I call dashboards.
And I could freely swap between these dock presets at any moment depending on whatever it is that I wanna focus on. By the way, these docs here are my own custom widgets, which I built myself. You can find them on my website, nutty g g.
I made this multistream title updater thing that lets you update all your stream titles from just a single doc in OBS. I also just released this multistream polls widget for running multistream polls across different platforms.
This one's a tier two exclusive widget, which you can access right now through the $10 tier, which would be great because I, uh, I worked hard in it, and I would like if some of you guys supported me financially to justify the time I put in to these things.
You might have noticed I also have a search bar here. I have, like, 350 sources in OBS, and trying to hunt for one source in my 90 plus scenes is, like, cringe as fuck.
So I use the quick access utility plugin to add a search doc in OBS, and it makes it really easy to find exactly where a particular source is or where a particular filter is.
You can even search on the file path. It also gives you way to make these stripped down scene docs that only contain the scenes that you actually wanna use while you're streaming without all of your nested scenes.
Like I said, I have, like, 90 scenes in OBS, but I really only use, like, 10 to 15 of them while I'm streaming. So there's really no reason for me to have a list of every single scene I have in OBS.
I just wanna see a cut down list while I'm streaming and makes it really easy for me to focus. Oh, and remember how I said I have five cameras in my setup? There's another plugin called source dock that allows you to dock individual sources or individual scenes so that you could monitor what they look like even if that source is not on the active scene.
I have a dock preset that I call camera switcher that contains three camera ports.
These are all just source docks, and I use these for swapping out cameras on my triple camera scene. So this scene has three different camera ports for my cameras, and I could just slot in any camera I want using source dock, and I could see a preview for each camera even when I'm not on my triple scene layout.
If you've stuck around to this point of the video, I truly admire your patience. I'm really not explaining things very well, but I worked too hard on this video already.
So we're just gonna power through this one. This is a rough one, guys.
I'm not gonna lie to you. This last few set of plugins, I'm going to categorize as the rest of them.
I sorry. I didn't know how to I didn't know a logical way to group all of these plugins. Closed captioning is a pretty great plugin.
It allows you to add closed captions to Twitch natively. Like, you just install a plug in, and then your stream will automatically get a CC button that your viewers can turn on.
You can also burn the captions into your stream if you want. I had some extra space on my vertical canvas, so I just decided to plop the captions underneath the video because because why not?
The draw plugin adds a whiteboard to your stream so you could draw on it John Madden style. I basically use this plugin to highlight new features I've added to my stream because nobody ever notices until I draw, like, a red circle around it.
It's like, you know when your wife is like, notice anything different about me, honey? And you have no idea what she's talking about. Boom.
Red circle. You know how much easier that would be if you just put red circles over what's different? And finally, source copy.
This one lets you export individual scenes or individual sources so you can copy them between scene collections. I honestly don't use this one that often, but if you need that, there you go.
But that's it. That's every single OBS plugin I use as of May 2026. I know it's way past May, but that's how long I've been sitting on the script because I've been dreading making this video because it's gonna take me a really long time to edit this.
Make sure to check out my streamer bible, which I've linked in the description. I'm sure that there will be more OBS plugins that come out over the years. So if you wanna see an updated list of my whole OBS setup, that's where you're gonna see all that information.
Also, don't forget to check out the memberships on my website, nutty g g. I'm currently shifting my focus away to building my own widgets that you guys can add to your stream.
And I'm not gonna lie, my YouTube ad revenue has fucking plummeted in the past six months.
So if you wanna help support what I do, I'm guilt tripping you right now. I'm sorry.
Just if you just give me money if you want to. I I won't force that out of you. The membership's only 10 a month.
You could just cancel after the first month and keep all the widgets if you want. No problem. I'm not gonna judge you.
Most of my widgets are free, but there's there's some cool paid ones there if you if you like them. Alright.
Enough sales speak. Go forth and enjoy this newfound knowledge that you have, and then tell all of your streamer friends about it too, so that they can watch it and, you know, you know, and see you next week.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The video opens on a promise: this is how one OBS project went from a plain capture setup to a five-camera, dual-canvas broadcast. What follows isn't a highlight reel of everything ever tried — it's the specific, current plugin behind each individual problem, from launching every companion app in one click to keeping 350 sources searchable.
Named ideas worth stealing.
14:44model
Dock Preset Workflow
- Streaming preset — two canvases plus a scene list, nothing else
- Dashboard preset — stream titles, polls, management widgets
- Camera Switcher preset — three source docks for previewing and swapping cameras
Instead of leaving every plugin's panel open at once, save named arrangements of docks/panels and swap the entire UI depending on whether you're actively streaming or managing the stream.
Steal forany OBS setup where more than a handful of plugin panels are competing for screen space
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
20:26product
“Don't forget to check out the memberships on my website, nutty.gg... The membership's only 10 a month. You could just cancel after the first month and keep all the widgets if you want.”
Paired with a candid admission that ad revenue has dropped, softened with 'I'm guilt tripping you right now, I'm sorry' — a low-pressure, transparency-first pitch rather than a hard sell.
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FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
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