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> I'm sorry to say that, but Apple Keynote hit the sweet spot between customizability, usability and price ( it's free on Apple ) for my purposes. If that sound

> I'm sorry to say that, but Apple Keynote hit the sweet spot between customizability, usability and price ( it's free on Apple ) for my purposes. If that sounds like flame bait for you, then be it. You're misunderstanding the point. It's great that you're happy with keynote. It's likely a great choice for what you want to do. > I worked several weeks with OBS And yet you say it can't overlay a round camera cutout over the screen, which is just wrong.

amai 4y ago
> And yet you say it can't overlay a round camera cutout over the screen, which is just wrong. How do you change the radius of the circle in realtime? You can do that in Keynote, but you can't in OBS, because that would mean uploading a new mask image for every new radius. Also if you switch to another camera resolution you have to recreate your mask, because your new camera has a new resolution. So technically you can overlay a round cutout, but from a users point of view this feature is not very usable. Keynote allows to do the same much, much simpler.
- 411111111111111 4y ago
  OBS is a streaming tool, and you clearly don't need one. In OBS you create whole scene sets with animated changes in-between the switches. It's not really meant to be adjusted mid stream, as you'd generally create whatever kind of scenes and their transitions beforehand and just execute them live. Usability and feature discoverability are in my opinion very lacking in OBS, and there would've been no controversy if you'd just said something akin to "I much prefer Keynotes simple interface to create my presentations" Your whole goal and critique just shows that you're not the target audience for OBS, which is fine and it's fantastic that you found a new tool which fits your usecase much better. Just like it's needlessly troublesome to make a picture slideshow with adobe premiere, using OBS for what you wanted was simply overkill and came with unneccessary complexity
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  - feetstv 4y ago
    Adding an adjustable mask in a couple of clicks to a webcam without having to fire up an image editor, measure resolution, etc is not overkill for a streaming tool. Your entire argument in this thread hinges on familiarity == usability. The others are right, OBS is powerful but hard to use. Could not be more untrue. The OBS team themselves know full well that it could be friendlier and easier to do basic things — the debate comes up quite a bit on the Github repo’s discussions and in RFCs. Be careful not to conflate your familiarity with the software as it being designed in the best way for the job — the existence of easier to use tools, including Twitch Studio (which does have useful defaults and makes simple things much easier to achieve) attests to this. Disclaimer: I’m a support volunteer in OBS’ Discord server (opinions here my own). Many other volunteers and I are fully aware of how many things are difficult that should be easy — and rather than just accept that, we do our best to make the program easier to understand.

amai 4y ago

> And yet you say it can't overlay a round camera cutout over the screen, which is just wrong. How do you change the radius of the circle in realtime? You can do that in Keynote, but you can't in OBS, because that would mean uploading a new mask image for every new radius. Also if you switch to another camera resolution you have to recreate your mask, because your new camera has a new resolution. So technically you can overlay a round cutout, but from a users point of view this feature is not very usable. Keynote allows to do the same much, much simpler.

411111111111111 4y ago
OBS is a streaming tool, and you clearly don't need one. In OBS you create whole scene sets with animated changes in-between the switches. It's not really meant to be adjusted mid stream, as you'd generally create whatever kind of scenes and their transitions beforehand and just execute them live. Usability and feature discoverability are in my opinion very lacking in OBS, and there would've been no controversy if you'd just said something akin to "I much prefer Keynotes simple interface to create my presentations" Your whole goal and critique just shows that you're not the target audience for OBS, which is fine and it's fantastic that you found a new tool which fits your usecase much better. Just like it's needlessly troublesome to make a picture slideshow with adobe premiere, using OBS for what you wanted was simply overkill and came with unneccessary complexity
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- feetstv 4y ago
  Adding an adjustable mask in a couple of clicks to a webcam without having to fire up an image editor, measure resolution, etc is not overkill for a streaming tool. Your entire argument in this thread hinges on familiarity == usability. The others are right, OBS is powerful but hard to use. Could not be more untrue. The OBS team themselves know full well that it could be friendlier and easier to do basic things — the debate comes up quite a bit on the Github repo’s discussions and in RFCs. Be careful not to conflate your familiarity with the software as it being designed in the best way for the job — the existence of easier to use tools, including Twitch Studio (which does have useful defaults and makes simple things much easier to achieve) attests to this. Disclaimer: I’m a support volunteer in OBS’ Discord server (opinions here my own). Many other volunteers and I are fully aware of how many things are difficult that should be easy — and rather than just accept that, we do our best to make the program easier to understand.