If this is not appropriate, no worries, take it down, but I thought fellow Tarkov streamers might be interested in how to do this. So, this refers to a motion technique that Sacriel and other larger streamers have been using, where they slide on and off the screen, or slide/zoom up to a particular part of their screen. It's easy to set up, and looks friggin awesome. This will show you how to do it.
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LETS BEGIN!
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Note: We're going to run through installing the plugin first, if you've never done this before, please note at this point, you need to be running OBS Studio, preferably the latest version and presumably, therefore, the 64-bit version. This is for set up on Windows, I don't know if pathing is different for other Operating Systems, so do some research if this seems unfamiliar to your setup.
VIDEO TUTORIAL HERE:
1. Download the zip of the Motion-effect plugin version 1.2.1 by CatxFish. Make sure OBS Studio is not opened. Upon opening the zip, place the files in your obs-studio directory, as shown on screen. Your location might vary, be sure to check that the folder in the directory are the same as those in your zip, as it will seek sub-folders once you drop it in the main root of your obs-studio directory.
2. Open up OBS Studio. When you click on the Scene Transitions + button, you should now be able to add a "Motion" transition. Do so, leave it named "Motion" and don't adjust any of the acceleration settings, hit OK.
3. Now we want to make a scene, it can be your gameplay scene, it can be your webcam only scene, it can be your gameplay with webcam scene because, to be honest, the beauty of this motion plugin, when used like this, is that you can make it feel like it's all the one big beautiful scene.
So let's take my setup here. I have an Example scene with my webcam in it and my gameplay. I'm in the corner and we can just say this would be the default or typical setup for my stream. We want to duplicate this entire Scene, and rename it something else, in this case, I'm going to call it Scene Webcam Full Zoom. Clues in the scene name, because now what we're going to do is unlock our webcam capture, and begin enlarging it. Just by clicking and dragging it until it's full screen. You can use fit to screen, but it does weird things with cropping options, and if you wanted to crop in the future, I'd recommend just clicking the webcam to each edge like so instead, it's not hard and only takes a few seconds.
4. Great, so now you have a duplicate scene, but in the duplicate, your webcam is fully zoomed in, covering the gameplay footage. It's important that you keep the sources of each scene visible, I'll explain why in a moment.
What we want to do now is right-click on our new scene, and go down to Transition Override, select Motion, and do this for both your Default Scene and the new one we just created. Now when you click back and forth between these scenes, the sources you adjusted in the duplicate scene should zoom all the way in, using motion, instead of just being instant! The best thing about this is, you don't have to write down position or size values, and setting this up on your Stream Deck, is a breeze, as I'll show near the end of this tutorial.
5. So now you can zoom in and out, you can do this with everything really, moving the position of focus to any part of the screen for any particular scene, as long as you maintain the sources you want to adjust in all scenes that you're moving through, you won't have any issues.
6. Now you have all your scenes setup, let's hop on the Stream Deck, and it is as simple as setting up Scene Transitions for each Scene. I love the Elgato Stream Deck for just how simple it makes things, and that's the same approach I wanted to convey in this tutorial. For the Stream Deck icons, I'm actually using Nerd or Dies Nova StreamDeck Icon Pack. It's extremely cheap, in fact, it might be Pay What You Want.. but I would recommend throwing them a few dollars as it's just so fantastic, and they deserve all the support.
One last thing I want to mention that is quite important. I have noticed that with this plugin, upon loading up OBS Studio each time, I have to go into the cogwheel properties of the Motion Transition, and simply click "Default" otherwise – at least for me, it does this sweeping motion, which is nice when you're using the Motion plugin as I showed in my previous tutorial, but for this setup, I think it's best to have linear zooms, much nicer.
Hope this is useful for some folks. Take care!
