At the start of August OBS Studio unleashed its biggest update ever. Right now it’s just a test build so some things might not work properly, but it's packed with exciting new featu𒀰res that will save you time and improve the quality of your livestreams.
The first thing you’ll notice when you load up OBS Studio 28.0 is the slicꦿk new interface. Lots of little changes have been brought in that make it easier to line up and arrange your sources, and there’s an accessibility 🤡menu that lets you change the colors of interface elements to make them easier to see. These tweaks make all the difference when you’re setting things up.
.More inspiration from NVIDIA
If you’re a livestreamer or any kind of creator and you have an RTX graphics card, you can learn tips and tri𒆙cks that will help you make the most of it over at . It’s a portal where artists share their work and show how their RTX GPUs and NVIDIA’s software improve their creative process. It’s fun to explore and a great way to learn about all the cool features of the NVIDIA Studio platform and what🎶 they can do for you.
Every week there’s a featured artist, and this w🐷eek it’s livestreamer . Hollie describes herself as “caps-lock incarnate” and a “compassionate, colorful streamer”. She’s funny, and brings a vibrant personality to her streams.
WATCHHOLLIE is all about using livestreaming to bring people together through a shared love of gaming. Hollie builds connection with her followers by putting her full self out there, openly sharing her struggles with mental health, AD🅠D and disability. She looks to create a warm and welcoming community for anyone with similar challenges, and as a lesbian, she strives to make her channel a rainbow-friendly space.
Building people up
Now that Hollie is a Partnered streamer she channels ꦺmuch of her energy into lifting others up, providing advice and support for less-established streamers. She has created , a stream team that provides members with mentorship from a crew of experienced people. New streamers get coached on everything from improving their hardware setup to growing their channel and attracting partnerships.
Outside of WatchUs, Hollie provides a constant supply♔ of positivity for her followers and other streamers. She encourages people to be true to themselves and not hide distinctive personality traits, champio꧙ning the view that if you put your real self out there you’ll find your tribe.
She also knows that putting 🌟yourself on the internet means receiving negative attention as well as positive, and she’s good at standing up for herself. Hollie is a strong leader who encourages her followers and fellow streamers to confidently set the boundaries they need to look after themselves and not to feel guilty about it. And she’s not afraid to wield that ban hammer to protect her community from anyone bringing hostility or bad vibes.
Hollie’s RTX-powered system
Hollie began her streaming journey during the pandemic with a gaming console, a Mac and an external capture card. As her interest deepened and her follower count picked up, it was time to upgrade her setup and she built a PC with a GeForce RTX 2070 GPU. This was upgraded to an RTX 3080🔯 as things got more serious.
The NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC) makes GeForce RTX GPUs ideal for streaming your gameplay because it’s a separate part of the hardware dedicated to vide🏅o encoding, so it doesn’t take any resources away from your game. Some people use two PCs - one to encode the video and one to play the game - ꦫbut an RTX GPU lets you do both on one computer without sacrificing performance. So Hollie’s single-PC setup with an RTX 3080 is everything she needs to handle gameplay and video encoding with ease.
Getting an RTX GPU also gets you access to NVIDIA Studio, which is a platform of hardware and software that✃’s geared up for the needs of creators. There’s far too much to go into here, but suffice to say there’s an amazing suite of software for 3D artists, video editors and all kinds of content creators. The Broadcast features we mentioned earlier are part of NVIDIA Studio, and they can do wonders for improving audio and video quality—to the extent that it might seem to your viewers like you’ve invested in fancy recording equipment when in fact you’ve just got a fairly basic setup.
To se🉐e what Hollie is achieving with her RTX sy🐭stem . To explore what other artists and creators are doing with the NVIDIA Studio platform, take a look at portal. Happy streaming!
