Transitions from one part of your stream to the next can be more engaging than a stream screen and make your live stream feel more professional.
An example would be a Be Right Back (BRB) screen, an Offline screen, or a Stream Will Start Soon screen.
The elements you choose will depend on the type of stream you’re doing and your style. When it comes to stream graphics, you have several choices. Which types of visual elements can you add to a live stream?
You’ll learn why lower thirds are one of the most important visual elements of your live stream and how to make them. How do you create graphics? What kinds of visual elements can you add to a live stream? And what the heck is a lower third?Ĭonsider this your crash course in live streaming lower-third graphics.
Stream graphics are important, but if you’re just starting out, they can feel overwhelming. When you use graphics, your stream looks more polished and professional – giving you a better chance of scoring sponsor deals. Visual elements also support brand recognition, communicate your call to action (CTA), and get viewers to subscribe. I hope that helps to answer your question.Do stream graphics matter? Of course! Graphics work for your stream in several ways, including getting people to click on your stream in the first place. An alternative would be to have two outputs (one for Key and one for Fill), but that requires additional BMD equipment between the computer and the ATEM.
There are other, better, ways to accomplish this, but this is the best method we have found without any additional equipment and with a single output from the Mac. From there, when we enable the key, the lower third text looks perfect overlaid on the video (there is no blue, and the black banner correctly appears semi-transparent, which helps to keep the white text from blending into the background video). Then, within the ATEM we set that particular input to be a chroma key and sample the blue color that is coming out of Pro. We then convert the HDMI output from the ProPresenter Mac over to SDI (we are using the ATEM 4K, so no HDMI inputs) and send into the ATEM.
Our setup: In ProPresenter all slides have a uniform blue background, we use a template in Pro to make all of our text white and a specific size at the bottom of the screen, with a semi-transparent black banner behind it. Our church adds lower thirds for names and lyrics overlaid on the live camera feeds using the ATEM chroma key.