Transparent Media source in OBS

[txs0cc3r87]

Hi everyone,

 

I am a youth pastor in East Texas. My youth group live streams our Wednesday night worship service on Twitch through OBS. Recently I created a text animation with a transparent background to display the scripture I am reading for the message. I use Davinci Resolve 16 (free version) to animate and render out this media file. When I render it out I set it as a Quicktime file with an alpha channel. Then when I add it to my OBS scene as a media source there is a black background behind my animated text. I figured I had done something wrong so I went back to DR 16, and placed a random video file on the timeline. Then on a separate video track within that timeline I over layed my transparent text animation, and the background on the text animation was in fact transparent. I am completely at a loss for why OBS is presenting this .MOV file with an alpha channel as an animation with a black background. What is even more confusing is that I have animated facecam overlays with transparent sections in the past, and had no problem with them in OBS. This is really bugging me. Any help would be greatly appreciated it.

[matsvg]

I tried to do something similar in OBS a couple of years ago. I remember that my solution ended up being to use Chroma Key.

 

You can see how to apply it in this video: