 Hey friends, Flare here with another streamer tutorial. Tonight we're going to be talking about nested scenes in OBS. Let's get into it. Okay, let's start with the idea of nested scenes in OBS. As you get to know it, you will be familiar with the concepts of scenes and sources. Scenes are things like your live scene, your be right back scene, just chatting, things like that. There are a group of sources and as far as sources go, sources can be anything like a browser capture or your capture your whole display. It can be an image or just like a block of color. It can be a piece of text and it can also be a whole another scene. You can use a whole scene as one of your sources inside your scene and that's what I mean by the concept of a nested scene. So why are nested scenes good? For me, the main reason is organization and reusability of sources. I'm going to give you a couple examples here and you can just see even in this very simple scene, I have my icons, I have my webcam, I have my background here. This is it's actually just an image background but I'm pretending that it's like the game capture source and in this case I have just the icons and the text makes up six different sources just for this little thing and say I want those social media icons on my just chatting scene here. So what you could do is just copy and paste all of them and that works just fine. It even defaults but to pasting them as references to each other. So if you make change to one, it should change on both scenes and that works fine but it ends up being such a clutter in your sources menu. So what you can do instead is create a whole new scene and we'll call it social and then we'll plop those icons there and then back in the other two scenes, I can delete the individual icons, go to just chatting, delete them there too and then instead of adding the individual icons, I can go and add a scene, social and there they are and then same thing in just chatting, I can go and add a scene, social and then there they are. The other main benefit of this is in these complex things where it's you know this is six different sources that are all meant to be aligned with each other and stuff if I decide that in all of my places I want to switch the order like I want the Twitter bird to be over here instead and then I want all of them to shift back over so I can just change that in my special scene and it automatically changes on the other scenes as well whereas in the previous example where they were all just copies and references to each other when you make a change to each individual source like I showed before where you change them I changed the text here it did change that text but things like the alignment of the individual sources with each other that was all just dependent on the scene they were in so you would have had to make that same change every single place that these icons are and if you have six main scenes like starting soon live just chatting be right back ending scene five or six main scenes and then you end up having to make these changes five or six different times and it's terrible and in this way I can just have this um and if I want to make a change to my social icons I make it in my social scene and then I'm done and let's say in the just chatting scene you want them in a different place you can just drag that whole scene around like I want them right underneath the little minimized game capture thing that's fine and then in my live scene I want them back there um but then you can still make changes inside of the individual scene and those changes will affect it just as that scene um it's it's wonderful this is like when I discovered this it was like it made me want to go and do this for everything um and then I did so same thing you know another example would be to I have a camera and then I have a camera camera frame on top of it um so let's say I want that camera frame to show up on my just chatting scene as well um and I same thing I could copy the thing and then plop it in here and make it real big and that works fine but it's the same thing once I want if I want to make an edit to it or add filters to it or something it would not show up in both places I have to make those changes everywhere so instead of doing that I am going to again make a new scene camera and then I'm going to take my webcam and my camera frame copy them and put them in that camera scene and then in the live scene I'm going to delete them and then just add that scene camera there we go and then in just chatting instead of my webcam delete that and then I'm going to add scene camera put it in the background in the actual camera scene I'm going to make everything just full size big ol thing so then in a live scene I'm going to cut it down to how big I actually want it in the live scene and then in just chatting I'm going to leave it full size but that way now if I want to go in and say like I wish my camera frame colors were different I wish it was like blue and black instead of white and black so there I change it there go back to the live scene it's changed there as well and that's that's really all there is to it that's pretty much it you can get as complex as you want with these nested scenes you can nest scenes inside of other nested scenes you can do a whole lot with it and we can get into that maybe sometime I can give you examples through from my my actual setup but I'm not going to go that deep tonight I hope this was helpful it's really my favorite trick in OBS to clean up the sources and to be able to reuse stuff in a very clean way and not have to make the same change in 10 different scenes it's wonderful um if this helped you I'd appreciate uh so if you press the subscribe button like it make a comment ask questions if you have an idea for another video you'd like me to make I would be happy to hear that in the comments anyway have a great night day morning whatever time zones cheers