Scenes and overlays

Your Cloud OBS arrives with the scenes built and with four overlays ready to go on air. You don’t have to design anything for your first stream.

The scenes it comes with

There are six. <key> is the name of your stream key, so if your key is called Stream key 1, your scenes are called Stream key 1, Stream key 1 Low and Stream key 1 Offline.

Scene	What’s inside it
Starting	The countdown overlay
<key>	Your live feed. It’s the main scene
<key> Low	Your feed, for when the bitrate drops
<key> Offline	The “no signal” overlay
Privacy	The break overlay
Ending	The sign-off overlay

Automatic scene switching uses exactly these names. If you rename a scene from the remote desktop, the automatic switching stops finding it.

The four overlays

They’re on the Scenes tab of your server’s detail. Each one is a card with its preview, its switch and its URL.

Card	Scene	What your audience sees
Starting soon	Starting	STARTING SOON
No signal	<key> Offline	NO SIGNAL
Ending	Ending	THANKS FOR WATCHING!
Break / Privacy	Privacy	BRB

They come out in your language, with Enhanced IRL’s text and styling.

Turning one on or off

Each card has an Activo switch. Turn it off and that overlay stops showing in its scene; the scene still exists, it just goes out without it.

That’s what you want if you’re going to put your own art on top from the remote desktop and you’re not interested in ours underneath.

Setting your own URL

Below the preview there’s the Overlay URL field:

1. Paste your overlay’s address. It has to start with http:// or with https://.
2. Hit Save overlays.
3. Below the field you’ll see which URL is active at that moment.

If you leave the field empty, the Enhanced IRL overlay is used. And if you had already set one of your own, the ↺ Restore the EnhancedIRL overlay link appears so you can go back in one click.

Check what you pasted first

An overlay of yours is shown exactly as it comes, with whatever it carries. Open it in a normal tab first to see that it loads and that it isn’t showing anything you don’t want on screen.

The preview

Each card shows a thumbnail of how the overlay is looking in your OBS, with a button to refresh it. If it says “No preview”, the first image hasn’t arrived yet: hit the refresh button.

At the top of the tab there’s a status notice. When it says OBS connected, whatever you save is applied live. When it says it’s disconnected, changes are still saved but they aren’t applied until the server is available again.

Test the overlays before the stream

Turn the server on, go to OBS control, hit the Starting scene and look at the preview. It takes a minute and saves you from finding out live that it wasn’t showing.

Next step

• The web control panel — to jump between these scenes during the stream.
• Uploading your images, video and audio — to put your own material into the scenes.