OBS Studio plugin

Scene as Transition

Use any OBS scene as your transition, so the switch looks like something you made.

By Andi v1.3.1 Free
Windows macOS Linux
OBS 31.1+

One switch, left to right. Your scene plays, and the cut happens behind it at the point you set.

OBS gives you fade, cut and a stinger. That is the whole list.

This lets you use a whole scene as the transition instead. Whatever you put in that scene is what plays when you switch: your own artwork, a video, moving sources, a logo that flies across and back. Build it the way you build any other scene, then pick it as your transition.

Everything it does

Key features

Any scene can be your transition, with everything in it playing as normal
Decide exactly when the switch happens behind it, as a percentage or in milliseconds
Fade the audio out and back in around that point, or cross-fade the whole way through
Its own volume control, so the transition does not drown your stream
Trigger a filter when the transition starts and switch it off at the end, so animations stay in time
Videos and music in the transition scene keep playing properly instead of being cut off halfway
Spots the old scene-as-transition plugin and offers to remove it for you

Yours to configure

Every knob, where you expect it

Pick the scene, set how long it runs, and set the point in the middle where the actual switch happens. Then choose how the audio behaves and, if your transition is animated, which filter to fire when it starts.

Preview Transition plays it there and then, so you can get the timing right without going live to find out.

Everything it needs: the scene, the timing, the audio, and the filter that fires with it.

Build it like any other scene

There is nothing special to learn. Make a scene, put whatever you want in it, and choose it as your transition. Colour, artwork, a video, a stinger you already own, a logo animated with Move Transition: if it works in a scene, it works here.

Because it is a normal scene, you can change it whenever you like without touching any transition settings.

Make it say something

Put a text source in the transition scene and have Streamer.Bot write to it, and the transition can name the scene you are heading to, the game you are about to play, or who just raided you.

The switch happens behind it, so the viewer sees a deliberate piece of your stream rather than a cut.

History

Patch notes

v1.3.1

Fixed the triggered filter breaking after an OBS update. The filter is looked up fresh at every transition now, rather than cached once at load
Finds the old scene-as-transition plugin wherever it is installed and offers one-click removal
Fixed a build failure on Qt 6.10

v1.3.0

Fixed OBS locking up when no scene was chosen, which took scene and transition changes with it until a restart
Fixed the filter not firing at a zero percent transition point
Fixed the first scene change after opening OBS behaving oddly
Fixed a reference leak when settings changed mid-transition

v1.2.1

Spots an old scene-as-transition.dll and points you at the folder to remove it

v1.2.0

Fixed cases where the transition filter failed to load

v1.1.1

Fixed audio not outputting correctly after an OBS restart

v1.1.0

Volume adjustment over the transition scene
Audio fade on both the source and the destination scene
Danish, Dutch, German and Japanese translations

v1.0.3

Transition scene audio folded into the final mix
Fixed media sources being cut off at the transition point

v1.0.2

Fixed the filter trigger option resetting when properties were opened
Preview Transition works more than once without changing a setting first

v1.0.0

Use a scene as a transition, with its own duration, switch point and a filter trigger

Ready to try it?

It installs into OBS and runs there. Nothing to sign into, nothing to keep open alongside it. Questions, ideas or something not working? We are in the Discord.

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