10 Reasons Your Twitch Overlay Sucks | StreamSchool

Welcome to Oracles Stream School, where you can pick up weekly tips and tricks to make your Twitch, Mixer, or YouTube stream look amazing. This week, we're just chatting about 10 common mistakes streamers make on their overlays! My name is Chris Folea, I'll be your stream scholar

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[StreamScholar]

Post your homework results here - they won't be graded or anything, but I'm curious

[niickthekiidLOL]

you gave alot of examples of what NOT to do, but as someone new to streaming, i dont even know what those things look like. You shouuld have SHOWN more examples of what not to do

[Dratina]

This is... like meanest helpful video I've ever seen xD

[Spaceman_Spff]

One thing you didn’t mention: intrusive borders. When I see a streamer with a border so large that it is effectively halving the size of the actual gameplay footage... yeah thats an instant pass from me. Sometimes less is more.

[KuroTheCanadianBacon]

While it's clear that you know what you're talking about and I'm able to understand for the most part what you're saying, I do wish you showed more examples both of what not to do and maybe even a few overlays that you consider to be well designed. Don't get me wrong this is a great video I'm just someone who learns a lot more when I'm able to compare visual examples to each other. It helps me gain a better understanding and it could also help others as well

[RealAromango]

Overlays are optional. I even prefer streamers without one or very simple borders. But having waiting/brb and other screens are great. For vtubers it's a little different but it can be simple at first. New streamers, don't worry too much about it and focus on being you :)

[thehardyboy]

WOW Thanks to Oracle I now know how to make my Overlay SUPER NICE!! THANKS ORACLE

[jamiedoesthings]

Fixing up my overlay at the moment, thanks for the tips and reminders! Could you put a link to your twitch in your video descriptions too?

Very useful video. Thanks for the information and opinion. Greetings from ARG!

[leopoldkain]

I appreciate this video more than you know. Thanks.

[vrhorror]

You’ve earned a subscriber today my good man, thanks for the info

[mrtaufner]

Interesting video. I'm currently having a lot of trouble deciding what should I do with my overlay, since my canvas is 16:9 but my display is 2560x1980 (21:9), and using that resolution on that canvas either stretches the image vertically or leaves some nasty black borders on top and bottom of the screen. I just happen to leave all the gap on the bottom and fit in my cam and follow notifications there. I'm trying to minify and unify my overlay again, but I don't know what to do.

[saambruhh]

Wow thanks for the help Professor Oracle, though I could've gone without you calling me stupid. :(

[ooOQuentineOoo]

I researched this subject a lot and guess what : the most popular streamers out there don't have "beautiful' overlays. They don't have any design on their webcam window. The focus is on the stream itself. All they have is cool brb / just chatting screens and good alerts. Examples : Amongold, Miskiff, Payo, Pokelawls, Nmplol, Xqc, and many others.

[Kuroganashi]

forgive me the odd question Mr. Chris but would you recommend a chat box in the brb screen too ? :O Noticed you had one in the example you shown, made me curious.

[MissPandakov]

Awesome advice! and also, some of your phrases reminds me of pewdiepie's accent hahaha

[jammerdraws]

First view and first like, what a big fan I am 😂

[J.Carpenter]

As someone who just started streaming 2 weeks ago, I promise you the artists will find you on your socials and solicit themselves to be the one to handle your stream graphics. I have 16 followers right now and I've probably had more than 16 artists slide into my DMs and ask if they can show me their stuff.

[emmu]

I streamed for the very first time last night as a technical test, upon successful stream I decided it was worth taking an extra step and making overlays now and looked for tutorials... and then get called out in the beginning

[GalacticBlader]

finally, someone who looks like they know what they're doing