Scene as Transition Plugin for OBS Studio

March 21, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Use any OBS scene as a transition. Build whatever you want with sources, filters and effects, then use it as the thing that plays between your scenes. The sky's the limit.

Pair it with something like Exeldro's Move Transition and you can create some genuinely advanced stuff. You can even make transitions dynamic by feeding data from Streamer.Bot or SAMMI. Put a text source on the transition scene and have it update with the name of the scene or game you're switching to. That sort of thing.

Grab some ready-made examples at StreamUP to get started.

How To Use

  1. In the Scene Transitions dock, press + and select Scene. Give it a name.

  2. Configure the transition properties:

    • Scene - Pick which scene to use as the transition.
    • Duration - How long the transition lasts in milliseconds.
    • Transition Point - When the actual scene switch happens underneath the transition. Set it as a percentage or a time in milliseconds.
    • Audio Fade Style - Fade Out/Fade In fades scene A out then scene B in around the transition point. Cross-fade blends both simultaneously from start to finish.
    • Audio Volume - How loud the transition scene's own audio plays.
    • Filter To Trigger - Pick a filter on your transition scene that gets enabled when the transition starts and disabled when it finishes. Useful for triggering animations timed to the transition.

Good to Know

  • Old plugin detection - If you've got a legacy scene-as-transition.dll from a previous install, the plugin will flag it and help you sort it out so they don't clash.
  • Media sources - Media sources on your transition scene won't cut off at the transition point. Audio and playback continue properly through the whole transition.
  • Filter lazy-loading - If your selected filter isn't loaded yet when OBS starts, the plugin retries when the transition actually runs. It still gets triggered.

Build

In-tree build:

  1. Build OBS Studio: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Install-Instructions
  2. Check out this repository to frontend/plugins/obs-streamup-scene-as-transition
  3. Add add_subdirectory(obs-streamup-scene-as-transition) to frontend/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
  4. Rebuild OBS Studio

Stand-alone build (Linux only):

  1. Make sure you have the OBS development packages installed
  2. Check out this repository and run cmake -S . -B build -DBUILD_OUT_OF_TREE=On && cmake --build build

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