OBS Studio plugin

Test Card

Turn any source into a labelled test card, so you can build a scene before the camera exists.

By Andi v0.0.1 Free
Windows macOS Linux
OBS 31.1+

Seven cards, one filter. Bars, grids, flat colour and your own picture, at any shape.

You cannot frame a shot against a black rectangle.

This turns any source into a proper test card: colour bars, an alignment grid, a flat colour or your own picture, with a label on top so you know which one you are looking at. Add a colour source, drop the filter on it, type CAMERA 1, and you have something to build your layout against before the camera exists.

Everything it does

Key features

Four backgrounds: colour bars, a grid with a centre crosshair, a flat colour, or your own image
Type whatever you want on it, in any font you have installed
Or let it use the source's own name, so the card names itself
A plate behind the label so it stays readable over busy colour bars
A border round the edge, for lining cards up against each other
Colour, size, position: the label goes where you want it
Your own image can stretch, fit or fill, in whatever aspect you need
The panel only shows the settings that apply to the background you picked

Build the layout before the gear arrives

Drop in a colour source for each camera you are going to have, label them, and size them into place. The scene is built, the transitions work, the overlay sits where it should. When the real camera turns up you swap it in and everything is already where it belongs.

Same trick for a capture card that is not plugged in yet, or a guest who is not online, or a second PC you have not set up.

Colour bars with a label plate, so the text stays readable over the brightest part.

A grid and a centre crosshair, for lining a camera up properly.

Or use it as a holding card

Set it to a flat colour in your own palette, type BE RIGHT BACK, and that is your break screen. No image editor, nothing to export, and you can change the words in two seconds.

Drop your own picture in behind the label instead if you want something with more in it.

A flat colour and a few words. Your break screen, in about ten seconds.

Or your own picture behind the label, stretched, fitted or filled.

History

Patch notes

v0.0.1

Colour bars, grid with crosshair, flat colour and image backgrounds
Typed labels in any installed font, or the source's own name
Label plate, frame border, and colour and position controls

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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