Category: Community

We have a great, fun, and new opportunity for you! As you may or may not know, we have a Weekly show on Twitch.tv called XSplit Weekly which is shown every Wednesday, where we talk about the latest in XSplit news, events, and what happenings are going on, on the Twitch front. Each episode we showcase streamers from our stream team and Elite members.

Here is an example:

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For the first time we are now opening up this opportunity to the public. We will be featuring videos from the #XSplitFamily community! The rules for this are: the video has to be 1-2 minutes long, highlighting yourself, your stream, and some of your favorite features on XSplit. Each week a new person will be chosen, so there are a lot of opportunities to be picked! If you are chosen, you will be featured in our social media channels for the week and there also may be future opportunities with your video   Please fill out this form if you’re interested – https://goo.gl/forms/3OhN4w1yO…

When submitting video, you are agreeing that you are okay with video to be used for social and marketing purposes. If you have any questions, please reach out to me on Twitter at @ugrgaming.

As some of you already know, our company has been growing quite a bit in the past couple of months with our acquisition of Player.me and Challonge, and recently Strexm and Stream Overlay Pro.  Having said that, we thought it would be of the community’s interest to get to know more about our other products by interviewing the key personnel behind it.

Today, we will be interviewing Erick Rodriguez who is responsible for a really cool stream overlay tool currently in-development called ‘Stream Overlay Pro’. As part of the acquisition, Erick has now joined the SplitmediaLabs internal development team.

When we announced our acquisition of Strexm.tv, we also mentioned that we have agreed to have Erick Rodriguez of Stream Overlay Pro join the SplitmediaLabs internal development team.

Get to know more about Erick and Stream Overlay Pro in our interview of him below.

Tell us a little about yourself, your background and what you’re up to

Erick: Hello! My Name is John Ericson Rodriguez (please call me Erick, my full name is quite long), and I’m the inventor and head developer of Stream Overlay Pro. I have a degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Autonoma de Colombia in Bogota city, and since I got my degree I have been working for companies related to Internet, media and publishing in the last 15 years in diverse countries around the world. I master the arts of Publishing, Web Developing, GUI Designing, jQuery/PHP/CSS3/HTML5 scripting. (yes, because programming should be also an art :D). I’m married with a beautiful Filipina, we have a 3 year old boy and I love Fighting games, and programming.

What is Stream Overlay Pro and how does it differ from other similar tools?

Erick: Stream Overlay Pro is a very unique product on the market: It allows you to create powerful dynamic overlays for video streaming productions without making the user to write a single line of code. Over the past several years I have seen how overlays for game tournaments were built and it is quite exhausting to have a creative process where you have to involve programming.  To achieve this new paradigm, Stream Overlay Pro is a package that is composed of two main components:

1. A Photoshop-like environment (tentatively named Stream Overlay Pro – Manager) where you import your graphic assets, set behaviors (animations, sets of dynamic information from local and remote sources) to your text and graphical objects, and a flexible management of data sources.As result you have an automatized overlay(s) for your productions. Also it differ from other tools the fact that you can design custom alerts with behaviors that are not present on other alert services, import datasets from any kind of source and communicate with other third party applications to fetch data in real time.
2. A controller (Stream Overlay Pro – Controller) which is a powerful application that helps to control the flow of data to your overlays.

The uniqueness of Stream Overlay Pro provides a new paradigm in streaming production, since there are no designing tools specifically designed for the purpose of streaming.

Also, when you create projects for your stream using Stream Overlay Pro, what you design is 100% compatible across popular streaming software*, including both XSplit and OBS, so you won’t be tied to a specific application.

I encourage you to read this post I wrote some time ago:https://www.streamoverlaypro.com/introduction-stream-overlay-pro/, this will give you some moreinsight.

*Depends of their internal architecture and how those applications render HTML

How do you see Stream Overlay Pro benefiting broadcasters in the future?

Erick: Stream Overlay Pro benefits not only the gamer on his home production, but also big organizations that need a quick and professional tool that allow the creation of powerful productions. With Stream Overlay Pro streamers won’t have the limitations of learning a computer programming language to create dynamic overlays. In exchange, they have absolute control of the design and they adjust overlays in real time if an urgent change is required.

For that reason Stream Overlay Pro provides to the user a set of behaviors that can configure each aspect of the overlay (alerts, data feeds, dynamic events involving images or media, you name it).

I feel the streaming community we address only want to play their games and it is difficult for them to create dynamic overlays : they have to go over the process of learning computer programming and do test and trial on the process or to go over a complicated process where they probably won’t get what they need which could be very frustrating; so for this reason Stream Overlay Pro can help them to achieve in a considerable short amount of time what they envision in their minds.

Can you give us some insight on what the “grander vision” for Stream Overlay Pro looks like?

Erick: I believe Stream Overlay Pro is going to be a game changer in the higher end stream community: it is not only addressed to high-end productions, but also aims to provide the streaming community with a tool that can provide benefits and value for casual streaming.

Being acquired by SplitmediaLabs is a real honor, and a dream for people like me who enjoys video games and programming. We share visions regarding the gaming community, and this gives to Stream Overlay Pro incredible potential to have a synergic relationship with XSplit Broadcaster in order to provide to our clients powerful tools to create incredible productions.

Also we love what we do, we love games and we work with passion to achieve our objectives. So based on this shared vision I think Stream Overlay Pro can help the entire streaming community.

We have been making a decision on streamers joining our stream teams on a case by case basis, but since our respective stream teams have started growing along with their popularity, we decided it would make sense to start setting some requirements to meet before being eligible to join our Twitch or Beam stream teams going forward.

Twitch

2,500 – 3,000 followers

50 – 70+ concurrent viewers

Active social media presence

Must be able to represent XSplit on their channel and on social media.

[Partnered streamers on a case by case basis]

Mixer

500 – 1,000 followers

30 – 40+ concurrent viewers

Active social media presence

Must be able to represent XSplit on their channel and on social media.

[Partnered streamers on a case by case basis]

Smashcast.tv

350 – 550 followers

35 – 45+ concurrent viewers

Active social media presence

Must be able to represent XSplit on their channel and on social media.

[Partnered streamers on a case by case basis]

If you think you easily meet those basic requirements, please fill out this application form and our lovely community managers will go ahead and take a look of it. 🙂

Let us know below if you have comments or hit us up on Twitter @xsplit should you have any questions! 🙂

Requirements are subject to change without notice.

With thousands of fighting game players in attendance, EVO not only is the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, but also the biggest gathering of the fighting game community. Tons of side tournaments, grudge matches, gaming personalities, and game demos can be found at EVO. For EVO 2015, Mad Catz and XSplit are partnering to give you a glimpse into what can be found if you attended EVO 2015.

The XSplit team will broadcast a variety of side events from the Mad Catz booth at EVO 2015. Some highlights include the epic grudge match between Meltdown Luffy and Yubiken Super Santarouman in Ultra Street Fighter IV, Tekken 7 action, finals for the 3v3 Arc Revo Qualifiers, and much more! You can find the full schedule here. All the action will be broadcast on the Mad Catz Twitch channel, so make sure to follow the channel to know when it goes live.

Aside from watching all the action at the Mad Catz booth, make sure to follow both XSplit and Mad Catz on Facebook (/MadCatz and /XSplit) and Twitter (@MadCatz and @XSplit) for chances to win a variety of prizes.

What if I am at EVO 2015?

If you’re at EVO 2015, we’ve got you covered! Stop by the Mad Catz booth to get some free XSplit swag. Check out the image below to see what will be available in limited quantities!

We are happy to announce that XSplit is sponsoring NorCal Regionals 2014. To those who do not know, NCR is a premier fighting game tournament that features the best players of the US fighting game community and is watched by thousands of gamers from around the world.

NCR 2014 is a 3-day event starting on April 18 up to April 20 2014. It will be taking place in Sacramento, California (see this map for full details). If you’re not able to attend in person, you can still enjoy watching it through the following channels:

• Twitch.tv/teamspooky
• Twitch.tv/iplaywinner
• Twitch.tv/nycfurby
• Twitch.tv/capcomfighter

XSplit License Giveaway

We will be running a daily competition from April 14-18 2014 and we will announce the lucky winners on April 22 at exactly 10 am PDT. To participate, just answer some tournament-related questions to be posted on our social media channels on each of the dates mentioned. That being said, make sure you’re following us on our Twitter, Facebook so you don’t miss out on the giveaway.