An OBS Plugin to easily display pre-configured lower thirds.
Create an OBS folder that includes a text source for the main text (e.g. names) and one for the secondary subtitle (e.g. titles). The folder can also include any other design elements.
In the OBS Docks menu, the "Lower Third Switcher" dock can be enabled. In the settings tab the scene, folder source, main text source and secondary source can be selected. The "Display Time" defines how long the lower third will be visible.
After the settings are set up, you can switch to the data tab in the Lower Third Switcher dock. For each lower third, you would like to show throughout the stream you can create a new entry. The item that has a green dot is the active item, which will be shown next.
During the stream/recording, you can show the next (active) item by clicking the "Play Next Lower Third" button, this action will also set the next item in line as active. A flashing red dot will indicate that the lower third is currently visible. A hotkey can be set up to show the next lower third. This enables many opportunities to control the plugin, e.g. a midi device can be connected and with a plugin like obs-midi-mg midi signals can trigger the hotkey, thus the midi device can trigger the next lower third to be shown.
Go to the Releases page and download and install the latest release for the proper operating system (currently only MacOS, for other systems download the source code and build the plugin). After installing the plugin, you will find it in OBS in the "Docks" menu.