YouTuber Not Using DGT Boards ... So what tools/software are they using?

That's an analysis board added after recording. OBS and Streamlabs are often used for creating overlays for live streams/recordings.

Hi! And thank you! However I do "not" think you understood the question posed ... is why i said "not streaming" ... meaning Its easy to take any software and intergrate it with OBS and Streamlabs etc ... however my questions is:

There are youtubers going "out" to a park live and then posting their youtube later down road of the game played live showing live moves and poeple "AND" a software board of their moves ... thus they are "not" playing on software or online ... therein how do they get the software board up in their videos as well matching the time line / time stamp of the moves that are made live?

How they do this ... agian to date no one has been able answer this question

Thank you ~

Streamlabs and OBS is still used to edit and then upload the rerecording to Youtube. It is not exclusively used for live streaming... it records to a local file too. During editing you would manually move pieces on an analysis board while doing a screen capture. You can choose to include an evaluation bar as well. Just create a PGN of the game. Do your analysis (if you want the evaluation bar) and then advance moves while recording. You can even add arrows or hilight squares on the analysis board.

Alternatively, you can use any screen capture software to record the analysis board (i.e. Snagit). Then use any other video editing software to overlay the video. I think iMovies can do this too. But so can Streamlabs and OBS... this is probably the easiest as it includes screen and app capture capabilities.

@chesslover0003 ... by the way again thx ... and per your comment of "That's an analysis board added after recording" ... yes that is "true" I get that ... the question is they are in park or coffee shop live on board NOT using software ... so how they get the data onto analzyis and make time stamp moves match etc ... (once on software I get it ... overlay etc etc that is easy) but how are they actually geting the moves and times stamps to softare?

You are over thinking it. I can watch ANY chess match and transcribe it on an analysis board.

1. Launch your analysis board
2. Start watching the video you recorded in the park
3. Make the same moves on the analysis board
4. Once the game is complete, save the game as a PGN
5. Launch Streamlabs
6. Add video source: recording from the park
7. Add video source: window capture of your analysis board (crop it how you like)
8. Configure Streamlabs to record to a local file (it doesn't need to be streamed to Twitch or Youtube). Start recording.
9. Start the video source in #6
10. At the point in the video where you want the analysis board to appear, make the analysis board visible.
11. On the analysis board manually move forward in the game when the piece is moved in the actual game.

This doesn't require timestamps in the PGN because you are manually replaying the moves on the analysis board. You are recording the analysis board in realtime while watching playback of the video from the park. It's like you're streaming but you are only recording to a local file.

Just to phrase it another way... watch the game... hit the right arrow in the analysis board screen and this will move the piece. Time this so you hit the right arrow when the player makes a move. Get it?

Come on no one does this ... however!! I feel you are correct ... what they do (and no one to date has confirmed) what they do is as you say ... they go home and actually review vid and reconstruct game (as you share) (again no one has done or conffirmed this) and then do the following steps as you so state (thank you) and per time stamps as you say and as I thinking ... what they do is reconstruct game ... once that done / place in analyze and simple use key pad left arrow or right to make move once they see move in video therein bring perfect more or less time stamp ... yeah you and me in same boat as I am writing before I am finish your entire response (again thank you as you and me in same thought!) .. its amazing to me they have to do this ... I guess not that hard but time is money and well ... I guess again I guess they have time to do this ... pretty cool ~ until anyone else shows different I think this is the way they do it! Thank you!

Glad you get it now. It may seem like a lot of work... but this is actually the easiest way to do this. Even if you had timestamps for the moves you'd have to align timestamps in both videos. Transcribing timestamps for dozens of more moves is too much effort compared to replaying the game in this way. There is no software I'm aware of that will play replay a game in realtime using the move timestamps. These are blitz games that only last a few minutes.

Am with ya ! ... very interesting how they need to do ... with all tools / softare / ai / etc ... very interesting they have to do old school way ... but am with ya, and agree this must be way its done, all manual ... funny Thank you!