
The 30 seconds before you go live decide who's still watching when you do.
Most Twitch streamers solve this with one of three bad options. Buy an OWN3D pack for $35 and use the same starting-soon screen as 4,000 other channels. Open After Effects, get stuck on a kerned text layer for two hours, give up. Run a static PNG of your logo and hope chat doesn't notice it hasn't moved in ten minutes.
There's a fourth option that costs $2.90 per clip and takes about 20 minutes.
This is the AutoAE template stack for the four motion screens every Twitch channel needs — Stream Intro, Starting Soon, Be Right Back, Stream End — and exactly how to load each one into OBS as a looping Browser or Media source.
A complete Twitch channel doesn't need one intro. It needs four short motion pieces that hand off to each other across a stream's lifecycle.
| Screen | When it plays | Length | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting Soon | Loops before you hit "Go Live" | 15–30s loop | Hold the chat that arrived early; signal you're alive |
| Stream Intro Card | First 5–10 seconds after going live | 5–8s one-shot | Channel name + "we're on" beat |
| Be Right Back | Bathroom break, family interruption, snack run | 10–20s loop | Reassure viewers you're returning |
| Stream End / Outro | Last 10 seconds before you cut the stream | 8–12s one-shot | Follow + socials + next stream date |
Trying to do all four in After Effects is a weekend project that becomes a month. Buying them as a pack from an overlay marketplace works but locks you into one art style across every screen — and the style usually screams "Fortnite circa 2019."
A template-first motion tool gives you the one thing both AE and pack purchases can't: the same brand language across all four screens, edited individually, with assets you actually own.
This is the screen that does the most work. Viewers arriving early read your title, glance at the player, and decide in three seconds whether to wait or open another tab.
Template: 0X100x Style Friendly Brand Greeting
Why this one: it's warm without face-cam. A friendly character animation does the social work of "I'm here, I'm setting up, sit tight" without requiring you to look presentable before stream time. Drop your channel name in the greeting copy field, set your accent color, render at 1920×1080.
Loop-cleanly tip: pick a template version whose final frame matches the first frame closely, or in CapCut, place the clip twice in a row and add a 4-frame cross-dissolve at the seam. OBS will loop the file forever — the seam is what gives away a cheap loop.
Length: 15–30 seconds. Anything longer and chat starts pinging you about whether you froze.
The first beat after you hit "Go Live." Bold typography, channel name front and center, no waiting around.
Template: Bold Slogan Opener (SaaS Launch Roadmap Pt.1)
This is the same opener SaaS founders use for product launch videos in a different vertical — it works here because Twitch intros are a brand declaration, not a product demo. Channel handle as the main word, tagline underneath, total 5–8 seconds, hard cut to your gameplay or webcam scene.
Audio cue: if you produce a stinger sound effect (or buy one for $3 on AudioJungle), drop it in CapCut at the 0.5-second mark on the headline frame. The whole point of an intro card is the audio + visual hit landing together.
Less critical than Starting Soon — chat has already settled — but a brand-consistent BRB screen tells viewers you're a real person taking a real break, not a frozen stream.
Template: Logo Horizontal Slide Reveal (UI Motion Assets)
Use this one to display your channel logo plus 2–4 sponsor or community logos sliding in beside it. If you don't have sponsors yet, repurpose this for "Channel Community" — Discord logo, X handle, YouTube clip channel. It rewards viewers who stayed through the BRB with a reminder of where else to find you.
If you'd rather skip the sponsor format, swap to a second instance of the Friendly Brand Greeting from Step 1 with different greeting copy ("back in 5") — same brand language, different message, same template asset.
The last 10 seconds before you click "End Stream" are when followers decide whether they hit the follow button.
Template: Social Media Follow Animation (0X100x Style Collection)
Drop your handle into the follow-button animation, add three social handles below (X, Instagram, YouTube), and end with the day or time of your next stream. The animation does the calling-to-action — your job is to verbally repeat it twice while it plays. Viewers click follow when both the visual and the host tell them to in the same beat.
Length: 8–12 seconds. Long enough that late-arriving viewers see the full follow gesture, short enough that you don't feel like you're padding for views.
| # | Screen | Template | Source Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starting Soon (15–30s loop) | 0X100x Style Friendly Brand Greeting | Short-Form Content Collection |
| 2 | Stream Intro Card (5–8s) | Bold Slogan Opener | SaaS Launch Roadmap Pt.1 |
| 3 | Be Right Back (10–20s loop) | Logo Horizontal Slide Reveal | UI Motion Assets |
| 4 | Stream End / Outro (8–12s) | Social Media Follow Animation | 0X100x Style Collection |
Find all four at autoae.online. Search the template name in the library, fill in copy and brand color, export 1920×1080 MP4.
The clip itself is half the work. OBS has to play it cleanly inside your scene.
Option A — Media Source (simplest, best for one-shots like Intro Card and End Card):
Option B — Browser Source (better for animated loops, lets you preload):
Most beginning streamers use Option A. It works. The Browser Source trick matters when you want to preload the file so it starts on frame one — useful if you're cutting straight from BRB to gameplay and need zero delay.
| Option | What you get | Cost | Time to first clip |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoAE | Four custom motion clips with your channel name + colors + assets, full commercial license, 1080p MP4 | $2.90 per clip (one-off) or $9.90/mo (unlimited) | 15–20 minutes per screen |
| OWN3D / Nerd or Die pack | Bundled overlay + intro + BRB + outro pack, fixed art style, limited customization | $35–55 for a pack, more for animated bundles | Instant download but pack-locked aesthetic |
| Fiverr custom motion designer | One-of-one custom build, you brief, they deliver | $50–250 per screen | 3–7 days revision cycle |
| After Effects + template | Full customization, all four screens, but you're learning AE | $20.99/mo Adobe + 4–20 hours of learning | Days to weeks the first time |
| CapCut + static PNG | Cheap, gets a stream live, looks like a first stream | Free | 5 minutes but looks generic |
The break-even point against an OWN3D pack is one channel rebrand. If you'll ever change your color scheme, logo, or tagline — and you will — buying a fixed pack means rebuying. Template-based clips let you re-export with new copy in five minutes.
A few things to keep separate so the wrong expectations don't get baked in.
AutoAE is not an overlay tool. OBS owns the overlay layout. AutoAE makes the motion clip that lives inside one of your OBS scenes. If you want sub-alerts, follower goals, chat boxes, or top-donator widgets, those come from StreamElements, Streamlabs, or OBS plugins — separate stack.
AutoAE is not a stinger transition tool. Stinger transitions (the animated wipe between scenes) are technically possible with an MP4 + alpha channel, but AutoAE's standard MP4 export doesn't include alpha. Use this kit for full-screen scene cards, not for transitions.
AutoAE doesn't replace your face-cam frame. The webcam border with the camera-shaped cutout? That's a static PNG or PSD job — Canva, Photoshop, or a $5 Fiverr ask. Different deliverable, different tool.
The clip itself is the deliverable. OBS is where it lives.
Can I use these screens commercially / monetize the stream they appear on? Yes. AutoAE templates render with full commercial use rights on any paid plan or the $2.90 single-use option. Sub revenue, ads, sponsorships, donations — all covered. See autoae.online for the current license text.
Will OBS lag if I run all four screens as separate scenes? No. Each scene only plays its own MP4. Modern OBS handles four MP4 sources fine — the bottleneck is your encoder (NVENC, x264), not the file count. A 1080p H.264 MP4 at 30fps is roughly 10–15 MB per file — negligible system load.
What if I'm a vertical-format streamer (TikTok Live, Kick portrait)? Set the AutoAE export to 1080×1920 instead of 1920×1080. Same templates render at portrait aspect. Map to the same four screens — Starting Soon is even more important on portrait because phones don't show stream title as prominently.
Should the four screens share a color and font? Yes. Pick a single accent color (your channel's "signal color") and use it across all four templates. Same with the typography — Bold Slogan Opener and Logo Horizontal Slide Reveal both support custom color and font, so a 30-second pass through each template before export keeps the kit consistent. This is the difference between a "channel" and "four random clips."
Can I make these screens for someone else's channel as a service? The single-use $2.90 option includes commercial use, so yes — if you're building motion clips for a client streamer, you own the deliverable. Pricing it as a $40–80 service is standard given the time you save vs. learning AE.
Do I need a stinger sound for the Stream Intro Card? Strongly recommended. A 1–2 second stinger from EpidemicSound, AudioJungle ($3–5), or a free Pixabay clip lands the brand moment. The visual + audio hit together is what separates a hobby intro from a channel that looks like it knows what it's doing.
Why not just use Canva? Canva works for static stream graphics — offline screens, panels, social posts. For animated screens, Canva animations are exported as MP4 but the motion library is generic (fade in, slide, pop) without character or kinetic-typography templates. AutoAE's templates are designed as motion pieces first. If you only need a static "BRB" image card, Canva is fine. If you want any of these four screens to actually move with intent, you want a motion-first tool.
Will the Starting Soon loop seam show? It can, if you don't handle it. Two fixes: pick a template whose final frame is close to the first frame, or duplicate the clip in CapCut and add a 4–6 frame cross-dissolve at the join. OBS will then loop the merged file without a visible cut. Most viewers don't watch the loop point closely, but on a slow-pre-stream chat it can get noticed.
Can I add my webcam over the Starting Soon screen? Yes — that's normal OBS scene composition. In your "Starting Soon" scene, add the AutoAE MP4 as a background Media Source, then add your Video Capture Device on top with a webcam-border PNG framing it. Two layers, one scene, viewers see both.
The combined work, end to end:
Total time: under an hour for a first pass. Second pass — when you want to change colors or update the channel tagline — is fifteen minutes because you just re-export the templates with new copy.
That's the case for template-based motion. You don't build it once and live with it; you re-render it whenever your brand evolves. After Effects can't compete on iteration time. Pack purchases can't compete on customization. AutoAE sits exactly in the gap between them.
Your Starting Soon screen has thirty seconds to keep viewers from leaving before you arrive. Use them.