For football streaming — no plugin, no download
Draw routes, coverage shells and QB reads on your stream in real time, the way the TV booth does. ProPlayVision runs in your browser, and one click opens a clean output window you capture in OBS. No plugin folder, no local server, no second device to pair.
If you've tried to draw on your stream before, you know the routine. Download a plugin and drop it into the right OBS folder. Or run a small server on your machine and pair a tablet to it over your network. Or use a general screen-annotation app that gives you a pen, a highlighter and a few colors.
Those tools can work. But they're built for drawing on anything, which means they don't know anything about football. You get freehand arrows that sit flat on top of a field shot from an angle, and every circle you draw has to be redrawn when the player moves.
ProPlayVision takes the opposite approach: a telestrator built football-first, running entirely in the browser, with an output window made to be captured by OBS.
Producing a school or independent game broadcast? See the football broadcast telestrator for replay, score bug and lower thirds.
Open the X's O's Chalkboard in your browser and load the game film, highlight or gameplay clip you want to break down.
One click opens a clean window with nothing but your canvas — no panels, no menus, no toolbars bleeding into your stream.
In OBS, add a Window Capture source and pick the ProPlayVision output window. Size it to your scene and you're set.
Work in the main window while your audience sees the finished drawings on stream in real time — at a native 1080p canvas.
Gap indicators, QB vision cones, slide protection, zone depth and 1-2-3 read chains. Tools that already know what you're trying to draw.
Rewind what just happened and draw on it — the classic broadcast replay breakdown, without leaving the tab.
Per-tool camera tilt matching puts routes and markers on the turf instead of floating flat over the field angle.
Lock a spotlight or marker onto a player and it rides with him. If it drifts, one drag puts it back. How tracking works →
Say "d spotlight" and it's on the field. 336 commands and 963 ways to say them, so your hands stay on the controller.
Prepping a segment? Time-code every drawing to reveal in sync with your talk track, then just press play.
Streaming football is different from making a film breakdown. There's no editing afterward, so the drawing has to happen while chat is watching. That's where a streaming telestrator earns its place: the play happens, you rewind it with the DVR, draw the route or the blown coverage, and play it back, all in a few seconds and all on stream.
Because OBS captures ProPlayVision's output window like any other source, it works with whatever OBS streams to: Twitch, YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Kick or your own RTMP server. Your drawings sit in your scene next to your camera, overlays and alerts.
Streaming full game broadcasts with a score bug and lower thirds? See the football broadcast telestrator. Setting up on a specific computer? See the Windows or Mac guide. Running your show in vMix instead? See the vMix telestrator.
| ProPlayVision | OBS plugin | General screen-drawing app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Install required | None — runs in the browser | Plugin files in OBS folder | Desktop app install |
| Football-specific tools | 84 | Usually generic pens & shapes | Generic pens & shapes |
| Perspective-matched drawings | Yes | Rarely | No |
| Draw on a replay | Built-in DVR | Some | Only if you pause the source |
| Drawings follow players | Assisted tracking | Rarely | No |
Plugin and app capabilities vary by tool. For a product-by-product breakdown, see the full comparison.
No. ProPlayVision runs in your web browser. You capture its output window in OBS like any other window, so there's no plugin, no local server and nothing to install. Full walkthrough: how to draw on screen in OBS.
Yes. The built-in DVR lets you rewind what just happened and draw on it without leaving the tab or touching your editor.
One-click OBS output is on every plan. Plans start at $19.99 per month — see pricing for the full breakdown.
Yes. ProPlayVision works with whatever OBS streams to, including Twitch, YouTube Live, Facebook Live and Kick. OBS captures the output window, so your drawings go out with the rest of your scene.
Yes. It works on real game film and football video game footage alike, and there's a pre-calibrated Madden Camera Preset so drawings land on the turf from the first clip.
X's O's Chalkboard is live. Plans start at $19.99/month, month to month, cancel anytime.