screen capture

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    Question / Help Having HEAVY Issues with Screen Recording

    Hello Fam I downloaded OBS a couple of hours ago to do some Screen Recordings of my Laptop for my students. At the beginning, everything was working fine but suddendly after restarting OBS nothing worked. I can only do a Window Recording and not a whole Screen Recording. I already updated my...
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    Question / Help Smooth switching between windows during non-game screen capture

    I'm new to OBS. I want to create a series of short "How To" type YouTube videos. Each video will be a screen capture alternating between, say, a PowerPoint slide presentation, an Excel spreadsheet, an MS-Access database, a browser (Chrome), etc. I'll run each of those in a separate maximized...
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    Question / Help Resolution for non-game screen capture YouTube video

    I'm new to OBS. I want to create a series of 5-10 minute YouTube videos. Each video will be a screen capture alternating between a PowerPoint slide presentation, an Excel spreadsheet, an MS-Access database, a browser (Chrome), etc. I'll run each of those in maximized (full screen) windows and...
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    Question / Help Black Screen Capture Laptop

    I already red multiple threads but i found no solution. I already red this: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/laptop-black-screen-when-capturing-read-here-first.5965/ Things i've tryed: - running as administrator - setting OBS grafic preference in windows settings - going to propriety and...
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    Question / Help is it possible to screencast the whole screen?

    The reason I am asking is I want to be able to do a screencast with a recording of me talking with maybe a picture of me in the corner and I want to do it via OBS. I think I know how to do most of it, except for one thing. I want the whole screen to be included in the screencast. What do I do...
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    Question / Help Trying to record screen with webcam separately

    Hey there, I am trying to record my screen and my webcam separately in HD. So basically I have 2 1920x1080 screens that I am trying to record. What I did was I created a canvas of 3840x1080 and placed them side by side as shown in this tutorial here. When I try to zoom in on one screen I get...
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    Question / Help HELP-- NEW TO OBS

    Hi-- I'm not a very savvy tech person. I'm a new Youtube (or trying to be) and my videos are seeming to record in color and then displaying in a sort of weird grayscale-ish washed out way. I've been reading in the forum and I've changed setting but to no avail. I'm using a Toshiba laptop...
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    Question / Help Capture Card

    I have a wide range of consoles. I don’t want to buy a large quantity of capture cards for all of the different formats. Is there a capture card that records from the TV instead of the console and use A/V cables? It would have to record sound and go as low as 160p. I don’t really care about...
  9. record_gh

    Question / Help Highlighting

    HI. I am doing a video Tutorial. Can someone please help me with how to highlight during recording? That is, i want to be able to draw a rectangle, ect, around certain sections during the recording. I have attached an example of what need
  10. gbertagnolli

    Question / Help OBS don't capture screen - I have already reinstall it

    Dear: I don't understand the problem, OBS worked normally, but one day, I couldn't make a live stream. If I open OBS, it stucks on the preview of the screen. I left the attachment of log below. Best regards Gabriel
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    Question / Help mouse cursor not following drawing while recording

    I'm looking to record my screen while i sketch using a wacom tablet. but after i view my recording the cursor is not following the sketch until i lift my pen. the problem does not occur if i switch off windows ink but then the sketch is not as smooth as it was with windows ink turned on...
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    Free Magic Window 1.6.19.2019

    Now Open Source! https://github.com/caHarkness/magic-window-obs Magic Window was developed to streamline the process of showing what's around the mouse cursor without having to edit recordings. Magic Window works by painting a portion of the screen to a window that OBS can see, but one that we...
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    Question / Help Recording one tab

    Hey, sorry if this is an old question, and I'm certain it is, but I'm new here and wanted to ask anyway. I'm using OBS to screen capture when I draw. Is there anyway to set things up so it only records one app? So, like if I wanted to pull up the internet to look for a reference picture, is...
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    Question / Help Screen capture black screen - changed GPU from nvidia to intel, still not working

    Getting the screen capture black screen from obs running on nvidia, but when I change nvidia settings to run obs on intel the program still launches with nvidia (from what I can see in the logs). I can't seem to find anything pointing me in the right direction. What am I missing? Log file...
  15. BWPanda

    Question / Help [Solved] Record multiple windows, but not all

    I'd like to record a screencast in which I'll use multiple windows, but I still want to be able to do some things 'off camera'... The source that let's you record a specific window won't help me as I want to record multiple windows (e.g. browser, text editor, terminal, etc.), and the source...
  16. Grappler_senpai

    Question / Help what settings would you recommend for my build??

    I have questions about my streaming experience... with a 1.1 mbps upload connection speed,an intel i7 5280k,gtx 1060 gpu,and 16 GB of ddr4 RAM,what settings would you recommend for streaming?? also,what recording settings should I use on top of that??
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    Question / Help WIN 10 Record only Desktop 1 (Virtual/ WKey+Tab)

    Hi there, Just tried to start Streaming with OBS, and set everything up. Unfortunately I can't find an Option to only record Destop 2 and ignore Destop 1 (Not Physical Screen, I only got one^^). Is anyone aware of such a feature in OBS or how this could work? Thanks! Regards, Ochitsuku
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    Question / Help Questions about Capture Modes

    Hi, so i know these questions have been asked 1000 times and Ive been reading through them to try to figure out my issue but now im running into a problem i cant quite pinpoint. and have a few other questions. Just to get a few things out of the way, I have already Run it as Administrator, I...
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    Question / Help Recording just output audio

    Hey, I'm just doing some screen recording and want to record just the output audio. Currently the way I'm recording is capturing noises when headphones are on and off. Thanks!
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    Question / Help OBS Studio Can't Record or show anything (display and window capture) on my laptop

    Please help me!. I tried opening OBS studio to record my screen (display capture) and all it showed was this black screen and nothing comes up. https://obsproject.com/logs/UNPIFhPYn6DZdY6L
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