Advanced Scene Switcher

Advanced Scene Switcher 1.37.2

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Warmuptill said:
Have you or some tool you are running modified the files (accidentally)?
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I don't know, i learn the software for the moment, because Twitch studio is to limited for me (and ending support on mac)
I don't think i have modify something, just install some plugin. OBS launch when i remove the Scene Switcher plugin.

The terminal command work perfectly. Thanks !
When you say "if you don't need the Twitch functionality" it's not possible to stream on Twitch after ? Because yes that's the goal ^^
 
kapout said:
I don't know, i learn the software for the moment, because Twitch studio is to limited for me (and ending support on mac)
I don't think i have modify something, just install some plugin. OBS launch when i remove the Scene Switcher plugin.

The terminal command work perfectly. Thanks !
When you say "if you don't need the Twitch functionality" it's not possible to stream on Twitch after ? Because yes that's the goal ^^
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If you run the command in the terminal then you can use everything :)
Just if you would have removed the file I mentioned the Twitch functionality would not work.
 
Ok i understand. That's perfect. Thank you very much for your help and your time Warmuptill.
I can continue to play with OBS now ^^
 
Warmuptill said:
Good find!
That is a bug and was not intended to be the case.

A build with a fix will be available here in a few minutes:
github.com

Show warning if system tray is disabled in OBS settings pull request run · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher@6eab4ac

An automation tool for OBS Studio. Contribute to WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher development by creating an account on GitHub.
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You will have to be logged into GitHub to be able to download it.
Let me know if that should be an issue and I try to share it with you via other means!


Sorry about that!
Unfortunately, I need a bit more information:

Which OS are you using?
What exactly is not working?
Does the plugin not function any more or is it not showing up in OBS at all?

In case of the former can you please provide more information about what you have set up?
In case of the latter can you please share on OBS log (with the plugin installed)?
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Fast and effective, works like a charm, its truly random now !

This will save me so much time each day !

Thank you once again for the plugin and continous support !
 
So as I've stated in the past, and I'm certainly grateful for the update that resulted from it, I'm trying to remove all need for video editing for my gaming channel, and the only thing left would be to figure out a way to do timelapses as I record rather than having to use editing software to do it. In my mind, it seems like it should be as simple as having the software take every Xth frame, save it to the file and then discard the rest. I haven't been able to find a plugin that can do that, but I was experimenting with making a macro that can record .01 seconds of video every X seconds, and it sort of works but is either very jerky when I'm trying to really speed up time or doesn't really speed through the gameplay very fast. If I record .01 seconds of video every 3 seconds, it looks like it's just jumping forward, but if I go down to less than a second it's not much faster than real time.

I think the limitation might be the .01 limit on how short we can make the wait command work. If we could get a .001 or .0001 value for wait commands, and I could have the macro wait say .5 seconds and record .001 seconds of video, that might close the gap to make it look smoother and still drastically speed up the timelapse.

Thoughts? I'm sure there's a flaw in my logic somewhere, or someone would have come up with a solution by now.
 
Gunthrek said:
So as I've stated in the past, and I'm certainly grateful for the update that resulted from it, I'm trying to remove all need for video editing for my gaming channel, and the only thing left would be to figure out a way to do timelapses as I record rather than having to use editing software to do it. In my mind, it seems like it should be as simple as having the software take every Xth frame, save it to the file and then discard the rest. I haven't been able to find a plugin that can do that, but I was experimenting with making a macro that can record .01 seconds of video every X seconds, and it sort of works but is either very jerky when I'm trying to really speed up time or doesn't really speed through the gameplay very fast. If I record .01 seconds of video every 3 seconds, it looks like it's just jumping forward, but if I go down to less than a second it's not much faster than real time.

I think the limitation might be the .01 limit on how short we can make the wait command work. If we could get a .001 or .0001 value for wait commands, and I could have the macro wait say .5 seconds and record .001 seconds of video, that might close the gap to make it look smoother and still drastically speed up the timelapse.

Thoughts? I'm sure there's a flaw in my logic somewhere, or someone would have come up with a solution by now.
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I think a timelapse feature really needs to implemented directly in OBS, not in a plugin, and then expose that for a plugin to simply say, "do it." As of now, I'm pretty sure OBS just doesn't do that.

Conceptually, it's not hard - just like you say, take every Xth frame and throw away the rest, as the absolute last step before the encoder, and run the encoder with that as if they were consecutive frames at the normal rate (DSP functions care nothing about actual time, only samples, and for video, each frame can be thought of as a sample) - but it needs to be done in the right place to avoid making a massive mess of it.

I'd recommend hitting up the core OBS developers to see if they could add a temporary timelapse.
 
Sally S. said:
Thank you AaronD.
It always shows up when I am not logged in. I need to be logged in and having the stream key entered so it disappears.
Now I am trying to run a couple of overlapping Youtube streams on a channel and schedule that with AdvSS. I am trying a couple of profiles each runs on a separate instance of OBS. One isn't asking for the broadcast set up as I am logged in and got the stream key set, but the other keeps asking for it.
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You're sending two separate things to two separate streams, on the same YT account, from the same computer? That's two separate things that most of us don't do - two streams on one account, and two streams from the same computer - so support will probably be a bit thin just for that reason.

Also, the details that you gave (and I quoted here), are a bit confusing to me. There are two things happening at the same time, and you use the singular "it"...

Can you at least clarify which does what? Maybe a solution pops out anyway...
 
AaronD said:
I think a timelapse feature really needs to implemented directly in OBS, not in a plugin, and then expose that for a plugin to simply say, "do it." As of now, I'm pretty sure OBS just doesn't do that.

Conceptually, it's not hard - just like you say, take every Xth frame and throw away the rest, as the absolute last step before the encoder, and run the encoder with that as if they were consecutive frames at the normal rate (DSP functions care nothing about actual time, only samples, and for video, each frame can be thought of as a sample) - but it needs to be done in the right place to avoid making a massive mess of it.

I'd recommend hitting up the core OBS developers to see if they could add a temporary timelapse.
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Agreed, but part of what I'm thinking is being able to run music at the same time. If I can have a track that pauses and unpauses with the video, I might be able to add background music if it's close enough to sound seamless. Have the macro pause/unpause both recording and the music track.
 
Gunthrek said:
Agreed, but part of what I'm thinking is being able to run music at the same time. If I can have a track that pauses and unpauses with the video, I might be able to add background music if it's close enough to sound seamless. Have the macro pause/unpause both recording and the music track.
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It's...possible...to chop up audio like that, but I think you'll hate the result! And I think the sync in post will be a lot harder than you think. I think you'll just end up replacing the audio anyway, at least for that section. And if you have a post step anyway, maybe you can just continue to do the timelapse in there.

Or, I guess there could be a speedshift function in there, like YouTube does for the 2x speed setting. That's not just dropping samples though. The algorithm is of course based on the original data, but the result is closer to a whole new soundtrack that only sounds like the original. Wouldn't be surprised if YT does that for video too, not just audio.
 
Gunthrek said:
...I was experimenting with making a macro that can record .01 seconds of video every X seconds, and it sort of works but is either very jerky when I'm trying to really speed up time or doesn't really speed through the gameplay very fast. If I record .01 seconds of video every 3 seconds, it looks like it's just jumping forward, but if I go down to less than a second it's not much faster than real time.
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Going back to your original post, I wonder if .01 is too short. Try 1/fps instead, for one whole frame time. So 30fps would be 0.0333... seconds per frame, 60fps would be 0.01666...7, 50fps is 0.02, etc.

Might not make much of a difference, but worth trying at least.

Also consider that the shortest scan interval of Adv. SS is 50ms, or 0.05 seconds. (top of the General tab) That's how often it scans the macro conditions and starts the macros that evaluate to TRUE. I think the Wait actions can be shorter, but I don't actually know that.
 
AaronD said:
Going back to your original post, I wonder if .01 is too short. Try 1/fps instead, for one whole frame time. So 30fps would be 0.0333... seconds per frame, 60fps would be 0.01666...7, 50fps is 0.02, etc.

Might not make much of a difference, but worth trying at least.

Also consider that the shortest scan interval of Adv. SS is 50ms, or 0.05 seconds. (top of the General tab) That's how often it scans the macro conditions and starts the macros that evaluate to TRUE. I think the Wait actions can be shorter, but I don't actually know that.
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I wanted to do 0.016 at 60 FPS, but the wait parameter only goes down to 0.01, so I have to either pick that or 0.02. I can certainly try doubling the record time and see how that goes. Thanks!
 
Hi all!
First of all, deepest gratitude to the developer of the plugin that turns OBS into a powerful online teaching tool.
I finally figured out the variables, but I have a question: the five variables that I created appeared not only in the list of variables, but also in the list of sources (in the lists of the plugin, not in OBS itself). Is that how it's meant to be? Was this done on purpose or did it happen by accident?
Thanks!
 
UPD: Also, deleted variables remain in these lists, and if such a variable is accidentally selected, then the list of its modes remains inactive.
 
Rozenman said:
Hi all!
First of all, deepest gratitude to the developer of the plugin that turns OBS into a powerful online teaching tool.
I finally figured out the variables, but I have a question: the five variables that I created appeared not only in the list of variables, but also in the list of sources (in the lists of the plugin, not in OBS itself). Is that how it's meant to be? Was this done on purpose or did it happen by accident?
Thanks!
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Glad to hear you found a use for the plugin! :)
Variables also being available in source / scene selections is indeed intended.
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UPD: Also, deleted variables remain in these lists, and if such a variable is accidentally selected, then the list of its modes remains inactive.
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That is not intended.
Seems to only happen if the variable is removed via the variables tab.
I will try to track that issue down and provide a fix in a future release.
 
Is there any way to trigger a macro based on storage space left on the system (Mac in particular)?
I'm trying to send a warning message when storage left reaches a particular threshold.
 
Hi all!
I set up a notification in the plugin when the broadcast bitrate drops below a certain value, as well as when drop frames appear (in order to switch to another provider in time and not interrupt the lecture). Notifications appear, but only after exiting OBS. What can be done? Thank you!
Mac OS Sonoma. I checked all the system settings and gave all permissions.
Thanks!
 
ohheyitsak said:
Every single time I go to my macros it crashes my OBS. Every time.
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Just a week ago I encountered the same problem. I was forced to delete all files from the Settings Folder and then restore OBS settings from settings backups and plugin backups. The reason for the crash was that I made a mistake in the lecture schedule settings, setting the same date for two different lectures in macro conditions.

I can't guess what mistake you made. But rest assured that the reason is a user error in setting up the macro, and not a bug in the plugin. The creator of the plugin cannot guess all our stupidities and mistakes. )

After this sad story, I began to create backup copies at literally every step of setting up the plugin.
 
Friends, please tell me how to correctly configure the condition of a macro that notifies about the execution of another macro? Let me explain: one of my macros loads a certain list of image files into the slideshow settings. The same macro the next day, for another lecture, leaves the list of image files empty. On the third day, it loads another list of other images. I need the notification to appear only when the images are loaded. And it doesn’t matter which ones - the main thing is that something is loaded. But when the list is empty, the notification should not appear. The task is not as simple as it seems at first glance. I would be very grateful for your advice.
 
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