Black screen in OBS when trying to record with video camera

[obshelpneeded]

Hi everyone. So essentially, I want to be able to stream some high school sports games while also recording them on the video camera. I know that OBS has it's own recording function but we need the guys on the field to start/stop recording whenever they need to because it becomes incredibly tedious to cut up 3 hours of footage in one big block. But when I hit the record button on my camera, my screen immediately goes black in OBS. Is there a way for me to be streaming while recording from my video camera without using the record function in OBS?

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/jaFEy8p19nRT0Du5

 

[Harold]

That would be controlled by the camera. When you try to use the camera with a TV as your viewfinder, does the TV go black when you start recording with it?

 

[FerretBomb]

It sounds like your camera stops sending video output when you start recording on the camera. OBS can't fix that. It's the camera's fault. You'll need a different camera that keeps sending video-out while recording internally.

One thing I do to make editing later easier is to use the InfoWriter plugin to write out timestamps whenever I hit a certain button. At least then I know roughly where I need to scrub to, to find action I want to save.

You might also look at the Replay Buffer function. Lets you save off the last X seconds (length configurable, but not on the fly) to a video file on the disk. Setting that to 5 minutes could at least make the trimming easier.