Question / Help Copy/Paste/Reference/Duplicate...

[Banyarola]

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What is the difference between PASTE/REFERENCE and PASTE/DUPLICATE..
Thanks...
Bany

 

[Banyarola]

I would appreciate a reply to this if anyone knows the answer.
Thanks..
Bany

 

[HotelCharliHill]

I would appreciate a reply to this if anyone knows the answer.
Thanks..
Bany

BUMP (me too)

 

[Banyarola]

Well Hotel, I assume no one knows what it is...
This happens all the time...Someone asks a question and it gets ignored but if it's game related the replies pour in..
I have been searching for this answer all over...

 

[R1CH]

A reference points to the existing source, duplicate makes a new source. If you make a reference, properties edited in either one affect both sources. For example, if you want your webcam in all scenes, they should be references, since the webcam can only be in use by one source at once. Same for alert widgets - otherwise any graphical / sound effects will trigger in all the duplicates at once instead of once for the original source.

 

[Banyarola]

So, if you add an existing BROWSER source, not copy/paste it, is it a reference source or a duplicate source?
Also, if I COPY/PASTE my browser source into another scene and want to edit the browser source to a different size etc. I should paste it as a DUPLICATE so I can resize it without it changing the size or properties of the original browser source I copied?

The reason I am asking is because I use the same browser source in several scenes and I have the browser source re-sized for each scene.

Thanks...

 

[R1CH]

Add existing creates a reference. Note that only properties and filters of referenced sources are copied, you're free to resize or crop it per-scene.

 

[Banyarola]

Thank you, that explains what I needed to know..

 

[HotelCharliHill]

I wanted my webcam to be fullscreen 1080p for closeups and talking with the audience.... but I wanted my main stream scene to have the webcam in 800x600 so it was encoding less info and so it wouldn't be so wide and take up so much space, but when I did that the options always transfered AND it would also cause the device to not work in the other scene (it would only work in the first one the webcam was used in after the software was restarted).... and someone on here even said what I was trying to do can't be done.

 

[storrm]

Related to the original OP's question, I duplicated a video source into another scene and applied a rotation and colour correction filter. The rotation correctly applied to the one scene but the filter applied to both. Is this correct or a bug? From what was written above I would have expected the filter to apply only to the duplicate.

 

[Suslik V]

@storrm media sources cannot be duplicated (by design). The option to Paste (Duplicate) is not grayed out because of oversight during development (or so).