duplicate profiles still linked??

[xucaen]

long story short, I made a profile for mobile, then duplicated that, and set it up as wide screen, now when I go back to the mobile profile, all jy assets have been moved around and changed. why is there still a linkage between profiles? how to I make a new profile that I can change around to fit mobile and wide screen?

https://obsproject.com/logs/lQgjVlKSayAakznh

 

[qhobbes]

A Profile is your Settings. What you see on the canvas is your Scene Collection. You need to create/duplicate a new Scene Collection to layout the content and audio for mobile/wide.

 

[Suslik V]

All changes started from this: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/9910

Thus, encoding settings (that previously were: canvas size, output resolution [re-scaled or not], fps, encoder type etc.) earlier stored in the Profile. Idea was - you can change the set of scenes while still online (not all encoding options, like let's say encoder, can be changed after the output started; but you can add or remove the sources no matter streaming started or not). Now, the set of scenes directly linked to the canvas size despite the canvas size options still is in the Output section of the OBS settings.

I didn't understand the logic of this change too. Users at some point should assume that sources (items) now center aligned on the canvas despite all visible (x; y) values of items (in current coordinate system) starts from the top-left corner and measured in pixels. I can see this as: "any scene collection now has preferable aspect ratio named 'base resolution' measured in pixels WxH, where you should calculate the ratio in mind", but probably I'm wrong in this statement. Also, I can assume that there are two Canvases: one for output (profile) and one for each set of scenes (scene collection); and this scene collection's "canvas" can be placed (fitted) on to the profile's canvas in a different ways. Fun fact: output itself can't be in the abstract coordinates - every encoder expects WxH in pixels, and no matter how pictures were rendered or stored.

Edit: almost forgot - better to change both: the Profile and Scene Collection. And don't touch anything after the output started.

 

[xucaen]

A Profile is your Settings. What you see on the canvas is your Scene Collection. You need to create/duplicate a new Scene Collection to layout the content and audio for mobile/wide.

but why are the screen size settings in the profile and not the scene collection? should I have a single profile for each scene collection ? I'm not sure how to set up my two scene collections to have different dimensions without making a new profile..

 

[qhobbes]

Create a new blank/empty Scene Collection. I named mine "0BLANK" so it will be at the top of the list. When changing profiles that have different resolutions, first switch to the blank scene collection, then change the profile and then change to the new scene collection. Do the same when switching back.