Question / Help Existing Source; Can't change settings?

Homerkillio

Homerkillio

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I'm attempting to add an existing source to a new scene, aka my Video Capture, but I wish to change the resolution and such, but whenever I change it via the properties, it changes in both scenes. Is there anyway to change the settings of an existing source without it changing in every scene? I can't make a new source for my webcam since it will not locate it, but I also cannot change its setting via properties without it changing in every scene. Anything I can do to accomplish this?
 
You can read the video from the video capture device only once. It can only provide one stream of data. If you want to use it in multiple scenes, you use many references to this one data stream, and if you change the video properties in one reference, you change the properties of all. This cannot be changed.

What settings do you want to change? It's possible to resize or crop a reference that will not result in changes in the other references. Use the highest desired resolution in the capture and scale down your references as you need. If you crop, don't add a crop filter but instead press and hold the ALT key and move the borders of the source. This is a crop mode specific to only one reference, not to each reference.
If you want to add specific filters to only one reference, create a group and add one reference to the group. Then apply the filters to the group, not to the reference.
 
I was attempting to change the resolution on one scene, without it changing the overall resolution on the other scene, withing resizing via the corners of the source. Seems I couldn't do that, so I reversed the order by creating a full screen cam on the one scene, and downsizing via the corners of the source on the other for better overall quality. I wanted to avoid stretch to fit screen or the borders of the camera since it lowers the quality if stretched, so based on what you told me, it seemed the way I just did it was the best solution.
Thanks for your help, Koala. :)
 
I am having a similar issue to this as well, only I am trying to change a single text box.

What I want to do is have multiple text boxes on my screen, with one saying "LIVE" and the other saying something else. If I edit one text box, all text boxes change to say the same as the text box I am editing. Is there a way around this? Or is this how editing a text box is supposed to work?

I am using Streamlabs OBS so if this is not the right place to post this, then I'm sorry.
 
@Homerkillio I assume you want your capture device source in some scene larger, and in some other scene smaller. To keep quality high, go to the scene where you want the source largest and set the desired best resolution in the device settings. This is probably the highest resolution the device supports.

In the scenes where you want the source smaller, resize the the frame so it has the desired smaller resolution. This will downscale the image with no quality lost. Keep an eye on the aspect ratio: fit is ok, because you keep the aspect ratio, but stretching isn't. If you stretch a source, the image becomes distored, because you enlarge or shrink it vertically differently than horizontally. Usually, if you pull the borders to resize, aspect ratio is preserved.

@FordmanGaming Add additional text boxes with the "Create new" option, not with the "Add existing" Option. With "Add existing" you create a reference to an existing text box, which enables you to have the same text box in multiple scenes. If you "Create new", you create a different text box which enables you to have many textboxes with all different content.
 
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