Help with nesting/changing background

[therootedone]

Hello!

I have a situation where I change the background video that plays on my blue screen behind the camera, there are 8 or 9 different colours of my background video in the camera frame. Currently I have it setup where I have a separate scene for every colour, identical scenes (camera, alerts, game video etc.) except for the different colour background video and I just switch between the scenes to 'change the colour'.

Is there a way to streamline this? Say with a nested scene for the camera frame and using a hotkey for streamdeck/touch portal to change the background? I've been experimenting with nested scenes and would love to keep things more organized and compact.

Thanks!

 

[ElMalditoBatman]

You can create 1 scene and apply all your colors on that 1 scene.
Then you can go to your hot keys settings and apply a unique keyboard shortcut for each color to show. Once you have updated all the show shortcuts. You will need to apply all those shortcuts to the hide options of the other colors, like in the screenshot I have attached.

So to Show red, you can press Ctrl+Shift+R, but you will need to apply Ctrl+Shift+B and Ctrl+Shift+G on the Hide Red. You can add multiple shortcuts to one option by pressing the plus sign.

You can then just nest that scene as your background on your main scene, and you should be Gucci. With 8 colors, might be a bit tedious to setup though.

 

[therootedone]

This is very interesting thank you. For your example there are only a few, but to add more colours it would just be as simple as adding as many colours as there are? Meaning: Colour 1 would need to disable colours 2-8, adding on to your Ctrl+Shift+B and Ctrl+Shift+G +++++. If that makes sense.

A bit outside the scope of OBS support, would this be essentially the same functionality as something like StreamDeck or TouchPortal in the way of showing/hiding sources?

 

[koala]

You can also create a master scene that contains everything except your colored backgrounds. Then create addtitional scenes, one for each of your backgrounds. Add the corresponding background to each scene and additionally the master scene as source. Assign your hotkeys to these colored scens.
Then, if you change anything in your master scene, it is reflected in all different scenes.

Instead of creating a master scene, you can also take one scene and put all items except the colored background into a group. Then clean the other scenes and only keep the background. Then add the group to the other scenes and you get all items within the group to all your scenes. If you now change something within the group, no matter in what scene you do it, it will be reflected to all other scenes with that group.

 

[ElMalditoBatman]

This is very interesting thank you. For your example there are only a few, but to add more colours it would just be as simple as adding as many colours as there are? Meaning: Colour 1 would need to disable colours 2-8, adding on to your Ctrl+Shift+B and Ctrl+Shift+G +++++. If that makes sense.

A bit outside the scope of OBS support, would this be essentially the same functionality as something like StreamDeck or TouchPortal in the way of showing/hiding sources?

Pretty much.
Although those can be more visual, so easier to keep track. But if you can remember all your shortcuts, your set.

I am sure there are numerous ways you can probably do it. But that might just be the simplest. As it would only require two scenes. Your main scene and 1 scene that you are using as a source and never have to activate. Or u can just group up all your color choices in your main scene.