Question / Help How do I prevent OBS Studio 19.0.2 and OBS Studio 18.0.1-FTL from sharing setting?

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StandupDad

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Firstly, I'm not asking for OBS Studio-FTL support.

I'm asking about the "save" location that's used for OBS settings, scenes and sources, and if I can create a new location for either OBS because both applications seem to be using the same source for these settings even though I installed the FTL version into its own directory and drive, I found that upon its completion, it was populated with all of my OBS Studio 19.0.2 Sources and Scenes. Even though I can use OBS Studio to stream to both, I have to keep changing stream keys and some other settings when I switch. Not to mention the the depreciated loss when not using FTL for Mixer.

The questions:
  • Can I have both versions of these apps installed on the same machine, but not use configurations (Scenes, Sources, Keys and various other settings) from the same saved-source location?
  • If that is a yes, then how would I split them up? I'd like to click on one icon to run a stream for Twitch, and then if I want to stream to Mixer, I would like to close down that version of OBS and start up the other.
 
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StandupDad

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c3r1c3 said:
1. You can create a different profiles and scene collections, that way you only have to switch to the one for Beam vs. non-beam (or other things like that as well).
2. You can use the portable install of OBS: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-and-obs-studio-portable-mode-on-windows.359/
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Thanks for the suggestions @c3r1c3. The reasons I don't want to do option 1 is that I lose the FTL if I get away from the FTL version for Mixer, as well as the depreciated quality/bottleneck for non partnered streamers. With the FTL version, that goes away. As for #2, I'll have to look into that. Maybe that's an option.

I guess that the 3rd option is to do both Mixer and Twitch with the FTL version if that's possible and create different profiles there. It was something I didn't consider until I saw your @1.

Thanks again. I'll keep working at it.

SuD
 
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