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I want to make a video, so what I need to do is save the scenes as individual files, then I do all the work with a video editor. The question is, how do I save the scenes as files?
Question / Help How do I save scenes so I can use a video editor to fix them together?
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OBS is designed as a realtime compositor, so it's not really designed for what you're trying to do.
The best thing I can suggest is use a Color Source, make it bright green, put it behind everything else the full size of the canvas, on every scene, then hit "Start Recording" and go through each scene. This'll result in a video file that you can import into your video editor, where you can cut it up and put a Color Key on it to key out the green (like a greenscreen). Remember to make sure it records in its full quality, so go to Settings -> Video and make sure the scaling resolution is the same as the canvas, and under Settings -> Output put it to Simple Output mode and configure it to record to "Indistinguishable quality".
The alternative would be to build the scenes within your video editor directly, which is what most people do.
The best thing I can suggest is use a Color Source, make it bright green, put it behind everything else the full size of the canvas, on every scene, then hit "Start Recording" and go through each scene. This'll result in a video file that you can import into your video editor, where you can cut it up and put a Color Key on it to key out the green (like a greenscreen). Remember to make sure it records in its full quality, so go to Settings -> Video and make sure the scaling resolution is the same as the canvas, and under Settings -> Output put it to Simple Output mode and configure it to record to "Indistinguishable quality".
The alternative would be to build the scenes within your video editor directly, which is what most people do.
Algodoo creator
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I'm new, I don't understand a thing you're saying...
koala
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May be you miss the point of OBS. OBS is an app to capture video stuff (game capture, webcam, etc.) and either stream this live to some streaming service for viewers' immediate consumption. Or instead of streaming, to simply save the captured video stuff on disk.
In this scenario, you don't "save a scene", so it's not clear what you want to accomplish. Instead, you either start streaming, or start recording, and for this you have the two buttons in the lower right corner.
If you already have some raw video footage you want to postprocess and create a new video from it, OBS isn't the right tool for you. In this case, you are searching for a video editor or an nle video editor.
OBS is no video editor, it is a streaming client. You have functions to manipulate the video created by OBS, but that's for life broadcast and not for postprocessing existing stuff.
In this scenario, you don't "save a scene", so it's not clear what you want to accomplish. Instead, you either start streaming, or start recording, and for this you have the two buttons in the lower right corner.
If you already have some raw video footage you want to postprocess and create a new video from it, OBS isn't the right tool for you. In this case, you are searching for a video editor or an nle video editor.
OBS is no video editor, it is a streaming client. You have functions to manipulate the video created by OBS, but that's for life broadcast and not for postprocessing existing stuff.