Question / Help How do I setup OBS to have two different Streaming service configs?

[Judicator]

Hello, I' starting to stream both on Twitch and DLive and I'd like to avoid to change the output settings and stream key in OBS.
I duplicated my main OBS portable directory.
I have links to either of the two OBS executables but setting changes I make are applied to both of them, clearly both executables are getting the same config data, I guess.
How do I sort this out?
Thanks.

 

[Narcogen]

If you mean being able to switch between streaming services between streams, that's what the Profile menu is for.

If you mean streaming to more than one streaming service simultaneously, that can be done either with 3rd party platforms like Restream, or by manually setting up NGINX-RTMP and having it duplicate a stream to multiple services.

 

[Judicator]

I meant being able to switch between streaming services.

When I create a new profile it keeps the same scenes and sources as the old one.
Whenever I remove something from one profile the same happens to other one.
I tried with both DUPLICATE and NEW PROFILE with the same outcome.
I ran OBS normally and as Admin.

 

[koala]

There are profiles and there are scene collections.

Profiles contain snapshots of OBS settings, everything you find when you click the Settings button. If you want to switch between streaming services, use profiles. Copy your favorite profile and give the copy a new name. Then change the streaming service in the new profile, so if you switch to that profile you get that streaming service, and when you switch back to your original profile, you get the other streaming service.

Scene collections are snapshots of the windows "Scenes" and "Sources". If you want to create two different brandings with different sources for your streams, and never use both brandings in parallel, use Scene collections. Create one scene+source collection for your first branding, and the second for your second branding.

You can switch profiles independently from scene collections. If you want one branding for one streaming service and another branding for another streaming service, create 2 profiles and 2 scene collections, and if you want to switch from one to the other, switch the profile as well as the scene collection.

 

[Judicator]

Got it, thanks.
I thought it would generate a completely clean profile but as long as I don't have to manually change settings every time I'm fine with that.