kenji_hayakawa
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The macOS Screen Capture [mSC] is very clunky.
My environment is a MacBook Pro 2019 with Ventura OS. Basically, I want each mSC to capture a specific app - one for Adobe Acrobat, one for FireFox, one for TextEdit, and so forth, as shown below.
On Windows, when I do the above using Window Capture [WC], each WC "remembers" the app and assigns the relevant source window every time the app and/or OBS is opened/closed. However, with mSC, this doesn't happen. Instead, each time I re-open the app and/or OBS, the mSC automatically assigns a random source that has no relation to the originally selected window/app.
This happens even when I re-open the window with exactly the same name.
For example:
1. Open a pdf file called "P1" with Acrobat.
2. Open OBS, add a mSC [call it "Acrobat (PDF)"], select "Window Capture" and select "Adobe Acrobat - P1"
3. Close both Acrobat and OBS.
4. Re-open "P1" with Acrobat.
5. Re-open OBS.
6. The mSC "Acrobat (PDF)" no longer captures P1, but instead is reassigned to some random source (in the above screenshot, the Dock)
This means that every time I start a new stream, I have to re-assign all of my window captures in every scene, which is not only time-consuming but also creates an additional source of human error for the stream.
Is there a way to fix this? Basically, I'm looking for a solution that works just as well as the Windows' equivalent of this feature.
My environment is a MacBook Pro 2019 with Ventura OS. Basically, I want each mSC to capture a specific app - one for Adobe Acrobat, one for FireFox, one for TextEdit, and so forth, as shown below.
On Windows, when I do the above using Window Capture [WC], each WC "remembers" the app and assigns the relevant source window every time the app and/or OBS is opened/closed. However, with mSC, this doesn't happen. Instead, each time I re-open the app and/or OBS, the mSC automatically assigns a random source that has no relation to the originally selected window/app.
This happens even when I re-open the window with exactly the same name.
For example:
1. Open a pdf file called "P1" with Acrobat.
2. Open OBS, add a mSC [call it "Acrobat (PDF)"], select "Window Capture" and select "Adobe Acrobat - P1"
3. Close both Acrobat and OBS.
4. Re-open "P1" with Acrobat.
5. Re-open OBS.
6. The mSC "Acrobat (PDF)" no longer captures P1, but instead is reassigned to some random source (in the above screenshot, the Dock)
This means that every time I start a new stream, I have to re-assign all of my window captures in every scene, which is not only time-consuming but also creates an additional source of human error for the stream.
Is there a way to fix this? Basically, I'm looking for a solution that works just as well as the Windows' equivalent of this feature.