how to capture 2 screen with different resolution size

[DIbanez]

Hi Everyone,

Good day to all of you.

I would like to ask you help. I'm just starting to use OBS.

I have a laptop screen wherein the resolution size is 1366x768 and an external monitor where the resolution size is 1920x1080.
How can I capture them both that fits naturally on my laptop - as the output canvas. Also, if I switch to the external monitor as the output canvas can it be automatically resized or fit the monitor?

Appreciate your help.

Thank you so much.

 

[koala]

There is only one canvas size. Once you start a recording, the resolution of the resulting video cannot be changed mid-recording.

What you can do depends on what you are trying to achieve in the end.
Do you always want to create the full monitor screens? Or do you want to composite multiple sources, including window captures from your monitors?
If you just want to capture what's on one monitor, you can create 2 profiles, one for each monitor. In each profile you configure the respective monitor resolution as canvas and output resolution.
Then create 2 scenes, in one you add a display capture source for one monitor and in the other scene a display capture source for the other monitor.
To make a recording, switch to the corresponding profile and scene, then start the recording. This way the video resolution is 1:1 the monitor resolution of the monitor you capture.

If you don't want to switch profiles and manually switch canvas resolution, you can right-click your corresponding display source->resize output (source size). This way the canvas and output resolution is set to the size of the current source. But you always need to use this function to switch between the 2 sources for your 2 monitors.