Question / Help How To Make Image Settings Different Per Scene?

[Germaximus]

HI there,

Since Studio has this new feature where it saves images and you can "add existing", is there any way to make it so that when I "add existing" to a new Scene that it has separate settings like Opacity and such per scene?

 

[Suslik V]

Make scene per source and add this scene (as source). Filter apply to scene.
Same as in this post: Font coloring in copied scenes.

 

[Germaximus]

Okay yeah I thought I would have to do that. I just didn't wanna have copies of the exact same picture in the saved library ya know?

Thanks for the answer!

 

[Suslik V]

Not sure what you are talking about.

Steps:
1) add new scene, name Scene 1
2) add new scene, name Scene 2
3) add new scene, name Scene 3
4) to the Scene 1 add source image (Create new)
5) to the Scene 2 add source image (Add Existing) - image from Scene 1
6) to the Scene 3 add source Scene (point it to Scene 1)
7) to the Scene 3 add source Scene (point it to Scene 2)
8) in the Scene 3 you have two sources (Scene 1 and Scene 2) - you can apply different Filters to them (no matter that this still is the same image source that was added at step #4 and cloned at #5)
Thus opacity of the source Scene 1 = 80, and opacity of the source Scene 2 = 30, for example.

Same thing for camera sources. Disadvantages - the filters apply to the whole scene (Scene 1 and Scene 2), so keep in them only the single source.

 

[Guz]

So, this is a pretty old thread and everyone probably has it figured out by now, but if not...
In OBS 25, be sure to add a NEW camera to every scene. If you say "use existing" then any adjustments you make in one scene will propagate to all scenes. If you make a new camera for each scene, then the settings will change with the selected scene. That's all for now.

 

[mattvolatile]

So, this is a pretty old thread and everyone probably has it figured out by now, but if not...
In OBS 25, be sure to add a NEW camera to every scene. If you say "use existing" then any adjustments you make in one scene will propagate to all scenes. If you make a new camera for each scene, then the settings will change with the selected scene. That's all for now.

Don't do that, it will massively eat resources.

Do what Suslik said: Make scene per source and add this scene (as source). Filter apply to scene.

 

[koala]

Better way (more straightforward and less clutter) to apply distinct filters to multiple instances of the same source is to put the source into a group and apply filters to the group instead of the source. Groups don't clutter the scene list. For each different filter set, create a new group.

 

[Friizzle_]

Koala is right, adding filters to a group source is much easier :)

 

[Suslik V]

The grouping of the sources is available since v22.0 of OBS (released in 08/2018).

 

[SeriousG]

Thanks that totally worked I created one group and applied alphas to the group. Now I can play around with this idea of groups. Does this work with audio as well? I was thinking of building a master scene then making groups out of the different components. For example camera 1 with alpha over camera 2 with colour raindrop alpha and audio 2.

 

[Suslik V]

Does this work with audio as well?

For current version of OBS, Groups only accepts Video Effect filters.