I've been trying to find an answer to this for awhile. I found someone who said you can export I guess you'd call it a scene to a json file which doesn't do me any good. This seems like a basic function and it should be obvious. But if I edit a video with OBS, how do I save or export that video as a video?
I editted a video with OBS, now how do I actually export it as a video?
PaiSand
Active Member
OBS isn't a video editor. You can record videos with OBS.
Videos are saved on the path you specified in your computer.
For more information on how to use OBS you can start here: https://obsproject.com/kb/quick-start-guide
Videos are saved on the path you specified in your computer.
For more information on how to use OBS you can start here: https://obsproject.com/kb/quick-start-guide
So is it not possible to edit a video through it? What's the point in having the editing features? All I wanted to do was crop something in a video.
koala
Active Member
What you need is called a post production tool. A tool for editing existing video files. OBS itself is a tool for creating new video files from original sources by capturing and compositing stuff.
People collected a list of post production tools:
obsproject.com
People collected a list of post production tools:
Post Production Tools | OBS
OBS Knowledge Base. Useful tools that you can use after recording
obsproject.com
I'd say it a little bit differently:
OBS is a live TV studio. Everything it does is live. Live captures, live overlays, live everything else, live streaming, and "live-to-tape" recording. Everything OBS does is effectively live-on-air.
If that's what you want, that's great! One of our attempts at making a pre-recorded church service during Covid, used OBS to put lyrics on the songs while the lyrics operator followed along as if it were live. And then the live-to-tape recording that OBS made of that, we uploaded to YouTube.
If you can't be ready and do all of the edits that need to be made, live in real-time as things play out, then OBS is not the tool for you. You need an editor, which is something different as mentioned above.