Question / Help Image Slideshow Hotkeys Not Consistent

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Catalyst9001

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OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6

I'm running a livestream for my church and we'd like to be able to switch from the live camera feed to the sermon slides and then back to the live feed.

What I've done is set up two scenes. One scene, "Live," has just the camera feed and our church graphic in the corner. The other scene, "Notes," has an Image Slide Show with all of the slides, as well as the camera feed running under it, to keep the audio running under the slides.

I'm running the stream in Studio Mode, and I've got hotkeys set up to transition the slides. The problem is, the hotkeys only work some of the time. I'll press the hotkey while the slide is in the non-live window, and it'll switch just fine, and I'll transition it over to the live window. After a few seconds, I'll transition the Live Feed back to the live window. Then, all of a sudden, the hotkey to switch slides simply stops working. It'll work if I set the slide show to the live window, but I really want to be able to switch slides in the non-live window and simply transition between those two scenes.

It's not as if the hotkeys are NEVER working. Which makes it all the more frustrating, because it looks more like a glitch than an actual issue. I've Googled this for a while and found nothing. Is this just me having a problem?

I'd also include a log file, but bizarrely, when I click "Upload Last Log File" or "Upload Current Log File," it brings up the usual window with "Upload Successful," with NO URL. Is my computer just trash?
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

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If the URL isn't showing, chances are your version of OBS is out of date. Make sure you are fully updated (to version 22.0.3) and then try to upload the log file again.
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

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Ah, you're using Studio mode? Turn Studio mode off, I think you might just be confused as to how Studio mode is supposed to work.
 
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Catalyst9001

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Will I be able to smoothly switch between scenes if I'm not in Studio Mode? What is Studio Mode supposed to be used for? Also the hotkey don't work unless you're in Studio Mode, correct?
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

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Studio mode is for editing scenes while you're live, primarily. You can still use hotkeys to switch to scenes without studio mode, and they will use the selected transition (lower right, next to the control buttons).
 
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dywilson

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I am so surprised this is still not a thing - I have seen the same issue in multiple posts and no solution. It makes absolutely no sense to prevent the slide transitions from working when the slides are previewed as opposed to when they are live. Typical use would be live on video, transition slide to next suitable slide, then go live with it, then go back to video, then transition to next slide ready for the next cue.
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

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The program doesn't do this because it is absolutely assumed that any transition, like a slide, is intended for the audience to see. OBS is assuming that the transition between slides in a slideshow are to be treated the same way as transitions between scenes, and this applies as well in studio mode.

If you run a slide transition on a slideshow in the preview window... only you saw it. The assumption here is that you return from the video to the last used slide, then use a transition to the next slide, so the audience sees the transition. That might not be important if all you're doing is a cut, because there's no difference between advancing the slideshow and doing a cut, but it does matter for other kinds of transitions

I can see how this doesn't fit your use case but I think it might be better served by capturing a slideshow run by other software (powerpoint, libreoffice, faststone) or, depending on the number of slides, just having each image be separate scenes, or perhaps sources in a scene where those sources can be activated/deactivated by a hotkey that does work in studio mode.
 
Accularian

Accularian

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I transition slides in the preview window all the time, not just when the slide scene is live. This has always been the behavior for me and it makes sense because we need to bring up the next slide in the que before we switch live to it. I have always been able to advance and reverse slides before I transition them to live. But... it is very buggy. Sometimes my HotKeys are completely ignored other times they work perfectly as expected. Sometimes I have to click another source, click outside a window, click another scene, etc. before the HotKeys start working again. Sometime I need to restart OBS all together and sometimes even the computer. If all is working at launch, it seems to continue working throughout the show. System: Mac OSX Big Sur.
 
robin_pens

robin_pens

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@Accularian I have also been having issues with both hot keys and slide shows on Mac. I made several posts last year with no solution offered. I'd hoped the latest update would solve this, but it hasn't.

I run 2 machines (specs in my signature), a 2011 iMac on High Sierra - this machine has no issues with hot keys/slide shows. I also run a 2013 Macbook Pro on Catalina, which is giving me the issues....

1. Slide shows won't play slides in the desired order, no matter the settings. Sometimes they will work if I add all images rather than a folder, but this behaviour is inconsistent too, as per this post:

Bug Report - Image Slide Show by Folder is Always Random

When I set the Image Slide Show source and direct it to a folder and deselect the Randomize Playback, it still is random. The workaround is to add individual images. Is this a known bug?
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2. Hot keys are temperamental, as per this post:

Question / Help - HotKeys stopped working with an update of OBS

Anyone else having issues with hotkeys not working? They just stopped on my MacBook pro a couple of weeks ago when I updated my OBS to the latest version. I tried to roll back the update but HotKeys still not working.
obsproject.com obsproject.com

This is infuriating and means that I'm forced to use an even older, less powerful machine for my streams until I can find a fix.

I hope this helps shed some more light on an issue which appears to be affecting several users.
 
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