Is it possible to hide the output from a camera source in the OBS broadcast scene view?

[Leonard4]

I would like to have a camera source on and broadcasting to Twitch, but I would love it if I could turn off or hide the output so that I don't have to see myself. Does anyone know of any fancy tricks other than putting a post it note on your monitor? Or any plugins that output a video stream but black out the preview? Thanks!

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Sounds like a basic usage scenario issue ...
OBS Studio composites inputs ... the whole point of the Preview window is to see/monitor what has been 'composited'. To hide one portion of what is being composited makes no sense

the challenge typically is when you only have a single display and want to capture something else, and run OBS Studio on same single monitor... bad idea.. something typically to avoid, especially for beginners

If you aren't directly interacting with OBS Studio... minimize the OBS Studio application? or shrink the window

Sorry, I'm not seeing a use case where your request fits with the user interactive design of OBS Studio?

 

[Leonard4]

@Lawrence_SoCal thanks for the response I appreciate the explanation. Was hoping to get an answer without getting too personal, but I suffer from body dysmorphia and don't like my appearance, so looking in mirrors or cameras is a trigger. I've been streaming online but nobody wants to watch a streamer without a camera feed so I've been looking for a solution to where I don't have to see myself when I click over to OBS to check things, etc.

My ideal solution would be a camera source that you can right click on and say hide preview, like you can in scene views, but still have the output broadcast out over the stream. Hopefully that makes sense.

 

[Suslik V]

It is possible to disable whole Preview in OBS (right-click menu over the Preview window), and it is possible to open "Windowed Projector" per source/scene (and save its position, state etc - there is checkbox in the Settings). If camera (or any source) is in separate scene(#1) and main layout is in another scene(#2) then you can add both to the broadcasting scene(#3) as special Scene sources - these three scenes(#1, #2, #3) can has separate "Projectors".

 

[Leonard4]

@Suslik V Thanks for the ideas. I currently run 3 different scenes for 3 different monitors and have an auto scene switcher based on my mouse position on my desktop. I'll have to play around with the Windowed Projector source/scene control and see what I can get to work. Appreciate it!