Is there a way to remove certain sources from Twitch VODs?

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Tovar

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I am well aware of the feature to make your audio not play on VODs when it's played on a certain track, mainly used to play copyrighted music on stream without DCMA. What I'm wondering is more on the visual sources end of things.

For my case particularly, I would like to have a visual indicator on screen that shows the current song playing and have a cool waveform audio visualizer on my streams, but I don't want them showing in my VODs as to avoid confusion when I post VODs or clips elsewhere and people see these things but hear nothing. I think it would look really clean and nice that way and seem more professional, and this could be nice for other sources too most people have on their streams that they don't necessarily want in their VODs.

So if there is a setting that I am missing, or a plugin that I am unaware of, please direct me the right way, as I would like to do this with my streams ASAP.
 
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AaronD

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Similar to audio, once it's mixed, you can't unmix. Finished audio is a single representation of air pressure at each moment in time, and finished video is a single representation of color at each point on the screen at each moment in time. The individual components are all gone. You can't get back what was behind an overlay.

But, you could produce different streams simultaneously for different destinations. The most general way to do that is to have a separate instance of OBS for each destination, somehow give each one all the sources it needs(*), and use all of OBS's tools to produce each one. But depending on *how* they're different, and how much of what you want to keep the same, it might work to do both in a single instance using the Source Record plugin.

Source Record

Download Plugin for OBS Studio to add a filter that allows you to record a source. Add "Source Record" filter to your source. Installation Copy and merge the folders that are in the download zip to the OBS folder for example: C:\Program...
obsproject.com obsproject.com
The main output then goes to the live stream, while the plugin records something else. It also helps to know that a scene can itself become a source in another scene. So you might build the identical stuff once, and then have different parallel paths from there for the things that are different.

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(*) This could be a challenge if your operating system still has exclusive access to each source. I think Windows *is* still exclusive. Ubuntu Studio Linux (my rig) is not. There are also plugins to send live media directly from one instance of OBS to another, which might get around the exclusivity rule if you have one.
 
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