Question / Help Is there any way to record all sources to edit later ?

[Dihelson]

I need to record all sources independently and to broadcasting normally at the same time. Is there any way to do that on OBS, like running multiple instances each one with a source ( I use 3 cameras ).

Thanks in advance.

 

[WizardCM]

You can run multiple instances of OBS, yes (ideally each in Portable Mode with the -p flag), but each camera can only be used by one application at a time. The recommendation to bypass this is either to use obs-virtualcam (set a filter on each source in your main OBS and then add a virtual capture device pointed to it in each secondary OBS), or use OBS-NDI (similar instructions, but you'd use an NDI filter in the main OBS, and an NDI source in each secondary OBS instance).

 

[Dihelson]

You can run multiple instances of OBS, yes (ideally each in Portable Mode with the -p flag), but each camera can only be used by one application at a time. The recommendation to bypass this is either to use obs-virtualcam (set a filter on each source in your main OBS and then add a virtual capture device pointed to it in each secondary OBS), or use OBS-NDI (similar instructions, but you'd use an NDI filter in the main OBS, and an NDI source in each secondary OBS instance).

Thanks for the nice ideas, but I have some doubts about running multiple instances of OBS. What's the difference of using the parameter -p or simply clicking on the exe file two or 3 times ? I read in some other place that running OBS in multiple instances would need to create unique directories for each one of them, almost a complete reinstall on a different folder, is that truth ? Well, I guess I don't know how to run multiple instances for sure. I'd be very glad and happy if you or other people could give me details on how to do that. Thank you so much.

 

[WizardCM]

The purpose of running multiple instances in portable mode is so that the config directory is different. If you launch OBS twice with the same config directory, you risk corrupting your settings & scenes because they're being read & written by two programs at the same time.

 

[Dihelson]

The purpose of running multiple instances in portable mode is so that the config directory is different. If you launch OBS twice with the same config directory, you risk corrupting your settings & scenes because they're being read & written by two programs at the same time.

It's good to know that. I already installed all other instances in portable mode, and they are working perfectly fine now. Thanks.