Question / Help Multiple OBS Recordings Overwriting Each Other

[Gus Joseph]

Hey Everyone,

So I wanted to record 2 video sources separately (to edit them myself later) so I saw that the way to do that was to open 2 instances of OBS and to just record like that. However, when I hit the hotkey to record, in the file destination only one recording shows up, even though both windows of OBS display that they're recording. It works fine when I individually start each recording (I'm assuming because the video names are different) but the hotkey method only results in a single recording. I read that it's supposed to just create a video file with the name and a (1) after it (like recording and recording(1)) but that doesn't seem to be happening for me. Any advice would be hugely appreciated! Also, let me know if I should include a log, I wasn't sure if I should seeing as it's not a recording error per-se, more of an encoding issue.

Thanks in advance,

Gus

 

[Simes]

You could try setting one of the instances of OBS to record to a different output directory from the other. You can set up a different profile for this if you need to do it on more than one occasion.

 

[Gus Joseph]

Oh you can save the output destination to specific profiles? Didn't know that, I'll give it a try when i get home!

 

[RytoEX]

I had this same problem in June. I wish it were automatically handled, but for now it seems that the suggested solution is multiple instances of OBS Studio which use different profiles/settings.

 

[Schauerland]

use profiles for each instance and in every profiel different filenames.