Need some help setting up OBS to only show live ("program") device / camera

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ahelton

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Hi,

I'm attempting to set up OBS Studio for my church. I'm a bit stuck. Never done this before. I've got my Video Capture Device added, but all I'm getting is a screen that looks like this in OBS:

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How do I get it to only showing the "Program" camera and not the entire preview? Or what did I hook up wrongly? It seems to be capturing the screen from my preview monitor / multiview. Is that what it's supposed do, and then I somehow manipulate the screen in OBS to only show the live view?
 
Am I supposed to just crop the scene? My video gets blurry once I do that and then fit it to the screen. Guessing there's a better way to accomplish what I want.
 
I'm guessing your video capture is not actually a video capture device, but an application capture screen instead? maybe a (PTZ) control application? Correct, you don't want to crop a scaled down application window... you want the full resolution video feed direct from the camera... but it doesn't look like you set that up. And depending on your camera video output technology, there may or may not be a corresponding native OBS Studio Video Capture input. But not to worry, as there are 3rd party plugins and other methods to connect input from non-natively supported Sources

In your case, the 1st question is what type of cameras are you using, and how are they connected to OBS Studio computer? This could be USB, HDMI (usually via a switcher) old school SDI, NDI (Ethernet) or some cheap ethernet cameras will use RTSP. Each one requires a different approach to getting into OBS Studio. so - the answer to your question is - it depends (sorry, couldn't help myself)
I personally prefer NDI PTZ cameras BUT there is no native NDI video feed into OBS Studio. I set up Panasonic PTZ cameras and Panasonic provides a free VirtualUSB driver that accepts video feed from cameras and makes them appear as locally connected USB cameras (which makes using in OBS Studio very simple/native)... But like most things tech - has its own Pro's & Con's

It looks like you have 2 cameras. right?
 
@Lawrence_SoCal

I should clarify one thing. This used to work fine. We physically reconfigured the church A/V booth and when I plugged things back in I ran into this issue. Not sure what I did wrong, but I added a second monitor to our streaming PC (just so I could see multiview mode at all times and not have to change sources like on a single monitor setup).

Here's what we have:
- 2x Lumens VC-A50P Cameras
- 1x Halls Research UHBX-3S
- 1x Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio HD
- 1x Blackmagic MultiView 4 HD
- 1x Blackmagic Hyperdeck Studio Mini
- 1x Cisco Switch
- 1x ASUS Router

The streaming PC currently has an AJA U-TAP 3G-SDI Capture Device connected to it via USB cable. The capture device then connects to the Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio HD via SDI. The cameras also connect to this device via SDI.

The MultiView 4 HD isn't plugged in anywhere at the moment. I found it buried behind other equipment and swear it only had a cable plugged into the "in" port and not the "out" port, but now I'm doubting myself. It seems it allows for viewing multiple SDI sources on a single monitor...but I'm already doing that via the TV Studio HD so is the Multiview 4 HD even necessary?

I've recently purchased a Blackmagic Design DeckLink Mini Record 4K PCIe card that I hope can replace the above AJA capture device (trying to get rid of adapters and cables where I can), but for now the AJA capture device is still in play.
 
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