Question / Help No 2nd Display Option/need some advice on how to use OBS for recording art

Feral_Felidae

New Member
So I just downloaded OBS because I want to start making speed paints (recording my drawings in Medibang Paint), when I select Display Capture it won't let me select "add existing" ("ok" button won't do anything). So when I select create new and load up the properties, it will have only one display option, but not one for my drawing monitor. So I end up with this weird mirror effect on the screen. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if there's something with my computer or monitor settings? All I wanna do is record my drawing and make time lapse videos for YouTube, I'm not planning on streaming games. I'm brand new to this, and I'm very grateful this is free! I'd just like some advise on how to use it, there's plenty of YouTube tutorials on how to stream but I have no idea how to use this for what I need.
log file - https://obsproject.com/logs/1uv2xvsDygnVSzBd
 

koala

Active Member
There is no 2nd monitor connected, according to the log. Only one monitor with resolution 1366, 768, probably the internal monitor of your laptop. Make sure the second monitor is connected properly and switched on and Windows is actively using it for the desktop.

By the way, the performance of your Laptop's CPU is very low. You will probably not get satisfactory recordings with it. It's the low end of what can be used as a Windows PC, while video capturing and encoding is a very resource intensive task. Don't expect too much.
 
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