Recording Audio Separate from Video Source?

[AntoniusDaGamer]

Hello,
I've been using OBS studio to screen record a video podcast and, after a bit of a learning curve, it's worked very well for me.

The issue I can't seem to find a workaround for is getting separate audio tracks for each person on the podcast.
For example, I use my microphone as an audio input source but my other co-hosts will join virtually over Skype or VDONINJA.

Skype or even the free version of Riverside, I'm not too sure but is there a way to pull a separate audio file from a VDONinja remote video URL? I can get the video to appear in OBS but I can't hear anything through OBS unless I have desktop audio enabled, is it not possible for each video to get their own web based audio only input?

 

[koala]

Many apps have a settings for their output device, so you can direct that to a virtual audio device to separate it from the desktop audio. And for many apps you can use the "Application audio capture (beta)" source to directly capture the audio of a specific app, without a virtual audio device. Vdo.ninja comes in as media source, and you will notice for every media source there will appear an audio source in the audio mixer, so you can direct that to a separate audio track as well.

 

[AntoniusDaGamer]

Many apps have a settings for their output device, so you can direct that to a virtual audio device to separate it from the desktop audio. And for many apps you can use the "Application audio capture (beta)" source to directly capture the audio of a specific app, without a virtual audio device. Vdo.ninja comes in as media source, and you will notice for every media source there will appear an audio source in the audio mixer, so you can direct that to a separate audio track as well.

Thank you for this information my question to this would be how to direct that audio source to a separate audio track?

Because right now even though the video is showing up I'm not getting audio from the audio source on OBS, and I'm not sure what I would need to do source wise to do so. I hope that makes sense?

 

[koala]

I made a small error, vdo.ninja is imported as browser source in OBS. Activate "control audio via OBS" within that source's properties and you have the audio as separate source in OBS. To actually hear it on your Windows machine, you need to activate monitoring for this source (without monitoring, it's just going out to the stream). See Edit→Advanced Audio Properties in OBS how to assign monitoring and sources to tracks. Don't forget to check the monitoring device in Settings->Audio to avoid a feedback loop, in case you record your default audio device.

 

[AntoniusDaGamer]

I made a small error, vdo.ninja is imported as browser source in OBS. Activate "control audio via OBS" within that source's properties and you have the audio as separate source in OBS. To actually hear it on your Windows machine, you need to activate monitoring for this source (without monitoring, it's just going out to the stream). See Edit→Advanced Audio Properties in OBS how to assign monitoring and sources to tracks. Don't forget to check the monitoring device in Settings->Audio to avoid a feedback loop, in case you record your default audio device.

Thank you so much! This was driving me crazy. I couldn't understand why I couldn't hear the audio separately from the desktop audio on OBS. I turned the monitor on the advanced audio properties and sure enough it started working.

I should be able to assign each browser source their own audio track for separate editing correct?

 

[koala]

If you want to edit and postprocess them separately in postprocessing, yes.