Question / Help Saving an Edited Local File

[lmstearn]

Hi there,
The way I am approaching this may not be exactly standard, so if this has been asked before, the search methods are wanting.
Suppose a video file on local disk is loaded into OBS and modified in some way- in this case easy crop. After performing the edit, OBS does not prompt to save on close, and there doesn't appear to be any way of directly saving the edited file to its original or configured location.
Other than streaming it- which might be a bit long winded if the file is of some duration, so probably more of feature request like dump_file_in_buffer_to_some_location. Not exactly in the spirit of the OBS mission, but there you go.
Thanks for reading!

 

[koala]

You use a video editor such as Sony Vegas for editing video files. OBS is a recording/streaming app that takes visual input from a number of sources, composes/overlay them to one output scene and outputs that scene for broadcast. The filters (which you probably used for cropping a source) are present as helpers for compositing. OBS is meant to produce live videos, after all. You can of course use OBS to play a source, change it with filters and record the resulting stream with the recording function, but that's not what OBS is designed for. The output quality of such a video is not as good as it were if you use a real video editor.

 

[lmstearn]

Gotcha, thanks.
Edit: The free video croppers in Windows Store including Photos didn't provide the functionality so used the free but limited VSDC for the job. For free conversion and compression on large files, Handbrake is recommended.