SCENE LINKING?

scoshscott

New Member
Hi there.

I've been learning the ins and outs of OBS for about six months now and I'm loving it! I have a weird specific question though:

I am teaching guitar lessons with OBS and I have this cool camera situation where I've bolted a guitar to my desk so it stays steady. This allows me to drop png files on top to do cool overlays of guitar chords and things.

Here is the situation:

Scene 1: I have a normal shot of the guitar with overlays (see examples linked below)
Scene 2: I have duplicated scene one, added the video and overlays into a group, and transformed the group to make the fingerboard completely horizontal.

Everything works great! Here is the problem:

When I go to add a new overlay to the transformed group in scene 2, it acts as though everything in the group has transformed instead of the folder containing all the overlay png's. As a result, anytime I want to add a new file I have to make a new copy of scene one, regroup everything AND re transform everything. This is exhausting. Is there any way I can do this where I can add an overlay into my transformed folder and have it line up the same?

For reference:

Scene one looks like this: https://youtu.be/G6DzLtbEJTY?t=844
Scene two looks like this: https://youtu.be/G6DzLtbEJTY?t=1786

Does this make sense? Is there a better way to do this? I thought transforming the group/folder containing the camera sources and pngs would let me add another one later, but it just acts like a normal png - not conforming to the "transform" of the group.
 

twindux

Member
I do a similar thing kinda....I have a screen presentation with say 100 or so slides that show in our venue and that I show on our livestream.

So what I do is run the presentation on a second computer ( I use Keynote but you could use any softwre) then output HDMI to a Elgato HD60s+ or Camlink 4K (or any video capture device)....put the source computer into full screen mode (or you could simply put the second monitor out in full then crop the image to whatever you want) then inset that into the livestream.

I don't PIP it...I have one scene to fullscreen the main camera in the venue then a second scene to fullscreen the presentation computer output..

But this workflow saves me gobs and gobs of time in preproduction as it's easier to do 100 slides in Keynote than building 100 scenes in OBS.
 
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