Screen recording after mac sleep.

[jollybip]

Hello Im seeking some help on screen recording.
I had an important video call that needed recording so I decided to use OBS, with then Source being the macOS screen.

I tested everything, everything that needed to be recorded was recorded.
then I just waited until the time of the video call.
but the other side called earlier than scheduled, so without being able to recheck the setup. I just started recording.

After the call was done, and I clicked "stop recording".
I checked the recorded video (under 3mins in length) to see that the macOS screen desktop was "frozen" (the time on the desktop in the recording was 30mins earlier than the actual video call time) and there was also no audio.

I guess the source had frozen after my mac went to sleep during the waiting time?

Is there any way that any of the video call itself would actually hv been captured in the video? (file size ard 35mb)

 

[AaronD]

A common rule for media gear of any kind, is that it stays on, fully on, without an audience, for far longer than its actual use. No sleep, no automatic shutdown, no screensaver, no "environmentally friendly power saving", etc. Just on. Period.

All of my media rigs are set like that. I can walk away from any of them, come back the next day, and the screen is still showing the controls without having touched it yet, the mouse is responsive, etc. *I* decide when to power down! Not the machine.

There are several reasons to do that. Getting discombobulated is only one of them. Another is the time to get back to a useful state when the show is starting NOW, vs. already being there, even if it does come back correctly.

35MB is too small to have anything useful in it. Sorry.