SCREEN SIZE CHANGING DURING LIVE, HELP!

[nataliavrr]

Hey everyone!

I did a live for my job using OBS, and something went wrong with the webcam sources from skype, more exactly with the screen size of these sources.

I set up the screens guest sizes the way I wanted, activated the lock option, and the final screen was that:

But then, during the live, the screen size of the sources kept changing outta nowhere! Sometimes getting smaller, sometimes bigger:

Someone knows what might have caused this?? Please help me, these lives are for academic purposes, the tone of the event is very serious, it was very embarrassing hahaha (crying)

 

[Armitaged]

It is most likely caused by you changing the size of your window or camera that you were using. Or are you using the cameras straight to obs?

 

[nataliavrr]

i'm doing skype calls and capturing the guest's webcams with NDI. Then I resize them to fit the borders of the background image and lock these NDI sources.

 

[FerretBomb]

i'm doing skype calls and capturing the guest's webcams with NDI. Then I resize them to fit the borders of the background image and lock these NDI sources.

Most likely the remote end or Skype ended up changing the source size, and OBS adjusted the scale. Lock just locks you from accidentally changing it in the preview; if the source size changes, it will auto-resize itself by default.

There is a way to fix this though!

1. Unlock the source.
2. Right-click the source in the Sources list. Go to Transform, Edit Transform.
3. Set the Bounding Box Type to Scale to Inner Bounds.
4. Set the Alignment In Bounding Box (usually Center).
5. Set the Bounding Box Size, horizontal and vertical.
6. Use the Position values at the top to place it where you want it in the scene.
7. Close the Scene Item Transform dialog box, and re-enable the Padlock in the Sources list.

Boom, now no matter what size the source is, it will be in the same spot within the area you've set up, and fill as much of the space as it can without distorting.

BONUS TIP: Right-click the source in the Sources list, go to Scale Filtering, and set it to Bicubic (or Lanczos, if you want a Sharpen pass). This will use a better-quality scaling method, and your auto-resized source will look a LOT better than the default scaling!

 

[nataliavrr]

Most likely the remote end or Skype ended up changing the source size, and OBS adjusted the scale. Lock just locks you from accidentally changing it in the preview; if the source size changes, it will auto-resize itself by default.

There is a way to fix this though!

1. Unlock the source.
2. Right-click the source in the Sources list. Go to Transform, Edit Transform.
3. Set the Bounding Box Type to Scale to Inner Bounds.
4. Set the Alignment In Bounding Box (usually Center).
5. Set the Bounding Box Size, horizontal and vertical.
6. Use the Position values at the top to place it where you want it in the scene.
7. Close the Scene Item Transform dialog box, and re-enable the Padlock in the Sources list.

Boom, now no matter what size the source is, it will be in the same spot within the area you've set up, and fill as much of the space as it can without distorting.

BONUS TIP: Right-click the source in the Sources list, go to Scale Filtering, and set it to Bicubic (or Lanczos, if you want a Sharpen pass). This will use a better-quality scaling method, and your auto-resized source will look a LOT better than the default scaling!

thanks a lot!! helped me a great deal