Separate audio tracks to help with editing

[jrw]

I'm trying to set it up so that when I record myself reacting to a video, the audio from myself and the audio from the video I am watching are on 2 separate tracks so that I can lower the volume of the video when needed because otherwise, you cannot hear me at all. I used the Multiple Audio Track Recording Guide (https://obsproject.com/kb/multiple-audio-track-recording-guide) for help and I'm on the last step where it says to enable the tracks that you want to record, only I cannot click on any of them (circled in blue) to select which to record. If it makes a difference I'm using Wondershare Filmora for editing.

 

[Suslik V]

You need to change Recording Quality from "Same as stream" to something else. Because stream carries only one audio track.

For other users who will find this thread later:
you need OBS v29.1 or newer. In older versions of OBS multi-track recording was only possible when output mode was set to Output Mode: Advanced. Set Recording Format (media container) to any available but FLV, because FLV cannot do multi-tracks.

For details, feature was introduced in:

UI: Enable multiple audio tracks in Simple Output recording by pkviet · Pull Request #6799 · obsproject/obs-studio

Description This adds support for multiple audio tracks in Simple Output for recordings. This is enabled for all quality presets (including "Lossless") except "Same as Stream". ...

github.com

 

[jrw]

I changed the Recording Quality, got the tracks selected, and when I went in Filmora to edit and detached the audio from the video, it was still all on one track. I'm not trying to stream, just record what's showing on my desktop and the webcam, plus audio from whatever I'm watching/recording and my own voice (though I know that background noises will also get picked up).

 

[Suslik V]

Here were some recommendations how to extract audio tracks from video file.

To extract audio tracks from media file you may try FFmpeg util. See: https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...o-to-6-different-mp3-files.157425/post-576717

Also, you may try Audacity v3.0.2 application to get all your audio tracks and edit them in this popular wave editor (don't forget to download required FFmpeg dll file for the Audacity itself).