I am really struggling to setup, what should be a simple arrangement. Due to the disconnected, convoluted, unintuitive and poorly explained hierarchy of OBS.
I really want to make individual projects that are not interconnected in a cluttered and odd way. I change one setting, thinking it's only changing it in one project, but it changes it in all of them, on only some things. I delete some scene component, and sometimes it's just gone from only one scene. Other things get completely deleted from all scenes and projects. There is nothing indicating these actions results, or any continuity between things that they should NOT be connected with.
I get that we can make sources, but those should be in a pool of sources, to select for inclusion "as is", or for use with edits, without altering the "sources". (Making it more confusing is duplication and cloning, which both also can alter the originals.)
For example, I have one microphone. Depending on the project, I need that ONE microphone to have unique settings. If I make 10 projects and ten individual microphone settings, I see all 10 settings. I don't want to see 10 microphones, I just want my ONE microphone to have different settings, based on the project. If I only see one, and alter it, it is altered in EVERY project now.
I just about lost my mind, removing all the components and filters and settings, from a new "profile", only to find out that it removed everything from EVERY profile I ever made! Not even a warning when deleting or editing them. Nothing to indicate they were part of some other profile, as some universal configured component.
Why is this so unnecessarily complex.
It's like having audio settings and advanced audio settings, for audio components. There are literally TWO items in each page, which could just be all four on one page of "settings". Annoyingly, it's impossible to remember which page is which, as both are just "settings", and nothing is really "advanced", about the two other settings on the other page.
I really want to make individual projects that are not interconnected in a cluttered and odd way. I change one setting, thinking it's only changing it in one project, but it changes it in all of them, on only some things. I delete some scene component, and sometimes it's just gone from only one scene. Other things get completely deleted from all scenes and projects. There is nothing indicating these actions results, or any continuity between things that they should NOT be connected with.
I get that we can make sources, but those should be in a pool of sources, to select for inclusion "as is", or for use with edits, without altering the "sources". (Making it more confusing is duplication and cloning, which both also can alter the originals.)
For example, I have one microphone. Depending on the project, I need that ONE microphone to have unique settings. If I make 10 projects and ten individual microphone settings, I see all 10 settings. I don't want to see 10 microphones, I just want my ONE microphone to have different settings, based on the project. If I only see one, and alter it, it is altered in EVERY project now.
I just about lost my mind, removing all the components and filters and settings, from a new "profile", only to find out that it removed everything from EVERY profile I ever made! Not even a warning when deleting or editing them. Nothing to indicate they were part of some other profile, as some universal configured component.
Why is this so unnecessarily complex.
It's like having audio settings and advanced audio settings, for audio components. There are literally TWO items in each page, which could just be all four on one page of "settings". Annoyingly, it's impossible to remember which page is which, as both are just "settings", and nothing is really "advanced", about the two other settings on the other page.