Source not showing in both Scenes

[MarkOBS]

When I try to view a camera in one Scene it won't show unless I deactivate it
in another Scene.
Is this normal behavior?
It doesn't seem to make sense.
It's the same camera. I specifically created two scenes with the camera
to quickly change between regular view and zoomed view.
Please advise.

 

[rdot89]

It sounds as though you may have created two sources for the camera/video capture device, rather than copying/using the same source in two different scenes.

If this is the case, then yes, this would as intended: Most capture devices can only have one active feed at a time. Deactivating one source opens the channel for the other source to connect and send its request to the capture feed.

If the intention is to "Zoom in" to a section of the capture feed, there are a few ways to go about this:

1. After adding the original existing source to the "Zoom" scene, you can manually adjust the size to overflow beyond your canvas space, if this source is to take up the entire scene.
2. If this source is a portion of the scene (eg you have other image sources you dont want it to overlap with) you still add the existing source to the "Zoom" scene, and then crop the source by holding the Alt key and dragging the corner/edges to crop to the size you need; and then resizing the source to fit where you need it to be (see my attached screenshot)

Option 2 is probably one of the better ways to do it, as you can then copy-paste this adjusted version to other scenes as needed.

 

[MarkOBS]

It sounds as though you may have created two sources for the camera/video capture device, rather than copying/using the same source in two different scenes.

If this is the case, then yes, this would as intended: Most capture devices can only have one active feed at a time. Deactivating one source opens the channel for the other source to connect and send its request to the capture feed.

Thanks very much rdot. You were correct. I had created two sources for the camera rather than using the same source for the two scenes. :)