Question / Help Split screen with 2 pre-recorded videos

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terrier

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I have two videos of the same event from a different angle, the both start at the same time.

Using studio mode when trying to capture them I can see the first one in both screens or sometimes just the left screen

Q1 do I have to play and capture a video or can I load the files like in slide show

Q2 how do I get one captured/loaded in left screen and the other in the right screen

complete newby thanks for any help

terrier
 
yes thats how i do it for 1 vid but want to have two views of the same event showing in split screen, one lefthand screen and one on righthand screen, so how do i get that to work, where do i select which screen gets which video I can only run and capture one at a time as far as i know
 
I must be using the wrong terminology I have two screens in studio mode, how do I get a different video into each one
 
Ok so I turn off studio mode record them one after the other, however I have to stop the one to start the other so that is against what you say because there will be an interruption but OBS will be continuously recording, which is what I suspect you mean,

So I will end up with vid 1 a slight blank and then vid 2, now how do i get them into left and right screen and will they start simultaneously so the synchronisation is maintained

terrier
 
You don't understand what is Studio Mode is or I don't understand what you want to achieve. Read/Watch the Guides (see the link above).

You can uhhide the source by the hotkey (Settings>Hotkeys), if you assign the same hotkey to the two sources - they both can start to playback when you hit the hotkey.
 
terrier said:
I must be using the wrong terminology I have two screens in studio mode, how do I get a different video into each one
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That is not what the two screens are for in studio mode.

Studio mode displays two windows: the Program window (the scene that is live on stream right now) and the Preview window (the scene that will be up next). This is so that you can modify a scene while you can see it, but the audience sees a different scene.

Like Suslik, I'm not sure what you're trying to do. You say you already have videos, so you're not trying to record? If you're trying to play back two different videos that are a multi angle recording of an event, OBS really isn't for that. If you're trying to edit multi-angle recordings into a single video in a way that lets you switch to either angle at any time... OBS isn't a video editor, so it isn't really for that, either.

What you could do, and I think Suslik was trying to suggest, was that you can create a Picture-in-Picture effect with the two sources, by adding the second source on top of the first, scaled down to be smaller. That way, when the scene is active both videos will start playing, and as long as the recordings were synchronized, they should stay synchronized as long as the scene is active. Not sure if this is what you are trying to do, though.

More detail about what exactly the effect you're trying to achieve is would be helpful.
 
Do I understand correctly that you have two videos that are already recorded and you want to merge them into one clip that will have both of your videos play simultaneously on each side of a screen? (Like it's often done in "before and after" comparisons)
 
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