Question / Help Why Does OBS Duplicate a Profile When I Create a New Profile?

[Laconia]

When I create a new profile for another type of stream, it doesn't clear the Gaming Stream setup. It seems to duplicate it!? And, if I delete the scenes and/or the sources from that second profile, they are deleted in my Gaming profile & I have to create that Gaming setup all anew.

(I have a Gaming profile on OBS which has 3 scenes w/their own sources. That's all set. Working fine, even w/FTL setting in Mixer. Yay!)

Anyway, I don't understand. All the videos I've watched, show that when you create a New Profile, the Scenes/Sources are blank until you set them up for that new/different profile. Why won't it give me a blank profile when I create a new profile? Why is it, instead, duplicating my Gaming profile? Any ideas?

Additional Info:

I use an iMac OS Sierra & the most current OBS version, 24.0.2.

Thanks for any help. :)

 

[Harold]

Scenes and sources aren't stored in profiles. They are stored in Scene collections.

 

[Laconia]

Yes, I know they're stored in the Scene collections but I thought those Scenes were then stored (assigned) in a profile. Then...what's the use of Profiles? I must be missing something.

 

[Harold]

Scene collections are NOT linked to or tied to profiles.
Profiles are for resolution and encoding settings, not scenes.

 

[Narcogen]

Yeah these things are separate, so you can mix and match.

You can have scene collections that are for specific things-- such as, a Collection for Minecraft and a collection for Fortnite.

A profile is for a collection of settings regarding output-- streaming services, resolution, bitrates, encoder choices.

So you could have profiles for YouTube, for Twitch, or for local recording.

You can combine each of these so you can quickly choose "Minecraft" and "Local Recording" and then also "Fortnite" and "Twitch Streaming".

You can also duplicate profiles and create variations, so you can choose between different settings for different services without manually editing them, but the Profiles and Collections are created, managed and selected separately from each other-- neither is subjugated or attached to the other.