DIfferent profiles for different episodes of videos/audio?

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obsfanatic1979

Member
Greetings

Thank for great help so far

I am trying to do the following:

1. Create different episodes for video production on video platforms like YOutube, Odysee, facebook.
2. I find OBS Studio profile function is not as intuitive as I expected
3. Does anyone have a good online VIDEO tutorial how to do #1 above? This is so people dont have to repeat many frequently asked questions.

Please let me know?
 
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AaronD

Active Member
Why do you need different settings for each episode? Studios don't completely reconfigure their gear, which is essentially what that is.

Why not use the same settings for an entire season?
 
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obsfanatic1979

Member
Greetings

Maybe I misunderstand you or maybe you misunderstand me?

I wish to have separate instances with their own profile settings of OBS studio for each episode.

Is this possible or not?

If so can you please send me some kind of documentation or preferably a tutorial video that exactly or closely matches my requirements?
 
hurikhan77

hurikhan77

New Member
I'm recording with a different encoder profile than what I'm using for streaming. And I record 6 audio tracks so I can easily split audio sources in post production. Is this what you mean?

Otherwise you may want to look into the OBS source record plugin which can be used on any source as a filter to record a second video with individual encoder settings and audio tracks.
 
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AaronD

Active Member
hurikhan77 said:
I'm recording with a different encoder profile than what I'm using for streaming. And I record 6 audio tracks so I can easily split audio sources in post production. Is this what you mean?
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That's not what a profile is in OBS. Maybe there's some mismatched definitions here?
  • Profile
  • Episode
  • Maybe some more?

hurikhan77 said:
Otherwise you may want to look into the OBS source record plugin which can be used on any source as a filter to record a second video with individual encoder settings and audio tracks.
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That *could* be what OP wants, but I'm not really sure about anything anymore.

I suspect there's some XY involved too:

XY problem - Wikipedia

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obsfanatic1979 said:
I wish to have separate instances with their own profile settings of OBS studio...

Is this possible or not?
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Yes to the edited quote here, but *all* of what you said is confusing, so this answer might not be relevant. See above.

I use multiple simultaneous instances of OBS on the same machine for two of my rigs. Completely independent settings for different jobs, and managed by a script. I don't start those rigs manually. The command-line options in the script, tell OBS which profile and scene collection to load, and they come up different as desired. obs --help to see all of those options.
 
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obsfanatic1979

Member
I mean this:

I could be using wrong terminology here:

1. I already have populated profile or whatever with 5 scenes and all the different video/media in each scene, but I wish to make:
2. Starting BLANK with NO scenes for each profile or whatever it is called

Is this possible, and if so, how to do it?
 
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AaronD

Active Member
obsfanatic1979 said:
I mean this:

I could be using wrong terminology here:

1. I already have populated profile or whatever with 5 scenes and all the different video/media in each scene, but I wish to make:
2. Starting BLANK with NO scenes for each profile or whatever it is called

Is this possible, and if so, how to do it?
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That would be a Scene Collection. Don't know why it's separate from the Profile, but it is. I always change both at the same time.
 
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AaronD

Active Member
obsfanatic1979 said:
...so many online tutorials -- didnt know where to start
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Most online tutorials are worthless anyway, or nearly so. They don't explain very well at all, but just load you up with a bunch of things to copy/paste and really only work for what the *presenter* is doing...if even that.

Much better to know the tools, and an example application of where they might be used or (better still) what they're meant for, and then build your own rig from scratch. You *can* get that from a tutorial, but you have to look below the surface and not just copy/paste. And sometimes you find that the presenter really doesn't have a clue and you have to reject the whole thing. Oh well.

It takes a while, but you'll get there. :-)
 
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