In TV production, we refer to this as 'ISO' recording, as in recording a single source in 'isolation'. Mandatory for post production when editing and cutting down.
Just putting this here in case it helps anyone else: If you just want to omit one thing from a recording (like a stream border or a vtuber or something) but want to keep multiple other things, you can make a new scene without the element you want to omit and then plop the source record filter right on the scene. Even if you aren't using that scene during the stream, it'll record it without the omitted source.
Sir, I am forever in your debt. I needed a way to record everything but alerts/alert sounds. But since I monitor and output alert audio it would still catch the alert audio because my main source is my headset. But I made a new scene and put the filter on the scene instead of the specific games and now I can record gameplay, gameplay audio, and mic audio without any alert popup or audio. spent 30 minutes trying to figure out before reading this comment. You sir are a legend.
I'm having an issue where apparently you cant record the same game/desktop at the same time in two separate scenes, did you find a way around this or does it not work.
This is such an insane plugin! The moment you mentioned that you can record gameplay and webcam separately with this plugin without having to resort to weird resolutions, I was hyped! I will try this out soon.
I found a good tip I wanted to share with anyone who may have the same issue. My audio quality from the video only recordings has been awful, and the video itself low as well. My two videos I've done so far suffered from these issues. With a little playing around in the settings, I found that using the NVENC setting for the video encoder, using CQP and a level of 14 helped my video a lot. The audio was still an issue though, so I decided to set audio channel 6 to only record my Elgato device. I then set the recording filter to use only that audio source, and in tests it has been perfect. I'll be posting a new video next week with these settings fixed to reflect the changes from the first playthrough I recorded to the second. Hopefully that helps if anyone had the same issues as me. =)
This video is pretty sick in terms of technical prowess. Most creators go there very shallow into that matter. But here you are solving big time problems for advanced users. Since the video is quite older I believe also that the plugin should have advanced by quite a bit. So Nvenc should hopefully work by now.
One feature that I hope gets added to this is the ability to record multiple audio tracks. It would make editing streams a lot easier and reduce cpu usage in my case. My current workaround is having 2 source record filters on my gameplay and webcam while also recording my entire scene at the lowest possible video bitrate to capture all my audio tracks.
you are easily the most helpful content creator when it comes to advanced technical questions about streaming and editing. much, much appreciate your videos dude.
Not sure if my MB M1Pro could handle stream & record at same time… I’ll have to test this out. What bitrate should I pick to get the best recording? I use A7C as cam
Thank you for the setup tutorial! If anyone is having an issue where you've assigned your display and webcam to separate folders, and then record, and it's only recording what is currently in your selected display, try the older NVENC. NVENC (new) doesn't work.
@Babi Babu TV You probably already figured this out, but in OBS if you go to Edit > Advanced Audio Properties, you can output all of your different audio channels to any of 6 tracks. Then when you open the file in your video editing software, those audio sources should be in their own track according to how you've checked the boxes in OBS. This way you can mute or otherwise adjust the volume for each audio source separately. Hopefully that makes sense lol.
Be Kind and Rewind. You don't know how true that statement is. When I was much younger, I worked at a local video rental store and there's no telling how many videos a day I had to rewind.
Oooh, thank you! I struggled with this plugin before, so I'll take this as an opportunity to revisit it - one question though, how does the resource usage of this compare to recording an equivalent capture (i.e. just game / window / display) on a second instance of OBS? Does it still require as much overhead to get the source record as the second OBS does to essentially composite a second, basic scene, or is it less resource-intensive, if you've measured that?
This is simply amazing! I am glad I clicked on this because honestly, I couldn’t tell what the video would be about from the title, but I knew if it was coming from you, it was going to be huge. 😎👌🏾
EposVox, I want to thank you for this video. I learned from you, that the NVENC encoder carries a limit of 3 encoding session at one time. So I used h264 on my 3rd camera and it WORKED!!! Thank you! Joe D
Wish I could've found this last night when I spent 2 hours trying to setup the multiple instances way of recording right before my stream..... but I'll definitely be trying this in the future.
Thanks a lot, this is absolutely fantastic! Even just recording the audio separately is a huge deal! If we could now output the audio from e.g. Discord, Skype, etc. into separate sources, interview or collab situations would become much more easy to record and edit. This will come one handy, thanks for the tips
@Babi Babu TV make multiple audio tracks and set the games audio to one and your voice to another. in the plugin you can set it to only record a specified audio track
With voicemeeter banana you can have 2 audio channels + 1 more channel for a virtual cable, this way you can have discord on your phone and not on stream and much more.
Is there a way to record The game and Webcam but without the orverlays like in SLOBS? I want to ditch slobs and switch to OBS only, but i can't becouse even if i make a group in OBS and turn the Source recording filter to that specific group it captures the whole scene. And i don't want to export videos to youtube with my alerts and overlays. Is there a way to do this ?
This plugin would be awesome if it could record multiple audio lines and have them all be separated. It can record them but they all get mashed into one audio line. Separated audio tracks is essential to any recording solution.
Didn't see this mentioned in the video, but maybe I missed it. Are you able to do replay buffer of 2 sources? So replay buffer of game source and webcam source simultaneously? Didn't notice mention of it in the replay buffer section or the "Webcam recording, too!" section, but that would be sick.
What no one seems to mention is that it TANKS performance. I tried it on a AMD 5800x, OC to 4,6Ghz all core, 32gb DDR4 3600Mhz and a 3080 with 200Mhz OC and I got 15 fps in Helldivers 2 with the graphics all down to low. And to clarify, the bit rate for facecam and gameplay was bare minimum for 1080 60fps for youtube. Absolutely don't use this plugin if you actually wanna play your game while recording/streaming
When the sources get individually recorded, will the audio of the particular source ONLY be recorded in there as well? or does that source video include all the audio when recording the scene?
This is really cool, I am thing record camera with mic and game with game audio then reassemble them in resolve but can move the camera around if its covering something you want people to see. Only downside is the background removal records with black background (PNG video would be cool). I reckon adding suffix instead of a prefix is better though as then they sort together in folder.
Dumb question, but I'm guessing recordings made with this plugin are set to OBS' canvas resolution and not the sources native resolution? So to clarify, if I had everything set to 720p in OBS but had a 4K or 1440p res gameplay source I'd resized, the recording generated by the plugin would be 720p?
Help! Whenever I record any of my webcams with source record at 1080p60, the gameplay recording become an unwatchable choppy mess and no matter what I do I can't have my webcam be at its full quality as it defaults to 480p, ew...
This looks like a really handy tool. Would never be able to use it for PC games with a 980ti, but for recording external things like MiSTer via OBS this could be very handy indeed. I could stream the software validation project I'm working on for PC Engine CD while recording solid footage for the (unlisted) archive I'm making on my channel for this project, for later review by others without overlays or voice being over the game. The only real dealbreaker at the moment is the NVENC (new) incompatibility since my older GPU definitely benefits from the efficiency gains. I also don't even have the old NVENC even as an option in OBS, strangely enough. Gonna have to check out that workaround you mentioned. One thing you may have wanted to mention is the disk IO requirements when recording multiple streams at once like that. Many people record to HDD's still because of the low cost/GB ratio and the size that recordings can take, especially when you save them locally in an archive. I imagine this will pose an issue if they overloaded the IO with multiple simultaneous recordings, so they would need to redirect to multiple drives, or specifically use SSD if just one drive. Sorry for the diary entry here- just a ton of ideas sprang while watching this. Thanks EposVox!
Honestly, I get what you're saying but I feel like that's a minimal issue in 2022. While many people still use HHDs for storage, because of their= size/price ratio, I don't know anyone who uses one for a primary drive; SSDs have come down in price dramatically. I would see most people recording directly to a primary or 2nd SSD and then moving the footage over to a storage HHD if they need to keep it longer. It's anecdotal evidence for sure, being my personal experiences; For my setup, I have a 2TB NVMe as my primary drive and then a storage cadge of about 10TB on the side.
Hey just an update if anyone cannot locate the file in the selected destination. Turn on Source Record in the filters once again and it should be there now. Hope this helped
The video is excellent. But somehow, I'm still getting the webcam to appear in the video file after adding the filter for just the gameplay. The audio syncing works perfectly, so I know it's doing something. However, the preview for the filter looks correct and just outputs the entire visual into the folder specifically made for the game. Has anyone else run into this? I've tried searching, removing audio from the equation, and trying both mkv and mp4 with the same results.
oh, finally a way to record my screen and camera at full resolution with a single instance of OBS (if I understand well). I used to have to run multiple instances, phew.
This is neat, but I prefer the overlays tbh. Sometimes the face camera can get in the way of gameplay, and it is annoying having to figure out where to place the face camera for each game.
Excellent tutorial on an awesome resource. By chance is there anybody who has encountered a problem using the Source record on your webcam source when using a Green Screen? I have been finding that all the recordings straight from my webcam I get have the greenscreen showing up as gray, whereas it is properly Chroma Keyed on my actual live feed/ regular recording without using Source Record. Anybody know how to fix this?? I can't seem to find anything about it after searching.
this is awesome! i haven't even installed it yet and my mind already goes wild with all kinds of ideas... do you happen to know if it's only recording the sources in the currently active scene and shuts down the recording once the scene is switched, thus the source being "offline"? or does it continue to record both? i'm asking, because combined with the automatic scene switcher plugin while live that would make handling the recordings of different games trivial without one requiring to tinker with the game capture or the filter while being live.
Great Video! You never went far on the explanation of the replay buffer option in this video, 1. does the OBS replay buffer need to be enabled? 2. is this a case of the filter portion being hidden and then unhidden to capture the replay triggered by a hotkey or TouchPortal type setup? and Lastly 3. would or could the replay duration differ say be set for a lesser time 8secs, as opposed to the OBS setting in the settings menu of say 30 secs. Any chance on a video touching on this subject matter further>>?>> Thanks Love you Vids
If you have more than one graphics card can you have more than 3 encodings happening at once? Can you have say 2 x RTX cards or a RTX card + a quatro card? Do AMD cards have such limits. Great video as always thank you!
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In TV production, we refer to this as 'ISO' recording, as in recording a single source in 'isolation'. Mandatory for post production when editing and cutting down.
Just putting this here in case it helps anyone else: If you just want to omit one thing from a recording (like a stream border or a vtuber or something) but want to keep multiple other things, you can make a new scene without the element you want to omit and then plop the source record filter right on the scene. Even if you aren't using that scene during the stream, it'll record it without the omitted source.
Sir, I am forever in your debt.
I needed a way to record everything but alerts/alert sounds. But since I monitor and output alert audio it would still catch the alert audio because my main source is my headset. But I made a new scene and put the filter on the scene instead of the specific games and now I can record gameplay, gameplay audio, and mic audio without any alert popup or audio. spent 30 minutes trying to figure out before reading this comment. You sir are a legend.
I'm having an issue where apparently you cant record the same game/desktop at the same time in two separate scenes, did you find a way around this or does it not work.
"AUDIO JUNGLE" Killed me 🤣🤣🤣
Love seeing my content creators interact
This solves a lot of problems for me 👍👍👍👍👍
Finally a feature that I have been dying to get for ages. Now if only it would stop crashing my obs so frequently XD
This is such an insane plugin! The moment you mentioned that you can record gameplay and webcam separately with this plugin without having to resort to weird resolutions, I was hyped! I will try this out soon.
Only 1 minute in and a thank you is already in order. 🤝
sick always wanted to do that
nice!
Bro I’m trying to figure it out rn @TheGodlyNoob
Did not expect to see cav lurking in the shadows here
This is the plugin of my dreams 😍
Finally one of the most requested features, ISO RECORDING!!
I found a good tip I wanted to share with anyone who may have the same issue. My audio quality from the video only recordings has been awful, and the video itself low as well. My two videos I've done so far suffered from these issues.
With a little playing around in the settings, I found that using the NVENC setting for the video encoder, using CQP and a level of 14 helped my video a lot. The audio was still an issue though, so I decided to set audio channel 6 to only record my Elgato device. I then set the recording filter to use only that audio source, and in tests it has been perfect.
I'll be posting a new video next week with these settings fixed to reflect the changes from the first playthrough I recorded to the second. Hopefully that helps if anyone had the same issues as me. =)
this is a really cool feature/plugin much respect to the dev!
This video is pretty sick in terms of technical prowess. Most creators go there very shallow into that matter. But here you are solving big time problems for advanced users. Since the video is quite older I believe also that the plugin should have advanced by quite a bit. So Nvenc should hopefully work by now.
One feature that I hope gets added to this is the ability to record multiple audio tracks. It would make editing streams a lot easier and reduce cpu usage in my case. My current workaround is having 2 source record filters on my gameplay and webcam while also recording my entire scene at the lowest possible video bitrate to capture all my audio tracks.
same here, in this 3 months do you maybe figure out how to do it?
in your 7 months did you figure out how to do it?@@ReAnimee
@@TheOtherGuy123 unfortunately not, i think i found out that it wasnt possibile to do it
you are easily the most helpful content creator when it comes to advanced technical questions about streaming and editing. much, much appreciate your videos dude.
Not sure if my MB M1Pro could handle stream & record at same time… I’ll have to test this out. What bitrate should I pick to get the best recording? I use A7C as cam
Thank you for the setup tutorial! If anyone is having an issue where you've assigned your display and webcam to separate folders, and then record, and it's only recording what is currently in your selected display, try the older NVENC. NVENC (new) doesn't work.
So, basically, this lets record what is called "clean feed" in the broadcast world.
This is awesome!!
@Babi Babu TV You probably already figured this out, but in OBS if you go to Edit > Advanced Audio Properties, you can output all of your different audio channels to any of 6 tracks. Then when you open the file in your video editing software, those audio sources should be in their own track according to how you've checked the boxes in OBS. This way you can mute or otherwise adjust the volume for each audio source separately. Hopefully that makes sense lol.
Yo this is awesome! I’ve been waiting for something like this!
Virtual Camera also shows up as a record mode "activator" a la streaming or recording, good video.
Be Kind and Rewind. You don't know how true that statement is. When I was much younger, I worked at a local video rental store and there's no telling how many videos a day I had to rewind.
I been trying to do this for months and the best I could do required two computers, too easy to mess it up. Thank you.
Oooh, thank you! I struggled with this plugin before, so I'll take this as an opportunity to revisit it - one question though, how does the resource usage of this compare to recording an equivalent capture (i.e. just game / window / display) on a second instance of OBS? Does it still require as much overhead to get the source record as the second OBS does to essentially composite a second, basic scene, or is it less resource-intensive, if you've measured that?
That new camera you can’t talk about that i may or may not know about looks great
I was thinking the same thing lmao. 'The Cat' knows what they're doing ;)
Congrats on 300k man
Thank you. Such a great tutorial. Can’t wait to be able to do this.
This is simply amazing! I am glad I clicked on this because honestly, I couldn’t tell what the video would be about from the title, but I knew if it was coming from you, it was going to be huge. 😎👌🏾
EposVox, I want to thank you for this video. I learned from you, that the NVENC encoder carries a limit of 3 encoding session at one time. So I used h264 on my 3rd camera and it WORKED!!!
Thank you!
Joe D
Wish I could've found this last night when I spent 2 hours trying to setup the multiple instances way of recording right before my stream..... but I'll definitely be trying this in the future.
Been using this for a weeks now and is awesome.
05:09 Big Tuna and Jim Halpert 🤣
THANK YOU Doctor! High quality tutorial, amazing graphical production and edits.. OUTSTANDING as always!!
Thanks a lot, this is absolutely fantastic!
Even just recording the audio separately is a huge deal! If we could now output the audio from e.g. Discord, Skype, etc. into separate sources, interview or collab situations would become much more easy to record and edit.
This will come one handy, thanks for the tips
@Babi Babu TV make multiple audio tracks and set the games audio to one and your voice to another. in the plugin you can set it to only record a specified audio track
With voicemeeter banana you can have 2 audio channels + 1 more channel for a virtual cable, this way you can have discord on your phone and not on stream and much more.
Lol it was you singing the pokemon town theme for me 😂🔥
Is there a way to record The game and Webcam but without the orverlays like in SLOBS? I want to ditch slobs and switch to OBS only, but i can't becouse even if i make a group in OBS and turn the Source recording filter to that specific group it captures the whole scene. And i don't want to export videos to youtube with my alerts and overlays. Is there a way to do this ?
This plugin would be awesome if it could record multiple audio lines and have them all be separated. It can record them but they all get mashed into one audio line. Separated audio tracks is essential to any recording solution.
you can record audio source separately already (Microphone and Game)
how? @@LoKk1
Is it possible to record 3 different sources to 3 different tracks via the source recording?
Hey, u made my Day. Now i dont have to change so much stuff for my 2 PC Streaming Setup. I wish i had seen this Video Weeks ago, Thank u very much
I HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS! I even started a threat on obs forms years ago
A thread or a threat, because those two are super different 😅
@@amsyarzero awww I forgot my key to decode my message, if an a comes before a t that t is a d.
Literally looking for this!
Great plugin. Thanks for pointing this out.
This is beauty for us music streamers who can't save VODS because of DMCA
Dude this was great! Going to try it out tonight
Needed this Bad , Thank you so very much !!
Didn't see this mentioned in the video, but maybe I missed it. Are you able to do replay buffer of 2 sources? So replay buffer of game source and webcam source simultaneously? Didn't notice mention of it in the replay buffer section or the "Webcam recording, too!" section, but that would be sick.
wondering the same :(
Wait, that's sick! Now I need a decent priced GPU!
What no one seems to mention is that it TANKS performance. I tried it on a AMD 5800x, OC to 4,6Ghz all core, 32gb DDR4 3600Mhz and a 3080 with 200Mhz OC and I got 15 fps in Helldivers 2 with the graphics all down to low.
And to clarify, the bit rate for facecam and gameplay was bare minimum for 1080 60fps for youtube.
Absolutely don't use this plugin if you actually wanna play your game while recording/streaming
Thanks good to know
This video was an amazing help! Thank you so much!
most useful obs tutorial EVER
This is awesome, thanks for sharing!
When the sources get individually recorded, will the audio of the particular source ONLY be recorded in there as well? or does that source video include all the audio when recording the scene?
This is really cool, I am thing record camera with mic and game with game audio then reassemble them in resolve but can move the camera around if its covering something you want people to see. Only downside is the background removal records with black background (PNG video would be cool). I reckon adding suffix instead of a prefix is better though as then they sort together in folder.
Dumb question, but I'm guessing recordings made with this plugin are set to OBS' canvas resolution and not the sources native resolution?
So to clarify, if I had everything set to 720p in OBS but had a 4K or 1440p res gameplay source I'd resized, the recording generated by the plugin would be 720p?
Perfect. This can be used to create an alternate vertical version.
Love the office reference in the file path
Liked for the sick OSRS gameplay
source record doesn't work lmao
Amazing tips. Thanks!
Oy I needed this holy crap 👀
Thank you. This video was so helpful.
Literal god send
Help! Whenever I record any of my webcams with source record at 1080p60, the gameplay recording become an unwatchable choppy mess and no matter what I do I can't have my webcam be at its full quality as it defaults to 480p, ew...
Really useful video, thank you!
Insane tutorial, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Coool video, Thanks for sharing
thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks!!
I can't get the replay buffer part working. If I set the record mode to None then do a replay buffer, it only makes one file with the full obs setup.
Thank you, you made that soo easy to follow 👌
This looks like a really handy tool. Would never be able to use it for PC games with a 980ti, but for recording external things like MiSTer via OBS this could be very handy indeed. I could stream the software validation project I'm working on for PC Engine CD while recording solid footage for the (unlisted) archive I'm making on my channel for this project, for later review by others without overlays or voice being over the game.
The only real dealbreaker at the moment is the NVENC (new) incompatibility since my older GPU definitely benefits from the efficiency gains. I also don't even have the old NVENC even as an option in OBS, strangely enough. Gonna have to check out that workaround you mentioned.
One thing you may have wanted to mention is the disk IO requirements when recording multiple streams at once like that. Many people record to HDD's still because of the low cost/GB ratio and the size that recordings can take, especially when you save them locally in an archive. I imagine this will pose an issue if they overloaded the IO with multiple simultaneous recordings, so they would need to redirect to multiple drives, or specifically use SSD if just one drive.
Sorry for the diary entry here- just a ton of ideas sprang while watching this. Thanks EposVox!
Honestly, I get what you're saying but I feel like that's a minimal issue in 2022. While many people still use HHDs for storage, because of their= size/price ratio, I don't know anyone who uses one for a primary drive; SSDs have come down in price dramatically. I would see most people recording directly to a primary or 2nd SSD and then moving the footage over to a storage HHD if they need to keep it longer.
It's anecdotal evidence for sure, being my personal experiences; For my setup, I have a 2TB NVMe as my primary drive and then a storage cadge of about 10TB on the side.
This is great! I do love editing, and I love having highlights on youtube, but streaming can also be easier.
Finally. I needed this.
What's that "Now Playing" widget you edited in? I wanna try and get something similar to that for my future stuff.
Hey just an update if anyone cannot locate the file in the selected destination. Turn on Source Record in the filters once again and it should be there now. Hope this helped
Thank you
This was what i was looking for. But sadly my FPS drop by 20 frames when i start recording
Nice!
This is great!!!
finally got this set up and semi working. Gameplay footage is recording perfectly, webcam is choppy as all hell for some reason
This might be a silly question but this still will take the audio from the source file as well correct?
OMG THAT VITRUALDUB FOLDER TAKES ME BACK TO MY DAZZLE DVC DAYS! I still have that capture card lmao.
The video is excellent. But somehow, I'm still getting the webcam to appear in the video file after adding the filter for just the gameplay. The audio syncing works perfectly, so I know it's doing something. However, the preview for the filter looks correct and just outputs the entire visual into the folder specifically made for the game. Has anyone else run into this? I've tried searching, removing audio from the equation, and trying both mkv and mp4 with the same results.
Ah, nvm. It's working after removing and remaking the filter. Classic.
oh, finally a way to record my screen and camera at full resolution with a single instance of OBS (if I understand well). I used to have to run multiple instances, phew.
This is neat, but I prefer the overlays tbh. Sometimes the face camera can get in the way of gameplay, and it is annoying having to figure out where to place the face camera for each game.
Totally fine, no one says you have to do this lol. I find most of the uses (like cutting Let's Plays from streams) to be silly anyway
Thank GOD for this! Did not want to have to use OBS and streamlabs OBS ruining my pc lol
AmaZing video i love it 😍
As soon as you said "plugin" and "from the amazing..." I knew this was Exeldro's work 😅
On my recording the audio is popping and it's slightly out of sync. What happened?
Can't get it to work? I've done all the steps but it won't appear in my OBS filters
Thanks! Really usefull!
I bet that's the new dell webcam with 4k :D, thanks for the video been looking for a good way todo this on OBS without multiple instances.
Fairly positive it’s an elgato camera.
This is perfect!
Excellent tutorial on an awesome resource.
By chance is there anybody who has encountered a problem using the Source record on your webcam source when using a Green Screen? I have been finding that all the recordings straight from my webcam I get have the greenscreen showing up as gray, whereas it is properly Chroma Keyed on my actual live feed/ regular recording without using Source Record. Anybody know how to fix this?? I can't seem to find anything about it after searching.
Ooooo. hiding the elgato facecam in plain sight 0:34
u are great bro .
Thanks dude
Could anybody go more in depth if I record game audio with it. Can’t seem to figure that part out
Very neat!
this is awesome! i haven't even installed it yet and my mind already goes wild with all kinds of ideas...
do you happen to know if it's only recording the sources in the currently active scene and shuts down the recording once the scene is switched, thus the source being "offline"? or does it continue to record both? i'm asking, because combined with the automatic scene switcher plugin while live that would make handling the recordings of different games trivial without one requiring to tinker with the game capture or the filter while being live.
Great Video! You never went far on the explanation of the replay buffer option in this video, 1. does the OBS replay buffer need to be enabled? 2. is this a case of the filter portion being hidden and then unhidden to capture the replay triggered by a hotkey or TouchPortal type setup? and Lastly 3. would or could the replay duration differ say be set for a lesser time 8secs, as opposed to the OBS setting in the settings menu of say 30 secs. Any chance on a video touching on this subject matter further>>?>>
Thanks Love you Vids
thank you guy
If you have more than one graphics card can you have more than 3 encodings happening at once? Can you have say 2 x RTX cards or a RTX card + a quatro card? Do AMD cards have such limits. Great video as always thank you!