Thread by @squidlord

I had a brilliant epiphany about how to do multi-camera/multiscreen recording with a single instance of #OBS, doing postprocessing in #DaVinciResolve , and I'm really looking forward to trying the first experiment. #videoediting #streaming

obsproject.com 1/12

Essentially the idea is thus: no one said that your screen recording format in OBS had to represent your actual screen. Or anything like an actual screen that could actually exist. 2/12

So my thought runs thus:

- Set up my recording resolution to be a multiple of width and/or height of my screen resolution. 3/12

- Run multiple applications I want to capture that whatever resolution I like. In this case, Miro and Sumatra PDF Reader, each full screen.

miro.com

sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader 4/12

- Spread them out using window or game capture across the much larger virtual OBS video screen resolution, capturing them all at full resolution. 5/12

- Record the live performance normally, using the tools as available and necessary for my intent (in this case character generation in Five Leagues From the Borderlands).

modiphius.net/en-us/pages/fi… 6/12

- Take the resulting oversized video into Resolve.

blackmagicdesign.com/products/davin… 7/12

- Create a series of Timelines, each of which being 1920 x 1080, one for each application/view.

- Create a low resolution proxy for the oversized video.

- Drag the oversized video into each Timeline and crop it such that only the appropriate 1920 x 1080 segment is visible. 8/12

- Render a lo-res proxy for each of the Timelines.

- Create an overall output Timeline and bring in all of the component Timelines stacked because they are all obviously the same length. 9/12

- Take out the unnecessary duplicates of the audio track (or just bring in the video segment in the first place). 10/12

Congratulations! You now have multiple video instances all recorded at the same time, guaranteed to be time synced, ready to be cut and inserted and transitioned to your heart's content. 11/12

Yes, this has probably been figured out a number of times by a number of people for postproduction – but I have never seen anyone talk about doing it that way.

I'll let everyone know how it turns out! 12/12