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So I am planning on recording gameplay of gta; overwatch, golf with friends, who's your daddy, rocket league etc. I have a c920 logotech webcam ready to record a facecam which I'll place in an overlay in one of the corners. The thing is that I want an easy recording system that can record seperate clips (Facecam seperately, so it's not stuck in one place. Microphone and game audio so I can adjust the volume. And the game display itself). Now I have dxtory although I got some issues forexample when I record it only gets a black screen and I have to convert it from dxtory again, taking up huge amounts of space. I have followed tutorials on youtube for best settings and codecs with no sucess. I would be glad to forexample purchase fraps if anyone has a great solution. 

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I believe you can run two instances of OBS if you wanted to.

What GPU are you using? Just curious.

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This would be incredibly hard to do without a second recording PC and a Mixer/Interface of some sort. The separate overlay/game video isn't needed, and if you did this would be pointless anyway, as you should just position the webcam in a position beforehand, if you used software like OBS or XSplit you can do this. The audio for Microphone and Game is possible but you need a way to capture two separate audio channels, or more easily, you can use an external mixer to preset the levels and adjust them while playing, then use a play through of your microphone to determine the best sound levels so you don't have to mess with them after. There is software that is able to record separate audio layers but I don't actually know of any off the top of my head and you'd probably have to pay for it.

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2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I believe you can run two instances of OBS if you wanted to.

What GPU are you using? Just curious.

Its not feasible to do this, it would but a huge amount of strain on his CPU recording two instances at once, which I'm guessing is going to be at either 720/1080 although this would allow for the webcam to be seperate along with the audio sources, it means combining videos later on, and is more hastle as with OBS when you record with a blank background causes the file to be saved with a black background, meaning the use of chroma keys needs to be used, and at this point gets complicated. There is no reason to not just record  it all in one OBS instance and just pre-setup audio levels and the position of the webcam. It takes 5 Minutes max and makes things way easier.

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1 minute ago, SherifsDog22 said:

Its not feasible to do this, it would but a huge amount of strain on his CPU recording two instances at once, which I'm guessing is going to be at either 720/1080 although this would allow for the webcam to be seperate along with the audio sources, it means combining videos later on, and is more hastle as with OBS when you record with a blank background causes the file to be saved with a black background, meaning the use of chroma keys needs to be used, and at this point gets complicated. There is no reason to not just record  it all in one OBS instance and just pre-setup audio levels and the position of the webcam. It takes 5 Minutes max and makes things way easier.

Could always use GPU encoding.

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2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Could always use GPU encoding.

While playing GTA V/Overwatch? which on low settings look like poop anyway? It's pointless still, if he had a second PC to be able to record on, then yes, maybe it has a *slight* bit of usefulness, but aside from that, it is pointless when playing and recording on the same PC.

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59 minutes ago, SherifsDog22 said:

Its not feasible to do this, it would but a huge amount of strain on his CPU recording two instances at once, which I'm guessing is going to be at either 720/1080 although this would allow for the webcam to be seperate along with the audio sources, it means combining videos later on, and is more hastle as with OBS when you record with a blank background causes the file to be saved with a black background, meaning the use of chroma keys needs to be used, and at this point gets complicated. There is no reason to not just record  it all in one OBS instance and just pre-setup audio levels and the position of the webcam. It takes 5 Minutes max and makes things way easier.

I've tried obs but the framerate turned out really low 

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1 hour ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I believe you can run two instances of OBS if you wanted to.

What GPU are you using? Just curious.

Two obs's ain't gonna work. I could use audacity tho? Only how to sync? And a facecam stuck to one location can sometimes ruin for something happening behond there. But I guess I can live with it.

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35 minutes ago, Thirall said:

Two obs's ain't gonna work. I could use audacity tho? Only how to sync? And a facecam stuck to one location can sometimes ruin for something happening behond there. But I guess I can live with it.

What I meant by running two copies of OBS was using one for the gameplay and the other for the webcam.

I could probably test something and see if it works, but is there any reason you couldn't use that kind of setup?

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1 hour ago, Thirall said:

Two obs's ain't gonna work. I could use audacity tho? Only how to sync? And a facecam stuck to one location can sometimes ruin for something happening behond there. But I guess I can live with it.

If you would use two OBS, you could have one only record mic and another for game sounds. If you need more channels, you need to pay for advanced content producing software. Though I think Xsplit might have something like that.

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1 hour ago, Thirall said:

Two obs's ain't gonna work. I could use audacity tho? Only how to sync? And a facecam stuck to one location can sometimes ruin for something happening behond there. But I guess I can live with it.

Just setup the scene to have two sources and scale the source for the webcam to be small enough to fit in the corner... one OBS is all you need...

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On 30.6.2016 at 7:44 AM, Tech Inquisition said:

Just setup the scene to have two sources and scale the source for the webcam to be small enough to fit in the corner... one OBS is all you need...

The problem with that is that the webcam source is stuck in one spot. Plus obs settings turn out wierdly for me. The quality isn't quite good, and I have experienced lag. What settings should I have?

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1 hour ago, Thirall said:

The problem with that is that the webcam source is stuck in one spot. Plus obs settings turn out wierdly for me. The quality isn't quite good, and I have experienced lag. What settings should I have?

I believe that you can move the webcam area.

Also, try recording at a higher bitrate to increase the quality.

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13 hours ago, Thirall said:

The problem with that is that the webcam source is stuck in one spot. Plus obs settings turn out wierdly for me. The quality isn't quite good, and I have experienced lag. What settings should I have?

Click edit scene to move and resize any objects on that scene. Plus you can make multiple scenes with different webcam positions and assign hotkeys to them.

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