ambiroa Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 * I posted a similar question several months ago while the Windows version was still in beta, now that it's out I figured asking it again, maybe someone found a solution by now. I want to livestream working in Affinity Designer and use OBS for that. In OBS you can chose for Display Capture which capture everything you see, literally everything, so I don't want that. Instead, I want to use Window Capture which only captures the window you select it to cap, in this case the Designer window. The problem: it only captures the User Interface, not the Canvas. I know this is related with the technology used to render everything on the Canvas, I believe it's OpenGL, DirectX, or maybe Affinity is using something else(???). Has anyone managed to get this working? I don't think Affinity finds this important to help me with, but streaming for me means an audience and new commissions, so it is for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted January 3, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 3, 2017 Hi Ambiroa, I spent a few hours one afternoon trying everything to get OBS to pick up the canvas but everything that I tried didn't work I'm afraid. It is quite odd as it picks up the canvas on the Mac just fine. Hopefully this is something we can resolve in the future. C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambiroa Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 Hi Ambiroa, I spent a few hours one afternoon trying everything to get OBS to pick up the canvas but everything that I tried didn't work I'm afraid. It is quite odd as it picks up the canvas on the Mac just fine. Hopefully this is something we can resolve in the future. C Oh man thank you so much for all the effort. Yes I really hope this can be solved, I would have no problem at all promoting Affinity on my stream, but it's a bit awkward if I can only show the UI haha :P I've been thinking, there is obviously be a technical difference between Display and Window Capture, that difference is somehow able to pick up the canvas, is it able to be reserved-engineered? Hmmm... interesting that it does work on Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Hey guys, has there been a solution to the problem yet? Or maybe asked differently: Have you changed to another software for recordings? If so, which one? Cheers MrDoodlezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Well, just for curiosity I downloaded OBS, installed and opened Affinity Photo... These are the settings I used and the canvas appeared. ...and this is what I recorded from my ancient Dell Vostro 3700 2021-04-05 14-51-21.mkv Mr. Doodlezz 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 17 minutes ago, firstdefence said: These are the settings I used and the canvas appeared. Oooh hey @firstdefence! Thanks for testing – with your settings I'm able to capture the canvas as well, nice! It's the Capture Method that's responsible for displaying everything correctly. It's set to Automatic for me, after changing it to Windows Graphics Capture it works fine. 👍 Cheers MrDoodlezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 You're welcome, enjoy the streaming/recording. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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