If you activated Create additional variations, the recording will stop after at least 30 seconds instead. If you start recording with the hotkey or with Auto Postprocessing Active enabled, recording will automatically stop 10 seconds after the configured video length plus start offset plus 10 seconds safety margin elapsed. It's probably 1 to 5 seconds if you manually click Start Recording, and 0 to 1 second if you use the hotkey. Set it to the expected delay between recording start and start of the action you want to extract. In the script settings, first configure the Scene where the created group exists, then the Section (point it to the group).īefore you start working, verify Start Offset in the script settings.Open the OBS script setup with Tools→Scripts and add a with the plus (+) to the loaded scripts.Move and resize the group, so it designates the section properly.Give this group a meaningful name such as 'Video Outline'. This will designate the section you want in the postprocessed gif/video. In OBS, create a Group by clicking the plus (+) in the Sources widget.Create a source that will capture your recording target correctly.If ffmpeg is not in your OS path: edit postprocess-from-obs.cmd with a text editor such as Notepad and configure the path to ffmpeg, located at the top of the file.If you download from v, the 'essentials' build should work fine. Install a standalone ffmpeg from if you don't have it already.If you need Linux support, port this very simple batch file to a bash script, send it to me, and I will add it to the repository.

Download a and postprocess-from-obs.cmd from the download link at github and save them to the directory you usually store your *.lua scripts for OBS.Ĭurrently, only the Windows batch file ( postprocess-from-obs.cmd) as ffmpeg wrapper is provided.

This script is essentially a wrapper around ffmpeg that converts the parameters from OBS to the corresponding ffmpeg commandline options. If you need your own ffmpeg settings, look at the postprocess-from-obs.cmd batchfile and change any settings and ffmpeg commandline arguments you want. This way the full postprocessing power of all ffmpeg filters can be used. The export uses a standalone ffmpeg binary, so make sure you get it before you start creating gifs (see installation instructions below). Usually, the created snippets should be small, so you lower the fps here. In the settings of the script, you can define how long your snippet will be and how many fps it will have, and more. To make real use of the group, you can of course add some kind of watermark source to the group to create some branding for your snippets, but an empty group will suffice. We're kind of misusing groups here for just pointing the export script to the section we want to extract. If you're not satisfied with the export, for example the file size is too large or the beginning is a second too soon, change the script settings in Tools→Scripts and click the 'Process again' button. Recording is stopped automatically a few seconds later and the section will be exported from the recorded video.

You mark the section with the borders of a group, then start recording with the script hotkey. If you want to export a small section of your capture area as an animated gif or to some small video snippet in general, this is for you. This script will start an external ffmpeg to extract a section of the recorded video and export this as animated gif or mp4/webm video snippet.

Make a gif from screen recording