Why are filters on projector sources?

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robertrbsn

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Hi, I'm using OBS with Moblin, Touchportal and a couple of Smartphone cams for event livestreams for 2 years now and it's getting bigger and bigger. But for every stream I've got one big problem: I'm monitoring all cams on separate windows but I like to "deactivate" several cams from one another to quickly switch the pictures by toggling their opacity. This filters also occur on the monitoring windows. Why? It's totally nonsense as I'm monitoring the cams. The filters in my logical sense should not be visible there. While this is the logic of filters I can not use touchportal to switch the cams because if they aren't always visible in monitoring it's useless for me.

Can you please fix it as I'm pretty sure this is bug-related?

If somebody asks why I'm not using scenes to switch: It's because I need to see any cam in any scene and have stingers between scenes but as I stay in one scene I need a fast cut to the other cams.
For now I'm using manual reordering of cam layers. But this cannot be the solution.
 
Filters are applied at the level you apply them, either on the scene or the source. If you apply the filter to the source, then the projector will also have that filter. Projectors are not monitors, and are not expected to render differently, it is simply a copy of the source.
 
Okay but does OBS got the function of monitoring video signals? We are working with up to 4 cams and I have to monitor them as it is absolutely necessary in livestream productions. Am I overlooking something?
 
There is no way to preview a source without its filters applied. You could use nested scenes, however, and apply the filter on the scene, and not the source. This should allow the projector to remain unmodified.
 
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