3 Pausing macros

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Table of Contents

• Manually pause macros on the macro tab
• Use hotkeys pause macros
• Use the action "Macro" to pause macros
• How to enable registering of pause hotkeys for a given macro / new macros

Paused macro's conditions will not be checked and thus their actions will not be executed.
This will allow you disable resource intensive operations (e.g. the video condition) when they are not needed or set up more intricate macro rules.

Unpaused macros are marked with a ticked checkbox next to the macros name.
If the checkbox is not ticked the macro is currently paused.

To change the "paused" state of a macro you can ...

Manually pause macros on the macro tab

To pause a macro untick the checkbox in front of the macros name.
To unpause it tick the checkbox.

Use hotkeys pause macros

Each macro will automatically register hotkeys to pause, unpause, or toggle the paused state of macros.
The keys can be bound in OBS' settings menu.

Use the action "Macro" to pause macros

The macro action "Macro" can be used to pause or unpause other macros or even the currently running macro.

How to enable registering of pause hotkeys for a given macro / new macros

The video below shows how to access the macro settings to enable the registering of hotkeys and how to use them:

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• Detect elements on screen and hide them automatically
• Motion detection
• Start other programs when starting OBS
• Crossfading audio during scene changes
• Looping a set of media sources
• Switch scenes randomly
• Re-shuffle VLC source
• Automatically switch scene if a game capture's target window no longer exists
• Audio based scene switching in podcast setting
• Switching scenes based on portrait or landscape mode resolution of a window capture source
• Set up a hotkey to start and stop recording with a fade from and to black
• Automatically cycle through a list of scenes
• Toggle visibility of scene items on a timer
• Advance through a list of scenes by hotkey
• Performing actions only when transitioning from A to B
• Media playlist with commercial interruptions
• Split recording of stream into chunks
• Switching scenes for Aitum Vertical plugin
• Using MIDI devices
• Controlling audio source volume using MIDI devices
• Change capture window of Window Capture source
• Show URLs in clipboard in browser source
• League of Legends process based scene swtich
• Push-to-show source

Explanations

• General tab overview
• Starting and stopping the plugin
• Macros explained
• Macro tab overview
• Creating a macro
• Pausing macros
• Macro duration modifiers
• Macro docks
• Exporting and importing individual macros
• Audio condition
• Cursor condition
• Date condition
• Hotkey condition
• Media condition
• Process condition
• Scene item transform condition
• Slide Show condition
• Video condition
• Audio action
• Http action
• Hotkey action
• Random action
• Scene item visibility
• Sequence action
• Action Queue example
• Variables
• Macro properties
• Websockets
• Scripting
• Troubleshooting
• Saving and loading settings