Using Zoom with OBS Studio
Oct 25, 2020 09:28:43 #
Hi group,
Two things I discovered this week: When using my laptop with Zoom while on its battery supply, my D750 (and all of my other Nikons) turns off live view when I switch to it from another camera (EX: onboard laptop). When the power supply is plugged into the laptop, it switches back and forth perfectly. In either case, when using the Virtual Camera function in OBS Studio, the switch back & forth is seamless (doesn't turn off).
Several of my old Nikons will not produce "clean HDMI" out in live view. The workaround I found is to pull the camera's bounding box beyond the picture boarders in OBS. This process puts the shuttler/aperture, data, etc. outside the view of OBS & Zoom. A tighter angle of view is the trade off but I can always move the camera a bit to compensate. Just some Zoom-online FYI that took me several days to figure out. Take care & ...
Two things I discovered this week: When using my laptop with Zoom while on its battery supply, my D750 (and all of my other Nikons) turns off live view when I switch to it from another camera (EX: onboard laptop). When the power supply is plugged into the laptop, it switches back and forth perfectly. In either case, when using the Virtual Camera function in OBS Studio, the switch back & forth is seamless (doesn't turn off).
Several of my old Nikons will not produce "clean HDMI" out in live view. The workaround I found is to pull the camera's bounding box beyond the picture boarders in OBS. This process puts the shuttler/aperture, data, etc. outside the view of OBS & Zoom. A tighter angle of view is the trade off but I can always move the camera a bit to compensate. Just some Zoom-online FYI that took me several days to figure out. Take care & ...
Oct 26, 2020 21:59:49 #
Wow, thanks for this! Im just fighting my way through OBS. This isn't the life i ordered..lol. Do you know..can you have the Nikon D850, a webcam and MacBook Pro camera all showing different scenes zooming at the same time in one window, without having to manually select which camera is zooming the scene?
Oct 27, 2020 08:56:20 #
Hi Zenmonkey,
The short answer is "yes." How to do it: Make a new Scene that we'll call 3-cameras. Next, go to Sources and select the first camera (MacBook) as a source; adjust the bounding box so it is the size you want. Next, repeat the process with the second camera and adjust its bounding box. Last, repeat the process with camera 3. Adjust the 3 bounding boxes until they can be viewed on-screen as you wish.
If you decide to use the "Virtual Camera" to stream through Zoom, you'll need to adjust the audio by about 210 to 240 ms (depending on your computer, mine is a PC so I don't know the setting for a Mac). Go to "Edit" and the bottom selection is for "Audio" adjustments. The adjustment is there in the middle of the top line. Take care & ...
The short answer is "yes." How to do it: Make a new Scene that we'll call 3-cameras. Next, go to Sources and select the first camera (MacBook) as a source; adjust the bounding box so it is the size you want. Next, repeat the process with the second camera and adjust its bounding box. Last, repeat the process with camera 3. Adjust the 3 bounding boxes until they can be viewed on-screen as you wish.
If you decide to use the "Virtual Camera" to stream through Zoom, you'll need to adjust the audio by about 210 to 240 ms (depending on your computer, mine is a PC so I don't know the setting for a Mac). Go to "Edit" and the bottom selection is for "Audio" adjustments. The adjustment is there in the middle of the top line. Take care & ...
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