adding a power point presentation
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Add a Window Capture source. Have it capture the PowerPoint presentation window.
If you can have a separate monitor to use with PowerPoint, that would be great. We actually have the Presenter View at the monitor (to be able to see the upcoming slide as well) and the actual fullscreen presentation, the window to capture, at the laptop itself behind OBS Studio. You might have a look at this resource for navigation the slideshow from within OBS: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/powerpoint-slide-window-navigation-using-obs-hotkey.938/
If you'd like to have the PowerPoint a little bit transparent, add a Color Correction filter and adjust Opacity.
If you can have a separate monitor to use with PowerPoint, that would be great. We actually have the Presenter View at the monitor (to be able to see the upcoming slide as well) and the actual fullscreen presentation, the window to capture, at the laptop itself behind OBS Studio. You might have a look at this resource for navigation the slideshow from within OBS: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/powerpoint-slide-window-navigation-using-obs-hotkey.938/
If you'd like to have the PowerPoint a little bit transparent, add a Color Correction filter and adjust Opacity.
Lawrence_SoCal
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The above describes using PowerPoint in the more typical landscape/full screen perspective.
One important question is what type of content are you working with, and do you plan to add a 'live' camera feed? And where woudl that video feed be placed?
Another option is we use is using PPTx in landscaped slide show mode, with Windows Capture using older Win7 capture mode (BitBlt?) so mouse cursor stays hidden. In our case, I have the PPTx windowed slide show in a Portrait layout taking up about 1/3 of the OBS canvas with video feed using the other 2/3. The ratio is adjustable as you desire. I use a monitor more than 1080pixels tall, so I can create a PPTx window, with the OS Title Bar removed such that Window Capture is 1080p tall so I'm not dealing with any re-scaling
Typically, the content of the PPT window is more important that the video. And then there is getting sophisticated with fancy window moves from Full screen PPT (with video being Picture-in-Picture [PiP]), to the opposite (full screen video and PiP PPTx). With Native OBS, you can do the swap, possibly with a fade type transition, BUT... I'm not sure how fancy you could get with the video and PPTx changing size/position. With an OBS Plugin, like Move Control (and I'm sure there are plenty of others.. Stingers?) you could get a pretty sophisticated look.
However, I'd recommend keeping it simple to start. Get comfortable with OBS before layering on features (and making sure PC powerful enough to handle demands
As for Slide Page Controls, with Old PowerPoint, there was simple command line to advance a slide show. But with MS security model change associated with Office 365 (so pretty much stuff after Office 2010?), it got a LOT more complicated (I couldn't get it to work reliably/consistently). So .. it depends
- there is the option is enable OBS to be manipulated (ie change Scene or whatever) via Macro feature in PPT (ie change slide in PPT, and command sent to OBS)
- There are a couple of options of manipulating PPT from OBS - look at the Resource->Plugin forum
- Then there are things like external control boxes (StreamDeck)
For us, it is easy and flexible enough to simply have PPT as a Windowed Slide Show as mentioned, configured so mouse cursor doesn't show. With a scroll wheel mouse, all I need is a part of the PPT window being visible (I do NOT need PPT to be foreground/active window), move the mouse over the visible portion of PPT, and scroll the mouse wheel to advance PPT
One important question is what type of content are you working with, and do you plan to add a 'live' camera feed? And where woudl that video feed be placed?
Another option is we use is using PPTx in landscaped slide show mode, with Windows Capture using older Win7 capture mode (BitBlt?) so mouse cursor stays hidden. In our case, I have the PPTx windowed slide show in a Portrait layout taking up about 1/3 of the OBS canvas with video feed using the other 2/3. The ratio is adjustable as you desire. I use a monitor more than 1080pixels tall, so I can create a PPTx window, with the OS Title Bar removed such that Window Capture is 1080p tall so I'm not dealing with any re-scaling
Typically, the content of the PPT window is more important that the video. And then there is getting sophisticated with fancy window moves from Full screen PPT (with video being Picture-in-Picture [PiP]), to the opposite (full screen video and PiP PPTx). With Native OBS, you can do the swap, possibly with a fade type transition, BUT... I'm not sure how fancy you could get with the video and PPTx changing size/position. With an OBS Plugin, like Move Control (and I'm sure there are plenty of others.. Stingers?) you could get a pretty sophisticated look.
However, I'd recommend keeping it simple to start. Get comfortable with OBS before layering on features (and making sure PC powerful enough to handle demands
As for Slide Page Controls, with Old PowerPoint, there was simple command line to advance a slide show. But with MS security model change associated with Office 365 (so pretty much stuff after Office 2010?), it got a LOT more complicated (I couldn't get it to work reliably/consistently). So .. it depends
- there is the option is enable OBS to be manipulated (ie change Scene or whatever) via Macro feature in PPT (ie change slide in PPT, and command sent to OBS)
- There are a couple of options of manipulating PPT from OBS - look at the Resource->Plugin forum
- Then there are things like external control boxes (StreamDeck)
For us, it is easy and flexible enough to simply have PPT as a Windowed Slide Show as mentioned, configured so mouse cursor doesn't show. With a scroll wheel mouse, all I need is a part of the PPT window being visible (I do NOT need PPT to be foreground/active window), move the mouse over the visible portion of PPT, and scroll the mouse wheel to advance PPT
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