Question / Help Basic Help Needed-URGENT!

[Chestnut3355]

Trying to use OBS on a Mac laptop for a point to point Distance Learning studio presentation. I am new to OBS. Have watched many YouTube videos, read OBS tutorials, etc. and still need help with 3 things. I would really appreciate help, with the understanding that this is very basic stuff to many of you. I need directions on how to: (1) Make my OBS presentation full-screen, (2) Have my webcam picture show up large enough for students to see me in front of a green screen (Is there a way to make OBS and my webcam split screen (50%/50%, 75% OBS presentation and 25% webcam image, etc.)? and (3) How do I hide the control bar at the bottom of my mac when using OBS for my 1:1 DL lessons. HELP and THANKS!

 

[Narcogen]

I think I need a bit more detail to answer intelligently.

Adding a display capture in OBS by default captures an entire screen-- everything on it. If you're streaming what is on the screen, then making it full screen is achieved by making that application full screen. The same goes for hiding the Dock-- you can see the dock, the presentation will include the dock, so the way to eliminate it is to hide the dock from yourself. This can be done in system preferences > dock and specify "automatically hide and show the Dock". Now the dock is only visible when you interact with it, and is hidden the rest of the time.

There's no way to hide the dock from your audience but see it yourself except cropping it out of your image-- but if you do that, you'll either end up with a black bar-- you could instead cover that portion of your screen by adding an image or just a colored bar sized properly to cover your dock.

You can add a webcam source in OBS and resize and position it however you like.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/Sources-Guide#video-capture-device

 

[Chestnut3355]

I think I need a bit more detail to answer intelligently.

Adding a display capture in OBS by default captures an entire screen-- everything on it. If you're streaming what is on the screen, then making it full screen is achieved by making that application full screen. The same goes for hiding the Dock-- you can see the dock, the presentation will include the dock, so the way to eliminate it is to hide the dock from yourself. This can be done in system preferences > dock and specify "automatically hide and show the Dock". Now the dock is only visible when you interact with it, and is hidden the rest of the time.

There's no way to hide the dock from your audience but see it yourself except cropping it out of your image-- but if you do that, you'll either end up with a black bar-- you could instead cover that portion of your screen by adding an image or just a colored bar sized properly to cover your dock

You can add a webcam source in OBS and resize and position it however you like.

https://obsproject.com/wiki/Sources-Guide#video-capture-device

Thank you for your response! I work for a non-profit Children's Museum and am using OBS with LifeSize Icon 400 DL Equipment. I am supposed to connect to a site in Canada tomorrow afternoon. One might ask..."Then why are you waiting until now to ask for help through this forum"? I wanted to try to figure out things on my own...But time is quickly running out. I would be HAPPY to pay someone to walk me through the steps to take in getting my system set-up. Could you call me and me pay you or is there someone out there through this forum that I could pay to help me? I really don't need to see the see the settings below my PPT presentation when I am presenting. I am getting a picture from my camera and can see it on my screen along with my presentation, but I do not know how to make it larger so that students can see me. I I expand the red-lined boundaries of the picture, it goes into gray 45 degreed angle lines outside the border of my screen. Tks, again!

 

[Narcogen]

This forum is staffed by volunteers and isn't set up for providing paid support.

Can you provide a logfile from OBS so I can at least see what you've done to set up so far? I am confused by your description of the webcam image, as resizing a video capture source from the handles should absolutely scale the image, and the "gray 45 degree angle lines" does not sound like any UI element of OBS that I am familiar with.

UPDATE: Wait, do you mean like this?

If so, that means you've enlarged the image beyond the bounds of your canvas. After resizing, hold down the mouse button and move your red frame around your webcam source back into the frame. In the above image, the light and dark grey alternating lines on the right side are indicating the portion of the selected source that are protruding beyond the edge of your video frame and will not be seen.

In the above example, dragging that red box to the left until those lines go away would mean the image has been moved back inside the bounds of the video frame, so the image would be completely visible in your stream.

Include a log file if you have a problem: here's how

 

[GregoryJ]

Thank you for your response! I work for a non-profit Children's Museum and am using OBS with LifeSize Icon 400 DL Equipment. I am supposed to connect to a site in Canada tomorrow afternoon. One might ask..."Then why are you waiting until now to ask for help through this forum"? I wanted to try to figure out things on my own...But time is quickly running out. I would be HAPPY to pay someone to walk me through the steps to take in getting my system set-up. Could you call me and me pay you or is there someone out there through this forum that I could pay to help me? I really don't need to see the see the settings below my PPT presentation when I am presenting. I am getting a picture from my camera and can see it on my screen along with my presentation, but I do not know how to make it larger so that students can see me. I I expand the red-lined boundaries of the picture, it goes into gray 45 degreed angle lines outside the border of my screen. Tks, again!

I have the project to use an Icon 500 camera with OBS, I am new and I would like to know how to do it, could you help me and show me a method to get the Icon 500 camera video feed on OBS, I want to stream in good quality to Facebook live, here is my material:

Lifesize Icon 500 Camera
Macbook pro 16 "
MacOS 10.14 Sierra
Or PC with Windows 10
RME Fireface 400

OBS to Facebook Live

Thank you

Greg