Camera Controls Showing up in Stream/Recording

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claytonmcgary

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So I got my camera to work with OBS but it shows everything that is displayed on the camera like the volume bars, etc. so this won't work for streaming. Is there a way to turn that off? It doesn't do that with other capture programs and facetime on my Mac.
 
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AaronD

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What camera? What other capture apps?

I doubt it's OBS, as it simply shows what it gets. It doesn't add anything. If there's some communication between app and camera to remove it, then that could explain what you see, as OBS doesn't do that either. If that's the case, then I'd consider it a crappy camera, and the manufacturers are trying to lock you into their brand and their affiliated partners. Maybe there's a manual setting *on the camera* to turn that stuff off, like my camcorder does?

OBS does, however, control a PTZ camera...sometimes. (motorized pan/tilt/zoom) It depends on the camera and the operating system. I found that out when I built a live presentation in OBS and put my Linux laptop on a "media cart" to show it, in place of the Windows laptop that normally lives there. Same PTZ camera on USB: OBS on Windows just treated it as a webcam, OBS on Linux treated it as a controllable PTZ.

So that might be a possibility for you as well: a proprietary app may be needed to control it on your preferred system, but a different system just picks it up and uses it.
 
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Babs Johnson

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claytonmcgary said:
So I got my camera to work with OBS but it shows everything that is displayed on the camera like the volume bars, etc. so this won't work for streaming. Is there a way to turn that off? It doesn't do that with other capture programs and facetime on my Mac.
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Can that camera output clean feed?
 
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claytonmcgary

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AaronD said:
What camera? What other capture apps?

I doubt it's OBS, as it simply shows what it gets. It doesn't add anything. If there's some communication between app and camera to remove it, then that could explain what you see, as OBS doesn't do that either. If that's the case, then I'd consider it a crappy camera, and the manufacturers are trying to lock you into their brand and their affiliated partners. Maybe there's a manual setting *on the camera* to turn that stuff off, like my camcorder does?

OBS does, however, control a PTZ camera...sometimes. (motorized pan/tilt/zoom) It depends on the camera and the operating system. I found that out when I built a live presentation in OBS and put my Linux laptop on a "media cart" to show it, in place of the Windows laptop that normally lives there. Same PTZ camera on USB: OBS on Windows just treated it as a webcam, OBS on Linux treated it as a controllable PTZ.

So that might be a possibility for you as well: a proprietary app may be needed to control it on your preferred system, but a different system just picks it up and uses it.
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Its OBS because I've used other capture programs including facetime and it doesn't do that. It's a really nice Sony camera. I checked the settings and there's nothing on there that I can change.
 
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AaronD

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claytonmcgary said:
Its OBS because I've used other capture programs including facetime and it doesn't do that. It's a really nice Sony camera. I checked the settings and there's nothing on there that I can change.
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Facetime is effectively a paid closed-source app, since it comes with a paid closed-source system. That means it could have a deal to use some undocumented communication with another paid thing (the camera), so that free things that don't have that deal, don't work as well. If that's the case, boycott the proprietary lock-in by using a different camera that doesn't do that.

My Canon Vixia does have that setting. It's buried in the menus, as are a lot of things, but it's there to look for and find. It also doesn't have a USB connection, so I do HDMI to a capture card. Maybe that's something to look for too? An HDMI output might be more likely to have a "live TV" mindset with less chance of a proprietary lock-in, and therefore more likely to have that setting in the camera itself?
 
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