Greenscreen webcam content overlay?

[doni49]

I want to do some software tutorials in which I am walking the viewer through various software decisions. I will be recording my screen to show them. But I also have a webcam and would like to display a silhouette of myself overlaid on top of the software display. I have figured out how to overlay the webcam output overtop of the software display but that shows the ENTIRE contents of the webcam including everything behind me. I think that takes up too much screen space.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA!

 

[doni49]

Never mind. I did one more search and found some videos on it.

 

[AaronD]

For those that come later, there's this plugin:

Background Removal / Virtual Green-screen & Low-Light Enhance

This plugin makes it easy to replace the background in portrait images and video to create a virtual green screen, as well as correct lighting in low-light conditions, just like Zoom or Google Meet. It uses a neural network to predict the mask of...

obsproject.com

Is that what you found?

Or you could have a single-color background (that actually is a single color *as the camera sees it*, which is where a lot of the hassle comes from), and then use OBS's native Chroma Key filter on the camera, set to that came color. (usually green, but not necessarily, and don't wear anything of that color!)

 

[doni49]

and don't wear anything of that color!

That could make for a very strange video. ;)

I'm not sure if that's the same one. But it does look to at least be a similar process.

At this point, I haven't decided for sure if I want to do it as a tutorial where the viewer sees me or just my screen.