Hi! I'm wondering how to have another person's video/audio connect to OBS. I've done a screen capture from zoom and used that as a media source. I've also done a window capture to zoom and used that as a media source. The quality was just OK with the screen capture but I have to show my viewers my home screen and switch over and I can't add any graphics or anything while the other person is speaking. When attempting to use window capture, the video was TERRIBLE. Do this wonderful and knowledgable community know a fix? Do you know any way to share another live video source besides mine?
Question / Help How to Capture Zoom (or any video conferencing software) to OBS
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Tangential
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I run Zoom on a separate computer in full screen and capture it via HDMI out from that computer with an encoder. That gives me a high quality signal and with Zoom in fullscreen it provides a good 'camera' feed into OBS. I use a second encoder to send my program output back to Zoom as its webcam so my guests can see the feed with lower thirds, etc in place.
Thanks! Do you know if there's a way to do this with only one computer? I'm working with a macbook pro and the other computers I have are PC. I don't have an hdmi to usb c adapter.
Tangential
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I run zoom on my Mac, but it has HDMI out. NDI offers window and desktop capture. You might be able to use that
Any chance you could explain your process in a bit more detail? I'm fairly new to OBS and am looking to stream Zoom calls through OBS but the window and display capture have terrible time lags with the audio. It looks like you have found a great solution.
Tangential
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Picture 2 notebooks, each with an encoder plugged into them that is attached to the other computers HDMI port. On the zoom computer, the attached encoder is also the second ‘monitor‘ of the OBS box and the OBS program is running full screen in that ‘monitor‘. This feed is the zoom ’webcam’ .
On the OBS box, the encoder is a camera source and ca-tire the entire zoom screen. I run zoom in mosaic So the windows don’t change and I use both the whole screen capture and I also create a separate scene for each participant by cropping the zoom camera down to just them.
I do all of the audio separately via usb audio devices so I can manage the audio as well.
This might also work fine with NDI, but my experience with NDI has not been consistent enough to use it in a livestream.
On the OBS box, the encoder is a camera source and ca-tire the entire zoom screen. I run zoom in mosaic So the windows don’t change and I use both the whole screen capture and I also create a separate scene for each participant by cropping the zoom camera down to just them.
I do all of the audio separately via usb audio devices so I can manage the audio as well.
This might also work fine with NDI, but my experience with NDI has not been consistent enough to use it in a livestream.
When you take it via mosaic mode, isn't the picture very small? and since the picture is small the quality isn't very good when you increase the size so it fills in. For example there are 10 people, and I want to highlight one person. I take their mosaic photo which is small then add my overlays and people are watching my display. but since its a single speaker...blowing it up makes it bad quality? Am I missing something?
Tangential
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That would be an issue with 10. I did it with 3. You would think by now zoom would let you lock one person in large mode or put each person in a se-a rate window
TimothyPowers
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If you're the Zoom host, you click on one person and SPOTLIGHT their photo to make it large for all participants.
If you're a participant, you can PIN their photo to make it large.
Would this work for your needs?
Tangential
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Does it allow you to pin more than one participant? That would be what is needed (and it would make me very happy.)
If you've got several people on the Zoom and you want to be able to switch to a close up on a particular one you would need that. Even with only 3 participants, all remote, the only way we found to do this reliably was to use multiple systems, each with a 2 person zoom session where one end was me, the producer and the other end was a participant. In our case none of the zoom sessions ran on the OBS computer, but this was early in 2019 and we weren't using virtual camera and NDI had issues. I had to encode the video feed from each zoom machine and feed it into the OBS session, mix all of the audio and also send an audio and video feed thru an encoder back to each system. It did give me a nice, high res capture for each participant that never varied in size. Each participant actually saw the program feed.
NorbertCBA
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¿Por favor, alguien sabe por qué al destacar (spotlight) mi propia cámara virtual en Zoom (utilizando NDI virtual input desde OBS) el video entra en un loop infinito?. Esto no pasa cuando veo mi propia camara en vista galeria sino solo cuando la destaco (spotlight).
Espero alguien pueda ayudarme en esto porque no puedo encontrar la solución :(
¡Muchas gracias!
Espero alguien pueda ayudarme en esto porque no puedo encontrar la solución :(
¡Muchas gracias!