CommandSupernova
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I'm struggling with exposure settings with a Logitech StreamCam and am hoping someone here can give me advice.
Logitech Capture (the capture software for the StreamCam) doesn't allow me to turn off auto-exposure, so when I move around on camera at all, my background dims and re-lightens as the exposure automatically adjusts. This looks really bad so I don't want to use auto-exposure.
I've tried using OBS as an alternative since it allows you to disable auto-exposure. However, OBS's manual exposure settings are not precise enough for me. -6 exposure in OBS results in an image that's too dark, and -5 is overexposed. If I turn on OBS's auto-exposure, I have the same background flickering issue that the Logitech Capture software has.
Is there a way to control camera exposure in OBS with more precision? If I could enter a value of 5.5 - 5.9, I think this would be perfect for me, but OBS only allows whole numbers for the exposure setting. Oddly enough, auto-exposure seems to get somewhere in between -5 and -6, but I can't seem to do this manually. These are the settings available to me: https://imgur.com/a/6Sid2La
I've also tried using colour filters in OBS to tweak my brightness when I'm on manual exposure of -6. This helps but seems to reduce overall image quality in my video. I'd love to fix the root cause of the problem instead of trying to artificially fix it with filters after the fact. I also don't see an OBS filter that allows me to adjust exposure, just filters for brightness, colours, etc.
If there isn't a trick to control exposure more precisely in OBS, do you know of an add-in/plugin or other tool that will allow me to do so? Or some other setting that I may be missing?
Thanks for any insight you may have!
Logitech Capture (the capture software for the StreamCam) doesn't allow me to turn off auto-exposure, so when I move around on camera at all, my background dims and re-lightens as the exposure automatically adjusts. This looks really bad so I don't want to use auto-exposure.
I've tried using OBS as an alternative since it allows you to disable auto-exposure. However, OBS's manual exposure settings are not precise enough for me. -6 exposure in OBS results in an image that's too dark, and -5 is overexposed. If I turn on OBS's auto-exposure, I have the same background flickering issue that the Logitech Capture software has.
Is there a way to control camera exposure in OBS with more precision? If I could enter a value of 5.5 - 5.9, I think this would be perfect for me, but OBS only allows whole numbers for the exposure setting. Oddly enough, auto-exposure seems to get somewhere in between -5 and -6, but I can't seem to do this manually. These are the settings available to me: https://imgur.com/a/6Sid2La
I've also tried using colour filters in OBS to tweak my brightness when I'm on manual exposure of -6. This helps but seems to reduce overall image quality in my video. I'd love to fix the root cause of the problem instead of trying to artificially fix it with filters after the fact. I also don't see an OBS filter that allows me to adjust exposure, just filters for brightness, colours, etc.
If there isn't a trick to control exposure more precisely in OBS, do you know of an add-in/plugin or other tool that will allow me to do so? Or some other setting that I may be missing?
Thanks for any insight you may have!
