No Virtual Cam OBS 30.0.0, or 30.0.2 with Final Cut Pro on Mac 14.2.1

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dwhite169

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Just updated my M1 Mac Mini from Monterrey to Sonoma 14.2, and Final Cut Pro from 10.6.9 to 10.7.1; OBS 30.0.0 was working with FCP 10.6.9. Virtual camera is no longer visible in the Camera section of the Import window in FCP. The Virtual camera is still available and working in Zoom , FaceTime, and Quicktime. As a test, to eliminate the possibility of any corrupted files on my system, I clean installed OBS 30.0.2 and FCP on a new Mac mini I just bought, and I have the same problem with the virtual cam. I have worked w/ Apple Pro Apps support, and they were unable to provide and recommendations. Any assistance or insight would be appreciated.
 
dwhite169 said:
Just updated my M1 Mac Mini from Monterrey to Sonoma 14.2, and Final Cut Pro from 10.6.9 to 10.7.1; OBS 30.0.0 was working with FCP 10.6.9. Virtual camera is no longer visible in the Camera section of the Import window in FCP. The Virtual camera is still available and working in Zoom , FaceTime, and Quicktime. As a test, to eliminate the possibility of any corrupted files on my system, I clean installed OBS 30.0.2 and FCP on a new Mac mini I just bought, and I have the same problem with the virtual cam. I have worked w/ Apple Pro Apps support, and they were unable to provide and recommendations. Any assistance or insight would be appreciated.
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update to 30.0.2 give all permission as policy for camera changed in Sonoma
 
Im currently running 30.0.02, FCP and OBS both have permission in Privacy & Security pane, to use the camera. Virtual camera in FCP is still non functional.
 
any updates on this? i've been trying to figure out how to get virtual camera to work with OS sonoma. before i updated, it was working..
 
Man -- two years to the day and I'm having the same problem. I'm on Sequoia 15.7.2, having just updated from Monterey 12.7.4. Final Cut Pro 11.2 still doesn't seem to be able to recognize OBS Virtual Camera like in those good ol' Monterey days. As mentioned, Zoom, QuickTime, FaceTime, all still do. Per this recent post, I'm on OBS 32.0.4, & I tried the removes, re-adds & toggles (I even straight-up deleted the Camera extension so that OBS would redownload it.): https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/sequoia-15-0-and-obs.179883/post-701338 I also checked to see if anything was left behind in /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL, but nuffin'.

Any chance of being able to regain OBS Virtual Camera functionality w/ Final Cut Pro?
 
tbh this is a Final Cut Pro issue, not OBS. FCP still uses the older camera enumeration path and doesn't properly pick up the newer Camera Extension type that OBS switched to after dropping the DAL plugin on post-Monterey. Other apps see it fine because they go through AVFoundation normally. If you really need the OBS output in FCP, the NDI route works (obs-ndi plugin on the OBS side, then NDI Virtual Input creates a camera FCP can actually see), but honestly recording straight in OBS and importing the file into FCP is way less hassle.
 
turingsroot said:
tbh this is a Final Cut Pro issue, not OBS. FCP still uses the older camera enumeration path and doesn't properly pick up the newer Camera Extension type that OBS switched to after dropping the DAL plugin on post-Monterey. Other apps see it fine because they go through AVFoundation normally. If you really need the OBS output in FCP, the NDI route works (obs-ndi plugin on the OBS side, then NDI Virtual Input creates a camera FCP can actually see), but honestly recording straight in OBS and importing the file into FCP is way less hassle.
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Thank you so much for your reply! I had no clue about any of this obs-ndi stuff. I downloaded (NDI Tools w/ NDI Virtual Input, obs-ndi/DistroAV), installed, restarted... I see that OBS is outputting something that NDI Virtual Input can see, but it's still not showing up in Final Cut Pro. Is there a step I'm missing?

The whole thing about recording in OBS -- I just really liked the way that Final Cut Pro seemed to transcode and compress the video. It seemed very reasonable, and I felt like it wasn't taxing my system in the same way recording in OBS does. (Obviously, some of that might just be my imagination, or maybe my Recording settings are just bad.) In normal alternatives, QuickTime's High & Maximum settings (which are the only settings) are always gigantic.

If this doesn't work out for me, the next best thing I've found so far is CamSimple. The file-size & quality ratio seems comparable to what I was getting out of Final Cut, and I feel like my lappy likes it.
 
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