OBS and CANON 80D

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Lawrence_SoCal

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Like so many things technical, there are different approach options you can take
- The cheapest, easiest, lowest resolution is to use Canon's software and use USB, ... But that camera (its what I have) is USB2.0 so video resolution will be low with this approach
Assuming your computer is powerful enough for real-time video encoding, and has a free USB3 port
- the much higher video resolution approach is to use HDMI out of the camera, get a USB HDMI capture device (beware cheap devices with poor drivers/support) and set that up. Get video input working at Operating System level first.

Once video input working at Operating System level, you should then be able to add the camera as a Video Source in OBS
There is a getting started guide on this site. Paul Richards also a free ebook (PDF) and using OBS Studio that is not gamer oriented, and might be a good place to get a more thorough understanding of OBS Studio
 
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Dazzler33d

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i have a beginners canon dslr (1300D) and i livestream my local pool league matches using it with obs.
i installed the canon EOS webcam Utility software and connect my camera through the usb.
you can set your camera to either the video setting or Manual setting (this setting needs to be done and set for optimal lighting ect before connecting to obs)
it doesnt pick up any audio this way so an external source for audio is required, this is ok for me as i also have a webcam that gets set up above the table for the stream and picks up the audio from there.
i might look into the hdmi output as described above ;-)
 
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