Question on audio in/out zoom/facebook

DragonWolf5589

New Member
I hope i posted this in right place and hope its makes sense.

I am the "back room" guy for someone as they have no knowledge on streaming nor a computer to run it.
they basically do it in zoom, and i stream this to facebook and allow the zoom auto "spotlight" to switch the screens, im just making sure people are muted when need to be and making the stream run.

What i want is to keep being able to talk to people in zoom but my voice does NOT transmit through obs to the facebook stream, I can do that fine i managed it with VB virtual cable. the problem is some "scenes" are recordings.. while I myself, and the facebook stream hear the audio from recordings.. zoom.. does not.. how do i fix this? I want it so i can talk to people in zoom to cue them in when they are about to talk. NOT have this transmitted to facebook or the recording in OBS. BUT i want them to be able to hear the audio specifically when i play one of the pre-recorded sections as they have to sit in silence for a few minutes and try to "comment" on it without even KNOWING what was said! (they can see it via obs virtual cam, but no audio gets transmitted without switching "mic" source in zoom, which i cant do quick enough to switch it back 10 seconds by the end to tell them to get ready to come back on live.

this is what my settings currently allow:

  • In zoom I use my mic directly (I dont want my voice transmitted to ensure i can "cue" people on zoom, as im not taking part of it other then the tech side.
  • In obs i use VB Cable from zoom TO obs to monitor the audio, some scenes are set to "zoom monitor" and "zoom record" so we can talk during the 15 minute break or the recordings without transmitting to facebook/recorded, and in the other "zoom" scenes all audio from zoom is sent
  • Virtual cam so they can see the video playing
  • no sound for them when the video plays so they have to guess
what i want:
  • exactly as above but also allow the people in zoom to hear audio from the videos playing ONLY when the videos are playing to avoid feedback loops when they are talking.
I want to be able to talk to the zoom people like backstage, but i want the videos to be played on obs to also be heard on zoom so they dont have to go on facebook and mess about missing their cues to come back on live.

is there a way to make certain scenes on OBS to output to zoom and the other scenes not too?

thanks, hopefully this can be sorted by next 3 weeks, if not i just have to stick to how it is and hope they can be patient and good at guessing what is said without any audio.
 

DragonWolf5589

New Member
I sent you a DM, i know its been couple weeks, been a bit busy. if you can help that will be great before the 18th event, if not able to by then, even if you can still help as it will be used for the future events anyway! (normally i only need audio from games and that but covid has caused all these "stage" events to go virtual and nobody seems to know how to get the audio to work perfectly other then people on zoom not able to hear the "recorded videos" on obs without me changing the "mic" setting in zoom manually which then they cant hear me at all

plus it will be useful for a lot of future streams anyway, I used to work in a place which had equipment for audio connections, but with covid and that i only have my computer with not psychically devices and not used virtual ones before other then the virtual cables)
 
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