Recording myself for a webinar.[Not live]

[Gary Pressman]

Hello all. Happy to be part of this forum. Now I am working on a educational webinar whereby I film myself giving a lecture and injecting slides from my files etc.
Now I plan to film myself with a external webcam, a suitable background behind me and me reading from the laptop screen from my PDF files. Now how do I only capture and film what my camera sees and yet use my laptop screen to read my PDFfiles from? Also how do I inject slide images into my presentation.
Please can you help.
Thanking You.
Gary Pressman.

 

[Videobuff]

Hi Gary, I'm no expert but here's a few comments....

Q1. " how do I only capture and film what my camera sees"?
Put your camera into an OBS scene by itself, switch to that scene when you want to record it and then just press record. Size your OBS window so its say, half your laptop screen and have your .Pdf open in a window in the other half of the screen. Thats one quick way of doing it, I'm sure there are smarter ways.

Q2. " how do I inject slide images into my presentation"?
Not sure I fully understand what you are doing but maybe do that in PowerPoint or whatever presentation program you are using and just capture it in a Scene in OBS? Or...just set up a scene in OBS and add any additional sources (images, etc) you want there, and record that scene. In either case, you could set the OBS window up so that only the scene you want recorded shows in the OBS window at any one time....thereby keeping your .Pdf visibly to you at all times but not recording it.

As I said, I'm no expert, but I'd give that setup a try and see how you get on. Hope that helps :)

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

OBS takes the sources you add to a scene and compiles them as you specify (ie which is on top of which, screen position & scale/size, etc)
What you need to decide FIRST is what sort of look you want
- ie will slide show view with a small picture-in-picture view of yourself from webcam?
- or the split-screen style mentioned above?
- or ???
LOTS of possibilities... your imagination is basically the limit
then there are transition effects you could set up (more complex, but doable and not overly complex) that would take, for example, that small PiP view of yourself, make it full screen, then back, say based on a hotkey

The challenge will be when you are first learning, doing this on a single monitor... WAY easier with dual monitor, though certainly not required
That way you can have OBS and whatever on one screen, and your slide show on the other

I use PowerPoint, set up into a Portrait mode (vs landscape) windowed [not full screen] slide show with camera view on the side

so,
1. yes - OBS is absolutely able to do this
2. how exactly you set it yup depends on what outcome you are shooting for