Question / Help Recording reaction videos question...

[acarsme123]

Hello, I am brand new to OBS. I downloaded it to use because my son wants to get into recording "reaction videos" or videos of him playing games like Roblox. I've used guidance I've found on YouTube, and we've made some test videos. The problem is that once you full screen the YouTube video or gameplay that you're trying to record, you lose being able to see how you're looking on camera. What is the way around this? Is there a way to record what's playing on your full screen, while still monitoring yourself on the webcam that's recording in conjunction? Would you have to maybe have two different monitors running to do this properly? Thanks.

 

[Verner]

2 Monitor.

 

[FerretBomb]

Yep. Two monitors is the way to go. For livestreaming, it's generally considered part of the minimum hardware needed.

Do be aware that including someone else's video in your own (eg: random videos off youtube) does constitute copyright infringement. Many channels do it and get away with it, but that doesn't make it legal.

 

[acarsme123]

Thanks for the confirmation. Understood on the copyright thing...I'll never be letting him post these to YouTube, at least not in a public setting. This will just be for his own fun, despite how he may protest. I don't really want my kid to be broadcasting himself on YouTube to be honest.
There are a ton of these "reaction" videos on YouTube though...how do these people get away with it? I think the copyright stuff is kind of silly, especially if you're not making any money on it....personal opinion.

Yep. Two monitors is the way to go. For livestreaming, it's generally considered part of the minimum hardware needed.

Do be aware that including someone else's video in your own (eg: random videos off youtube) does constitute copyright infringement. Many channels do it and get away with it, but that doesn't make it legal.

 

[Verner]

Reactions are recorded to get viewers, channel popularity and money. I don’t see the point of doing this just like that, much less spend money on equipment. YouTube is the future, instead of TV.

 

[acarsme123]

understood....he just likes being creative. He likes trying to do what he sees other people doing. I don't mind him being creative and trying to learn the equipment and process, so when he's able to come up with original ideas better in the future he knows what he's doing. I'm just using this as a learning experience for him really, but I don't intend on letting him post himself on YouTube at this time.

 

[koala]

Capturing and posting just your own gameplay to Youtube shouldn't be dangerous to your child, as long as you both work together and you both make sure you:

• do this anonymously, so no viewer is able to trace your Youtube account to some real email address or your real name. Don't let your age/child age uncover. Just gameplay. Don't include any webcam that shows yourself. I suggest you make a separate Google account just for that Youtube activity. I do this regularly: a separate identity for each different internet activity. Each game and its ecosystem gets its own set of logins/identities, so if you know me in one game, you wouldn't be able to recognize in the next game. Under my real name, I'm only posting "serious" things like work-related or social-related that wouldn't embarrass me if someone finds it 20 years later.
• don't post/contain in your videos copyrighted stuff such as music, pictures and video material created by someone else
• don't respond to personal inquiries from video feedback

 

[Acarius]

What if I'm trying to do that same kind of video but with me behind my computer and another person behind theirs in different locations? I know what settings I'll be using on my end but how do we record at the same time for the same video but separately?

 

[Suslik V]

@Acarius sync is not easy. Long time ago users of OBS were able to use NDI plugin that was capable to transfer video from one OBS to other (when applied as video filter for the selected source). Thus, multiply face cameras (of all players on the server) may appear on the same game screen during the stream (one person is streaming - others is sending theirs webcams feeds to the main streamer). But starting some media, separately, on different PCs and trying to keep all in sync - is bad idea as for me.

 

[Acarius]

So there's no way to have a video playing in the background with two face cameras? I saw somewhere that if we hop onto discord and I turn my face camera off discord I can crop the second person's camera as a window capture and do it that way.