Zoom Sharing: Screen Share vs Virtual Camera

[bigapplejay]

Our church is live streaming to Facebook every Sunday and also needs to share in Zoom with remote congregants. We've tested two approaches:

1) Sharing the live video from Facebook in Zoom via screen share with "Optimize Screen Share for Video Clip" selected
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2) Sharing the OBS program window via virtual camera in real time directly to Zoom

In testing, we noticed the screen share approach seems to produce higher video quality than the virtual camera approach.

Any thoughts on this, or opinions on these two approaches?

 

[JVRaines]

Virtual camera is limited to participant video resolution, which is 1080 if you are a major customer, 720 for two participants, or 360 for more than two. Screen Share is up to 1080. Optimize OFF gives higher resolution and lower frame rate, while Optimize ON gives higher frame rate and lower resolution.

Participant audio is bandwidth-limited mono unless you turn on the Original Audio, High Fidelity, and Stereo options. Screen Share audio is up to whatever you have set for your Speakers device.

The problem with Optimized Screen Share is that overlapping Zoom windows will appear as gray blocks. There is an option to hide them during share, but then you cannot administer the meeting. This means you need to put the OBS Projector on a separate display. I use an HDMI emulator for that.