How to Set Up OBS Virtual Camera on Windows and Mac

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What Is an OBS Virtual Camera

OBS virtual camera is a tool that helps add components and customize your video feed in a meeting.

With the OBS virtual camera, you can do so much more – create a ‘scene’ with your video, a screen capture, logos, text, image, and branding, and use it as your video feed in a meeting.

Advantages of OBS Virtual Camera

You can be as creative as you want while using an OBS virtual camera as your video feed. Here are some of the advantages :

Here’s how we created an OBS scene with two windows, a picture – the logo of our website, and our webcam. All of this will be displayed when you turn on your video and select the source as OBS virtual camera on Zoom,Google Meet, Teams, and more.

How to Set Up OBS Virtual Camera

Here’s how to set up an OBS virtual camera on your Windows or Mac device. We first need to understand a few terms before we get started.

Scenes:

A Scene is a collection of various components you want to add to your video feedwhile using the OBS virtual camera as a video source in your video meeting. You can create multiple scenes and switch between them in your video call.

Sources:

A Source is a component that you can add to a Scene. A source can be an app window, yourwebcam, a picture, a logo, etc. You can add multiple sources and create a layout for all these sources by resizing them and fitting them in the way you want in a Scene.

With that out of the way, let’s get to the setup process.

Step 1:Download and install theOBS Studio applicationon your device. Once you install OBS Studio, open the application.

Step 2:Click on the‘+’icon in the Sources menu.

Step 3:You will see various components that you can add. You can explore all options and add them one after the other as a source. Or, you can take a look at the example below.

We’ll create a basic screen-sharing window with our video inside it. Hence, we’ll add adisplay capture, which shares the content of our entire screen. You can also select the Window option if you just want to share a single window.

Step 4:Rename the source if needed and click onOK.

Step 5: Resize or zoomin or out of the window so that all the contents you want fit inside the black-colored box.

Step 6:Next, we’ll add our webcam to OBS. Click on theVideo Capture Deviceoption when adding a new source.

Step 8:Select a webcam and click onOK.

Step 7:Adjust the window, move it around, and place the window wherever you want.

Step 8:We’ll need to horizontally flip the sources since they appear to be inverted when you share the Scene in a video feed. So,select all the sources.

Step 9:Right-click and selectTransform > Flip Horizontal.

Step 10:You are now ready to share your virtual camera. Click onStart Virtual Camerain the bottom right corner.

Step 11:In your video conferencing tool, click on theOBS Virtual Cameraoption under video.

Your virtual camera will be shared. Further, you can always go back to the OBS studio app and switch between different scenes, add or remove sources, and modify your feed.

Also Read:How to fix background blur not working in Zoom app.

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Last updated on 05 August, 2024

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