I have a topic adjacent question. If OBS is a good mixer, what’s a good open source video editor? Or can OBS do edit prerecorded files as well?
I use Kdenlive in Linux (also runs in MacOS).
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#192Is there anyway I can make it pretend to be a webcam so I can use the output as a "camera" source for skype, teams, etc?
I just posted a bounty for making this a build in feature. Lots of work happening on the RFC and some working prototypes already: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634
Thank you for doing that! I'm using ManyCam for now (also Canadian) since it seems to be one of the only other mac apps that does camera switching easily right now. But, I'd much rather use OBS. Thanks again.
PS: I was going to build a shopify app a few years ago but I've got so many projects on the go. If you're interested in the short domain, let me know: shpfy.com
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#193I randomly learned OBS a while ago for doing some twitch streams in the evenings. I'm so glad I did.
I run a 6,000 people company during the day and have OBS setup to push into Google Meet. I've done townhall with live on-screen Q/A voting, hosted podcast discussions, done PIP product reviews. I use its video record feature to react to figma prototypes and post the MP4s in the respective channel for discussion.
OBS is an amazing tool and its worth learning. Even simple things like adding a compressor to an audio stream can make a huge difference to the quality. As one of our coaches recently said "Video quality is the new presence in 1:1s".
On windows its reasonably easy to output OBS to a virtual camera for video conferencing software through a plugin. I've posted a bounty of $10k recently to make this a native feature and it's getting lots of traction.
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634 https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568 https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15
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#194Using OBS to record and stream interactive tutorials for customers, teaching machine learning for audio. Works super to use v4l2sink plugin for Linux to emulate a webcam and put it into any standard videochatting software. Thank you!
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#195OBS is commonly used for video game streaming, but it's a great tool for any scenario where you need to take live audio and video from different sources and display them at the same time or transition between them. I've been using it to make a corny music interview show with my local musician friends during the coronavirus shelter in place. Whereas a lot of my fellow musicians are streaming from their phone, I'm able…
The B in OBS hints at streaming, but it's also fantastic for purely recording. It's honestly surprising how lacking that space was before OBS. I remember using FRAPS/Taksi a bit, and stuff like Camtasia, but there were all pretty awful to be honesty and definitely not free or open source.
It feels like OBS has been here forever but I remember the days when I had to use Camtasia. The software was actually surprisingly good and easy to use but for the amount you were paying, it wasn't worth it, not to mention the proprietary recording format wasn't doing it much good.
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#196I'm one of the core contributors for OBS. Our website traffic has more than doubled over the last couple of weeks due to the COVID-19 situation - when we released the v25 update we accidentally killed our site due to a cache stampede after purging the CDN (oops). We're seeing all kinds of new uses, especially users who are integrating the OBS Virtualcam plugin to do presentations and other content sharing with apps t…
You guys are awesome. I've been using this for a long time to stream, record whatever I want from my computer, and it's always been fantastic.
Keep up the great work and thank you.
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#197I've been using OBS for a couple months for live streams on YouTube (see https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/ansible-101-jeff-geer... ), and I have had rock-solid reliability, using an external mic interface, an external camera (displayed PIP), and sharing one of two displays during some instructional sessions. One thing to keep in mind, though—unless you have a dedicated video card, and it's supported by OBS (the…
OBS core team member here, just a quick clarification on this post. OBS will not run without a supported GPU for compositing; that is always handled by the GPU running on OpenGL (for macOS and Linux, we use Direct3D on Windows). The available encoders, however, might change based on the available hardware. Hardware encoders are, generally, much faster and lower impact on system resources, but may have lower quality per bitrate as a trade-off.
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#198OBS is amazing. Half our faculty just went all-out and spent thousands of dollars on some commercial screen recording software. Meanwhile I'm doing my online courses with OBS, and it works beautifully. I have multiple scenes set up in OBS that grab different parts of my screens, and I switch between them with simple key strokes, while narrating on my actions as I do them. It's a very simple, and very effective setup,…
Love hearing stories like this! Often, we only hear the negative or when people are having issues (it's rare for folks to speak up when everything is working well!), so it's genuinely heartwarming to hear how much people are able to use our program to keep their livelihoods moving.
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#199I've been using OBS for a couple months for live streams on YouTube (see https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/ansible-101-jeff-geer... ), and I have had rock-solid reliability, using an external mic interface, an external camera (displayed PIP), and sharing one of two displays during some instructional sessions. One thing to keep in mind, though—unless you have a dedicated video card, and it's supported by OBS (the…
Lots of options:
- Use Quick Sync
- Lower your bitrate
- Use a faster encoding preset
- Lower your output resolution
If I remember correctly then your PC is a dual-core, and you can't expect a low-end machine to do high-res encoding well without HW acceleration.
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#200Some of my teammates at GitLab are coordinating the Cloud Native Summit online event. They intend to use OBS + Zoom (and possibly Restream). If there are any resources you recommend for setting up OBS + Zoom + Restream for (mostly) Mac users, I'd love to share with the team. For context, the event will feature a mix of keynote and panel-style conversations.