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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by corobo »

amai wrote: post #167
Daunk wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can absolutely have your webcam take a circular form. Just apply a mask to your webcam as a filter and use any image you want to make it take that shape.

But you have to first create a such a mask with some image software: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Filters-Guide#image-maskblend This costs a lot of time and generates questions, for example what resolution should my mask image be? OBS doesn't offer even the simplest default shapes like a circle. This is annoying and makes OBS not suited for beginners and simple tasks.

Does it really? I mean you can download one that someone else has already made or you could whip one up in 20 seconds in whatever design app you use - draw a black circle on a white background and you're done. Add some feathering to the circle if you want to get fancy.

Not to assume you know how to use masks of course, but this information is readily available when googling something like "webcam circle obs"

Resolution wise I just match the input rather than think about it. If my webcam is 1080p, so is my mask.

I would like if you could natively round elements for sure, dunno when I'd use personally it but it could be useful. There are plugins to do this for you out there too but learning masks and other filters is a super useful skill if you're getting into video

Additionally regarding positioning of things from the top level comment I'm pretty sure there's a positioning menu when you right click that lets you chuck things to the top/bottom/right/left etc

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by jonnylynchy »

underlines wrote: post #194
reilly3000 wrote: post #39

When I was half my age, OBS was unfathomable. I was shooting video on digital 8, editing in Final Cut Pro 4 which was the new hotness, and trying but failing to use DSS on my college network. Actual streaming at scale required a massive server and a massive license from RealNetworks. If I wanted to do anything with animation, it was all $$$$$ software. This all took place in a shared lab at my college with stuff I co…

I was born in 86 and started to use the internet in 1998 on a 56k modem. First thing I learned was how to join IRC, Usenet and later napster/dc++/torrent to download and use cracked software and copy games from my uncle and use no d-keys. It helped me to become fluent in early animation in Macromedia flash, photo editing in Adobe products and html in Dreamweaver and Frontpage or music production with the earliest ver…

I was born 10 years earlier and had much of the same experience simply because that's when things started happening broadly on a consumer level with the internet. I used Flash professionally for several years developing ads, mini-games and silly animations. Actionscript (an ECMAscript implementation) was great. Javascript is just now catching up.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

j1elo wrote: post #140
TechSquidTV wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need to find a way to better integrate UI/UX designers into open source.

There might be an issue with the view that non-programmers have of contributing to open-source. My sample size of 1 is a friend who is a professional UX designer. Once, I tried convincing them to help with some OS project, but the response was "that sounds like work, and I don't work for free". Which has a point, I guess. Open Source contributors have normalized pouring countless hours for free into their projects (w…

It's difficult to get pros to donate work. Even when they do, the work they do can be ... less than perfect ...

In the project that I developed, and turned over to a new team, we finally (after about ten years) got someone who is a professional UX manager/developer to step up, and he's been doing an awesome job.

In my case, my personal motivations run deep. I do a "better than pro" job on all my open source. I'm a passably decent designer and UX guy, so that helps.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by ttul »

reilly3000 wrote: post #39

When I was half my age, OBS was unfathomable. I was shooting video on digital 8, editing in Final Cut Pro 4 which was the new hotness, and trying but failing to use DSS on my college network. Actual streaming at scale required a massive server and a massive license from RealNetworks. If I wanted to do anything with animation, it was all $$$$$ software. This all took place in a shared lab at my college with stuff I co…

Editing on the computer? Luxury. In the early 1990s, all we had was a camcorder and a VHS machine. Editing was nearly impossible, but we still managed to make a few bad films as teenagers.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by mrkramer »

It's crazy that such a powerful software is free of charge and open source. Imagine how much money they could've made if it was closed source and licensed. Millions or maybe billions.

I always had a wet dream about making a big SaaS company e.g. Adobe or Oracle so I'm always amazed that people put so much effort into FOSS.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by corobo »

Hard_Space wrote: post #109

Timely - I discovered OBS only last week, and am consistently amazed by it. Only thing missing is the ability to draw crop areas prior to a screengrab/video.

I'm not certain what you're needing but if you want to make changes to a scene before making it live you can enable studio mode, this gives you a preview of the new scene before you actually switch to it

If it's literally just cropping you're after hold alt while resizing the element

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by eropple »

solar-ice wrote: post #200
eropple wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of real alternatives. I'm partial to vMix for live-streaming; I ran Demuxed 2020 and 2021 through my vMix deck from the comfort of my office and through 2020-21 ran about sixty high-production fighting game tournaments off of the same. I like vMix because its audio mixing is excellent and WebRTC-integrated chat comes out of the box, plus data-driven lower thirds and good remoting solutions and MIDI c…

vMix managed to crash during nearly every event produced with it that I watched in 2021. Not the most solid software in the world, as nice as it is to use.

Y'know, I've heard of this, but never seen it, and I run on a pretty shoestring rig. Only time I've ever had my mixer crash was during Demuxed 2020...because I'd installed a fan backwards, not noticed, and the machine bluescreened after a few hours due to overheating and what I think (wasn't really in the mental space to record an error code) was a driver fault.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Tsiklon »

LanceH wrote: post #58

For those who haven't tried it, you can mount the output of OBS as a camera, which can be used as input for something like Zoom. So you can add graphics, multiple angles, switch between different views, etc...

That would make my afternoon operations handovers much more exciting haha especially with slick view transitions haha.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by bavell »

loudmax wrote: post #184
linker3000 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do technical pieces to camera for training material and also live work at STEM shows (Raspberry Pi Jams, Arduino chats and other tech stuff), and have a three monitor setup. Screen 2 will be running any apps I need to show (coding etc.) and screen 3 is at the back of the workbench, which has a downward facing camera so I can show me working on the boards and other electronics. Switching scenes from main cam to what…

If you haven't looked into this already, I'd recommend checking out how to write a udev rule for your USB devices. There's probably a way to lock them down so OBS identifies them consistently. The Arch wiki has fairly in-depth instructions for understanding how udev rules work https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/udev

This may also be helpful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/webcam_setup
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