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It also completely eliminates screaming cats and babies. It's worth the price of the GPU upgrade alone. I know that Slack and Google are slowly baking these features in, but NVIDIA are in a league of their own. AMD not having them made my GPU brand choice easy last time I upgraded.
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Sound doesn't stop at the property line.
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I worked several weeks with OBS. I also evaluated a lot of different software. E.g. Powerpoint offers also live video, but it allows only to show your webcam in one corner next to your presentation without any customization. A lot of other software on the market wants you to upload your video to some cloud first, before you can do anything. I'm sorry to say that, but Apple Keynote hit the sweet spot between customiza…
> I'm sorry to say that, but Apple Keynote hit the sweet spot between customizability, usability and price ( it's free on Apple ) for my purposes. If that sounds like flame bait for you, then be it. You're misunderstanding the point. It's great that you're happy with keynote. It's likely a great choice for what you want to do. > I worked several weeks with OBS And yet you say it can't overlay a round camera cutout ov…
How do you change the radius of the circle in realtime? You can do that in Keynote, but you can't in OBS, because that would mean uploading a new mask image for every new radius. Also if you switch to another camera resolution you have to recreate your mask, because your new camera has a new resolution. So technically you can overlay a round cutout, but from a users point of view this feature is not very usable. Keynote allows to do the same much, much simpler.
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Please write a blog post detailing your setup. I’d love to do something like this but could really use some hand holding for the setup part.
Haven't done any blog posts in decades, but if I was to start again it would be a good topic to cover. It can be a bit costly, but found it well worth it now that it's done. I'll send you an email in case you have any specific questions.
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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" Resoluti…
In Keynote I can change the radius of the circle in realtime. That is a lot faster than even your optimistic 20 seconds. I also don't need to care about the resolution of the camera. I can even add effects in realtime like borders, a fancy mirror effect below the camera view etc. I can try out effects in realtime. This is simply much more user friendly than creating image masks manually in an external program.
> but learning masks and other filters is a super useful skill if you're getting into video
But some people don't want to get into video, they just want to create a webinar with an overlay of the speaker.
> I'm pretty sure there's a positioning menu when you right click that lets you chuck things to the top/bottom/right/left
I'm pretty sure there is no such thing. Positioning things in OBS is a mess, because everything is based on pixels. Even if you manage to create a template, if you change the resolution of your canvas, you cannot reuse the template, because it doesn't fit to the new resolution.
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/sources-keep-moving-res...
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OBS is a VST plugin host I had no idea. The idea of something other than a DAW being a VST host seems bonkers to me, yet in the case of OBS makes perfect sense.
The catch here is that OBS doesn't support a way to bus together multiple audio sources and apply plugins to their downmix, which limits the effectiveness of being a VST plugin host. When I use OBS I find myself having to route audio (both analog and digital sources) over a virtual audio cable to another application if I want to apply nontrivial effects chains (and eating the resultant latency/fighting with audio-vid…
I'd not be shocked if a large part of this is UI/UX considerations. It's not like it is technically especially challenging to hand off a mixed audio stream to the VST plugin, rather than juts a source. But creating a UX that enables such things without being too confusing is not exactly trivial.
It is complicated enough that the OBS mixers is creating up to 6 output tracks. For twitch streamers, tracks 1 and 6 are typically full mixes, while 2-4 are often partially mixed tracks for local recording, to enable post processing (level adjustment, noise cleanup, etc) in the YouTube video creation workflow.
Enabling support for effects on one of the output tracks is probably feasible, but more likely you would be interested in applying affects to an intermediate mix, which can be used as one of the inputs for the final mixes.
And that starts to get hairy to create a good UI for, unless you just go for mimicking how a mixing console handles it. But many mixing consoles don't have the most new-user friendly user experiences.
And all of this comes on top of UI development work often just being a pain.
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Oh man that sounds like an awesome rig. I didn’t realize Nvidia Broadcast can reduce background noise like keystrokes until you mentioned it here. Does that really work? If so I now have a reason to buy a new GPU and finally use my cherry mx blues again.
OBS ships with rnnoise, which is like NVIDIA Broadcast, but works on any CPU. See also NoiseTorch and EasyEffects if you're on Linux. It's pretty great, works decently, but the sad thing is the author put it out a few years ago, trained it on proprietary datasets, wrote a paper and then moved onto something else, never to be seen again. Now it's pretty much unmaintained since it requires some very specific ML and DSP…
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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" Resoluti…
> 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. In Keynote I can change the radius of the circle in realtime. That is a lot faster than even your optimistic 20 seconds. I also don't need to care a…
fair
> I'm pretty sure there is no such thing. Positioning things in OBS is a mess
Huh. Could have sworn there was. There's center horiz/vert but no corners. Maybe I'm thinking of Streamlabs' version of OBS or something.