{"id":30,"date":"2020-10-08T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:55:31","slug":"zoom-and-obs-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Zoom and OBS Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maybe Zoom works great for you, and it does all the things you want in a virtual background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing wrong with that, it&#8217;s what sold me on virtual backgrounds and shared virtual spaces in the first place. (I didn&#8217;t figure the rest of this out until I tried to recreate it in discord, because I had the darn green-screen set up!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This still requires OBS Studio and the virtual camera plugin, but you do <em>not<\/em> need to set up the Face Cam scene with a camera source. In fact, if you have one, you probably have to either delete it or deactivate your webcam, so Zoom can use your webcam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launch Zoom. (If you&#8217;re doing this, I assume you have it configured the way you want already.) Enter a meeting and turn on your camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a new scene, &#8220;Zoom Background&#8221; in OBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add a window capture source &#8220;Zoom Capture&#8221;. Choose your Zoom window from the window list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start Virtual Camera in OBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launch discord (or whatever app), and point it to OBS Virtual Camera, and&#8230; voila. Literal zoom virtual backgrounds, but rebroadcast to discord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Subject to usual limitations, like limited meeting length in the free version, etc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Zoom works great for you, and it does all the things you want in a virtual background. Nothing wrong with that, it&#8217;s what sold me on virtual backgrounds and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/?p=30\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zoom and OBS Studio<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.imbonetti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}