Setting Up Scenes in OBS (Preparing the Virtual Camera for Zoom)

[@chasehughesofficial]

Wonderful job! Thanks so much for this, Cat.

[@foleyfriedman874]

I'm addicted to your channel! Thanks so much for taking the time to put up these videos. You are a great speaker and make things very easy to understand. Keep up the great work!!!

[@CatMulvihill]

Wow, thank you so much! I appreciate it 😊

[@preachsaunders]

Unbelievable training video on OBS! I thought I had to be a rocket scientist to understand it! I avoided it like the plague! The way you broke it down was awesome! I got it now! Thank you!

[@CatMulvihill]

I'm so glad to hear this was helpful for you!

[@simonb7556]

I am a new OBS user. This is a great tutorial.

[@brigadierwilliamwildebeest1112]

I just discovered your channel, and boy has it been awesome! Thank you for giving me the basics and foundation to build my webinar presentations on!

[@studiotips808]

OBS is incredible and this is one of the best and most relevant guides to using it that I've seen. Thanks! Another thing you can do instead of duplicating the Main Camera scene for titles and overlays: you can bring in it as a source. Source > Add > Scene. That way any changes you might make to your Main Camera scene will also be there on the overlay scenes.

[@CatMulvihill]

Thank you for the tip! That's helpful for me to know 😊

[@jkhondak]

Hello Cat, I can't describe how much I learn and benefit from your presentations. I have been teaching Economics to undergraduate students for over a quarter of a century now. But I must admit, I wish you had your youtube channel when I started my teaching and I received training from you as to how to teach so effectively. You are a born teacher - a sincere, honest and dedicated educator. I can't thank you enough dear, but I wish you a long, happy and healthy life to keep helping people the way you have been doing. God bless you!

[@CatMulvihill]

Thank you so much for the kind words 😊 I really appreciate it.

[@chonkychorizo5429]

no words- instant sub! thanks Cat keep it up!

[@CatMulvihill]

Thank you so much 😊

[@kieran2347]

I've never used the camera to be on video calls but that's about change for me and I have no idea how to use OBS or setting it all up until an hour ago. Now I've been looking to set up a virtual camera to cover my messy room as background lol, this video is literally next level. I'm glad I found it. Thanks, Cat! Still looking for a video on how to set/change backgrounds on zoom calls, going through your playlist

[@DaveLopezMixing]

Another quality tutorial. Thanks, Cat!

[@Iteigwe]

Thanks for the amazing presentation, I enjoyed it Thank you

[@CoffeewithJesusTalk]

a lot of good information here.

[@HonestFred]

Great stuff. You got a new subscriber.

[@lancecluster]

Thank you for making these. Being in the Public Access TV world, focused on recording Town Government Meetings I have probably been on and recorded 100's of zoom meetings, often 3 or 4 at the same time. We use OBS to record the meetings, but primarily stay in the background of the meetings. I have yet to be in any zoom meeting where people took advantage of these wonderful tips/tricks/presentation skills you are presenting. We are now looking at going to more of a hybrid model of some people in our "wired" meeting rooms, with others coming in through zoom so I was looking to expand my OBS knowledge beyond the screen capture/recording/streaming aspects. I have watched several, perhaps more technical KZbin channels on this topic, but you are by far the best at providing clear, simple, helpful direction. I really wish more of our committee\board members would use some of your suggestions - I for one am really tired of weird zoom backgrounds being the most interesting aspect to a meeting. Again, thank you for creating these.

[@elaxis2965]

A nice way of demonstrate this - Thanx Cat! :)

[@CatMulvihill]

You're very welcome!

[@ReimaginingSelf]

Thank you for this excellent video! I am curious as to how to control what Zoom participants end up having on their screen. If they are in Gallery view, do they not end up with your virtual cam content and then everyone else on the call all around it? Is there any way to force all participants to only see your virtual cam feed?

[@Medhayoga]

Can you please make an video on showing individual comments in live stream obs

[@SCN_Adventure]

I found your channel randomly. Thank you for a good video :-) I setup my stream deck xl right away :-)

[@CatMulvihill]

That's great to hear!

[@SCN_Adventure]

It look cool with the round webcam on top on a share screen. How do you do that? I would like to be able to do that 😊 Thank you for sharing how you make a virtual webcam and the scenes.

[@ibrahimabdeltawab6418]

Amazing! Thanks so much

[@MehdiNafisi]

Great presentation. Thank you Cat.

[@CatMulvihill]

You're welcome!

[@sethsherwood5985]

Not sure if it's the newer version of OBS that added this issue, but when I am using virtual came to Zoom, switching between scenes in the scene window changes in OBS, but not in the zoom feed. To get it to change I have to go into the virtual camera set up and change the scene there. It works, but of course, it is an extra step and doesn't have a smooth transition. Any ideas? Also when I crop my main cam for a screen share, the crop exists when I kick back out to the full view scene as well.

[@dilipraju6823]

Very nicely explained Helpfull It is

[@KimShope]

Awesome tutorial!

[@rmanning4]

Thank you!

[@securityeverafter]

Thanks Cat. Your video made me brave enough to give OBS a try.

[@CatMulvihill]

That's great!

[@bali208]

Dear cat, i have made my designs on a powerpoint for screenshare overlay. but as i add it the black is solid. not transparent as yours. how to do it??

[@The-Spondy-School]

Hi Cat -- I'm a newbie. Downloaded your lower thirds, but they refuse to drag either onto my Brios pic or my sources list. Any hints?

[@javieraparicio841]

You are the best !

[@abbeso8407]

The audio in the video does not play after adding a media source (video). Once video starts to play, it doesn’t have an audio.

[@jilljohnson2538]

Great video ... a quick question: If you want to show your PowerPoint images (from a 2nd monitor) in the Big Blue Rectangle rather than a Browser showing a website, which source would you choose? Would you have your PowerPoint set up on your 2nd monitor & pick Display Capture as the source because that would be what is showing on the 2nd monitor?

[@CatMulvihill]

Either Display Capture or Window Capture would work. I would just test both out to see if you have a preference. If you decided to play the presentation in a window instead of the full second monitor, then you would want Window Capture (and then position the slides so you remove the task bar at the top). I have a video explaining how to play the PPT presentation in a window: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGmZXq2MiKuMfpo

[@jilljohnson2538]

@@CatMulvihill Thanks so much! I just watched that video. You do such a great job with these complicated topics.

[@rublehenderson7307]

Hello Cat, I am enjoying your content and am already implementing a variety of your techniques and recommendations. I really like your cursor click highlights. Which application are you using for that effect?

[@mohammedhussein5427]

super nice, could it be possible for... Obs tutorial for reaction video. Thank alot

[@ornino54]

HI, Nice tutorial how many moinitor do you use, please let me know, thanks.

[@CatMulvihill]

I have my iMac, a 2nd monitor beside it, and a 10" monitor for my teleprompter.

[@ornino54]

@@CatMulvihill Thank you so much for your info.

[@carlaminett2909]

Is there a reason you wouldn't want to just use zoom presentation and share that whole screen on OBS?

[@djohnson4938]

This is a simple question-but how do I save the scenes as a collection so that I can create another collection?

[@CatMulvihill]

You would create a new Scene Collection from the menu. Just name the one you are working on now and then start a new one with a new name.

[@portiepiano-mindfullpianol8344]

love it!!

[@franksyperrek5025]

Thank you for sharing with us.👍

[@CatMulvihill]

You're welcome!

[@Lumiere626]

I registered with my email to have the free graphics provided. The answer did not come to me

[@funnydivinggmbh4477]

Cool demo, where can I find the link for Quick Start Downloads, I have a PC. Thank you Antéo

[@CatMulvihill]

You can grab them here: virtualcam.catmulvihill.com/ They work on PC.

[@joelwillis9093]

Awesome video for this newcomer. I've tried multiple times using different email addresses to get the free download to email to me but it never comes through even though it says I've successfully subscribed.

[@joelwillis9093]

Are you still offering the free download?

[@CatMulvihill]

@@joelwillis9093 I am still offering it, and it will come through after you confirm your email. It's possible the email asking you to confirm went to your spam folder.

[@AlbertMMartinWWCM]

Hi Cat, Really enjoyed your stream via KZbin it was clear and instructive. I'm just about finished with a Garage conversion to a Streaming Studio. However, have you ever used Elgato Stream Deck to change the various scenes rather than the mouse? Regards Albert

[@CatMulvihill]

I use the Stream Deck 98% of the time!

[@prafuldhabekar2706]

Hi, I wanted to know how I can change OBS Virtual Camera name.. thanks in advance!

[@jabakke]

Nice channel. Do you know to set up a ipad pro in OBS on Windows10? Pls, help😀

[@CatMulvihill]

If you mean bring in an iPad into OBS on Windows, then you could use NDI. I actually show an example of bringing in my iPad into OBS on Windows in my new NDI Set-Up for Beginners video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6XQZ4WdobBgd7s

[@jabakke]

​@@CatMulvihill I follow your step in the video you give me. NDI HX Capture(IPad) and NDI tools is installed. Restartet PC. Add Ipad IP-adress in access manager. Open OBS and add NDIsource, and start broadcasting on my ipad, but I just got a black screen:(

[@CatMulvihill]

@@jabakke It might be worth checking your PC's security to make sure OBS has permission to screen record (even through the iPad is coming in from an external source). You can also try what this OBS user shows by changing his network settings: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHLKfXhjnbtombc It seems to have worked for many people.

[@DerekMahlitz]

You can just Crop the video holding ALT, maybe thats something new

[@CatMulvihill]

It was a thing, but I hadn't learned it yet 😉 Once I learned it, I started to include it in my tutorials.