Transparent Glass Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams or Zoom with OBS for FREE!

You can create a Transparent Glass Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams or Zoom with OBS for FREE! This is all free software. This inverts the idea in my previous video where I put myself in PowerPoint. In this example, from Rob Farley's blog on the topic I stand in front of Microsoft Whiteboard and draw on my laptop screen!
* Rob Farley's Blog, thanks Rob! blogs.lobsterpo...
* Microsoft Whiteboard whiteboard.mic...
* OBS obsproject.com/
You can then just turn on the Virtual Camera in OBS to broadcast yourself and draw on your camera from Teams or Zoom! This is great fun for students and educators.

[@JaapVanderHorst]

You can crop screens with ALT and the box points. Easier than to stretch a screen outside the box.

[@shanselman]

Thanks!

[@stephan4932]

You mean use alt in OBS to crop an element?

[@FruFre]

Being subbed to you is a gold mine of skill learning. Thank you Scott. Chroma-key on a PowerShell terminal is a decent use this tutorial made apparent.

[@oztabletpc]

Brilliant tip! Building ideas with your audience instead of presenting finished concepts (ppt slides) is the best way to maintain audience engagement. It also improves note taking outcomes for those on the receiving end! Now we can do it magnificently with Surface! Thank you Scott and Rob for taking the time to share!

[@oztabletpc]

And if you want to get crazy... Share the whiteboard live with the audience and see what happens! 🤣😂🤣

[@bulwarkjm2]

Every once in a while you see something in tech that makes you smile. This is one of those. I can't wait to do this next week. Thanks Scott.

[@theaugmenter]

Signs of a good developer, force yourself with every grain of power to use something off the shelf instead of coding it 🤣

[@noahnolte7288]

But its soooo hard to do 😣

[@evanshlom1]

Beware reinventing the wheel yes!

[@mechanicallydev4536]

Instead of removing the green with a chroma key you could remove the white or black background with a luma key... this way it wouldn't affect colors :)

[@KevsGuide]

A luma key? I will have to Google that. I am trying to do a similar thing with a PowerPoint presentation. I want some of it to be seen But the main back ground to be transparent

[@ste-fa-no]

You're the best kind of teacher 😄 Well explained, creative and showing other people's work and ideas 👍

Just started to use OBS for teaching, this tip is absolute great

[@Pameliux23]

Did you see any tutorial for using OBS for teaching? I would love to include it on my classes!

@@Pameliux23 I saw some videos about how to use obs, not precisely one about how to teach. Mainly, I use obs to record my class, for example this kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2fWlWCOZ7Snjrs (sorry is in Spanish) but that's the idea

[@AmjadAbboud]

Very smart, and here's a pro tip : chroma key works by using contrasting subject and background colours. It is typically green since that is tthe opposite of human skin tones. In this case, using a black background and a white pen might look best. It also allows you to change blending mode instead of keying, therefore get cleaner outline with less processing power :)

[@tub-tube7686]

Nice! You can also crop it by holding Alt+dragging the corners/Side you want to crop.

[@KarlWitsman]

I like this. And the idea of punching a hole through other windows and graphics.

[@a4aditya]

Hope Our professors are able to do that

[@muse945]

Scott, you inspire me to be a better communicator/developer. Your videos are great and concise. This gives you more bullets to your arsenal and now mine! Thanks

[@DarrellaaS]

3:05 ...could be OneNote 😉

[@wallyrodriguez2230]

The highlighters work better because they premultiply the background, which makes for better anti-aliasing

[@andrefgallo]

Thanks for sharing, Scott. Amazing trick!

[@SavageScientist]

LOL you just exposed my video secrets . I use Bandicam for writing directly on the video without having to extract the color and use my live camera capture.

[@amg1701]

Great video, thank you very much!.. If Microsoft Whiteboard introduced a "glass" (transparent) background, that would really simplify things, wouldn't it?

[@dakotarouth]

This is my new favorite channel. Subscribed, Liked and saved video for reference later.

[@pariahchild2K]

Thank you for sharing, Scott - much appreciated!

[@_GrumpyOldPunk]

That is a freaking cool idea. Thanks for point it out Scott.

[@user-uw1wq9rj8g]

Well, actually there's an OBS script that allows you to do screen boarding without needing any other apps, called OBS Whiteboard Source. I had tried this scripts and it runs inside OBS by using windowed projector. The only drawback using this script are the feature which is may not be as good as using an external applications, but I think it was decent enough to do the work. Here's the source: obsproject.com/forum/resources/whiteboard-source-windows-only.919/

[@SKotekar]

This is coooool! thank for sharing this. It never occurred to me that this could be done :-)

[@caPioVitae]

Really cool and simple way! Nice demonstration! Thank you

[@pfenner2]

Thanks Scott, this is incredibly cool and something that I can definitely use with my Family Office clients!

[@KevsGuide]

I am trying to do a similar thing with a PowerPoint presentation. I want some of it to be seen But the main back ground to be transparent

[@boriskrstic]

I think we need something to make meetings shorter 😂

[@jessegador]

That's a neat trick!

[@JonathanSwiftUK]

Keep you and get rid of the background, fab video, saw this last night at lightboard.info but it was many, many thousands for special glass etc. Great video. Brings it to the masses.

[@jamesdietsch7868]

Awesome stuff! Thanks Scott for sharing! :)

[@MakarkinPRO]

Any idea of how to add virtual pencil📝 to looks like your drive you back of you screen? PS: the pencil may appear(zoom in) when you actually touch the screen.

[@DissertationAcademy]

Amazing hack. Going to be very useful and I am sure my students will be impressed!

[@ericserafim7954]

Simple and efficient. Thanks for sharing!

[@jackbauer322]

do you have a similar tutorial with iPad for example ?

[@RicardoQBazan]

Hey Scott! Your videos are very useful, thanks for sharing 😀

[@pastpianist]

It's cool that it's possible but I'm not quite sure of the use case of making it harder to read by being overlaid on top of your entire background vs just showing the screen itself

[@pmaynard]

Very cool. I'm excited to try this out.

[@pixel-ink]

Thats great. But, can a person with only one monitor do this?

[@HemantJanAwatade]

Superbbbb Scott 👌

[@StadtshowDe]

Cool Idea!

[@guptaanmol184]

Really cool!! 😍

[@DataAnalyticsIreland]

Great video and explanation, been looking for something like this! Question when you were writing can you see your OBS screen on whatever you writing on? Would be good if you can just have an initial reference point and then when you write on the screen it will become easier and natural.

[@LineMendoncaFunnygirl]

Nice tip! Thank you!

[@JamesWillson008]

Does work on laptop or do you require a surface?

[@AlexRiemer]

Great Thank you

[@nickmiller5250]

Hi, I was just wondering if you were using the Surface connected to another monitor as your main computer or if your were casting from the surface to another computer for this! Great video, thanks!

[@YTantirungrotechai]

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing

[@olafschermann1592]

Great idea!

[@raulromero6399]

Thank you man i loved this

[@cmitchell6927]

Great idea

[@ibrahimabdeltawab6418]

Thanks so much for sharing ❤️

[@JaapVanderHorst]

Must try to use a remarkable 2 with live view. If thats work it would be great.

[@fredimachadonet]

This is awesome! Thanks Scott!

[@bagorolin]

Alter you showed it, it is so obvious to do that 😁. Thanks for sharing!

[@shanselman]

I felt the same way! 😍

[@massinissatinouche]

Good job, Awesome

[@georgeiordache9958]

Cool video !!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@j4nch]

Any chance to have a background remover without owning a green screen? The same that we have with MS Teams?

[@muygalan]

Yes, I know of one way using third-party software. You can use XSplit Vcam with OBS. The free version has a watermark, so you would have to purchase the pro version to remove it unfortunately.

[@TestAutomationTV]

Thanks for sharing, nice video. I'll try it

[@WalbertoFlores]

You are a genius!

[@acasualdatascientist54]

does this allow you to draw on someone else's screen in Teams like how you can annotate on zoom?

[@linguagurugaelic4575]

Yes/no/not really/kind of. If you use window capture to capture their screen and feed it into OBS, you can annotate it this way and then send it back out as *your webcam*. This only works if you're using the gallery view so that their screen doesn't keep disappearing or moving while you're talking.

[@Uyry-m8m]

It is good. How to click screen window in OBS? for me I ca not ?

[@RomuloMagalhaesAutoTOPO]

Great Scott, thank you.

[@TTati27]

Hi is it work on Macbook with ipad as 2nd screen? thx

[@JenniferRichmond]

So. Freakin. Cool!! Thanks for sharing!! 😍

[@patrickboucher892]

merci Scott. Funny AND useful.

[@stanislasquastana3268]

Thanks for this incredible and usefull tips :)

[@SinanMustafov619]

That's so cool.

[@faisalak7]

wow this is great

[@mongol813]

cool stuff as always! thank you

[@muhammadkomilov8301]

thank you

[@BensTechLab]

Cool trick!! But your mouse clicks are SHARP in the sound for this video! 😬 Is your mic twice as close to your mouse as it is to your face? 🤣

[@Narxes081206]

Was noticing the same!

[@ExtremeWays4Bourne]

Ingenious! Unfortunately, I don't have a surface. Any idea how to make use of this on a non-touch laptop?

[@lansraad6142]

You could buy a cheap drawing tablet, that's probably the best substitute.

[@ExtremeWays4Bourne]

@@lansraad6142 That's a great idea. Thank you.

[@shanselman]

@@ExtremeWays4Bourne Yes, and you can also draw on the screen with your mouse

[@breadthehead]

very very cool

[@daraoladapo]

This is soooo cool.

[@IlkinJamalli]

Wowtastic!

[@ez-tutora]

Gracias!!

[@hany-tawfik]

WOOW!

[@AmitSealAmi]

This is awesome!

[@burkimoo]

hey this is cool! 😎

[@_CodeLife_]

This is so cool! I'm new to OBS, I'm using it on my next video. I could do this for double screens (no camera) right? to add notes on to a screen while explaining things Thanks for sharing this!

[@digigoliath]

Awesome!! TQVM!

[@mitchitv]

What device are you writing on? Surface tablet or directly to a touch screen monitor?

[@shanselman]

Was a surface laptop with touchscreen

[@ThatMrBurger]

Cool

[@nenzonenzo]

But zoom has this built in ? How is this different , but with extra steps ?

[@mtfreytag]

Zoom does not allow the use to divide up their screen for Desktop vs Camera and there's also no Green screening for your Screen sharing

[@josealfredofernandezmendoz8355]

ste men es un brujo!! el mejor

[@thedatapreneur]

Awesome! How would you use it with Microsoft Teams? Using the OBS Virtual Camera or Sharing from Teams?

[@andyb-com]

OBS Virtual Camera works great. i use something similar to the whiteboard Scott shows.

[@thedatapreneur]

@@andyb-com Thanks Andy!

[@pbehler]

This is my pain point. Every video showing OBS for teams and setting up scenes never seems to go to the last step. When you are in a call with other people, your camera is now a small box and unreadable with all the other cameras. Which feature do you use so that Teams displays your full Virtual Camera screen full screen without auto zooming and face tracking. I tried “focus” on me so I was the primary but it would still zoom in or move around the image is I lean to the side.

[@DebdutBiswasOnline]

Cooooooooool.....

[@datavigo2398]

Will this work with a mac and ipad?

[@shanselman]

yes, you can use microsoft whiteboard on your ipad and then run it also on your computer so the screens are mirrored

[@TomHigson1]

I don't seem to be able to access that whiteboard link. I get: User account '###########@#####.com' from identity provider 'live.com' does not exist in tenant 'Microsoft Services' and cannot access the application '95de633a-083e-42f5-b444-a4295d8e9314'(Microsoft Whiteboard Services) in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Sign out and sign in again with a different Azure Active Directory user account. Is it just me or is the link wrong?

[@shanselman]

Weird. Try downloading from the store?

[@TomHigson1]

@@shanselman Yep, got it from the store just fine Thanks 😁

[@user-san-chous]

Where is zoom (filter)?

[@shanselman]

This works with Zoom. It's not a filter, you just use the OBS Virtual Camera

[@bls512]

University/College profs could really benefit students with this technique.

[@jcchurch]

Now I need to connect my OBS into Zoom and show off at meetings.

[@robertbogs436]

The answer to that is “virtual cam”

[@fahrulrputra2589]

That's a good hack

[@rpavlik1]

What a great idea! Now I just need to expense a graphics tablets so nobody needs to see my mouse scribbles...

[@rick_.]

Just get an inexpensive one. I bought a HUION H420 it does trick nicely. The cheaper HUION 420 would have worked just as well, too. The H420 version has three programmable buttons, which need the HUION software installed to be of any use. I prefer how the native Windows 10 ink works, so I removed the driver. I also tried with a larger tablet, but found the smaller H420 easier to use for annotations. The tablet maps ~1:1 to your monitor, so bigger tablet means a lot more hand movement.

[@rpavlik1]

@@rick_. yeah we've got one like that (huion, can't remember the model, 610v2 pro maybe?) for the family, seems pretty nice though I haven't used it much. Mostly gets used in Inkscape for craft stuff.

[@a552bcx]

gimmicky because i can't see the writing clearly with the background. it's impractical with math equation

[@buyanimk3569]

here from Tiktok

[@shanselman]

Welcome!

[@oddsratio4070]

Took me all morning to work out how to do this with only ONE screen as I only have one screen. Lol.

[@vg-hg3vz]

winget tutorial please

[@shanselman]

Good idea

[@bagorolin]

@@shanselman when you talk about it, it might be interesting to not only cover the usage but also how to add packages :)

[@Theutus2]

Next tutorial... create a click track with your mouse.

[@MattLuceen]

😲