How to Use Camera as Webcam - Kevin Stratvert
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Date: 2022-03-15
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Achieve
SUPER helpful. Thank you. Using my DSLR improves the quality greatly but when using Camtasia I cannot see how I look until editing afterwards. Obviously when in the camera ap I can see how I look as I film and don't have to wait until editing to realise something is out of place and have to refilm. Hence I planned to use the Camera ap but I can no longer record video now I am using my DSLR. The camera just makes clicking sounds. The DSLR works fine with Camtasia. I don't want to pay for another video creation tool. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.
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SUPER helpful. Thank you. Using my DSLR improves the quality greatly but when using Camtasia I cannot see how I look until editing afterwards. Obviously when in the camera ap I can see how I look as I film and don't have to wait until editing to realise something is out of place and have to refilm. Hence I planned to use the Camera ap but I can no longer record video now I am using my DSLR. The camera just makes clicking sounds. The DSLR works fine with Camtasia. I don't want to pay for another video creation tool. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.
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John
All of that works fine for older computers with really poor built-in cameras. Today's new computers have at least a 720p and many have a 1080p camera. My Apple laptop camera is far better than the $94 1080p Logitech webcam that I use as an alternate. Even the 720p front-facing camera on my iPhone has better quality. That said, good job in identifying the alternatives for a poor quality webcam. It still might be easier to buy a really expensive, high quality webcam than go through the hassle of extra hardware and software.
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All of that works fine for older computers with really poor built-in cameras. Today's new computers have at least a 720p and many have a 1080p camera. My Apple laptop camera is far better than the $94 1080p Logitech webcam that I use as an alternate. Even the 720p front-facing camera on my iPhone has better quality. That said, good job in identifying the alternatives for a poor quality webcam. It still might be easier to buy a really expensive, high quality webcam than go through the hassle of extra hardware and software.
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Brigitte
Hi Kevin, great tutorials, very clear and helpful! I've a question: I run teams meetings with external cameras and a switcher, this is running smooth. I add also Picture-in-Picture slides to the stream. But when I want to playout a movie from e.g. a Macbook and this signal went also through the mixer to Teams the movie doesn't run smooth. Sometimes the image is buffering but the sound is running through. Any idea?
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Hi Kevin, great tutorials, very clear and helpful! I've a question: I run teams meetings with external cameras and a switcher, this is running smooth. I add also Picture-in-Picture slides to the stream. But when I want to playout a movie from e.g. a Macbook and this signal went also through the mixer to Teams the movie doesn't run smooth. Sometimes the image is buffering but the sound is running through. Any idea?
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Trevor
Hi Kevin, I'm using one of the cheaper capture devices, similar to the alternative you showed. My Sony a6000 camera only puts out 1080p and not 4k, so I elected not to spend money on the Camlink. However, I'm wondering if you have compared the Camlink with the cheaper options and, if so, did you see significant differences in performance?
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Hi Kevin, I'm using one of the cheaper capture devices, similar to the alternative you showed. My Sony a6000 camera only puts out 1080p and not 4k, so I elected not to spend money on the Camlink. However, I'm wondering if you have compared the Camlink with the cheaper options and, if so, did you see significant differences in performance?
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Igor
i think maybe you should remember that every applications (teams, zoom, webex...etc..)apply a compression to the video to send it out to the world. So even if you record in 4k, probably interlocutors will see you in 720p, the most widespread quality adopted, loosing a big part of the quality.
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i think maybe you should remember that every applications (teams, zoom, webex...etc..)apply a compression to the video to send it out to the world. So even if you record in 4k, probably interlocutors will see you in 720p, the most widespread quality adopted, loosing a big part of the quality.
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HJS
This is a very useful tutorial, indeed. Thank you. Just a tip for Canon cameras: You can download CanonWebcamUtility from the Canon website for free instead of a capture card. Connect the camera to your PC and select CanonWebcamUtility in e.g. MS-Teams as you described and you are good to go.
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This is a very useful tutorial, indeed. Thank you. Just a tip for Canon cameras: You can download CanonWebcamUtility from the Canon website for free instead of a capture card. Connect the camera to your PC and select CanonWebcamUtility in e.g. MS-Teams as you described and you are good to go.
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basdfgwe
This was great until you mentioned that you have download and install software. Is there an option (dongle or something else) where you don't need to install additional software ? Most companies, when you're using their devices won't let you install third party software.
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This was great until you mentioned that you have download and install software. Is there an option (dongle or something else) where you don't need to install additional software ? Most companies, when you're using their devices won't let you install third party software.
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Patrick
I'm thinking of using Teams and an external camera so that I can live stream student performances so parents/grandparents can now watch. The one good thing about Covid is coming up with these types of solutions. Now families can watch that normally cannot.
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I'm thinking of using Teams and an external camera so that I can live stream student performances so parents/grandparents can now watch. The one good thing about Covid is coming up with these types of solutions. Now families can watch that normally cannot.
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Pirro777
I am using iMac and Elagato Web Link 4K, have tested it with Live Teams event and Quick Movie, but I am getting a voice lag all the time. I don't know how to fix it and it is very frustrating. Any advice to resolve this will be highly appreciated.
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I am using iMac and Elagato Web Link 4K, have tested it with Live Teams event and Quick Movie, but I am getting a voice lag all the time. I don't know how to fix it and it is very frustrating. Any advice to resolve this will be highly appreciated.
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Anonymous
There's no -Devices- in my teams desktop app. Way to go Microsoft, yet another crap piece of software. No explanation as to why, just dead silent, not even the option to use a device.
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There's no -Devices- in my teams desktop app. Way to go Microsoft, yet another crap piece of software. No explanation as to why, just dead silent, not even the option to use a device.
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