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Reposition the camera wherever you want it to display relative to your presentation by clicking and dragging. First click it to ensure you’ve got the camera window selected, then click and drag the red corner box diagonally downwards. Now resize your front camera in the same way as the slide deck/poster. Me writing this blogpost and looking far more cultured than I actually am (thanks Lexi!) Otherwise click the “Device” drop-down and select the correct camera input.

*Ensure your camera is not being used by any other application, or it won’t show up properly!* If the camera is being displayed in the OBS window, click OK to the next menu accepting all the defaults. Rename the input “Front Camera” or whatever you fancy. Click the “+” button at the bottom-left of the Sources box and this time click Video Capture Device. (c) To overlay your front camera, we need to add a new source. The aim is to get the white Powerpoint slide background to fit snuggly in the OBS black box. Now resize the presentation by clicking and dragging the red box diagonally to the bottom-right and clicking and dragging the box to re-center it.

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When you first select the powerpoint or PDF as a source, it will appear massively over-sized. If you’re presenting a poster, this will be your Adobe window. In the next pop-up, use the Window drop-down menu to select the appropriate “POWERPNT.EXE” window. In the bottom-left corner of the Sources box, click the “+” button and select “ Window Capture“. Also note the “Start Recording” button in the bottom-right corner, which we will use later. your powerpoint window, or your front camera. The “Sources” tab refers to different inputs, e.g. It will look like this: We will be setting up a new “Scene”, a particular positioning of a front camera over a background source. Step 3: Configuring OBS to display your front camera over a poster/slide deck. Finally, click “From Beginning” in the Slide Show tab to cause the presentation to pop-up in its own window. In this new window, change the radio button from “Presented by a speaker (full screen)” to “Browsed by an individual (window)”.

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The way to do this in full Microsoft Powerpoint is to go to the “Slide Show” tab, and select “Set Up Slide Show”. (b) Presentation: This is slightly more involved instead of Powerpoint displaying your presentation full-screen, what you want is for it to be displayed in a separate window. (a) Poster: Open your poster as a PDF in its own window using Adobe Acrobat The key thing here is that either document appears in its own window, which allows us to use OBS’ “window capture” feature later.

Prepare your presentation or poster for streaming. Download the appropriate OBS Studio client for your operating system from This blog is a “how-to” on getting started with OBS for conference talks/poster presentations. It is super simple to use and achieves a professional output, with video overlaying a presentation slide deck/poster PDF.

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I recently “presented” two virtual prerecorded talks at the ISMB conference using Open Broadcast Software Studio (OBS Studio), a free open-source software package most commonly used by live-streamers on Twitch and Youtube. due to unforseeable IT and internet issues disrupting the schedule), and so are asking their presenters to prerecord their talks, which are then broadcast “live” on the day. Many organisers have decided that running entirely live virtual programmes causes more trouble than it’s worth (e.g. What confuses me, though, is that it's still a 20-minute operation on an hour-and-a-half recording (recorded at a high bitrate of 30Mbps, given).Seemingly every conference due to take place this year has either been cancelled or will be run virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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flv files recorded by OBS Studio, and I'm using its built-in Remux tool to convert them to MP4.Īs I understand it, the Remux tool is simply changing the container of the underlying video and audio data from FLV to MP4 without re-encoding either the video or audio - which is great, because that should mean that there is no degradation in quality, right? I'm relatively new to video-editing and am only somewhat confident in my understanding of the term 'remux'.

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