How To Use An External Camera For Facebook Live

OBS.Ninja is an open-source and gratuitous web-based programme designed to bring live video from an external source into OBS Studio. It does this using WebRTC, a framework within browsers and mobile applications that lets you communicate in real time with little to no lag. OBS.Ninja also claims to offer privacy and ultra-low latency. In this tutorial you lot'll learn how to use OBS.Ninja to add together a remote video stream to your live broadcasts, how to add together a remote screenshare, and how to add a group video chat feed.

How to Add Video From Remote Locations With OBS

OBS.Ninja has a variety of interesting uses. Here are some examples:

Pull in other people's video and audio into your own podcasting or live broadcast, for things like interviews, invitee hosts, performers, or simultaneous sign language translation
Bring a friend's remote game stream into your OBS and do side-by-side gaming together
Publish to YouTube with your smartphone even though you don't however have enough followers to broadcast to Youtube with the mobile app
Watch videos with friends, via screen sharing, privately, and with low-enough latency to talk on the phone together while watching
Use as a remote low-latency teleprompter feed

The tools are very straightforward to use, and the creator of OBS.Ninja, Steve Seguin, has put together a smashing caption of how to add remote cameras to OBS Studio, if you lot'd similar to learn more via video. Nosotros'll get into how to use it with OBS, below.

How to Apply OBS.Ninja with OBS Studio

If you're new to OBS Studio, you might want to read our Quickstart Guide to Livestreaming with OBS Studio. This covers how to add together sources, which you lot'll demand to know to use OBS.Ninja.

Getting Started with OBS.Ninja

Here's what OBS.Ninja looks similar when you open upwardly the website. We'll accept a quick await at each pick available, except Create Reusable Invite, which is exactly how it sounds actually, a link you can create and reuse rather than having to showtime from scratch each time – this is particularly useful if you're planning on doing a series of broadcasts.

How to Add a Remote Camera to OBS via OBS.Ninja

This is actually like shooting fish in a barrel and a nifty way to add another camera to your stream. OBS.Ninja will discover your camera and audio setup automatically.

Once information technology'due south washed that and you're happy with information technology, you can hitting Start and it will give yous your photographic camera and audio feed, along with a URL.

In OBS Studio, add a Browser Source and call it OBS Ninja or something else appropriate.

Y'all'll see some properties telling you you've added a browser source and letting you make some customisations if you want to, things similar the frame size, likewise as admission to the CSS.

add a browser source properties obs studio

Paste your OBS.Ninja URL into the URL infinite and hit OK.

You'll see your external feed now added a source.

How to Add a Remote Screenshare in OBS

This is much similar adding a camera source merely y'all can choose which screen (if y'all take multiple) to share, and can determine to include sound or not.

Click on Select Screen to Share.

Your existing screens will appear, as will the choice of choosing an application window or specific browser tab, which will anchor the casting to that detail program or window. When you choose your screen you lot'll be given a URL in the same style every bit the photographic camera source was above.

Just add together that as a Browser Source in exactly the aforementioned way as in the previous section, and it will announced in OBS Studio.

How to Add together Grouping Video Chat to OBS via OBS.Ninja

If y'all're non a fan of Zoom, Teams and the like, try OBS.Ninja. There'southward no reason why y'all can't stream and record group chats in OBS Studio using remote sources.

With OBS.Ninja, you can have each person have a link to the chat, who will all be able to run across each other in lower quality, to preserve bandwidth.

Each group room tin take up to 30 guests (though keeping information technology nether 10 is recommended). The quality of grade depends on the bandwidth of the users. The 'director,' or person overseeing all of this in OBS Studio, can see all the participants but doesn't have to exist on screen themselves. They can also hide and mute participants in the chat.

As each person joins the chat, they'll get their own slot on the page, including a link which y'all tin use to add together them every bit either split up or group in Scenes in OBS Studio. If yous use Group, it will auto-mix the videos into a layout for you.

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Marie Gardiner is a writer and photographer from the Northward East of England. After gaining her degree in Film and Media, Marie worked in the media industry, earlier leaving to fix the business she runs with her partner: Solitary Tower Film & Media. Equally well as writing about visual practices like photography and video, Marie is also the writer of Sunderland Industrial Giant (The History Press, 2017) and Surreptitious Sunderland (Amberley Publishing 2019). Her photographic work focuses on landscapes and industrial ruins, particularly those of the North Pennines as she continues to work on her long-form documentary project Changing Landscapes.