Hey guys today I got a really useful tutorial for you showing you how to use this old DSLR
this Canon 600D or T3i and how to use it as a webcam so it's actually really simple and
I'm going to show you how to do it for both Mac and PC so why would you want to use this
as a webcam compared to your own webcam well it turns out even this really old DSLR is
a much better webcam than the webcam on my really expensive new MacBook Pro look at this
it's dreadful I can't do a zoom call on this but instead of having to go and buy an overpriced
webcam try using your old camera now head to the link I have in the video description
of course select the operating system you're going to use I'm first going to show you how
to do it on Mac and then go ahead and install that.
Your computer is going to need to reboot so we're going to open the side here pop in our
regular USB cable I bought one that has an USB C side at the end so I don't have to use
a dock.
So you're going to pop that in and after that what we're gonna do is go to onto a basic
webcam checker test and as you can see this thing is recognised as a webcam.
So lets have a look at how to do it on Windows pretty similar actually head to the Canon
website there's a link in the description obviously press download for Windows open
the installer and follow the on screen instructions when it's finished, plug in your camera, turn
it on.
Go to the windows menu, type in Camera and open up the Camera app.
All going well you should see your new webcam now one more thing you probably want to do
is use it in OBS I'm going to show you how to use it in OBS so I assume you have OBS
downloaded and installed so go ahead and open OBS, we're going to press add scene, add video
capture device, we're going to select Canon EOS Webcam utility and there you go your webcam
has been recognised it actually recognises it bigger than widescreen full resolution
of the photo mode the first thing we need to do is unlock the preview which I just did
then we will go to transform and fit to screen, right click and go back to transform and edit
transform and for left and right enter in 120 each and for top and bottom 68.
Lock the preview again and your webcam will fully fill out the wide screen canvas don't
forget to add in the microphone as an audio input capture and add in your MacBook microphone
or your computer microphone and you'll know it's working when you see it light up.
Before you know it as you can see it's setup as a webcam to record videos in OBS on it
stream in OBS on it and of course you can use it for Zoom, Skype or anything else.
The Mac does have a few feature limits it wont work with Facetime and select other programs
but it works really well in Chrome but not Safari
Here we go here we are recording in OBS on my gaming PC in Windows 10 and as you can
see it runs absolutely fantastic it records in 720P HD but obviously I'm recording this
on a 1080P canvas and yeah it works as it says on the tin it's very high quality so
even though the resolution isn't very high being 1080P even this webcam here is 4K the
actual image quality that's coming out of the sensor is obviously far beyond the quality
that a webcam would give you.
Another cool thing I noticed since we just experienced it there it actually doesn't recognise
it in video mode on the camera but actually the regular photo mode so we have a taller
image because of that the ISO on the camera can be bumped up beyond 3200 it can go as
high as 6400 which is obviously which comes with the Still version so that's how you can
use an old Canon camera like the T3i or 600D on your Mac and PC as a webcam I hope you
guys found that really useful and of course can avoid those price gougers who are trying
to sell you overpriced webcams do not buy overpriced webcams just use what you have
and the image quality is pretty good I see a lot of people put dummy batteries into this
basically plug it into the wall for power forever and they use this to stream stuff
and the quality is absolutely phenomenal it's much better than a MacBook webcam.
Thank you guys so much for watching if this helped you please subscribe and hit the notification
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well where ever you are in the world and I'll see you all in my next video. Bye