Hello, my YouTube friends.
I've done a few videos on green screen options in OBS showing a bunch
of different ways to do it.
Today I want to do a video where I show every single method and how to
do it and what the pros and cons are of each way of doing it.
That way you can decide which method is right for you and try them all
for yourself.
So, you know what?
Let's get to it.
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The first method I want to show you is a simple plugin for OBS.
This one's a simple plugin.
It brings us to this page.
There's a link in the description down below, and we just want to
click up here in the top right.
Go to download.
And then we scroll down to the bottom of the page and we can see our
little installs.
There is one for windows and one for mac OS we're going to click the
windows zip file right here.
Then we just need to go to file explorer, go to our downloads, and I'm
going to right click on this and extract it.
And I'm going to go into that extracted file.
And I'm going to copy out the two folders that are in here by
selecting them right clicking and going to copy.
And now I just need to find my OBS dash studio folder.
Now yours is probably going to be in program files.
Mine is not, but once we get there, just go ahead and click on the OBS
dash studio file and then on the right pane, go ahead and right click
and click paste.
And if you've had this installed before, you're going to go ahead and
overwrite it.
Otherwise, it's just going to go ahead and copy in there.
And mine is actually going to stop a little short because I'm
recording this in OBS.
So it wants to either skip the files or try again.
So basically I'm just going to close OBS and finish the install.
I'll see, in OBS and here in OBS, all I'm going to do is click the
plus and add a camera and click okay.
And we'll drop this down and we'll select my cam link right here.
And I just need to go down and select the microphone that I want to
use.
So I'll click on this, drop this down and select my cam link
microphone, click okay.
Now I need to right click right here on my camera and go to filters.
And we're going to click on this plus right here and select background
removal.
And it brings up this here with a bunch of different settings and you
can adjust these.
They make a little bit of difference.
It doesn't actually look that bad and it does make the fingers come in
pretty nicely.
We can adjust these settings all we want, but I will caution you to be
a little bit careful.
And you're going to see why in a minute.
I go down here and start to mess with some of these settings.
We can kind of dial it in.
So it looks pretty good, but we will get some weird stuff.
Like when my thumb gets too close to my face there.
And if we go down here, we can play around with these settings.
And like I said, play around with these settings at your caution.
If I come down here and we adjust the settings right here, some of
them don't really do anything.
And some of them will actually crash your system as you're going to
see right here.
And there we go.
So I just restarted OBS, and I'm going to click here and change my
background, color to green and click okay.
Then I'm going to go over here and click the plus.
And I'm going to add the chroma key and that removes the green screen
from our background.
And since I already have a media source loaded, there we go.
We can see how this works and it's not too bad at all.
Looks pretty good.
Now, the second method I want to show you is using the snap camera.
First, we're going to install this snap camera.
This is the virtual AR, and we're going to go to this page and click
download.
And it tells us a little bit of information about what you actually
need to run this.
So you can check this out.
It's not super hard requirements or anything like that.
You just have to check I agree, and I am not a robot.
And then you can download it for PC or Mac.
In my case, I'm going to download it for PC.
And there it is down in the bottom left.
And I just click on it here, down in the bottom left and it opens up.
All I have to do is click next and then next, and just keep clicking
next all the way through the install.
You can put the shortcut on your desktop, if you like, and eventually
it's going to install for you.
And once it's done, it'll switch over and you can click finish and
it'll launch snap camera, if you leave that checked.
Now we're going to go into snap camera.
And we're just going to click on the search and we're going to type in
green screen.
And a whole bunch of green screens are going to come up and not all of
them are good.
If we select this first one, you can see that you need an image.
So we're going to go create one.
We're going to use pixlr E there is a link in the description for
this.
I'm gonna go ahead and create a new image.
We're going to go to 1920 by 10 80, which is the resolution I stream
at.
And I'm just going to call the image green screen and click create.
Then all I need to do is go over here and select the fill button.
I'm going to select this and pick my green color that I'm going to
use.
Click okay.
Click in the open space to fill it, and then just go up to file
export.
And then export as PNG.
It just exports that green screen image.
Now we can go back into our snap camera, select image, and just browse
to that green screen image in our downloads folder, click open.
And there we go.
We can see what this looks like, and it doesn't look great.
So we'll try this one and we can select an image and this doesn't
really seem like it does anything at all.
So we're not going to use that one.
Let's try this one and we'll select that green screen image, click
open.
And there we go.
And that's probably about as good as it's going to get.
You can see we get wash out on the hands, but physically it looks like
it does me pretty well.
So we're going to take that as a win, and we're going to use that in
OBS.
So let's go over into OBS and I'll show you how to add this.
We just click this plus and we add our camera and click okay.
In this case, we're going to use our snap camera and it's already
selected there.
So I'm going to go ahead and select our microphone properly click
okay.
And all we have to do now is right click on our camera and go to
filters and we'll click this plus, and we'll go to chroma key and
click okay.
And close and there we go.
So now we have the background chrome it out.
All we have to do is add a media source.
So click the plus, go to media source.
We're going to browse to our media source, select it, click open, make
sure we loop it and then click okay.
Then we just move it below our camera.
And there is the result that we get not too bad for just a couple of
minutes of work.
The last virtual green screen method.
I want to show you is using the Nvidia plugin, the links to all these
are in the description down below.
We're going to start here in the OBS forum page for stream effects.
We're going to go up here to the top and click go to download, and you
can see this is an alpha testing release.
So we're going to click on this link to get to the regular release and
scroll all the way down to the bottom and select the install that we
need.
There is Mac OS there is Linux, and there's also windows, which is
what we're using.
We're going to select that.
And once this file is finished downloading, I can just click it and it
brings up our install.
And I'm going to click run on this screen, and then I'm going to
accept the agreement and click next.
Now, I already have this on my machine, so I'm not actually going to
click install, but once you do, it'll just install this on your
machine.
And you'll be all set and ready to go.
And then I want to scroll back up and I'm going to click on this
virtual green screen here.
Number 6 80.
And this is the feature in stream effects that allows us to do the
green screen.
And it takes us to this that tells us a little bit about it.
And we're just going to click here, which will take us to the Nvidia
page, which has the rest of the installs that we need.
Now, this has three installs, and the one you probably need is the
video effects one.
I'm just going to download all three of them and install them because
they add extra features and functionality that you can use with your
Nvidia graphics card.
They're all fairly tiny packages.
And so they're not going to take up a lot of space on the machine.
There's really no problem with having them all on there.
Once they're downloaded, I'm just going to click on the bottom one
here, and they all have slightly different install packages.
You just click here and it installs.
And when it's done, you can close it and move on to the next one.
And you just agree to the license that installs it, and you click
close when it's done and move on to the next one.
That's pretty much how all installs go on PC.
You should be relatively familiar with that at this point, you just
agree.
It automatically starts installing, and then you click close when it's
finished.
And there you go.
All three of the Nvidia packages are on here and stream effects.
We now have everything that we need to get started.
Once you have it installed.
This is really easy.
We just go into OBS and we'll click the plus and we'll add a camera.
And I'm just going to go ahead and make sure that my camera has the
right microphone, click here, drop down and select my cam link mic,
we're good to go.
Now we have a camera.
We're going to right click on it and go to filters.
We're going to click this plus down here, and we're going to go ahead
and select virtual green screen, and you can drop this down and select
quality or performance.
And basically I just select the Nvidia and click close and we're ready
to go.
Our background is removed.
So all we need to do now is click the plus and add a background.
So I'm going to click the plus and go to media source.
And all I have to do is browse to a media source and we'll loop this
source in any video or picture file will do.
There we go.
We just need to bring it below our camera.
And now it works.
It's really that simple, and it looks a heck of a lot better if I'm
being honest, when you go ahead and you shrink these up, if you're
going to just use this for like a face cam and put it down in the
bottom left or right corner or whatever, well, they look pretty good.
You won't even really notice that it's a virtual green screen at much,
depending upon the size of the image.
So now that you've seen three different methods for using the virtual
green screen on your live stream, let's talk about the pros and cons
of each.
The virtual green screen plugin for OBS is easy to install and use,
and it has some tweaking that you can do to make it look better.
And overall, I'd say it's probably middle of the pack visually.
The downside is it can be finicky and crash OBS like you saw, if it
doesn't like the settings that you choose, and this can put OBS in a
crash loop where you may have to actually remove the plugin to get OBS
to work again.
I didn't have to do that, but it could happen.
And it can also use a lot of CPU on some machines without any
dedicated graphics card.
Using snap camera green screen lens is super easy to set up and use.
The downside is it's probably the worst visually out of all three of
them.
The Nvidia ad-on is by far the best option for virtual green screen.
It's the best visually.
And it doesn't use much processing power at all to run.
And it's totally reliable.
The downside is obviously you need an Nvidia graphics card to use it,
and it's a bit more complicated to set up and install than the other
two.
For the most professional results there really isn't any alternative
to using a real green screen, but if you are using a small windowed
face cam for your stream, you can get results with this that are good
enough with the virtual green screen.
And they are a lot of fun to use.
If you want to see a lot of other cool stuff that you can do with snap
camera, you should check this video out right here.
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