hello my youtube friends using multiple
cameras in your live stream is a great
way to add a lot of variety and spice to
your live streams whether you want to
add a camera to show your hands while
you're typing or playing a game or
teaching guitar or just show another
camera angle to add a little more spice
it's so easy to do i'm going to show you
how to do it today so let's get to it
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back to the multiple cameras you can
combine multiple different types of
cameras to your live stream you could
add a dslr camera with a cam link or
multiple webcams or mix and match a word
of caution some cheap knockoff cameras
have been known to not work with the
same type of camera so your best bet if
you're gonna go cheap on the webcams is
to buy two different brands now i do
have two cheap webcams myself and
they're both different brands so they
seem to work fine you also want to try
to keep multiple cameras off the same
usb bus if you can a usb bus has a
limited amount of bandwidth so if you're
using a desktop plug one in the front
and then maybe one in the back and
that's likely to be a completely
separate bus for a laptop you want to
try plugging it in on different sides of
the case also do not use your webcam mic
they aren't good so just don't do it
okay so now that that's all out of the
way let's get into obs and set this up
adding two cameras is a fairly simple
process the first thing i'm going to do
is go in here and i'm going to rename
our scene i'm going to use nested scenes
for this and you'll understand a little
bit more about how that works in a
second so i'm just going to call this ns
camera and i'm going to add another
scene we're going to call this one ns
webcam and i'm going to click ok now i'm
going to go ahead and click the plus
under sources for a webcam and i'm going
to go and add a video capture device
i'll just call this one webcam and i'm
going to drop this down and select my
webcam right here now i can go ahead and
configure video and it'll bring up this
menu better webcams are going to have a
lot more access to different things than
this one does this is a cheap junkie
webcam but you can go in there and
adjust the picture quality on your
webcam if you want i'm going to change
it from custom make sure it's in 1080
and i'm not going to do anything else we
are not going to use the audio from this
webcam and luckily it doesn't pick it up
anyways so now i'm going to create a
main scene because we have two cameras
in here we have our main camera and our
webcam and i'm just gonna go ahead and
add a scene in here and we're gonna add
my main camera scene and then i'm gonna
click the plus and i'm gonna go to scene
and i'm gonna add our web camera scene
and so there we go so now we have two
cameras in our scene we have a camera
that's showing off my keyboard and we
have my main camera so the reason why we
use a nested scene is because we can add
backgrounds and overlays and stuff into
each camera individually and move them
around really easily so i'm going to
click the plus in our webcam scene and
i'm going to go ahead and add a media
source and we're just going to call this
media source overlay and i'm going to
click ok and then i just need to browse
to our overlay here and i'm going to use
one that i got from owned and i want to
loop it because it is a video and click
ok so now we have this overlay in here
all we need to do is size up our camera
and put it inside of our little camera
box so that's awesome so because we did
this in a nested scene and then we put
this nested scene in our main scene when
we go over to our main scene you can see
that our overlay is around our camera
and it's attached to it so anywhere we
move this webcam it's also going to move
our overlay so you can create all kinds
of cool different things they're
connected and attached and you don't
have to do it multiple times in the old
days you would have to add the webcam
and then you'd have to add the overlay
in every scene that you wanted to use it
in in this case we just create the
camera with the overlay and we can add
that group of items into any scene that
we want and that's the beauty of nested
scene so how do we spice this up a
little bit well we're going to go ahead
and add another scene and we'll just
call this one layout two and i'm gonna
add my webcam and shrink it up and then
what i think i'm gonna do is i'm gonna
create another nested scene and we're
gonna call this ns display and i'm gonna
go ahead and add a display capture into
this other nested scene and there we go
so now we have three nested scenes that
we can use and i'm gonna go back into
our layout too and i'm going to add a
scene and i'll just add that display in
and i'll move my webcam over top of it
so now when i flip back and forth from
our main scene to our webcam scene you
can see that we utilize two different
cameras and we're displaying our desktop
and we can easily put our other camera
in there over top of our desktop as well
and there we go so now we have our two
cameras and our desktop being displayed
now something that could really spice
this up is to use the move transition if
you're not familiar with the move
transition i'll leave a link at the end
of this video so you can check it out
i'm not going to show you how to install
it or set it up in this video i just
want to show you that a really simple
completely free plug-in like the move
transition can absolutely transform your
live streams so we're just going to add
the move transition in here and there
aren't even any settings that i need to
change and now you'll see when i switch
scenes our assets are going to animate
from one location to the next so if we
change scenes and both scenes have the
same assets they're just in different
locations it will kind of zip those
assets across the screen and put them
where they're supposed to be now if i go
into the move transition here i can
actually set up where assets that aren't
in the scene will appear from and i just
make it so they appear from the center
so it kind of looks like the display is
zooming in there from the center but
other than that i didn't change anything
in our move transition to get this
really simple and easy movement that
looks so smooth so what i'm gonna do now
is add another layout we're gonna call
this one layout three and we're gonna go
and add some scenes i'll add the desktop
and i'm going to add my image and we'll
add the webcam in here and we'll just
place them in different locations on the
screen and now when we switch scenes you
can see they flip very smoothly from one
section to another we'll add another
layout and we'll add all the same assets
and we'll just size them up and change
them and move them to different
locations so that we add all kinds of
cool variety to our scene which makes it
easy to just switch scenes and get some
cool animations and this is really
something that a person can watch and
really enjoy so when you're adding
multiple cameras to your live stream and
you're using something like the move
transition you can have almost infinite
variety on your live stream and it
really is easy to set up and a lot of
fun you should definitely try it and by
the way i only added two cameras in this
video to keep it simple but you can add
a lot more in fact you can add as many
as your machine can handle just keep in
mind most computers only have two usb
buses so when you start adding more you
could run into bandwidth issues super
easy if you want to see how to create a
cool stinger transition for your obs
live stream totally free check this
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