

ColorSource - a solid color screen, useful for background colors or for providing a tint to a particular scene using alpha compositing.BrowserSource, which is a web browser extension to OBS that renders any website or HTML source directly into OBS.An example would be the OBS “Blackmagic Device” source, which adds support for a variety of cameras, capture cards, and more from Blackmagic Design. High-resolution video cameras, usually connected to a Mac through some sort of interface.External USB webcams, like those from Logitech and many other manufacturers.Built-in webcams like the FaceTime camera in most MacBooks and iMacs.Audio input/output capture makes it simple to capture sound from an input like a built-in or external microphone or from a source like a Mac app.Much of the power and flexibility of OBS comes from the variety of sources that are available to the user:

Many OBS users start with a single scene, then add multiple scenes to add production value to their streams or recordings.

All of these elements can be resized, repositioned, or filtered. Scenes, on the other hand, are video canvases that are made up of one or more visual (and audio) elements from those sources. Sources are exactly what the name implies - the sources of video or audio content that is used in OBS to create a livestream or recorded broadcast. Today, we’ll discuss two of the key ingredients in any video production: sources and scenes.
#REPLACEMENT FOR IMAGE CAPTURE MAC HOW TO#
The second chapter of our story showed how to download and install the app, then make initial settings. In the first installment, we discussed what OBS is all about and why it’s a good alternative to commercial apps. Welcome back for the third installment of our series on Open Broadcaster Software, an open-source and free Mac, Windows and Linux app that can be used for live or recorded video production.
