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Louis269040978fga
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December 12, 2022
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How to make my webcam full screen after a stream

  • December 12, 2022
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I have streamed some videos with my webcam in the corner as most do. However, afterwards when I edit (using premier pro), there are moments I want to make the webcam fullscreen whilst keeping the quality. I see other streamers who upload do this all the time, but I can't for the life of me work out how to do it. Does anyone know howto do this as any google searches seem to bring up a variety of solutions for different problems

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Correct answer Louis269040978fga

There are a couple of ways they might do it - and I'll be general here and this may not be a thorough list, as I don't actually do this type of content myself:

- Their face camera has its own media so it's doing its own recording (like a mirrorless or DSLR or something)

- They use two different recording softwares or capture devices to capture the two separate angles

- They record with one screen recording application, but they record twice the width, so if you had a 1920x1080 screen recording, and a 1920x1080 camera recording, you would have a "canvas size" of 3840x1080 where they'd have the face cam on one side and the gameplay on the other side. Then they would just put that very wide video into a 1920x1080 sequence and move it left for one angle, and right for the other angle.

 

With all of these scenarios you'll have to keep in mind that you either need the hardware or the computing power to be able to do these recordings while also doing whatever you are screen capturing. Some of the workflows that would involve a camera or an external capture device could help offload some of that processing so that the computer isn't the thing doing all of the work.


Thanks Phillip, I say the 3840X1080 technique on youtube and that works great when recording content, but it doens't work when streaming as your display screen has been adjusted. I've ended up using a second webcam on recording on a seperate bit of software on OBS so I can record myself in full screen at 1080p whilst I'm streaming. Just suprised me that there was not an intuitive way to do this on OBS

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 13, 2022

I've recorded with both OBS and Camtasia.OBS can accept mulitple inputs, but records a single track at once, and is free. Camtasia costs some but allows you to capture two complete tracks simultaneously, and you can then edit the two tracks after recording. "Smallify" the camera track to put you in a corner, bigify it to make yourself full screen.

 

OBS allows you to set different 'scene' controls, and I can have one scene with the main image the program or monitor I'm capturing the app from, and a second from the camera facing me. Or the cam over my hands on the control surface or from the cam over my shoulder. And with a tap in the OBS app, change which scene I'm recording.

 

It works, but ... you can't change after recording. If you decide you want to say be full-screen in a section, you re-record that section.

 

Camtasia allows again recording two different sources at whatever input size you set for them. Which makes it much easier to work with in that you can edit your recording easily. If I record to disk on the other cams, I can actually import the files and add more tracks to the timeline.

 

I've also got a BlackMagic Atem Mini Pro switcher ... four HDMI inputs, one HDMI out, and a possible recording capability direct to SSD from that unit, or send via USB to the computer. So I have that as one of my inputs, and I can switch cameras feeding to the computer by simply tapping the right button. Which is a big help when recording with OBS.

 

But recently, I've wanted to get more callouts and transitions between big/small camera images and other 'nice' features. Which are easier to do in Camtasia, so I paid for updating my 3-year old version to the new one.

 

Neil

 

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 13, 2022

Oh ... when I'm streaming, I run the Atem Mini Pro into OBS. I can grab a screen via an OBS 'scene' selection, and/or one of the cameras either full or smallified depending on the settings I'm using.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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Louis269040978fgaAuthor
Inspiring
December 13, 2022

Thanks Neil. I have seen the seperate scenes on OBS and that will work for some of the stuff I want to do, but I'll also record myself seperately on another piece of software with a second camera to get the effect I'm looking for. So weird how streaming has been around for so long, and yet it is harder to do now than it was 10 years ago. That's capitalism for you I guess

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Phillip HarveyCommunity Expert
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December 12, 2022

Making it full screen would mean you have to scale it up and reposition it to fit the screen, which you can do in Effect Controls with Position and Scale.

 

By "keeping the quality," I'm assuming you mean you want it to be the quality it would be if it had been recorded at full resolution, but that would not be possible if you had recorded it at the size that it is scaled down in the corner. That will be the highest quality available to you if that's how you recorded it, which means it would not look as good when scaled up.

 

If you want the full res quality to be as good as it can be then you would make sure to record that camera at full res, separate from the rest of your screen recording.

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Louis269040978fgaAuthor
Inspiring
December 12, 2022

Thanks for replying, Do you know how other streamers do it. Are they using a second camera for when they want a full screen image of themselves?

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Phillip HarveyCommunity Expert
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December 12, 2022

There are a couple of ways they might do it - and I'll be general here and this may not be a thorough list, as I don't actually do this type of content myself:

- Their face camera has its own media so it's doing its own recording (like a mirrorless or DSLR or something)

- They use two different recording softwares or capture devices to capture the two separate angles

- They record with one screen recording application, but they record twice the width, so if you had a 1920x1080 screen recording, and a 1920x1080 camera recording, you would have a "canvas size" of 3840x1080 where they'd have the face cam on one side and the gameplay on the other side. Then they would just put that very wide video into a 1920x1080 sequence and move it left for one angle, and right for the other angle.

 

With all of these scenarios you'll have to keep in mind that you either need the hardware or the computing power to be able to do these recordings while also doing whatever you are screen capturing. Some of the workflows that would involve a camera or an external capture device could help offload some of that processing so that the computer isn't the thing doing all of the work.

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