Webcam Question

[BoxTurtle]

So During Youtube videos people are able to make it just show their wecam at one point in the video and I dought they acually make thier webcam cover the whole screen in OBS nor just crop the footage where it is only their webcam on the screen. I am abbsolute sure they do not crop their footage where it only shows their webcam because the quality would look bad since it is zoomed in. How do they do it then?

for example lazerbeam does this

 

[kelvinhall05]

They record both as separate video streams and then overlay them in editing.

[BoxTurtle]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

They record both as separate video streams and then overlay them in editing.

Thanks

[minibois]

10 minutes ago, turtlecraft said:

So During Youtube videos people are able to make it just show their wecam at one point in the video and I dought they acually make thier webcam cover the whole screen in OBS nor just crop the footage where it is only their webcam on the screen. I am abbsolute sure they do not crop their footage where it only shows their webcam because the quality would look bad since it is zoomed in. How do they do it then?

for example lazerbeam does this

The YouTubers either:

- Record the gameplay and webcam seperately (overlaying it all in their video editing program of choice)

or

- They have three OBS scenes: gameplay, webcam and webcam+gameplay and just switch through these when needed.

 

I find the second option less likely for videos on YouTube (unless it's a VOD of a stream), since you don't want to worry about framing and such during gameplay. But this is something people on Twitch use to quickly switch between scenes (so they can also include a 'I'm away for a couple minutes' scene).

Using something like a keyboard macro or a Streamdeck, it can be pretty easy to switch between scenes.

 

So most likely he just records both and edits in post, if this is a video.