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You can absolutely have your webcam take a circular form. Just apply a mask to your webcam as a filter and use any image you want to make it take that shape.

by Daunk 4y ago

amai 4y ago
But you have to first create a such a mask with some image software: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Filters-Guide#image-maskblend https://obsproject.com/wiki/Filters-Guide#image-maskblend This costs a lot of time and generates questions, for example what resolution should my mask image be? OBS doesn't offer even the simplest default shapes like a circle. This is annoying and makes OBS not suited for beginners and simple tasks.
- corobo 4y ago
  Does it really? I mean you can download one that someone else has already made or you could whip one up in 20 seconds in whatever design app you use - draw a black circle on a white background and you're done. Add some feathering to the circle if you want to get fancy. Not to assume you know how to use masks of course, but this information is readily available when googling something like "webcam circle obs" Resolution wise I just match the input rather than think about it. If my webcam is 1080p, so is my mask. I would like if you could natively round elements for sure, dunno when I'd use personally it but it could be useful. There are plugins to do this for you out there too but learning masks and other filters is a super useful skill if you're getting into video Additionally regarding positioning of things from the top level comment I'm pretty sure there's a positioning menu when you right click that lets you chuck things to the top/bottom/right/left etc
  - amai 4y ago
    > Does it really? I mean you can download one that someone else has already made or you could whip one up in 20 seconds in whatever design app you use - draw a black circle on a white background and you're done. Add some feathering to the circle if you want to get fancy. In Keynote I can change the radius of the circle in realtime. That is a lot faster than even your optimistic 20 seconds. I also don't need to care about the resolution of the camera. I can even add effects in realtime like borders, a fancy mirror effect below the camera view etc. I can try out effects in realtime. This is simply much more user friendly than creating image masks manually in an external program. > but learning masks and other filters is a super useful skill if you're getting into video But some people don't want to get into video, they just want to create a webinar with an overlay of the speaker. > I'm pretty sure there's a positioning menu when you right click that lets you chuck things to the top/bottom/right/left I'm pretty sure there is no such thing. Positioning things in OBS is a mess, because everything is based on pixels. Even if you manage to create a template, if you change the resolution of your canvas, you cannot reuse the template, because it doesn't fit to the new resolution. https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/sources-keep-moving-resizing-centering-after-closing-after-updates-and-occasionally-at-random.139669/post-512878 https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/sources-keep-moving-res...
    - corobo 4y ago
      > But some people don't want to get into video, fair > I'm pretty sure there is no such thing. Positioning things in OBS is a mess Huh. Could have sworn there was. There's center horiz/vert but no corners. Maybe I'm thinking of Streamlabs' version of OBS or something.

You can absolutely have your webcam take a circular form. Just apply a mask to your webcam as a filter and use any image you want to make it take that shape.

by Daunk 4y ago

You can absolutely have your webcam take a circular form. Just apply a mask to your webcam as a filter and use any image you want to make it take that shape.

amai 4y ago

But you have to first create a such a mask with some image software: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Filters-Guide#image-maskblend https://obsproject.com/wiki/Filters-Guide#image-maskblend This costs a lot of time and generates questions, for example what resolution should my mask image be? OBS doesn't offer even the simplest default shapes like a circle. This is annoying and makes OBS not suited for beginners and simple tasks.

corobo 4y ago
Does it really? I mean you can download one that someone else has already made or you could whip one up in 20 seconds in whatever design app you use - draw a black circle on a white background and you're done. Add some feathering to the circle if you want to get fancy. Not to assume you know how to use masks of course, but this information is readily available when googling something like "webcam circle obs" Resolution wise I just match the input rather than think about it. If my webcam is 1080p, so is my mask. I would like if you could natively round elements for sure, dunno when I'd use personally it but it could be useful. There are plugins to do this for you out there too but learning masks and other filters is a super useful skill if you're getting into video Additionally regarding positioning of things from the top level comment I'm pretty sure there's a positioning menu when you right click that lets you chuck things to the top/bottom/right/left etc
- amai 4y ago
  > Does it really? I mean you can download one that someone else has already made or you could whip one up in 20 seconds in whatever design app you use - draw a black circle on a white background and you're done. Add some feathering to the circle if you want to get fancy. In Keynote I can change the radius of the circle in realtime. That is a lot faster than even your optimistic 20 seconds. I also don't need to care about the resolution of the camera. I can even add effects in realtime like borders, a fancy mirror effect below the camera view etc. I can try out effects in realtime. This is simply much more user friendly than creating image masks manually in an external program. > but learning masks and other filters is a super useful skill if you're getting into video But some people don't want to get into video, they just want to create a webinar with an overlay of the speaker. > I'm pretty sure there's a positioning menu when you right click that lets you chuck things to the top/bottom/right/left I'm pretty sure there is no such thing. Positioning things in OBS is a mess, because everything is based on pixels. Even if you manage to create a template, if you change the resolution of your canvas, you cannot reuse the template, because it doesn't fit to the new resolution. https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/sources-keep-moving-resizing-centering-after-closing-after-updates-and-occasionally-at-random.139669/post-512878 https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/sources-keep-moving-res...
  - corobo 4y ago
    > But some people don't want to get into video, fair > I'm pretty sure there is no such thing. Positioning things in OBS is a mess Huh. Could have sworn there was. There's center horiz/vert but no corners. Maybe I'm thinking of Streamlabs' version of OBS or something.