While getting ready for my @NodeConfEU talk, I went out and bought a good camera to use instead of the built in webcam. Turns out I should have checked to see if the HDMI output could be configured to not contain all the recording information. That was money out the window 🤦‍♂️

That sucks, but you can cover it with fun overlays and return it afterwards?

Bought it used unfortunately - so no returning... cover with overlays?? Do you know how I can do that?

Maybe use boinx.com/mimolive/ ? It can use the camera as an input, apply stuff, then output the result as a virtual camera

Else, a plan B if you are on an iPhone: neural.cam/live/

yeah that's my fallback. I've used Camo for this before. But I wanted a shallow depth of field and I have a real nice F1.4 lens, so.....

OBS studio - it's a little clunky in terms of UI but very powerful. You can overlay a png with transparency on anything. But for it to work with zoom or browser sharing it'd have to export the stream as webcam. Didn't check if that can be done. There's other software for that...

It can, but it looks like it’s going to run at 80% CPU on my 13” MacBook and I didn’t want the sound from my fan to be audible on the stream, so for now I think I’ll fall back to using the camera on my iPhone

Maybe @aaronpk have some idea on how to maybe circumvent that? Overlaying something on top of the HDMI output of a camera without ones MacBook going insane CPU-wise?