using a second external camera with microsoft teams

Anonymous
2020-04-06T23:34:50+00:00

I am an educator and will be using Microsoft Teams with students.  Is there a way to use a second external camera and share that image with the people in your meeting at the same time as the primary camera on my laptop?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-27T12:41:43+00:00

    Thank you. That will definitely help...although I occasionally use text scrolling/timers in OBS, and flipping them really makes it hard to use. But if I can just get the cameras to work that's a breakthrough...

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-07T12:36:41+00:00

    OBS is a good solution. Doublecheck with your participants whether they see the video mirrored or normal. Usually you as a presenter see the video mirrored and the participants see it normal.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-02-07T12:45:01+00:00

    My solution for this problem is to join the same session with the same account from two devices. E.g. show you with the camera in your smartphone and show the teaching content, whiteboard, experiment or whatever with a camera attached to your notebook. Make sure to mute microphone and speaker on one device and keep microhone open on that device that streams the video that you want to show in large screen, because teams shows the video in large where the noise comes from. You can also attach an external microphone in addition to the one that comes with your webcam. Plus, I recommend to attach both devices to a power supply for longer sessions.

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