Now, you’ll need to adjust the crop amounts for Left/Top/Right/Bottom to suit your particular timer. In the Filters window, add a new Effect Filter and choose Crop/Pad. To do this, right click on the timer in the preview window and choose Filters. You can now crop the timer so that rather than showing the entire window, it just shows the timer. But, with any luck you should see the timer window in your video preview. You may need to restart OBS and remove and re-add the Window Capture source. You’ll need to allow these (on a Mac, in System Preferences, under Privacy) in order to see the timer. You will get prompts asking to allow OBS to monitor keystrokes and record your screen. You may need to select “Show Wnidows with empty names” in order to see it. In OBS, add a second Source, this time choose Window Capture. Let’s add the timer to your virtual camera. Open your timer app, and start a timer to test with. I use an app called IntervalTimer which is designed for iPad but works fine on my Mac as well. You’ll need a timer app, so you should find one of those for your computer. Resize the video box to fill the entire preview area. Choose your webcam on the dialog that opens, and you should see a live video preview. Under the Sources panel, add a source (+) and select “Video Capture Device” and choose to a new one. The black box is a preview of what your video will look like in Zoom. Choose “I will only be using the virtual camera.” Add your camera to the sceneĭuring the next steps, OBS will ask for permission to use the camera. When you open OBS for the first time, it may ask how you want to use the program. Download OBS and install it on your computer. Open Broadcaster Software will let us create a virtual camera that we can then select within Zoom, Google Meet, Messenger, or anotehr video conferencing platform. The virtual camera will combine the video from your computer’s webcam with a timer. To make this work, we’re going to create a “virtual camera”, using an open-source program called Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). You’ll need a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer for this, though it won’t work on a mobile device or tablet. In this tutorial, I’m going to set you up with an on-screen timer that you can use on any video conferencing platform. A lot of meetings benefit from having countdown timers, but Zoom doesn’t have an easy feature that allows for on-screen timers.
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