Build your live stream with Microsoft Teams NDI and OBS Studio 

Very good tutorial John! I was pretty excited when I saw the Teams/NDI announcement and so many potential uses and solutions to troubling "how can I" questions I get. Thanks for your work on putting these best-practices together!

love the inner bounds and AI Greenscreen tricks John, nice one :)

Good explainer John, I've used Teams with NDI mainly through Livestream Studio, but also OBS as a back up, and today I learnt about inner bounding. Great job.

Awesome work, John. Incredibly helpful and well produced tutorial. Much appreciated

John, this was fantastic! Wonderful explanation, pace, hitting on the main points. Thank you!

This was a fantastic tutorial. If only they were all done like this! Thanks for this extremely useful information as I'm building my own RU-vid show and was keen to professionally add guests to my show.

Very interesting. I didn't realise that Teams would dynamically adjust the actual pixel size of the stream, thought it would just increase/decrease compression. Great to know. Excellent tips. You blew my mind when you virtually green-screened them both! Fabulous!

This is totally underrated..... great pace and tips. Thanks!

Great explanation of this method John!! Thanks!!!

This was fantastic! I've heard so much about OBS but haven't had a reason to use it yet. Glad to know it's pretty simple to use and maximize production value on a Teams live event.

Great job John! I’m on a week’s holiday but couldn’t resist getting NDI going. Using a regular Teams call for the production meeting is much better, with more creative possibilities. The technique you mention at 5:43 is how I’ve been bringing Daniel Glenn into the The 365 Message Center Show for a couple of years now. NDI will make this much tidier and we can more easily swap who is sharing screens.

You're amazing! Thank you so much for this tutorial. Everywhere I looked only taught how to stream from obs to teams, it was hard to find a good guide on how to do the opposite. I need to stream a teams meeting to youtube, and your solution is just perfect.

Fantastic information....you have solved so many problems for me....thanks so much for presenting this and being a great teacher.

That was a very clever use of the Microsoft Teams background effects and using a green image for the OBS chroma key!

Great tips!! Will definite use . Thank you!

Thanks John, it helped me a lot streaming a teams meeting.

This is perfect! The company I'm contracting for uses teams and want this kind of production for their cross country presenters. This is soo much better then just capturing the teams window in obs to stream to vimeo.

Awesome! Crystal clear explanation.

This is great! Thanks for showing us.

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks John!

This is gold! Thanks John!

Awesome video, this is exactly what I am looking to do with Teams!

This is really great! Definitely going to try it out

Thanks John, This is so awesome. This also works with Xsplit Broadcaster.

This was really useful, thank you

A wonderful video John! Thank you for sharing this informations about Teams, NDI and OBS. I like your tipps and I learn so much! I tried to grab NDI from a Teams Live Event, build a scene in OBS and resent the OBS output over a virtual webcam back to Teams Live Event. To get all speakers, I need one device for every speaker, because in my production view I did not have every sawn speaker as an NDI output. But in the same network, I can take it from the other computer!

Hi John! a common MVP friend told me about your green screen method, and we already used it to record a conference session this weekend. Funny thing, youtube today thought it would be nice to promote your video on my splash screen. Thx for the idea!

Awesome video! Thanks

Your green screen trick is a great hack. I was just wondering about controlling who appears in a Teams Together mode so that only presenters would appear, and I think this is the way to do it. NDI sources keyed into a scene.

Great explanation.... thanks

This was super helpful and very well explained.

To get rid of the risk of a single user muting everyone make sure you are using the audio from "Active Speaker" instead of one of the participants. Another trick that I've come up with if you are having a long broadcast and a guest needs to come in, have their presentation and then leave, simply call them up in a separate teams meeting from another computer on the network, then your producer can talk to the guest saying "Ok, get ready, you are on in .... " Regarding returnchannel to the speker, (haven't tried this, but it should work) is to add the rtmp stream from obs as a source in the guest meeting. Just a thought

Dude! Thank You!

Thumbs up just for using Mario and Peach in your example. I didn't get it until you show them on cam. :)

Thanks for this. Which plan of Microsoft Teams do I need to do the same in 2022?

Good overview. Still some small steps needs to be taken to have it 100% professional like the MS Teams logo that also is floating. across the green screen. But awesome clear instructions John!

Great video! Now if only Microsoft would release the NDI capabilities to the production ring for every organization :-)

Fantastic, Wow~

Hi John. Great videos you make. I really wish you would make a video on setting up a hybrid meeting using Teams. I am struggling to make this work. The 4 elements are: 1. People in a room watching presenters in front of a projector or screen showing content. 2. Online presenters showing camera and material on the projector. 3. Online guests watching the conference without being able to turn on their own video/audio. 4. People in the room talking to the presenters on the projector/screen. Right now I am runing a Teams Live Event to stream the show. I have 2 cameras filming the room. I set up a Teams meeting to bring in external speakers. I have presenters in the room miced up so audio goes to both loudspeakers in the room and to the mixer. I mix cameras+audio+teams meeting in SlingStudio and send the signal to Teams Live Event. I extract the audio from the Teams meeting and also send this audio to my mixer. But how do I make the external presenters in the Teams meeting see the guests in the room and interact with them? I have been trying to set this up for months but always run into issues. It seems that I always miss one critical element in the setup and then it all falls apart. I have searched the net over and over to find a solution or a video of someone creating this fully hybrid meeting, but I still have not found it. Im sure you would be able to complete this task :)

Hey John, you have been so helpful with some issues I've been having with this set up, I'm hoping you can help again. Firstly, when I import a feed from TEAMS into OBS I set 'Bounding Box Type' to Scale to Inner Bounds' and alignment to Centre or Left to compensate for any changes in feed resolution size. But some feeds still seem to change size! I can't work out if it's the 'Crop' setting I have also applied, should the crop settings adjust also? For example, if the resolution changes of the feed does crop area becomes bigger? I have to apply a crop size because I have 4 feeds next to each other and they will end up overlapping otherwise. My second problem is Audio Echo. So in my situation, I have one scene with all 4 speakers, so I mute 3 of them so only one audio stream is playing to avoid the echo. BUT I also have other scenes with the individual speakers. So that they can be heard on those scenes, do I have to manually unmute them for those scenes then when I switch back to the group scene to mute them all again? Thanks for any help John!!!

Thank you so much John. You explained the steps in detail. OBS is really a very helpful software specially for instructors. I am facing one challenge during Teams screen sharing. I did broadcast from Teams meeting and did the all settings as you mentioned. However I can't find the option of MS Teams Screen shared option in NDI source while recording with OBS. I find other options like MS Teams Local, MS Teams and MS Active speaker. What could be the issue?

Thanks John, really useful.. I have a client that has asked me to run a hybrid event using ms teams. I really like your setup here, but wondered if you could help,with a couple of questions. In your setup where you are using ramp to hammer, is there a way of allowing remote delegates to join breakout rooms? Many thanks Pete

Nice! Thanks!

Hei John, first of all, amazing video, thank you! Second, can you make a video on how to install NDI to your computer? I'm not so techy on this matter, and it seems to me there are a couple of commands required for it to work properly.

It will be interesting to see what could be done with the upcoming spotlight feature. One could loop NDI feeds out to OBS in a normal teams meeting (i.e. not necessarily a live event) loop it back in as a webcam in the teams meeting and then spotlight the OBS output in the meeting. That way you could switch between a more produced "live events" type section and a more meeting like section on the fly.

hi friend thanks for the video i learned a lot. Question plz I do the same workflow as you, but on the final step i send the final composition to Msteams again instead make a stream to a CDN. so everybody on the teams meet see the composition that I do on my switcher (Tricaster or vmix). that signal is received for a producer account and set in spotlight in order all the people see that screen. my problem is when one of presenter share his screen, he replace my spotlight with his screen and everybody stop see me. so there is a way to lock the signal that i send to ms teams from my switcher as primary screen even though the presenter share their screen? thanks!

Fantastic insights into the workflow here. Thanks so much John. And so valuable for content producers who work on internal events for clients. NDI in Teams was so eagerly anticipated! I have however one question on PPT. How would you suggest managing multiple decks by different presenters? The 'stop and start' method of sscreen sharing in TEAMS is clunky. We're coming from StreamYard, which could mix multiple screen share sources. THX

I am so much happy after watching this, Now I can help my customers in a much better way. Thank you ~~

Great Video ! thanks John. Is there a video on how to setup/enable the NDI on Microsoft 365 for Teams ? Greetings Matthias

Hi John, very nice :) I wonder if I could use the NDI in OBS/Teams to switch between two cameras from one Teams user, I did not manage it so far

Hi John, Awesome video! Could you build a Live event on your TEAMS account and then invite a client TEAMS group to this event in advance. Then on the day of the event, you would only have to set the cameras. and OBS? How do you do it for clients? Do you use your own TEAMS account or the Client Account once on location? I didn't find that info anywhere. Anybody else LIVE stream with TEAMS for clients?

This is really awesome John! Very close to what I am looking for. How can I use the output in the Teams meeting directly? I teach online and this is much more engaging than a Teams PowerPoint presentation.

Have you tried NDI Scan converter running on another network PC? It outputs the screen over NDI. The killer feature is you can control that remote from your computer using Studio Monitor on the producer laptop. “IKVM (keyboard, video, mouse) remote control of any workstation running Scan Converter from NDI Studio Monitor”. KVM into as many machines as you have bandwidth.

John, your videos arz always very useful and so clear! Quick question by the way about the sound from teams... The fact that it is a combination of all audio in one channel... When you create a scene with two or three teams cameras (i mean people), how can you disable the sound from all sources, keeping only one channel, before sending it to program window on the right? Avoiding a couple of seconds of echo, and not doing it live? There is something I'm missing i think. For exampleif i'm creating 3 different scenes with 3 different people in each scene, i need to push it to program, then mute 2 of 3 lines on each scene? Is there no better way to? Thanks a lot Regards Nicolas B

Streamers have been doing this for years, with Discord. Essentially you create a video call between the X number of people, then you create X number of scenes where each scene is a cropped version of the video call, representing each person involved. Presto easy peasy multi host presentation. The person with the power point in this case would the the one running OBS and their power point would be a scene.

Is there a way to use this and still have redundancy? Like having multiple producers in a regular Live Event in case one loses internet, for example. Thanks for the video!!!!

This was great! Using the virtual green screen is genius. I'm thinking that if you wanted to still run it through a Live Event you could use OBS's new Virtual Camera as Camera source.

This is really cool! - Do we need to keep all presenters within the same network? Will it work if one of the presenters is joining from another geography?

The inner bounds trick is a game changer! Nicely done and thank you for that. On another note, I am planning on doing just what you did (except during a TEAMS live event), but will also use OBS as a virtual webcam, send the image back to TEAMS, and keep the live event within TEAMS (as opposed to streaming the meeting out to Yammer, I would create a Live event and show only my virtual webcam as feed). Do you think that will work?

Love the video kudos! Question i'm having trouble because my screen share in MS teams cannot detect in OBS NDI source?

Awesome video! When muting the soundchannels, what would happen to the sound stream if Dr. Mario would mute himself in Teams during the stream? Would that just mute the mic for Dr Mario but the rest of the sounds would still come trough?

good tips; people has to show your other video, how to get NDI working on her clients.

That green screen hack 😲🤯

Great summary of your live! Thanks again for sharing I think we all need a great source of content for corporate usage of Teams and OBS as most of the resources on youtube are geared toward gaming/entertainment :) Using Teams AI to do a virtual green screen is an excellent idea! On my side, I am using whereby.com as the external source for guests as I can pull them easily inside OBS using the browser source. But the quality and convenience are clearly bellow what you get with an NDI source. I have a question for you as you use external encoding for MS Live/Stream events. Does it reduces the lag near real-time experience for the audience, or do we still have the 30s delay due to transcoding/buffering?

Bravo👍👍👍👍

Great video John, We used client and browser (double join) to give us a pseudo solution but with NDI there is no more need for that complexity. That said have you noticed any developing lag with the audio in NDi?

Hello John, thnk you for your answer about isolated audio and new way of MS teams to distribute the sound. it seems ok. NEW question coming : i've recently did a stream RTMP with NDI source using OBS and for some reason one of the speaker feed during the live event, came to purple logo microsoft and nothing explained that..not camera off from the speaker....same network than the others..any idea? thks in advance !

Tks for the nice toturial. I stil have the problem of the NDI sources going crasy even with "scale to inner bounds".. Going to have a live streaming in a few days and its been a problem. Do you have any advice to help me? Thank you.

Loving this thank you! Due to covid I've been put in charge of creating a live stream system for work to present to our customers remotely. We are the only presenter so we use a virtual cam plugin and use Teams Live (without streaming to MS Stream, only broadcasting within Teams). The biggest issue I've been having though is getting system audio to play through the call. You can hear their microphone just fine but if we go to play a video through OBS, the Teams broadcast doesn't hear it. We've tried using Voicemeeter plugin but haven't had any success. Any ideas, would NDI have a solution for this?

Clear tutorial John, thank you very much. I'm going to ask my admin to give me NDI broadcasting rights in Teams. One question though, is there a way to get rid of the Teams watermark in the corner of the source?

Thanks for a very clear and wellproduced video. I have been trying the same thing with Skype but are having problems with audia sync drifting. After googling it seems as if some people are experiencing the same with Teams and OBS. Is that anything you've seen and if so, been able to fix?

Thanks a lot for sharing, this was really useful 😊 One question though, when I record a Teams Live event the frame rate is 30 fps, while a normal Teams meeting only has 8 fps - so does a Teams meeting broadcasted over NDI to OBS Studio also have only 8 fps then? Or is that just when you record directly from Teams? 🤔

Hi John, this is very cool and well presented, thanks. Do you need to enable NDI on the 2 presenters and the producers Teams, or does it only need to be enabled for the Producer and then they can capture all the NDI feeds when they join the Teams meeting?

Thanks so much for the overview John - really slick and it'll be a great alternative to getting guests using Skype etc. Hopefully it'll work with Ecamm also! Do you happen to know if you can remove the Teams logo? They're pretty unsightly! I used to drop a corporate logo over the Skype one but Teams have made it huge!

Hello, it was a very good class, I have a question, in order to include the others participants in your OBS scene, do they have NDI seating on in their teams permissions or it is not necessary? ( sorry about my English I am not good writing) I am from Chile

I'm so stupid. I was trying to do a virtual camera to add video as a background with teams and obs but struggled to get rid of my background even though it was a white wall. Didn't think to use a green screen image and teams ai. Thanks for that tip alone never mind the rest of the help.

Can we add another social platform in obs? Like facebook that will sync live to facebook and at the same time the audio?

Hi John, can you do another one where you stream from OBS back into MS Live events? I still can't figure out how to have 2 people on the screen in live events

Have 2 questions, how many ndi source you can add from the Teams meeting? and what you can do when some ndi source video its not sync with the ndi source audio you left unmute?

Hello John, great video again. When using teams NDI, i sometimes have the video replaced by a teams moving background, event if the speaker did not stoped his webcam. Sometimes i also get "Active speaker" ndi source as a teams moving background, whereas the ndi source of the speaker is visible ! Did you already encounter such a problem ?

Hi John. I ran into you video looking for ways to produce a live event with multiple presenters not just one video feed and content. This is great stuff. I also just subscribed to your channel. Quick question, do all the sources (presenters) need to be connected to the same network in order for NDI to detect them? Appreciate your response. Thanks!

Hi John, Great video! but I've tried using OBS and installed all the required addins but the only ones showing every time I run a test meeting is the shared screen not the teams cameras of the participants like doc mario and peach in your video in the source name drop down. Please help...Thank you very much...

Once you set up your OBS screen they way you want, can you broadcast it into MS Teams Live Event?

Any thoughts on how to do this and maintain the ability to use Q&A?

10:05 thank gosh I found out how to fix that

After seting up this cool layout how its going to be showed for the users on the Ms Teams Call ? Can i show this Layout also on ms team or only streaming on facebook or youtube ? Thanks for the video !

Do all the participants teams must run with NDI enabled or just the producer teams, to list them in OBD NDI list

Do you know if there is a way to record each NDI source to its own video file? (I'm imagining something like running OBS in two separate instances, and choosing a different NDI source for each, but I'm also imagining that sounds unlikely to work).

i need to know how your did the last part...that is very important to me how Yammer gave you the RTMP

Hi John, I wonder if you could help? I would like to spotlight a MS Teams participant, but have them appear on a seperate monitor is that possible?

we run a game as a group and need one person to be able to be off-camera & stream/share background music while the others are visible and interacting on the screen. Can Teams use this tech to isolate that music sound level separate from the speakers/presenters sound levels? (Hm maybe that is better a function of OBS? Using a separate source?)

is this applicable with the live event in teams?

Nice

I have a question concerning the ndi sources in OBS. I yesterday streamed a meeting with 7 participants and one shared Powerpoint. I was also logged in the meeting without cam and microphone to control the streaming. In total 8 people in Teams. Unfortunately always one ndi source video was randomly hidden, because Teams switched it off automatically. Do you have a solution to see 7 people and one shared presentation? Or even 9 ndi Videos which Teams should provide on one screen without hiding some of them?

Is the NDI integration available within TEAMS app web ( browser)/mobile apps, or only within TEAMS desktop app?

Hi there John, i have a question. at 7m10 you said "i have NDI running on my local installed Teams and i see people involved". Does this means that it won't work with Teams free version ? Do you have any paid version of Teams or does it work with a regular free installation on PC ?

Any benefit for just using NDI and OBS on a Microsoft Teams Live Event instead?

do the speakers need to be within your Team? Or can they be using the free version as just a guest through a browser etc?

Dear John , Thank you for the guidance with this good clip. Now i have to run the Live Seminar Event with MS Team and have the problem of how to bring the screen of the each speaker from their home to present on one live screen. Yes the OBS, NDi is the solution but still can't fix the problem. Can you guide me some explanation ? 1. I can't find the NDI Source of the speaker screen , how to solve this problem? 2. If we must live on MT, and all speakers use MT as well, so how can we do this since MT can't do overlap call. Or we use the meeting by call among speakers and producer, then put the OBS and live on Stream. Can you guide me how to? 3. When i use the OBS Camera, it is black screen cam, cannot display my cam. How to solve this problem? I'll be appreciate and feel very thankful for your help and explanation to solve my problem. RGDS.

Any way to remove the Microsoft Teams branding?