Hey! I'd like to see the final result, if you've already filmed and uploaded it! :) Can you send me the link please? Not sure which video it would be on your channel. Thanks much, and much success on your channel!
Thank you so much! Really good info ... I had some problems with NDI in OBS not working, but found a quick fix with a youtube, putting the dll file into the obs plugin file.
could you please do a detailed installation video for Mac? I've done what I thought needed to be done but can't get the NDI to show up as a source in OBS. Thanks
Hi Chris, I have ndi source showing up in obs and my skype is set for ndi. When I start a skype call, then go to add it as an ndi source, i only see my local source (me) as an option. there is no source for the guest feed i'm trying to get into obs. Using Mac. any ideas? thanks, dan
Just an FYI for anyone else, I had this working one day, then the next day I came back and my Local (i.e. my camera/audio from Skype) was not showing up in OBS. I tried a bunch of things, but what ended up working was to turn off NDI in Skype, then turn it back on.
It would be nice to see similar tutorial but with guest doing a screen share via Skype. If you need a 'guest' who could help recording such video with Screen Sharing + Skype + OBS, I don't mind jumping and helping to test that and be in your video :) I am going to test that myself anyway very soon.
sorry, one more: I experience changes of the single "frames/windows" of the NDi sources. I assume this is a result of a fluctuation of the internet connection. How can I control this? The skype sources are getting bigger and smaller all the time....without making any changes within skype or obs...
That is probably happening when you are connecting to different people? Sometimes it's 720p and sometimes 1080p. The best you can do is this: Right click on one of the NDI sources. Then go to Transform, Edit Transform. There, set the Bounding Box Type to "Scale to inner bounds" and then below set the "Bounding Box Size" to 1920 x 1080 if you are want to record both in Full-HD. Now the source will always be scaled to this box, if it's lower resolution it will be scaled up, if it's bigger, it'll be scaled down. Even if it's not 16x9 it will fit into this box but will show black bars. Good luck and hope all goes well 🌸.
Hey NM TV, that's not good. I am not exactly sure where your echo may be coming from but here are a few ideas: - If you are bringing yourself into OBS via NDI from Skype and also have your own mic directly in OBS then that may create an echo since skype will send an audio source for you as well. (this is only if you are adding your own camera via NDI). - I prefer to get myself into obs directly with the Video Device Input and Audio Device Input elements. - Make sure the guest has headphones or there is echo cancelation turned on. Otherwise, you may be getting an echo. - Other than that, and if it's still an issue, maybe it's a good idea to draw a diagram of where audio is going and where it's coming from so that way it may be easier to debug this problem. I hope you can figure this out and get it to working. If not, feel free to give some more details, and maybe I or somebody else can help you here. Cheers and good luck.
How do I fix audio desync? When I have 2 guests in Skype both audio feeds have both guests so I have to choose one to mute. The muted guest has audio sync issues.
That’s an interesting issue. I haven’t yet experienced this since I have not worked with two guests. I am guessing that with this setup it will be pretty hard to actually fix this. You could use the “mixed video feed” which decides for you which person is shown on the screen. Alternatively, if your goal is to record podcasts with video, maybe look I to zoom, or Zencaster? Both have options for recording multiple guests, and zencaster also is starting to have a great video call and record feature. Otherwise, in OBS, you may be able to use the video delay filter to fix the issue you are describing. Right clicking the second guest, go to effects, and add a video effect called delay or similar. I don’t have the interface in front of me so the names might be off. Cheers. Happy recording. 🤩
Wow! Does this mean I can do Skype video call with my a number of my usual students + 1 guest + me (host), ask the students to turn off video so they have the live access the always have (to hear and partecipate in live Q&A) but ONLY the faces of me (host) and the guest are seen on camera AND IT CAN BE STREAMED LIVE to Facebook a/o YT?
Yes, that is very much doable. Additionally: you would not even have to ask your students to turn off their cameras since you can specifically select you and the guest speaker as the inputs for NDI in OBS 💪.
@@ChrisSpiegl Sorry to bother you again man. I've got a new MAC M1 and when I go thru all the steps you indicate, I don't get the NDI source option you describe at 4.14 minutes of your vid. What am I missing? Is it the MAC OS? Thanks again.
@@JohnAngelori Very much possible that it is the M1 Mac. I don't know and don't have one yet so I can't say. Maybe talk to NewTek (NDI) support and check in with the github repository of the NDI plugin. Hope those resources can help you.
Hi chris, I hope you can help, I'm trying to live stream a conversation between two other people via skype, my issue is, originally i was able to speak to them without having my audio go through the stream, now its picking up every voice and not just the one from the ndi connection, any thoughts?
This seems to be very specific to your setup. A few thoughts: - Which NDI feeds do you have selected? Do you use the "active speaker" NDI stream or the individual speaker streams? - Which Audio Input Sources do you have active? Is there a Mic source that may be picking up your mic that you can disable? - Maybe you can test this by looking at the Audio Mixer and have everybody silent and then speak to see on which Audio Source you are being picked up. So that you can isolate the issue to the specific source. And maybe, hopefully, just can remove or mute that one. Let me know how it goes 🌸.
Hey Chris, thank you for this interesting video. Very helpful! My question is > how do I separate the two ndi streams for arranging them independently within my video editing software? The recorded output would still be just one file (mkv and remuxed mp4) right? Or how can I get the 2 sources as seperate files you described. Or did I miss something?
I will create a video about this process in the future but at this point I have not done that. In general: yes, you will get just one video file when putting the two NDI sources next to each other. Now, my guess is that you would want to edit that down to one recording where you cut between the two NDI sources. The way I would do that is this: Take the video file, put it into your editing program onto a timeline, then duplicate the clip the the track above so that you have the same clip twice on your timeline. Now you simply move one over so that it is showing the second NDI source. Now you can switch between the two by simply doing a cut and either removing the top clip or disable it so that it does now show up. Hope that helps, it's relatively easy and luckily does not need any transcoding. As mentioned, I will also make a video about the process. But I am not sure when that will go live. Cheers 🌸
@@DONPTV Restarted the app and the computer? If you did that, I don't know what may be going on, it may be the best idea to look at the GitHub Repository or Forum for the OBS-NDI plugin to seek help there. I have made the experience that on macOS if you install them both, restart everything (including the computer) it should show up in the source add dropdown.
Thanks for the thought. You can use OBS to capture both participants (yourself and the other person) via NDI. So that'd be one solution. Then the alternative would be to start a Virtual Webcam from within OBS to send the screen that you are recording back to Skype as the camera. And lastly: I can actually use the Facetime Camera for example in both Skype and OBS at the same time. Are you using Windows or macOS? Maybe it has something todo with that?
@@ChrisSpiegl I'm using Windows because Skype slowly crashes on my Mac (I guess this isn't normal?). I'll try both of those options you said though. Thanks for replying.
Usually that means that some part of your network is not working or the NDI feature is not activated in the Skype settings. However, I am not the developer of any of these tools and I would contact their support teams with this kind of question. Also it would be necessary for them to know which system you are using (mac, windows, etc…). Last but not least: check if you have the latest versions installed to make sure you are up to date on everything.
thanks! i have a question , i can get audio from skype through ndi, can i send audio from obs to skype for the guest to listen for example, on the interview, if i wanna show them a clip of a video to comment, how can i do that?
I would say your best bet would be either Rogue Amoeba Loopback or something like Blackhole: rogueamoeba.com/loopback/ github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
I'm probably not going to get there soon because I have a lot of other videos I want to cover. I hope you find a resource which is helpful in fixing your setup.
Another issue I just ran into is that I have both feeds from Skype coming in. I set both transforms to be the same size (1280x720), but on the screen, one size is clearly a good 200px wider.
More specifically, I found that cropping both by 100px on both sides made one smaller even though both were set to 1280x720. I'm wondering if it's because one was coming in naturally at 720 and the other one is not.
This is excellent, you gave me exactly what I needed, however when i try to add someone to obs my voice sound bad or the the Skype caller can’t hear me because the mic is being used by obs Same goes for the camera
Hey Mr Evertz, that's not cool that Skype and OBS aren't cooperating for you. I have to say, I have not run into these issues yet so I can't make a video about it at this time. My main ideas however, running the mic into Skype and then also grabbing it form NDI may be an option? So that it doesn't get used by two applications at the same time? Other than that, you could also try to contact Skype support because they implemented the NDI feature into Skype, maybe they know workarounds. Good luck and I hope you find a good solution for your setup.
Chris Spiegl thank you for the response the issue I’m havin is probably simple,I have my OBS perfectly configured for streaming(so I think) I have done a few test on my own and it works perfectly, however when I add a call via Skype NDI my sound becomes absolutely dreadful, and I can’t figure out why.. who know if is because the mic is being used by obs and then is attempting to to be used by Skype .. please please advise
@@BenEvertz As I have mentioned before, I have not had this issue myself. I don't know what else could be going on. Please contact either the developers of Skype and their NDI integration, or talk to the people at NewTek for their NDI implementation. Sorry I can't help you much with this at this time.
@@BenEvertz just trying to mute the mic in the obs and then use the one that goes into skype and come back into obs as NDi source on the mixer board and allow monitor/output in the advanced properties,I am sure it will work
I spent about 2 hours trying to find a video chat app that would allow me to do split screen. None do. Stumbled across this video and it's exactly what I want. Unfortunately, after installing obs-ndi 4.9.0 and rebooting, in OBS, New NDI Source does not show up as an option.
@@ChrisSpiegl I'm using windows. I tried installing from the windows installer which installed the dlls and the runtime. Didn't work. I tried dling the zip and manually copied all the files, rebooted, didn't work. Tried only installing the runtime, no dice. It doesn't show up in the OBS startup log either.
@@ChrisSpiegl I figured out the issue. For some reason I have two OBS folders, one on two different hard drives. When I installed the plugin, it was going to the one hard drive that OBS was not pulling from. Installing to the other hard drive fixed the issue. Not sure why I have two OBS folders. I've only installed it once.
@@ChrisSpiegl I think it's me that's probably missing something simple, Chris. For some reason when I conduct interviews with my guests on Skype video, they always tell me they can't see me. And since they've been telling me this from the first interview over 8 months ago, I just guessed that was something I had to deal with. But now I hear from others who use Zoom mostly nowadays, that they are suppose to be able to see me. Before I make the switch to Zoom just because of that feature, I'm trying to find out if I'm missing a simple option that I haven't used since day one.
@@PrimeSportsNetwork can people see you before you start recording? Cause if not, then either you have your camera disabled (can be enabled while in call) or you have the wrong camera selected in Skype. To change that you can go to the settings and then “Audio & Video Settings”.
@@ChrisSpiegl I just checked my Skype settings and as soon as I clicked Audio & Video Settings, my face appeared from my webcam like it was working all along. I recall setting this up on day one.
Chris Spiegl Thank you for taking time to reply. I basically want to record interviews via Skype or whatever platform is best. But every tutorial I find doesn’t walk through step by step assuming a dslr will be used as a webcam to record these interviews. I want to record the interview then edit afterwards if necessary. Just to clarify, I’m sitting in one part of the world & interviewee is somewhere else. I want to conduct a video interview. Side by side screens. Download it into an editing software afterwards & put the final version on RU-vid etc. Or is there a paid version/platform that I can use which doesn’t require several programs to accomplish this? Thanks again for your reply. 🙏🏽
@@SikhBodyWarriorMotivation you can achieve something like that by using ZOOM Cloud recording OR Streamyard app. But, Zoom's video quality is terrible, and Streamyard's max quality is only 720p unfortunately. That's why I am also looking into SKype + OBS + NDI
