Use Your iPad as a Whiteboard (Ecamm & OBS) 

Its delightful seeing someone so passionate and excited with her own content, and yes, I need this information, thank you, Cat

this video popped up months ago when I was first trying to figure out how to use my iPad as a white board and at the time I thought I don't need all this I just wanna John madden on my zoom meetings. Here I am months later with the teleprompter, white board set up, full ecamm, dummy monitors and lions and tigers and bears oh my! great content as always you are a gem out there for reals.

Love your series- so do a great job walking us through

Excellent Cat thank you - I’ll try this today

thanks for the tutorial. I love your smile 👍🏻😊

Cat! This is awesome for presentations with Keynote on the iPad!!!!!

Great info. Thanks 👊

This is priceless. Thank you!

Can’t wait for the NDI video too Cat - you’re awesome

Amazing! Thanks so much

Very pleasant and informative !!! Loved the presentation, I totally absorbed and put into practice what I gained from your tutorial within minutes… Great Job !

Oh my god this is brilliant. My students are going to really like this!

The way you present is awesome 👍👍👍👍

Cat I really love your videos, they reinvigorated what I was doing when I first started doing regular zoom meetings. I hadn’t considered doing custom graphics built in Keynote until seeing your video though. I watch lots of your videos multiple times now and they have been very helpful. So Thank You very much! Now I have been using CamTwist which has worked very well for me as a virtual camera used with Zoom Meetings. OBS wasn’t as is to install until they updated so you could install to MacOS easily. So I’ve downloaded that to try out. The using the iPad as a Whiteboard is something I have been looking to do, and potential solved a problem I was trying to solve to create an easy Glassboard videos. I have run into a problem in that iPad connected via USB to my Mac, the whiteboard is mirrored the webcam video is not mirrored, which means anything I write on the iPad is showing up backwards in the Preview. I use Quicktime (set to Movie Recording mode) to mirror the iPad, but Quicktime Flip horizontal is grayed out, and CamTwist doesn’t allow me to flip the iPad screen. Did you run into the problem of the written text on the whiteboard showing up backwards? if so how did you solve the problem?

Excellent video.

Great video, Cat! I really appreciate learning how to do this :) Just wanted to give a shout out to Notability as well. I use it a lot for my digital note taking, it has similar shape tools and straight line snap etc like Goodnotes does. Thanks!

Very useful.

This was inspiring at first and frustating after sucessive failures and convincing that this wouldn't work with my ipad and macbook, then exciting again when this worked with my old linux desktop from 2012 and obs! Thanks for the motivation and nice way to present. Looking for some open source note taking software for iPad. Any ideas? Best, Alexandre

This is so helpful! How did you do the green in GoodNotes? (I'm using Notability but I suppose it's similar.) Do you import a PDF? Or can you use a hex code to color the "paper"?

hi - great video. I've just tried this using Procreate too and it works well with green set as the background layer. Now I just need to learn to be able to write neatly..

Love it! How do you make the background green like that in GoodNotes? I only see the option for white, yellow, or black.

Fantastic!

Amazing Cat. 😉 Is there any way to control the opacity of the letters?

Lots of great info here, but I really would like to see this in a more chronological order? Like, “do this first, here’s how” and so on. I feel like I missed some basic setup stuff, I.e. how to add my main camera if it’s a DSLR or whatever.

Cat, thanks for the useful video and tips. Questions: how do you actually show comments from the chat? Also, how would you (and could you) do this with an ATEM M8ni Pro (which I use,) and are either ecamm or OBS necessary if I have the ATEM to do what you shared ? I have my iPad into the ATEM as another camera HDM I input)

Hi! Great video! Does this work with an android tablet?

You are so beautiful and have a beautiful voice. ❤

What do you think of Zoom's new and improved Whiteboard solution as compared to whiteboarding on iPad via OBS/Ecamm? I've found it's pretty easy to Zoom into a meeting with my iPad and use my Apple Pencil to with the Zoom Whiteboard, Notes or Procreate. Maybe not as profesh for mostly one-way training engagements, but super fast and easy for collaboration.

You are beautiful 😍😍😍 I loved you!!!

Any idea of how to add virtual pencil📝 to looks like your drive you back of you screen? PS: the pencil may appear(zoom in) when you actually touch the screen.

Thank you. Could you please share where I can download NDI HX Capture? I can't find it on the app Store on my iPad. Thank you 😊

You can change pen thickness in keynote besides having multiple choices of pen, pencil, crayon.

Hope you see this since this video was 2 years ago. lol. Do you know if there’s an OBS equivalent for the iPad? Like to be able to use the iPad like my Mac. Record from a second screen, the whole enchilada.

Hi @cat, Is it possible to use iPad Concepts app?

Cat you nailed this. D’you think it can work with Evernote too? Is Goodnotes an Evernote competitor?

How did you get Chroma Key color in Good Notes? I only see the 3 default colors. Thanks!

Keynote is on my iPad. Power Point has white screen. Notability has white board. GoodNote has shapes, colours, hdmi cord,

This is amazing but I was not able to do it for some reason. I have M1 Max and connected to 2021 Ipad pro but not showing up on obs as camera for some reason. I have connected my macbook with ipad just regulard type c to type cable. Maybe you could help?

This just dropped into my feed... what has changed since it was made, would you still use the same tools and process?

Hi Cat, do you have a video showing how you bring up the comments? that is really pro looking

"Let me tell you how to use a whiteboard in your stream. First, you're going to want to make sure that the stream you're in is [one where you would want to use a whiteboard]." I'm going to guess that is the case for everyone who clicked on the video :)

Hi Ms. Cat, may i just ask if your are using a laptop and IPAD is connected as a whiteboard. Thank you.

If you don’t mind mirroring the screen, ndi screen capture works wirelessly without needing any dongles.

Cat, I appreciate your tutorials, many thanks. I'm teaching classes from a windows pc using OBS as a virtual camera and I want to use my ipad and MS whiteboard but I can seems to get the thing set up. Would you have any suggestions? Thx Eoin

Can use charging cable to desktop and it becomes a camera!

Cute

I use notability

Cannot add my iPad (Mini) as a device in OBS (Mac). Do I need to install an app or configure something?

Do you have a video explaining how you do your countdown timer or is it an Ecamm thing specifically (I use OBS)

I have question - I do not seem to be able to connect my IPAD via the USB to my PC and have it show up in OBS. What am I missing ?

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Hi Cat, this is Caleb. I have an iPad 12 and I connect it to my pc with a usb cord. Unfortunately, OBS isn’t picking it up as a device. Do I need extra software? I’d love to use NDI HX Capture, but it won’t work with an iPad 12

Hi Cat, first time trying to set all this up and your name was recommended to me. (Located in Australia so you're truly global!). Have subscribed just now. Q. Virtual Camera - for Windows machine? (It wasnt clear to me (as a beginner sorry) in watching your video why you were using both eCamm and OBS? I believe you said eCamm is apple only.... Is OBS the equivalent on Windows?) I have an iPad, but the only bit of Apple kit we own. Otherwise Android and Microsoft across the board. I really like the concept of drawing on the ipad though as you demo'd. Also - I dont believe you explained what the other end of the hdmi was plugged into?..... I think you said a 'dock'?? My business would likely involve zoom presentations and likely often two presenters. Can one be talking while the other one draws? I'd be interested to understand if you think two presenters offers a particular complication.... we'd like to avoid having to purchase multiple software/devices where this can be avoided. Thanks!

Tell me camera that you are using

I use my iPad on ZOOM together with Noteshelf 5

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So if I use GoodNotes on the iPad I can't use the iPad to show a Keynote at the same time?

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Mam you are so preemptive

personally, I think OBS is way better than Ecam, and probably always will be, it has a lot more functionality than Ecam

Pity this was not a shoter video, I lost interest after 5 minutes

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