 Hi there, welcome back to my youtube channel. This is Daniel Rose here So I going to be doing a little experiment today or a demo of how to do this getting a zoom Guest into an OBS recording using a bunch of Linux now. I always say this at the start of my videos I'm gonna say it one more time nevertheless. This is not necessarily the very best way to do this This is a way to do this and there may be other ways there may be Many other ways, but this is something that I've set up and got working and therefore I wanted to do a demo So here we go. The crazy crazy setup you're about to witness is me Here's what I rigged up. I took a teddy bear. I'm not joking I actually took a teddy bear and I positioned him in front of my laptop just to demo this now The purpose of the RGB light is so that we can see that the video feed works and the purpose of the so he's he the teddy bear the laptop in front of the teddy bear is It's playing like Audio clips from the YouTube library that should be you know copyright free and therefore not create problems for it for me So that is the setup. That's the testing setup. I have going on now. Here's what I've done in terms of getting this into OBS So here's my second OBS. Here is my OBS control panel or the one the second one and Let me actually roll a back of it here So the first thing you want to do there's a couple of things You're going to need to change an OBS in order to get this working as you would expect firstly in Video settings towards the bottom see myself as the active speaker while speaking you want to turn that off And the reason is that if it's on it's going to you see now because I'm speaking it's going to keep flicking back to you So you want to turn that off. I also tick ticked on high non video participants Next under audio now this test speaker button is actually really really useful for testing an OBS, and I'll show you why in a second it's picking up my lap mic as the input and I'm rooting the output through analog stereo built-in audio analog stereo now Whatever way you root You are built-in Audio analog stereo is going to be significant because that's what you're going to have to make sure is being piped Into your OBS. So here's what I'd recommend doing is going into your pulse audio volume control panel. I'm just going to try clean up for a second here and Firstly, I always recommend, you know muting the mic whatever mics you're not using this is me speaking here on the lap mic and Looks like you could use tiny tiny bit of a nudge up in fact Here's me speaking on the lap mic and the level for the built monitor of built-in Audio analog stereo. So what you can do is to test this is working Use the test speaker functionality and now you can see that level on the top bouncing up to see the built-in monitor built-in Audio so now we know. Okay. The zoom audio is working now We're just trying to capture this playback from our sloth toy Looking into a laptop for playback to zoom make sure it's attached to this make sure the levels are okay and This should have us kind of more or less good to go. So let me just go back to zoom to yeah to OBS over here So this is how I would have it set up I have my lab mic as the source and that is so that I can hear me speaking But I want to then capture separately the guest audio. That's going to be zoom audio And just unmute that for a second and in order to test that it is working Go ahead and use the zoom testing functionality So it's going to go settings and go to Test speaker now you can see the levels are a little too high even okay So that's how you just test that now. I'm not sure it's actually really picking up the audio from the stuffed animal, but I Can even just leave that on in fact for the for the test and then we'll see if we get the audio from the other side But the video is there now to get the video. I'm going to just now you could do window capture and Just get the zoom window. I Did not have such success here because I don't know. There's like a bunch of windows and I Haven't really learned this aspect of OBS very well yet. So what I did instead Was simply captured the screen zoom screen and I just went for the one zooms on now what I did here was Went into or go into full screen mode Now we're in full screen mode and whoops. I need to get us actually over to this screen here view full screen mode, okay now And you can see I'm in studio mode. So just a little bit of cropping necessary here We're not getting much in the way of audio from the zoom audio, but I'm just going to play it for a second so that you can hear it Okay Now what I need to know what I want to do here is to just do a bit of cropping So I went for a zoom screen and I just cropped You know, I got this minimized so that that's like out of the way of this or even up to the top And you can see in the full screen view There's like some zoom UI text that you wouldn't want to capture. So I just did my cropping and got it out And therefore I can just move my zoom video guest over somewhere like this Now I can't do my webcam because it's in use But you get the idea my webcam could be here zoom is here now. I've got his zoom audio And now just to demonstrate how this would work You're listening to maybe you can hear the audio coming in from the other end of this zoom call I can see a tiny bit of level shifting, but nothing really that significant So it will be it will be definitely more audible if I do the testing feature So we're going into zoom Audio settings and again just use this test speaker tool Now we can hear that So that's basically the methodology that I figured out for getting a guest into a zoom call Just to kind of clarify what was going on there besides the kind of wackiness with the teddy bear the video was Sorry, I was recording my microphone source as one audio channel in OBS I was piping zoom to the built-in audio and then I added and this is the important bit that I hope I emphasize Add an output device audio output device for built-in analog stereo add that to your OBS That channel is going to be your guest audio You're going to be on the main audio and then just add a screen where you have your guest on I did a bit of cropping so that the Stuff that's naturally in zoom wouldn't be there The guests could hear me through because I'm using the same microphone source And the final thing I need to do would be to hear what the guest is saying While recording the screencast, I'd need something like a little earplug something discreet that you wouldn't see Because if I did play it through speakers, you'd be getting feedback. So that's basically it I did just do a test of this with a real person who doesn't want to be on this YouTube channel But not particularly hard to get going There weren't any Virtual audio cables or anything complicated or coding required to set this up And if you do want to practice this at home, then If you do feel like doing something wacky get your stuff toy stick an RGB light up there to clarify That you're getting the video feed. This is the uncropped version by the way that you're seeing now and then what you need to do is just go ahead and patch in the video and audio sources and you're good to go basically so audio from Audio one microphone audio to whatever you patch to zoom through to put them together in OBS Put your webcam in OBS Push the window or the screen zoom is on an OBS with the right cropping and that way you should be able to get a Zoom interview recorded or streamed using OBS even if you're on a bunch of thanks for watching If you'd like to get more videos feel free to subscribe