 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here You are watching me in OBS studio and I thought he would attempt a cool little Experiment or I guess the OBS geeks of the world might also find this cool I mentioned that I recorded over the weekend a live stream for a friend a friend who was getting married and Ended up working just fine in terms of like what they wanted to get a basic live stream up to YouTube And I had a my camcorder rigged up on a tripod Facing the wedding canopy and that was fine But I did have much more elaborate plans and once I got into thinking how many webcams I have just like lying about the place. I thought wow, this could be something pretty cool So I thought that I would just do a quick test I'm adding a bunch of different webcams to OBS and seeing how that would actually work So let me let me just sort of show you what I've rigged up here And what you're looking at now is the Logitech C930e and as you can see I'm trying to label my sources Pretty well here in OBS So I have this called the Logitech C930e and this is the webcam I'm using on a day-to-day basis when I'm doing these screencasts and whatever for YouTube It's a 1080p Logitech HD webcam and I really really like this webcam So I'm going to Give it the honor of showing the other the less the less chosen cameras So this is like a AliExpress webcam. That's also supposed to be 1080p and I got this during COVID when you could not buy webcams and I was looking for this webcam the one you're you're you're looking Watching me speak into And because I couldn't find it I gave up I ended up just buying this supposedly 1080p AliExpress camera And it does not work that well It's like very finicky if you pull it out in any way it like or you just like touch the wire Disconnect so I'm going to leave it up on that screen and Hope for the best now. This is this is sort of just to zoom out a bit so to speak This is the setup that I'm working at I've already shown this a few times on this YouTube channel kind of a three monitor array and a bit of lighting going on up there and These are the other cameras that I'm going to talk about in a second. So that was camera two And we're going to connect those in a second camera three is this random AliExpress camcorder that again before I got an actual camcorder I picked I kind of picked this thing up as a tester I like the fact is actually can record directly out It's sort of so basic that it literally just hooks up via USB to USB So that actually makes things easier and it gets this sort of nice USB Logo comes up on the screen in case you were on and under any doubt as to what was going on there. So We're at two and three Webcam four is going to be my first webcam here The first one I bought when I moved here was the Logitech C170 It's like four or five years old or maybe even six years old And it's just really bad resolution now compared to what I'm using but I've kind of kept it and now at least it's getting some sort of use in this experiment and finally we have the Canon Vixia HFR 800 and that was the one that I picked recorded the wedding on It's my camcorder, and I just picked up a HDMI to USB interface now. How is this all connected to the computer? It's kind of I use a desktop and it's just this like jumble of wires There's this USB hub. You can see the cannons coming in here. You can see I'm trying to remember what's going where this is this is actually my lab microphone that I am you're hearing me on This is two or three more of the webcams. Anyway, the stuff is rigged up in some In some manner and oh did I miss one one two three four five? No, I didn't so technically this would be a five webcam Thing if it worked one here two here three four, yeah five So let's just see. Can we pull this? Can we just get them into OBS firstly all at the same time? So here's my main webcam. I'm going to just do a bit of filtering work to Because I'm going to be trying to fit a lot of webcammage Into the same space here. So let me go 200 is 250 even 250 and I'm going to take some pixels off the top of the frame and Now that's been cropped and I can drag and drop. So that's webcam one now. Let's get webcam two so this can be the Ali express camera I Don't have a better word for it than that. I think it's this one tea. No Tiga. Okay, so that must be the That must be the one the USB camera so which one would be The Ali, okay This is Ali express because I see a lights just gone on on it and it looks to me like we are Going to need a bit of work here on the motion. I Think everything in OBS. I own needs this why you 12 It looks to me like this one is just not gonna work. It's not really gonna work out so well I have just had like I just gave up on trying to use this webcam because it just like froze As you can see I am frozen here Let's just give one last attempt trying to play around with the video format a little bit It's it's make it's blinking as if it's trying to work But it's you know, not really functioning as a webcam clearly. So that was a failure, but not on the not on the Just on the failure of being a failed camera webcam I also have two more webcams That are really really basic ones as well from Ali express that I tried to buy for IP like security stuff and Maybe another day. I'll try to get those rigged up, too. Okay, so we have well We have one in a picture, but you can see the angle would have been credibly something a little bit different I'm gonna jump into studio mode once I've got them all put in So that was a hardware error. Now we're gonna go for USB camera cam 3 and And No, I added the wrong thing. I need to add a video. Sorry. I need to add a video capture device so USB cam cam and That is the Tiga looking at my sort of t-shirts here. So let me just tilt the It's need to unlock the ball bearing So this can be kind of a super up-close Not particularly flattering right now of my face, but what can you do? Video format. Let's just see if we can improve the motion a bit with going to one another one So it looks like we can And so that can be my close-up camera. So I'm gonna call this rename it to Close up and that's just a little bit Freaking me out. So maybe let's just go like this and So that can be my close-up camera. So now now we're up to two Three webcams if that one was working and I'm just gonna leave it there in case it does come back to life You can see me from the front. You can see me from the side and now let's go So we should at least manage a four webcam setup Which would be at least something quite cool. Now. Let's try to get the Logitech C1 70 be recognized and Logitech C1 70 is it on our list? It is on the list It is on the list, but we are looks like it's having a bad bad day Logitech C1 70 I'm just gonna try and move that one over to A different because I'm thinking maybe this is just putting too much pressure on the one USB extension port. So what I'm gonna do is move it to oh Yeah, that one as well is kind of a little bit iffy I think so I'm just moving it over here to That one is full what is going in here that is that let's see where else I could potentially put this I'm gonna just put it into a USB port on the actual Computer directly on the front USB port and that can be sort of our weird back Back angle or something like that Or like looking at the looking at the sky more honestly. So there we go. So I just put that up here In fact, I can get it on I can get it on to the desk And I just might need to sort of get out of it and get into it again here. So let's just try that video capture device Logitech C1 70 and do we have we have a feed we do have a feed. So let me just take off the privacy filter and You can see me again So this is another one. Why don't we just vary this up a bit by putting this guy The USB one kind of like to the right. So that one's to the left. That's to the right Seeing as the Ali express camera is not being compliant Right. So now we have how many webcams do we currently have going we have This is the Logitech C1 70 here in red. Then we have the Ali express cam is not doing anything But I I'm gonna give it one last try Ali cam and Ali cam is Tiga. I believe no, it's HD webcamer Okay, it's kind of come back again. At least we're getting some motion this time I could just leave it here. It's like sort of a Not really doing much in the way of motion Let's just go for that. So we have now Logitech C9 30e. We have the I'm just gonna wave Yeah, that's the USB camera here Then the Ali cam is here on the side Then we have finally the Logitech C1 70 and now we just need to get the Vixia. So we're already at four webcams So four four of me here speaking and let's finally try to get Vixia HF 800 which should be coming into the computer through the Through the HDMI to USB capture device I have a feeling What just happened there? Where's that guy gone? I have a feeling this one's not gonna work because it was really buggy Trying to get it to work at the wedding I think this one should be the Vixia, but it looks like it's not working out for me So again, bogeyness could be just due to the hardware. I'm using I guess Let's just make sure that it is indeed connected. It is indeed connected into the Into the hub, but again, let me just think that perhaps it's just the hub is The hub is potentially just being overwhelmed by all these simultaneous connections to it. So let's try get it from the Just plug that into the computer can in and it should be listed under. I think USB video. There we go Yay, so that's working now, too So let's just get this up here and I do remember that in order to get this to work Properly, I need to change to why you 12 emulated now. We've got that Motion has been fixed and you can see me at my computer So there we go. We have now got five webcams in OBS simultaneously and Yeah, this is pretty cool I must say you can see there's motion and all of them clearly the Aliexpress camera is struggling More than any of the other cameras and in terms of my best cameras in terms of quality The best two would be the one you're looking at here the scene see C930e and the Vixia would also be good. So we've got two good webcams now How could we use this ridiculous setup? Well, if I went into studio mode, let's say and I could go for Let's say if you took the C930e And we took off that crop filtering I'm also going to take the crop off the Sorry, there should be no crop on that. So I'm just going to go and put this into full sized So I'm going to go transform and put that to control F I'm just using the buttons this time as opposed to doing the other things and I'm just going to turn off Layer that above the other ones and I can just cut across there and I can even do a little recording Let's just do a test recording start recording So I'm recording with my Logitech C930e and I'm beginning the broadcast and I'm talking about the Interesting things that happened in my day and now I want to cut across to the the other one And I just need to quickly make all these things full size and we're going to be doing an unboxing video today So let's just quickly point this camera fees into my desk And we should be able to see The desk and let's just pretend we're doing it unboxing and you've heard enough of me there We're going to cut so now we've cut across to the unboxing I'm doing the unboxing video here. Let's just pretend in our imaginary world and Now it looks like I've somehow disconnected this the main camera So we are down here. We are down a camera, but never to mind. I can now go to Cut across to this one, which is the USB camera I believe close-up camera. I'm going to put that guy up to fit the screen to and just layer him above and now I'm just going to fade across to this close-up camera and This is all starting to look very weird. So I'm going to now Go back to the 930 if it's back up. It's not back up So I'm going to put Vixia up on top and I'm going to hide just hide all the other sources What's happened to Vixia? Vixia is down too. We're having so many glitches here, but in any event you can sort of see that we did succeed in putting together this dizzying array That is the Vixia is right here. So we did succeed in putting together a Five connecting five cameras into OBS simultaneously, which is pretty cool I think and of course we could just use multiple cameras in the broadcast if I wanted to push this kind of close-up camera Whereas close-up close-up here if I wanted to just kind of Resize myself and put this a bit more into center and then I can fade across to this kind of you know video of me Maniculating speaking to the camera here a little bit. Well, I'm also you can see my hands working away on my computer and I'm just going to stop the recording here and just sort of see if that indeed Rendered and let's just see if we go into OBS, it should be the last OBS video. I'm just going to show you now How that looked That was when the camera froze here, but we got across to OBS More messing around with these controls swapped over to the close-up and then hopefully we got the Close-up here with me into the close-up. So that was it Interesting experiment. I hope managed to succeed succeeded in connecting Simultaneously five different camcorders into OBS studio So five different webcams one camcorder over a HDMI to USB capture device and four USB webcams So I guess just to say that it is possible and you can connect this many simultaneous Webcams into OBS studio if you want to do that Thank you guys for watching and if you'd like to subscribe to this YouTube channel Then click on the subscribe button and until the next video You