With all the talk lately about Canon releasing updates to enable their cameras to be used as webcams, I decided to venture on a science experiment. I have a Sony RX-100 IV, an absolutely amazing camera that is just sitting idle. So decided to try and figure out whats involved in getting it to work as a webcam, and I was able to get it to work on both Windows and Mac. Here is how I got it done:

Tools Needed

Windows

• Micro USB Cable
• OBS Studio found here
• Sony Imaging Edge Desktop Suite found here
• OBS Virtual Cam found here

Mac

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• Micro USB Cable
• Camtwist Virtualcam software found here
• Sony Imaging Edge Desktop Suite found here

Configuring The Camera

Before connecting the camera to your PC or MAC, go to settings and under Tools, make sure “USB Connection” is set to “PC Remote”. Also when you connect the camera to the computer, make sure you set the camera to “manual” mode for the RX100. I noticed that if its set to any other mode, Live View will not work. You can change the mode once you kick off Live View in manual mode.

Configuration on Windows

Before you get started, make sure you install Sony Imaging Edge Desktop and the Remote app within the suite.

Install OBS Studio.

Now install the OBS Virtual Webcam plugin. Once you’ve installed all three apps, connect your camera to your computer via USB (using a data cable) and launch the Remote app. Once you launch the app, you will see your camera in the list below. Double click your camera and it will launch live view. If you dont see the option, try a different cable.

Now launch OBS Studio. Under “sources”, click the “+” sign.

Choose “Window Capture”, choose “Create New” and give it a name. Click “OK”

On the next screen, choose the following and click “OK”

• “[remote.exe]” for “window”, set
• “Automatic” for “capture method”
• “Match title, otherwise find window of same type” for “window match priority”

You should see the following screen

You should now adjust the borders by holding “Alt” and adjusting the borders with your mouse such that only the video is selected as shown below.

Now in OBS Studio, click on VirtualCam within the “Tools” menu. Make sure the “Start” button is greyed out and that “Autostart” is checked.

Configuration is complete at this stage. Keep in mind that you should not minimize the Remote app while the webcam is running. You should also not resize the window for the Remote app.

Now go into the collaboration tool of your choice and you should see an option to choose “OBS-Camera” as your webcam. Below is my configuration in GoToMeeting. This will also work on Zoom, Skype and Teams.

Configuration On Mac

Helvetica neue condensed free mac. Similar to Windows, install Sony Imaging Edge Desktop and install the “Remote” app.

Install “Camtwist” from the link above and launch the app. Double click Desktop+ as the source and configure the settings as shown in the screenshot below. Click select capture area and select the video portion from the remote app. Click on “Save setup” and give it a name.

Configuration is complete at this point. Camtwist will be available as a webcam in your collaboration tool. Here is Skype as an example.

Based on my testing, the functionality seems more stable on Windows. On my mac, the Remote app occassionally pegs the CPU and crashes. This could also be due to the fact that my mac is older hardware as compared to my Surface Book 2.

Hope this was helpful! Do post feedback based on your testing!

Omni Overlay (On-Screen)

The Muxy Overlay displays multiple apps that can be accessed via a toolbar that allow viewers to interact with a stream.

When their mouse is over the Twitch player, viewers will see a small toolbar on the player that controls the various interactive apps. Viewers can reposition the on-screen overlay elements, interact with them and toggle them on and off at their discretion.

Click Map

How To Connect Spotify To Obs For Macbook Pro

Viewers’ clicks on the Twitch player are aggregated and then displayed as a heat map.

Clicks will be rendered in a provided visualization URL as a browser source. Clicks will disappear over time.

A good example of a way to use this in a broadcast is to see if viewers can collectively draw a specified image by clicking on the screen.

Confetti

Viewers can impact the stream directly by spawning confetti and eventually other fun particle effects that will be aggregated and then rendered in a provided visualization URL as a browser source. Your visualization URL is found in the Overlay section of Twitch Extensions Manager of your Twitch Dashboard. The URL supports Confetti and Click Map.

Viewers can send confetti whenever they want and as frequently as they want and this will only display over the senders video player. The confetti explosion will fire after reaching a threshold (and no more frequently than once per minute) and will display on the visualization URL in OBS, displaying the explosion effect in the video stream for all viewers to see. As a broadcaster you can simply hide the visualization browser source to hide the confetti.

You can encourage viewers to use confetti to celebrate your wins or welcome new subscribers.

Feels Meter

Viewers can express themselves easily with a simple and configurable binary gauge that acts as a voting mechanism.

Viewers can vote by clicking on the on-screen buttons. The gauge will display the average user sentiment over the video player for viewers and on the Twitch Dashboard for the broadcaster. The alternate gauge mode displays cheermotes instead of the dial to represent the current cheer average.

Broadcasters can make the Feels Meter pop up on viewers screens from the Twitch Dashboard. Viewers can open and close the meter at their discretion and the meter will close itself if the viewer doesn’t vote within 10 seconds.

You can use this during your stream to conduct a vote or ask a yes/no questions, such as “should I switch games now?”

Globe

Viewers from around the world can check in on an animated globe that displays all viewer entered locations as pins sticking out of the globe. Broadcasters may wipe out the location pins from the Twitch Live Dashboard to reset the globe.

You can use this during your stream to ask chat where they are watching from and see your geographic reach.

Lupinball

Lupinball (http://craftven.com/#!/games/lupinball) is a 2-4 player arcade deathmatch about shooting magic fireballs at your foes, and being the last one standing!

The Lupinball Overlay app displays:

• The name of each player in the game
• The number of rounds each player has won.
• The picture of the werewolf character profile
• A button to vote for a player.
• The total number of votes a player has received.

Polls

The Polls Overlay app allows broadcasters to display polls over the player. Broadcasters can create, view, and delete polls from the Twitch Dashboard and display them on the channel page. Viewers can view on-screen polls and vote by clicking on the poll choices. Poll results are visible after voting. Viewers can vote once per poll.

Now Playing

Pretzel is built from the ground up with streamers in mind. Pretzel curates a catalog of music that’s specifically licensed to be used while streaming.

The Now Playing app allows viewers to display the name of the current track in the broadcaster’s Pretzel music player on demand on their own screen.

A Pretzel account and either form of their music player (web or desktop) will be needed to use the Pretzel: Now Playing Overlay app. Pretzel is a music player that you can use on Twitch without fear of muted vods.

You can access the Pretzel web player here: https://app.pretzel.rocks/login or you can use the Windows desktop client, which you can grab here: https://download.pretzel.rocks/PretzelDesktop.exe.

Viewers can discover what track you’re currently playing without the need for a chat bot!

Spotify

Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.

The Spotify Overlay app allows viewers to display the name of the current track playing in the broadcaster’s Spotify client on demand on their own screen.

A Spotify account and either form of their music player (web or desktop) will be needed to use the Spotify Overlay app. The Muxy Ticker is also required to make the Spotify Overlay app work.

Muxy Ticker is available after logging in here: https://u.muxy.io/dashboard/ticker

You can access the Spotify web player here: https://play.spotify.com/ or you can use the Windows desktop client, which you can grab here: https://www.spotify.com/us/download.

Viewers can discover what track you’re currently playing without the need for a chat bot or having to tell every viewer that asks what song you are playing!

Steps to connect Spotify to the overlay app:

Capture Spotify Music Obs

1. Download the Muxy Ticker here: https://u.muxy.io/dashboard/ticker
2. Install and run the Muxy Ticker. Sign into the Muxy Ticker.
3. Activate the spotify integration on the integrations tab on the Muxy Ticker.
4. Sign into to the same spotify account that you will be playing music from.
5. Go to your Extensions manager and install and activate the Muxy overlay.
6. Configure the Overlay extension and enable the Spotify app.
7. Now start Spotify and it should connect!

Troubleshooting methods:

Spotify Into Obs

• Uninstall and reinstall the Muxy Ticker.

Leaderboard (Panel)

The Leaderboard interactive panel displays a Cheer leaderboard that dynamically updates lists of your top 6 all-time, monthly (past 30 days), weekly (past 7 days), and session cheerers.

Spotify Through Obs

The leaderboard can be moderated from the Twitch Dashboard where the broadcaster can choose to show/hide the names of individual cheerers. The Muxy Leaderboard is more accurate if you have a Muxy account. Create a Muxy account here: http://muxy.io