I have been trying to set up and use OBS to make videos as well as capcut to edit . I am confusing myself . I can make my tutorial video all in capcut . Is that correct ?
If you want to record your screen and your face at the same time, you'll need a video recording tool. OBS is fine for that. CapCut is an editor, but not a video recorder. You can record a voiceover in CapCut, but it doesn't record video. Using OBS as the video recorder to make a screen + camera video, where you appear as a picture-in-picture, you have 3 options: 1) Setup your scene in OBS so that your camera occupies a small portion of the screen. The background from the camera video will be visible (unless you get into some more complicated and less reliable stuff) and it won't be in a circle or a cutout, nor will you have the ability to make it that way in editing. 2) Set your resolution in OBS to 3840 x 1080 which will give you enough room to have both your recorded screen and your camera recording side by side. Then, in your editor, duplicate the recorded video and crop one in half showing just your screen and the other in half showing just your camera. 3) Create 2 scenes in OBS - one with your screen as the video source (and computer audio as an audio source if you want), and one with your camera as the video source and microphone as the audio source. When it's time to record, open 2 instances of OBS, one with scene of your screen, one with the scene of your camera and mic. Hit record on one and then the other. This will create 2 separate recordings. They will be slightly out of sync, since you can't hit "start recording" in both instances of OBS at exactly the same time. You'll be able to line that up in editing and, for presenting over a screen tutorial, I don't find it to be an issue. I hope this helped. P.S. I confuse myself regularly, so you're not alone. 😊
Oh yeah, it always looks and sounds easy... Then everything that could go sideways does. But it gets easier with each little obstacle you encounter and figure out.
I have not found an automated way to do that yet. I think you would have to manually cut the clip between each speaker change, then apply one style to the clips where speaker A is talking and another style to the clips of speaker B. Assuming you don't have separate audio files for each speaker.
I edited it entirely in capcut. But, I started with 2 video files: one of my face and one of my screen. I used OBS to record those two video files. Capcut does not have a built-in video recorder. Some video editors do have a built-in video recorder that will capture your screen and your camera simultaneously. Camtasia, Descript, and I think PowerDirector still does that. I've used all of them. Others may as well. I've had Camtasia spontaneously stop recording without me realizing it and wasted a lot of time, and the editor gets really slow (in my experience) after I make more than a few edits. I still use Descript sometimes to record (can't beat the ability to edit by transcript... that part is great for a first cut to get rid of bad takes and long silences, but then I need a more capable editor so it's off to capcut), but that particular day, Descript wasn't picking up my camera so I went with OBS.
It's simple, but tricky! Once you have the mask over the picture of you, centered and sized the way you want it, you have to click back to the Video-Basic tab on the upper right. Otherwise it stays in mask mode and you can't move or resize the thing.
Yes, within the Mask properties (the spot where you select Circle as your mask type) is where you set the size and position of the circle, in relation to your face. If you start with a video of you where your face is full-size in the center of the screen, that's OK, just make the masked circle proportionate and centered around your face - even if the circle and your face are still huge, you're just getting the relationship right in this step. Once the face is in the right place inside the circle and the size of the circle in relation to the face is good, then switch back to the vide-basic tab and resize and reposition the now-masked circle and face on the screen.
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I have been trying to set up and use OBS to make videos as well as capcut to edit . I am confusing myself . I can make my tutorial video all in capcut . Is that correct ?
If you want to record your screen and your face at the same time, you'll need a video recording tool. OBS is fine for that. CapCut is an editor, but not a video recorder. You can record a voiceover in CapCut, but it doesn't record video.
Using OBS as the video recorder to make a screen + camera video, where you appear as a picture-in-picture, you have 3 options:
1) Setup your scene in OBS so that your camera occupies a small portion of the screen. The background from the camera video will be visible (unless you get into some more complicated and less reliable stuff) and it won't be in a circle or a cutout, nor will you have the ability to make it that way in editing.
2) Set your resolution in OBS to 3840 x 1080 which will give you enough room to have both your recorded screen and your camera recording side by side. Then, in your editor, duplicate the recorded video and crop one in half showing just your screen and the other in half showing just your camera.
3) Create 2 scenes in OBS - one with your screen as the video source (and computer audio as an audio source if you want), and one with your camera as the video source and microphone as the audio source. When it's time to record, open 2 instances of OBS, one with scene of your screen, one with the scene of your camera and mic. Hit record on one and then the other. This will create 2 separate recordings. They will be slightly out of sync, since you can't hit "start recording" in both instances of OBS at exactly the same time. You'll be able to line that up in editing and, for presenting over a screen tutorial, I don't find it to be an issue.
I hope this helped.
P.S. I confuse myself regularly, so you're not alone. 😊
@@excelerator when I watch tutorials it looks easy , then I try it and grrrrrrr. Thank you for the detailed answer . I know I am taking up your time .
Oh yeah, it always looks and sounds easy... Then everything that could go sideways does. But it gets easier with each little obstacle you encounter and figure out.
Great video. How did you transition yourself from large to small in the frame them back to large at the end of your video?
Thanks! I used key frames to zoom myself out and then in. Working on a video for that now.
Thank you! Great video.
Glad you liked it!
About video reaction mashup, can I remove the original video and replace with another video?
Is there anyway to make words changing color along with the speaker for transcript subtitles in Capcut?
I have not found an automated way to do that yet. I think you would have to manually cut the clip between each speaker change, then apply one style to the clips where speaker A is talking and another style to the clips of speaker B. Assuming you don't have separate audio files for each speaker.
You have yourself narrating ( real time movement cutout) on the lower left of the screen . Did you do this whole video in capcut only ?
I edited it entirely in capcut. But, I started with 2 video files: one of my face and one of my screen. I used OBS to record those two video files. Capcut does not have a built-in video recorder.
Some video editors do have a built-in video recorder that will capture your screen and your camera simultaneously. Camtasia, Descript, and I think PowerDirector still does that. I've used all of them. Others may as well.
I've had Camtasia spontaneously stop recording without me realizing it and wasted a lot of time, and the editor gets really slow (in my experience) after I make more than a few edits.
I still use Descript sometimes to record (can't beat the ability to edit by transcript... that part is great for a first cut to get rid of bad takes and long silences, but then I need a more capable editor so it's off to capcut), but that particular day, Descript wasn't picking up my camera so I went with OBS.
how do you make your face bigger or smaller once it's inside the circle?
It's simple, but tricky! Once you have the mask over the picture of you, centered and sized the way you want it, you have to click back to the Video-Basic tab on the upper right. Otherwise it stays in mask mode and you can't move or resize the thing.
@@excelerator but you can’t make the circle one size and your face another independently.
Yes, within the Mask properties (the spot where you select Circle as your mask type) is where you set the size and position of the circle, in relation to your face. If you start with a video of you where your face is full-size in the center of the screen, that's OK, just make the masked circle proportionate and centered around your face - even if the circle and your face are still huge, you're just getting the relationship right in this step. Once the face is in the right place inside the circle and the size of the circle in relation to the face is good, then switch back to the vide-basic tab and resize and reposition the now-masked circle and face on the screen.