How to capture Zoom with OBS

Zoom is a great way to bring your speakers together in one place. However you can't brand your live stream experience with Zoom.

Capturing your Zoom meeting with OBS is a great way to enhance the visual appearance for your live stream, as you can add backgrounds, videos and musics.

Tip: Have you considered using SpotMe Studio for your live sessions? More information on helping you choose the right streaming option.

Capture your Zoom meeting with OBS

This tutorial will describe how to capture Zoom with OBS:

Production configuration guide

Please follow the below steps to set up your system to capture Zoom with OBS: 

Step1: Launch your Zoom meeting:
- If you are hosting: Launch your Zoom meeting host from a dedicated support laptop.
- Join your Zoom meeting from the production laptop as a guest.
- Join your Zoom meeting with your personal laptop as a guest.

Step 2: Configure your Zooms:
- Rename your users to make sense (for example: SpotMe - Host, SpotMe - Production, SpotMe YOURNAME).
- Make the production laptop and personal laptop as co-hosts.
- On the Zoom host, enable “Allow users to share when someone else is sharing”
- On the Zoom host, disable “Sound when people walk in/out”
- On the Zoom host, set “Mute participants upon entry”.

Step 3: Configure your windows:
- Share slides from your personal laptop
- Set Zoom as full screen one screen.
- Open the participants panel, click on top left arrow, select “Pop up window”, and move it to the monitor screen.
- Open the participants panel, click on top left arrow, select “Pop up window”, and move it to the monitor screen.
- If you want to separate the window (not working with Side-by-Side mode): move the speaker cameras window to the bottom right of monitor screen, below OBS.

Step 4: Configure your sound:
- On Zoom, set your mic to “Cable Output (VB-Audio)”.
- On Zoom, set your speakers to your main speakers (for example: “Speakers (Synaptics Audio)”).
- On OBS, go to Settings > Audio, and set “Desktop audio” to the same speaker as above (for example: “Speakers (Synaptics Audio)”).
- Turn off the volume on the computer.

Step 5: On OBS, re-crop your display/window captures accordingly (see the video tutorial above).

Stream OBS live to SpotMe

Watch this tutorial to see how to live stream your OBS configuration to SpotMe via RTMPS.