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I've been trying to find a way to easily use my green screen outside Zoom.

Have been tinkering with OBS: https://www.rightpoint.com/thought/2017/12/19/improving-your..., https://streamshark.io/blog/chroma-key-software-live-streami...

I'm looking for an actively-developed macOS virtual webcam tool, as CamTwist's website is showing a PHP error, and their Mac software doesn't seem to be notarized: http://camtwiststudio.com.

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Last week, HN's front-page featured "Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera" [0] that ended up generating an RFC. [1]

You might find some encouraging and helpful information there, if you haven't seen those links already.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022

[1] https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15

Thank you!!

I too am looking for a virtual cam. Have been for a long time.

ManyCam is an option, though I'm not really sure how reliable/performant.

You can try out the free version, seems ok. I was worried about it being sketchy, but it looks like it's from a team in Canada.

I'm not sure if it's true but I love the notion that Canadians are inherently better developers than the rest of the world.

I didn't mean to suggest they're better developers per se, but there's very little malware that comes out of Canada so with limited information about the trustworthiness of this application it might be inherently less sketchy than camera/mic capture software that comes out of some other countries. That said, they are in Quebec. :D

>I was worried about it being sketchy,

It's not sketchy, it's just aimed at, well, pro cammers. Or at least used to be.

Now that we're all camming, we're all in the target audience.

This. Just a few days ago I wasted a few hours playing with OBS, CamTwist, and a few other "chroma key capable apps"... all with no luck... Zoom's built in beats them all....

What I really would like to do is have my green screen capabiity regardless of the video conference app (e.g. Facetime, FB, etc)...

I ran into the issue with syphon and Camtwist... and I gave up :)

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