Your side by side camera for streaming and video content creation might already be in your pocket.

Yes, it is possible to utilise a smartphone as a webcam. Wrote a guide in the past on how to do that using Elgato Screen Link. While that solution is still valid if you need to screen capture off your phone, I've recently discovered a improve manner to use it every bit a webcam that negates most of the input delay. Hither's how you tin quickly gear up your phone as a camera in a affair of minutes!

1. Go to the iOS App Store or Google Play and search for "EpocCam".

[Notation: Looks similar Corsair bought EpocCam and removed the Android version from Google Play? That really sucks if this solution doesn't work for Android anymore, especially since it already worked there. Hopefully Corsair addresses this before long!]

There is a complimentary version just called "EpocCam" and a paid version called "EpocCam Pro". The free version caps out at a resolution of 480. The paid version ($7.99 USD) unlocks resolutions upwardly to 1080p and 30fps while also allowing you lot to use your phone's microphone. Grab the free version starting time. If y'all like how it works and yous demand the features behind the paywall, and then catch the paid version and follow the same steps to set it upward.

2. Install the EpocCam software for Windows or Mac, depending on which type of computer yous have.

three. Open up EpocCam on your phone and open the software you desire to employ EpocCam in. For this example, I'm using OBS. Add a new video source and label it any yous'd like. Under "Device", select EpocCam Camera.

If you have the gratis version, you lot're simply about done! Set the camera within your scene where you lot want it to get and yous've officially completed setup. If you bought the full version, here are some extra steps to become you gear up up.

4. When you buy the paid version, it will still default to 480 resolution. In OBS, go to the Backdrop of your EpocCam and prepare the resolution to 720 or 1080. I personally use 1080, simply go with the resolution that works best for you lot.

five. If you're just using your phone as a webcam, yous won't need to use your telephone's microphone. But if you plan on doing vlog-style content around the house and need your phone mic, adding the video source does non automatically activate the mic. Add together a new sound source in OBS and select "Microphone (Konini Audio Source)". Because how Elgato has bought Konini, this name volition likely change in the future and I volition update this guide appropriately.

Just like that, your smartphone operates just like a webcam! Odds are, information technology will probably expect better than almost webcams also. I similar this version way more than the erstwhile Elgato way, as the input delay is essentially nonexistent. Really hope they add Android support dorsum in!

The next big challenge for y'all is to effigy out how to mount information technology. I use this telephone clench mounted to this stand up, just the clench will work with most standard tripods and mounts.

I program on using my mobile cam every bit a third camera to the stream that I can either vlog with or have mounted in different positions for every stream. What volition you use your new smartphone webcam for?


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