It has been 72 hours since anything new was added to the Knowledge Mill. This seems weird somehow and I don’t like it.
To ease my own discomfort here is a 15 minute long tutorial on how to use Open Broadcaster Studio to do daily classroom updates using video, a technique I’ve used throughout the pandemic.
Be warned, it was filmed in the early days of the pandemic before I learned about how proper lighting worked so excuse the “I live in a cave look to the video”.
Enjoy.
Thanks for sharing Mitchell. Nice job and explanation. I developed two physical/portable studios, along with some streaming workstations, for UBC faculty during the pandemic. The idea was to follow instructors and TAs to create labs and lectures with a user friendly multi-camera set-up. The flexibility of using a virtual switcher has its pros and cons.
Here is a tutorial I produced using the equipment (to a room of masked instructors and TAs). https://youtu.be/vt-e4fpf3j8
BTW I wish Zoom would figure out a reference monitor option to allow those on Zoom sharing their screens to see what they are sharing.
That video was excellent Sam. I could feel your audiences’ heads’ spinning through the screen though. With the standard high school setup we were nowhere near as well resourced in terms of hardware and so defaulted to the(free) virtual switcher. When we record FIRST Tech Challenge events in person(pre, and hopefully post, pandemic) live my student-crew often uses both a physical and virtual switcher…they are kind of extra like that.
Hi Mitch,
Thanks for the post! Like Miguel indicated, the interface looks a little daunting, but it’s great having your step-by-step breakdown. Question for you: there are already OBS video tutorials out there, but do you find that your students prefer tutorials made by their own teacher? I’ve considered making a video tutorial for Moodle, or school’s LMS, but I figured that students would just prefer the existing ones.
There are many OBS tutorials for teachers.
That being said, they are often grouped thematically, such as a whole video on setting up layouts. Personally I learn best when solving problems and this was designed to solve a really simple one: how do I create an easy video update. I’d been doing those for awhile in classes, but decided to make the video for my summer school colleagues.
I find that tutorials personalized to the class or teacher are much more effective because you can personalize the skills so much more and be very specific to your assignments or work.
Hi Mitchell,
Thanks for your post and tutorial on how to set up a video update. To be honest the interface looks a bit complex but then once it was set up with the camera, audio and text it seems a lot easier to produce content. A few questions for you, using the broadcaster do you feel it is the easiest or most convenient tool for you? or do you create content on here as you can live stream it? Thanks again for your post. It’s something I will explore further.
I find with any new tool explaining the basic buttons makes the complex interface less scary.
I use the OBS as a video capture tool, not for streaming. It is good at streaming, but I just don’t use the functionality due to the nature of my work as a high school teacher.
I find it most effective as a platform to switch between an intro/title scene, a video scene, and a screen-capture scene (I create a lot of CAD and electronics tutorials). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNYJxw7iUAeVgvKoKaqv8bA/videos