When I select the camera in Skype, I'm really selecting CamTwist. First, it provides its own camera driver, fooling Skype into thinking that CamTwist is a camera. CamTwist claims to provide 50+ built-in effects and turn your Mac into a studio, but I found that both the effects and the studio elements might be fine for a podcast, but they didn't meet my broadcast-quality standards.īut CamTwist does two things that make it essential. I found one program on the PC, Man圜am, which did some of what I wanted, but it was limited, in that it would only do certain effects, and it didn't have a way to work with studio software - software that would do things like provide lower-thirds titles, multiple talking heads, and so forth.Īnd then I found CamTwist Studio. I tried a lot of software products, on both PC and Mac. So I needed software to accomplish two things: merge a background image and my camera image into a seamless whole, and somehow insert that into Skype's video stream as if it came that way from a camera. See also: Getting started with green screen
I wanted the remote Skype viewer to see whatever image I wanted behind me: a brick wall, a rack of computers, a bookshelf, a logo, a moving pattern.whatever.
