Camera inputs

Add one

Press Add Input…, choose Camera, and pick a Video device from what macOS sees: a built-in camera, a USB webcam, or a capture device that appears as one, such as a Cam Link.

Format

Video format is set to Automatic by default, which lets the device choose. Pick a specific format from the list if you need a particular resolution or frame rate instead.

Sound

A camera captured this way carries no audio of its own. Video and audio come from your Mac as two separate things, even when they are physically the same USB cable. Give it sound by pairing it with another input.

Pairing an input’s sound

Any input can, on its Audio tab, be heard with other inputs’ sound. This is how a camera gets sound: add an Audio input for your microphone (see Audio inputs), then on the camera’s Audio tab, under Audio Source, tick that microphone.

Tick as many as you need: a camera on a panel can take the lectern microphone and the desk’s, and each comes up with it when it goes to Program. A microphone can be ticked on several cameras, and follows whichever is on Program. Each keeps its own mixer strip, routing and level; ticking it changes only when it follows Program.

An input with sound of its own, such as a Blackmagic input or an NDI camera, also has Its own sound to tick, alone or beside the others. With nothing ticked, the input has no sound and no mixer strip of its own.

Next

Audio inputs, to add the microphone or other Core Audio device a camera pairs with.