![]() These are fair tradeoffs for less lag on the stream, and proportional scaling for viewers, making this method the clear winner. The only real side effect of this method is that the “Preview” window must always be open in the background (the window cannot be minimized or hidden, but it may be dragged off-screen) and the chrome at the top of the window is visible within the broadcast (because the entire “Preview” window itself is being shared). In the window that pops up, select Preview and then Share. ![]() Within the Hangout, click the three cascading dots and choose “Share screen”. In the CamTwist menubar, select View > Preview. In addition to being a bit laggy, this first method does not scale proportionally to the size of other viewer’s Hangouts windows, and so is inferior to the next method. You may ignore the second CamTwist (2VUY) option. Then, in the Hangouts window, click the gear icon in the top right corner in the popup that appears, change “Video” to CamTwist. Share the CamTwist “Preview” window (this works better)īefore joining a Google Hangout, launch CamTwist.app.Change the input source within Hangouts to the virtual device.To use the CamTwist video output in a Hangout, we can try two methods: Set the “Keyboard Shortcut:” to something like Control-Option-D. This time, for “Menu Title:”, enter CamSwitchDesktop. You may set the “Keyboard Shortcut:” to anything of your choosing perhaps Control-Option-W. For “Menu Title:”, enter CamSwitchWebcam. and choose Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts. ~/Library/Services/CamSwitchDesktop.workflow Global Keyboard Shortcuts ~/Library/Services/CamSwitchWebcam.workflow Service Locationsīy design, these “Services” are saved to: Now do File > Save., and when it asks “Save service as:”, enter CamSwitchDesktop. Replace the “Run AppleScript” step with the following: on run In the leftmost sidebar, choose Utilities, then double-click Run AppleScript. Near the top of the window, where it says “Service receives selected”, change text to no input. Open Automator.app and choose to create a new “Service”. To be able to control CamTwist using global keyboard shortcuts, we need to create two “Services”. Make sure the spelling is exactly “ Desktop”. In the fourth “Settings” column, check the “Show mouse pointer (simulated)” checkbox.Ĭlick “Save Setup” under “Step 3:”, and name it Desktop. The “Step 3:” column should now have Desktop+ under “Effects in use”. To create the “Desktop” setup, open CamTwist.app and under the “Step 1:” column double-click Desktop+. Make sure the spelling is exactly “ Webcam”. The “Step 3:” column should now have Webcam under “Effects in use”.Ĭlick “Save Setup” under “Step 3:”, and name it Webcam. To create the “Webcam” setup, open CamTwist.app and under the “Step 1:” column double-click Webcam. We need to create the two CamTwist “setups” that we will be switching between. ![]() Restart CamTwist.app after changing the “Video Size” setting. You may also increase or decrease the “Frame rate:”, but the default of 15 should be fine. Two new inputs will appear enter the numbers retrieved from the previous step. > General > Video Size, then click the select box and choose Custom. So, open CamTwist.app and go to Preferences. These are the numbers we need to use for “Video Size” within CamTwist. If you’re using a Macbook Retina, you must hover over the preview icon to see the resolution number displayed to the left under the image of a laptop for the “Default” resolution setting, it will say "Looks like 1440 x 900". The default dimensions for an Apple Thunderbolt Display are 2560 x 1440. Change the “Resolution:” radio button to Scaled and take note of the dimensions. Resolutionįirst, find out the resolution of your desktop by going to System Preferences. It is necessary to tweak some of the CamTwist settings for high quality screen casting. ~/Applications/CamTwist/CamTwist.app Settings Download CamTwistĭownload the stable version of the CamTwist application:Īfter following the package installer, CamTwist.app will be located at: Switching between webcam and desktop view in Google Hangouts is a real PITA, and it can be distracting from what’s being shown or talked about, so here’s a possible solution (for OS X only).
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