Virtual Camera

In this context we are not simply referring to the idea of a virtual camera system as you might find in computer games, but rather the concept of using a remote mobile phone, or computer screen, as the functional equivalent of a camera or webcam.

When implemented at a system level, this allows software written to be able to handle input from built in or external camera sources such as webcams to accept video from a mobile phone or computer monitor.

# NDI Tools NDI Tools looks a great way to get a virtual camera source working on OSX enabling VJ software such as TouchDesigner to pipe video into Zoom or any other software that supports some form of camera source input.

# Video conferencing

This can be particularly useful when trying to bring in video conferencing into a film project.

# mimoLive Here we look at mimoLive which is a high end live video compositing system that enables output to a virtual camera. In this way it is similar to Wirecast.

# Syphon Syphon excels at moving live video from one application to another. It is therefore ideally suited as a partner to a virtual camera system.

# ManyCam ManyCam is a cheap softare tool that creates a basic mixer and virtual camera system.

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