![]() ![]() ![]() This feels icky but it worked and since we’re dealing with a global pandemic at the moment, unsigning an app seems like the least of my worries. To solve this problem, you need unsign Zoom so that it’ll allow unsigned webcams. ( This is explained in this Reddit thread.) CamTwist is 10 year old software and isn’t signed. Turns out, as Zoom tried to fix a bunch of security issues, they decided to lock out any unsigned webcams. ![]() (Skype seemed to work fine but everybody is using Zoom these days.) Everything I was finding on the web was telling me to downgrade to a previous version of Zoom to allow this to work. It’s a clunky setup that requires me to fire up my camera, then fire up Remote, then fire up CamTwist, then fire up the remote streaming tool of choice.Įxcept, when I opened up Zoom, it wasn’t recognizing the CamTwist webcam. Well, then I came across a YouTube video that perfectly describes how to setup a Sony DSLR as a webcam using a piece of free software called CamTwist. I had pretty much resigned myself to living with the Mac’s FaceTime camera. If you’re in the United States, it seems some people have still been able to get their hands on them. Here’s the thing: everybody and their grandmother have clearly read the same articles and ordered themselves the Elgato Camlink. It’s a hardware dongle that allows you to plug in your camera via HDMI and it’ll be recognized as a webcam.Ĭool cool cool cool. Read them? If so, you may notice as I did that every single one of them use the Elgato Camlink. The lowly Mac cameraįirst, here are a list of articles of what other people have done to get this going: As a result, I decided to do something about it. As a result, I’m envious of the few people with their fancy camera and mic setups. Fun times.Īs a result, I’m in a lot of Zoom calls. I’ve been home and isolated for two months now. ![]() Unless you’ve only just woken from a months’ long coma and the first thing you decided to do was read my blog, you’re likely aware of ( waves arms around) this quarantine. AKA, how I set up my Sony DSLR to use as a webcam. ![]()
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