Hybrid Public Talk Speaker with Media to Display

[Chipperchap]

Hi All,
Just wondering what procedure you are using for the scenario when a public talk speaker is giving his talk over ZOOM for an in-person audience as well as hybrid audience, and he also has media / pictures to display.
Currently we spotlight the speaker so that he can be viewed on the K-Hall screens (ZOOM dual monitors + M³ display off), but when a picture is displayed we need to turn M³ on + "replace spotlight" with the Kingdom Hall host computer so that the speaker and ZOOM participants can see the image as well... then reverse the process and "replace spotlight" with the speaker again.
This method is hardly a difficulty, albeit a bit clunky.
Is that what you do or do you have another method?
I was speaking with a friend and he said "what about using picture in picture" so that the speaker can see the image using a separate "scene" in OBS... I have not thought about how to implement this and its possibilities, but before I investigate I thought I would ask if there was anything obvious that I was missing first via this very clever forum. 🤗

[mtdvlpr]

Hi @Chipperchap, I had outdated information. Turns out, we did get the same instructions you did. So I did some experimenting and I think I found a decent way of going about this:

1. In OBS, have a scene called "Zoom Speaker" or something that has as a source a window capture of the second Zoom screen (with dual monitors, the screen that's hidden under the media window on the second monitor in the KH)
2. In Zoom, pin the Zoom speaker to your second Zoom screen and spotlight yourself to everyone (the virtual camera of OBS)
3. In M³, select your "Zoom Speaker" scene and hide the media window

After doing this, you will have the following situation:

• You and the physical participants will be looking at the pinned speaker on the second monitor in the KH
• The Zoom participants (including the Zoom speaker himself) will be looking at the speaker via the second monitor in the KH

Now when the speaker wants to show an image (or video even), you can simply press play for the desired media and everyone will see the desired media right away (Zoom participants will now be looking at the configured media scene as usual). When the desired media should be hidden again, simply stop the media in M³ and hide the media window again.

When the Zoom speaker is done, simply select the desired OBS scene in M³ and show the media window again. Then (in the background), you can unpin the Zoom speaker (only necessary when there's another Zoom part which isn't likely for the weekend meeting) and remove the spotlight (so that Zoom participants will see other Zoom participants giving an answer) without anyone noticing.

The only possible downside to this, is the fact that the Zoom speaker is now looking at himself by default, but he can of course change that by switching to gallery view. Hope this helps!

[mtdvlpr]

Continues in #1020

[Chipperchap]

HybridSpeaker480.mp4

(In this video I have created a PIP of what is showing on the dual screen just to assist with visualisation... of course the PIP would not exist in the actual setting at the K-Hall) 😁