Make sure you move your cursor back to your main monitor so that it doesn't show up on the screen. Now what you see on the ATEM Mini should be just the full screen video. Click the green button in the top left corner to make the window full screen. Now drag that QuickTime window onto your second monitor that is actually the ATEM Mini. Choose the USB camera you want to use and you should see it in the main video window. Click the little arrow next to the record button and you should see all your connected cameras as an option. A window should appear with your default webcam. In the QuickTime "File" menu, choose "New Movie Recording". Plug in your USB webcam into your computer. This is important since you'll want to be able to navigate around the second screen a bit in the next steps. If you're doing this with the ATEM Mini, it's helpful to have a monitor plugged in to the ATEM Mini's HDMI output port, and then you can show your computer screen full screen on the ATEM's output by selecting that input's button in the "output" selector on the right side of the controls. You want the computer to see the ATEM Mini or other video switcher as a secondary external display. In your display settings, make sure your computer is not mirroring the display. Your computer will see it as a second monitor. For this, you'll need a Mac of course, as well as an HDMI output from the computer.įirst, plug in the HDMI from your computer into your video switcher. The simplest option is to use QuickTime on a Mac computer. You can see a video version of this blog post on my YouTube channel! Method 1: QuickTime Player I'm going to show you three different ways you can convert a USB UVC webcam to HDMI so you can use them with hardware video switchers like the ATEM Mini.
For the most part, you can take any USB webcam and plug it into a computer and it will Just Work™. Thankfully over the past few years, UVC has become a standard for webcams, so there is no more worry about installing manufacturer-specific drivers for webcams anymore. That's because webcams are expected to plug in to a computer, and most video switchers aren't really computers. Most video switchers don't have a way to plug in USB webcams. But what if you want to combine video from a USB webcam with your HDMI cameras in a video switcher like the ATEM Mini? There are a handful of interesting USB webcams out there, which naturally work great with a computer.
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