A crowd with raised hands facing a lit stage, a camera on a tripod in the foreground
Live multi-camera for OBS

Every angle. One take.

Link your cameras, cut between them live from your browser, and send the whole show to OBS.

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Works with

OBS Studio iPhone and Mac WebRTC

Your whole show on one screen.

The control unit shows every camera live, with its tally, controls and health. Open it on the Mac next to OBS or on an iPad.

The VTake control unit with four camera tiles: cam1 live with a red border, cam2 on preview with a green border, each with Take, Go live, Standby, Torch and Zoom controls

Take

Call the take on any camera from its tile. OBS cuts with it.

Preview

Line up the next shot. That camera lights green so its operator gets ready.

Control

Go live, standby, torch, flip and zoom, sent straight to the camera.

Cut between angles. Watch every camera follow.

Cut to a camera and its operator sees a red frame. The angle up next sees green. Try it here.

Call your next take: click a camera. Red is on air, green is up next.

An iPhone on a tripod recording in a dim venue

From every angle to the program feed.

Each camera streams to a small media hub on your computer. OBS pulls every angle from the hub as its own source.

  1. On each camera (iPhone today)

    VTake camera

    Hardware-encoded capture with a live preview, sent over your own Wi-Fi.

    WebRTCSRTRTMP
  2. On your Mac

    Media hub

    Takes in every camera and gives each one its own address: cam1, cam2, cam3.

    MediaMTX
  3. In OBS Studio

    One source per camera

    A Browser Source for the lowest delay, or a Media Source when the Wi-Fi is busy.

    Browser SourceMedia Source
  4. Back to the cameras

    Tally

    When you cut in OBS, the camera in the take lights red and the one up next lights green.

    obs-websocket

The control unit is a web page served from your Mac. Open it on the Mac or an iPad to add cameras and send commands to any of them.

Run every camera without walking to it.

Tally on every camera

Red means you’re in the take. Green means you’re up next. Whoever runs the camera always knows when to hold the shot.

Pair with a QR code

Each new camera gets its own code. Scan it and the camera is linked.

Zoom, torch and lens

Change them from the control unit. The camera reports back, so the controls always match.

Presets

Save a camera’s look and bring it back in one click. The lens is set first, then zoom, then torch, so the shot lands the same way every time.

Wideback 1× Pulpitback 3× Choirback 2× Selfiefront

Screen off, still streaming

Standby turns the display off and keeps the stream going. It saves battery and heat on a camera that sits on a tripod all day.

Health for each camera

Frame rate, bitrate and heat on every camera’s tile, so you spot an overheating camera early.

30fps
4.1Mb/s
fairthermal
Made for small crews

Any stage with more than one good angle.

A worship leader with a guitar raising a hand toward the congregation

Worship services

A wide, the pulpit and the band, run by volunteers with gear they already own.

A concert crowd under crossing blue stage lights

Live music

Put one angle at the side of the stage, one on the drummer and one out front.

A speaker on stage in front of a large conference audience

Talks and conferences

Cover the speaker, the slides and the room, and stream it all from one laptop.

A fitness instructor filmed by a phone on a tripod in a bright living room

Classes and creators

Add a second and third angle to a lesson without buying another camera.

Latency

Fast enough to cut live.

Measured from the camera lens to the OBS preview on a local network. Use WebRTC for speed and SRT when the Wi-Fi is crowded.

100-150msWebRTC, lens to OBS preview
150-300msSRT, steadier on busy Wi-Fi
<300msTarget for every transport
WebRTC Browser Source
100-150 ms
SRT Media Source
150-300 ms
0100200300400 ms
300 ms targetTypical ranges from the VTake setup guide

Your first camera, live in minutes.

Everything stays on your own network: video goes from each camera to your Mac and OBS, never to a cloud, and every operator can see when their camera is live. Today you need a Mac, OBS Studio and an iPhone on the same Wi-Fi.

  1. Start the hub

    It receives every camera’s stream.

    ./hub/run-hub.sh

  2. Start the control server

    It serves the control unit and talks to OBS.

    ./server/run-server.sh

  3. Add a camera

    Click “Add a camera” in the control unit and scan the code with the VTake app on your iPhone.

  4. Go live

    Tap go live on the camera. Its tile lights up and the angle shows up in OBS.

Two hands holding up a phone to film a concert stage

Ready for your first take?

Multi-cam switching, tally and the control unit work today, with iPhone as the camera. Android and installers come next.

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