[ANSWERED] Routing Zoom video

dbini

Hiya people,
I'm designing a presentation for an online conference that uses Zoom. I use the virtual webcam to syphon my stage out of Isadora and into Zoom. no problem. I will be using IzzyCast to connect with a performer elsewhere for a demo. also no problem.
But, then I would like to offer other participants a chance to join in, so I would need to get a single Zoom participant's video feed into Izzy (I usually use a second monitor and the Screen Capture actor, which is fine when there's only 2 people in the call, but for this we're expecting over 30).
The problem I imagine is how do I get one particular Zoom participant's video, whilst everyone else in the call only sees my (virtual) camera?
I've done this many times with VDO.ninja, but the organisers need to use Zoom. Any ideas?

Juriaan

@dbini

Ehh, interesting one. If you don't have control over the amount of people joining the call / you can't pin a particular person (I believe that setting is global and not local, Zoom users correct me if I'm am wrong here..)

Which means that your best bet at the moment is to utilize something like ZoomISO (which is part of the Zoom App marketplace) if you have the right subscription, you can also purchase a separate license here; https://www.liminalet.com/zoomiso

ZoomISO gives you clean video and audio tracks from Zoom per participant.

Woland

@juriaan said:

Ehh, interesting one. If you don't have control over the amount of people joining the call / you can't pin a particular person (I believe that setting is global and not local, Zoom users correct me if I'm am wrong here..)I believe you can manually pin a user on your second monitor in Zoom, but ZoomISO is really the way to go for this.

Zoom > Settings > General > Use Dual Monitors is the checkbox you need to hit to get a second monitor display that you can manipulate.

@dbini

It's been a while since I've updated it, but my template file for ZoomOSC and ZoomISO has a Scene with my User Actors for ZoomISO: https://troikatronix.com/add-ons/zoomosc-user-actors-template-file/

If you need any help figuring it out let me know and I can hop on a Zoom call with you sometime and to walk you through it.

Skulpture

Would this help at all? https://vdo.ninja/

dbini

@skulpture I use VDO.ninja all the time, but for this conference, it's an annual event that's always on Zoom.

dbini

@woland @Juriaan
ZoomISO does indeed look like a perfect solution, but I'm on Mac Intel, so that's a non-starter.

Juriaan

@dbini

Well that option that Woland pointed out is maybe a solution then?

dbini

@juriaan
if it's possible to pin one participant's stream to a second monitor, then it looks like I will be fine using Screen Capture. Another option might involve 2 laptops and a capture card...

Woland

@dbini said:

if it's possible to pin one participant's stream to a second monitor, then it looks like I will be fine using Screen Capture. Another option might involve 2 laptops and a capture card...

Zoom > Settings > Video > Hide non-video participants is also a handy setting to make things like this easier. I believe there are also account-level settings in Zoom (log into your Zoom account via their website) that you can use to force new participants to join with their video (and/or audio) off and also to prevent people from turning their video/audio on without you clicking "OK" to approve the request.