How to integrate Microsoft Teams with Multicam

Send Multicam program to Teams

Requirements

• Multicam Suite version 10.2.10 or above

Steps

Since version 10.2.10, Multicam can natively output the program to any external software such as Teams. 

1. Open Multicam (Studio for example)
2. Open Teams
3. Create a new meeting
4. In the camera section, select Multicam

Note : Multicam needs to be opened before Teams. If you can't find Multicam as a video source, close completely Teams and reopen it.

If your Multicam version is lower than 10.2.10, don't worry you can still achieve the same result with NDI Tools and NDI Webcam. Check this article for more information : How to send Multicam program to another software as a webcam source

Add Teams as input in Multicam

There are 3 ways to send the video feed of Teams to Multicam :

1. Using the integrated NDI output of Teams. More info on the Microsoft support webpage
2. Do a screen capture of Teams window with NDI Screen Capture tool
3. Use a hardware video capture card on the Multicam machine and use a second computer to connect to the meeting. Then send the video output of the meeting to the Multicam video capture card (through HDMI for example)

Method 1

On Teams, click on the 3 dots on the top right corner, next to your avatar. Then click on Settings.

Click on App permissions and activate the production tools.

On your Teams meeting, click on the 3 dots to open the settings, then Streaming, then Broadcast over NDI

On Multicam, open your room settings and add an additional NDI input. Then select MS Teams.

To get the audio from the NDI feed, click on the AUDIO button to turn it on.

Method 2

Requirements

1. NDI Tools 6 package with NDI Screen capture (free)

2. VB-Cable virtual audio device (free)

Steps

1. Open Screen Capture from the NDI Tools
   
   
   
   
2. Open the Screen Capture settings by right clicking on the icon in the bottom right corner of Windows notification area
   
   
   
   
3. By default, Screen Capture is capturing the full screen of each of your monitors. Each monitor is 1x NDI video output. You can also create a region of interest by right clicking on the Screen Capture icon, then on Capture Settings, tick Region of Interest and then click on Configure Rol
   
   
   
   
   
4. This will open a new window NDI Region of Interest that you can move and resize to your needs, like this for example
   
   
   
   
5. To capture the audio of Teams, select CABLE Input (VB-Audio Virtual Cable) as a speaker.
   
   
   
   
6. In Multicam, open the settings of your room. In AUDIO EXT. DEVICES, add a new audio input and select CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable). If you don't see it, click on the refresh button.
   
   
   
   
   
7. You can rename the audio input by clicking on the pencil icon. It can facilitate your audio routing if you have several audio I/O
   
   
   
   
8. To set up the mix-minus routing, click on AUDIO MAPPING and untick NDI for the VB audio input, so Multicam won't send it back to the participants
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Add the video input of Teams with NDI Screen Capture by clicking on ADD INPUT, then NDI STREAM, then set it up as a fixed video input by clicking on the first camera icon. You can also use this input as PC INPUT.
      
      
      
      
      
9. In the source, find the NDI Screen Capture. It is labeled like this :
   
   Name of your computer (your GPU model + your monitor number) NDI SOURCE your IP address
   
   
   
   If you have several monitors and you created a region of interest, select the monitor where the ROI is. If you don't know, go to Windows > Settings > System > Display to identify them