Use Canon Dslr as Webcam

Hey guys so today I'm gonna be showing you how you can use your Canon Video DSLR as a webcam using something like skype or or any other applications you might need for. All you need is your Canon Video DSLR, the software that came with it and an internet connection, basically It's really simple to do so let's get started so first off just take your EOS Digital Solutions Disk and install the EOS Utility This should have come with your Canon Camera And next just plug in the usb cable that was supplied with your camera, in to the side Now, I'm using the Canon 60D. It should also work with the T2i, 7D, and 5D Mark II okay so now once you have your camera connected to your computer go ahead and open up the EOS Utility just a second to startup and click camera settings and remote shooting Now you've got your remote shooting panel where you can make your adjustments to your camera Things like shutter speed, f-stop, ISO, pretty much all of your settings that you can do manually on your camera But what we want to focus on is the live video shoot Click on that, you'll hear your shutter open and, there I am So this is a live feed coming from my DSLR that's a really handy tool that Canon has provided and works as kind of a a live monitor but then how do we get this act as a webcam well it's pretty easy. Just gonna minimize that, And we're gonna go to - manycam.com now Manycam is a free app for windows and macintosh that allows you to run external pre-recorded videos and external cameras that wouldn't normally be able to run as a webcam it allows it to do that, so click on download and install that - I already have it installed so once you have that installed, open it up and you get a screen like this now click on the desktop tab Now what this does is it takes your entire desktop and displays it as a webcam so Skype and various kinds of messengers will recognize this feed as a webcam So now bring your live view back up and I'm just gonna scale this down a little bit so that we have room to do some either things on the screen at the same time go back to Manycam, now instead of displaying your entire desktop which you don't want click custom desktop now this brings up a big gray square Now what you want to do is scale the square to fit your camera view now once you've got that placed where you want, click the little 'x' and now we've got a live feed from the DSLR in Manycam but one down side is because i assume it's because of the free app it does watermark it but if this is your only option it's butter then nothing, and in my case this is what I use if I need to use a video webcam so now we go in to Skype We're gonna going the Skype preferences and select Manycam Virtual Webcam as your video feed and there is it, that's what people see when you're on a video call downside to this is that you are using a screen capture serviced so anything that you place in front of your live feed, if I go like that this is going to pop up so you have to make sure to keep things clear of the live view screen and the other thing is that Manycam does not deal with the audio its video only so you will have to use a seperate audio source you can just get a cheap little usb mic that works just fine and that's pretty much all there is to it so thanks for watching i hope this was helpful if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment below and I'll definitely get back to you see you next time