How To Use Your iPhone as a Webcam for FREE! – Elgato EpocCam
In this video, you will learn how to use your iPhone as a webcam for free! This is the easiest way to use your phone as a webcam using your USB cable or wirelessly. This works great for iPhones and is a seamless way to level up your zoom calls, Twitch and OBS.
Hello everybody. My name is Charles. And in this video, I’m gonna show you how to turn your iPhone into a webcam using Elgato EpocCam. EpocCam is an app that lets you use your iOS devices as a webcam, whether it’s wired or wireless.
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Download and Install Elgato EpocCam – Use Your iPhone as a Webcam
The first thing you’re gonna need to do is download and install the Elgato EpocCam app from the iOS App Store. EpocCam requires at least iOS 14. I’m gonna leave a link in the description to this page so you can check all the EpocCam system requirements. This will tell you all the iOS 14 compatible devices, iPad iOS 14, so you can install this on iPhone and iPad. I’m using an iPhone 8, so my iPhone is compatible.
So once you get to the iOS App Store, just type in EpocCam. All one word. And you get a notice, there’s two versions. There’s a free version and a paid version. You can try out the free version, see if you like it and then the paid version is 7.99. So I’m gonna download that and you can follow these easy steps. I’ll tap Begin. And one of the things you’re gonna need is a driver for your computer. So you choose your operating system here. Mine is for Mac. These are the different ways that you can get this driver. I’ll also leave a link to this page.
This is the page on the Elgato site where you can download your driver for your computer. I’m on a Mac. EpocCam is what I’m going to be downloading. And I’m gonna install the package here on my Mac. And it’s going through the install very quickly. And that’s all there is to it. So let’s go back over to the app on the phone. And we’ve got our driver downloaded, installed. EpocCam will work with USB or you can use it wirelessly. So right now, my phone is connected to my computer. I’m just gonna keep on with the install. We say Next and we just need to give EpocCam some permissions here. I’m gonna allow access to the Camera, access to the Microphone, allow access to the Network.
Elgato EpocCam Menu – Use Your iPhone as a Webcam
So the requirement is if you’re going to use this wirelessly, your phone and your computer has to be on the same network. And we’re done. Hey, if you’re getting value out of this so far, hit that Like button. All the controls for EpocCam are on the app itself. So at the top right where the 1x is, that is actually a zoom. So it goes to 2x. And the next icon down, you can flip it. You can turn the view around to the other side. Everything going on over there. And you have sound that you can mute if you wanna use the sound off your cell phone. On the top left, you have a menu for your help and the gear below gives you extra ways that you can actually act. You can switch over to Wi-Fi and you can take your cable out and use it wirelessly. And you have your quality for your picture quality. So that should be best. And you can turn your light on in the back of your cell phone with the icon on the lower left. Use Your iPhone as a Webcam.
Add EpocCam to OBS – Use Your iPhone as a Webcam
You can add your Elgato EpocCam to OBS. Just choose a scene that you would like to add it to and then add it as a source. Click the plus. Add a video capture device. Name it, say OK. And under Devices, there is your EpocCam. And your camera shows up. Just say OK. And here it is. And you can get like a long shot of your working area but it’s easy to add to OBS. Use Your iPhone as a Webcam
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