It was long awaited; Sony has just now released
an update which will allow us to use our Sony
camera as a webcam and that to without using
any HDMI capture card.
What all you need is
A Sony camera
A USB cable and
The drivers that Sony has just released
This video is going to be a straightforward
tutorial where I will show how you can setup
those drivers to use your Sony cameras as
a webcam.
So, let’s hop on to the computer and setup
all those drivers.
Great here we are now open up your browser
and search Sony Imagine Webcam.
Now go to the first website.
By The way I will leave the link of this website
in the description of this video if you want
you can use that as well.
Anyways, now click this download button.
Here you can see the list of all the Sony
cameras that can be used as a Webcam.
In my case my camera is Sony alpha 6600.
And here it is.
I am going to select it and after that I am
going to press this download button.
As you can see, I have successfully downloaded
the drivers.
Next, I just have to install them.
Let me minimize the browser.
Ok
Now press next.
Agree the license agreement.
And, then press next.
And, now just press install.
Accept the warning and that’s all you have
to do.
Installation done.
We have successfully installed the drivers
that we need to use our Sony camera as a webcam.
Next I am going to connect my Sony a6600 with
my Windows system.
Let’s quickly do that.
Before we connect the camera with the computer
there are two settings that we need to change.
Let’s quickly do that.
Go to menu and come to the 3rd section which
is Network.
Here come to the option Ctrl w/ smartphone.
And, turn it off.
Now go to 5th section, which is setup.
And, then go to its 4th page, which is setup4.
And, here come to USB connection and set it
to PC remote.
These are all the setting that we need to
change now let’s connect this camera with
the computer.
In order to use your Sony camera as a webcam
you need to connect it with your computer
using USB cable not the HDMI cable.
My Sony a6600 has micro USB connector thus
I am going to connect it to my computer using
micro USB to USB type A cable.
That’s it camera is connected.
Now let’s test whether it works or not.
Now that I have successfully installed all
the drivers that I needed to use my Sony a6600
as a webcam and have connected it to my laptop.
Now I am going to test it by connecting my
Sony a6600 with OBS.
So, let’s open the OBS studio.
Here I am going to add a video capture device.
Just click this + button and select Video
Capture Device.
If you want, you can rename your video capture
device here but I am good with this default
one.
Press ok.
And, from this drop-down list just select
Sony Camera (Imagine Edge)
And, as you can see, we have successfully
connected our Sony camera as a webcam and
it’s working fine.
Let’s do one more thing now a day I am using
Google meeting a lot let’s see if I can
connect my Sony camera with Google meeting
or not.
For that I have shut down this OBS studio.
Let’s do that.
Now let’s open the google meet, Great
Now go to settings then video and from here
just select Sony Camera (Imagine Edge).
Press done and turn on the camera.
It should work
And, here we are.
As you can see here also, we have successfully
connected our Sony camera as a webcam.
Which means now I can use my Sony camera with
google meeting as well.
So, you see how easy it has become to use
your Sony cameras as a webcam.
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Thanks for watching this is Manish from RebellionRider.com.
