How I screenshare a subsection of a 3400x1440 ultrawide monitor as a 1080p virtual webcam in Microsoft Teams
Situation: you are in a meeting, sharing your screen. You use a ultrawide monitor, everyone else on your team uses laptops. You share your entire window and everyone needs to bring out the magnifying glasses. Teams will let you share just a single application, but that is not enough for most screensharing use cases. You want multiple applications to be shared, and just a 1080p sized frame to be shared from your monitor. This guide will accomplish just that.
Pre-reqs
- Running on Mac (written for 11.4)
- Using Microsoft Teams.app
- Homebrew is installed and you have sudo on the machine
Installing OBS
brew install obs -y
Configure OBS
- Open OBS
- Click the + under Sources, Select Display Capture, click OK
- Select Settings>Video . Make base and output resolution 1080p
- Get preview window where you want it
- Right click preview > Windowed projector
In a Teams call
- Select a window to share > select Windowed projector