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USING SNAP CAMERA IN RIGHTBOOTH

8/3/2019

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Snap Camera is an app from Snap Inc that allows you to apply lens effects onto live webcams, as found in the popular SnapChat app.  These effects can then be made to appear when playing your RightBooth event, allowing your users to select them and apply them to their RightBooth photo captures and video recordings.  Here’s how:

First: Download and install Snap Camera from here:
https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/
Configure Snap Camera Settings
Run Snap Camera.  In Snap Camera settings:
  • Choose your webcam
  • Set the ‘Turn Lens On/Off Hotkey’ to ‘Num + 0’
​Choose your Snap Camera lenses
Now choose your favourite Snap Camera lenses and set their Hotkeys to Num + 1, Num + 2, Num + 3, etc. 
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Note that RightBooth can control up to 9 Snap Camera lenses (i.e maximum hotkey Num + 9).  Here we have chosen 3 lenses and have defined their hotkeys accordingly:
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Keep Snap Camera running and we’ll now turn our attention to getting RightBooth working with Snap Camera.
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RightBooth Settings for Snap Camera
  • In RightBooth Video Settings, choose the webcam:  Snap Camera Virtual Device
  • In RightBooth ‘Overlays and Props’ Settings, set the Snap Camera: Total lenses value to the number of favourite lenses you have defined in the Snap Camera app.  Note, in our example we set this value to 3.

Adding Snap Camera Interaction to RightBooth

Open the RightBooth event in which you would like to use Snap Camera lenses.
  • In Event Design --> Event Structure --> Start, tick the option: Reset Snap Camera. 
By doing this you will cause Snap Camera lenses to be removed from the webcam each time the event shows the Start screen.  This is useful to allow you to clear the previous user’s Snap Camera activity.

Now you can add various Snap Camera actions to any event screen item (such as buttons or images) in order to allow users to show/hide and select any of your defined set of favourite lenses. 

Available Snap Camera Actions
  • Snap Camera On – This action will turn the current Snap Camera lens on so that it is shown in the RightBooth webcam item.
  • Snap Camera Off – This action will turn the current Snap Camera lens off so that no Snap Camera lenses are showing in the RightBooth webcam item.
  • Snap Camera On/Off – This action will toggle the current Snap Camera lens on and off from the RightBooth webcam item.
  • Snap Camera +1 – This action will show your next favourite lens effect (from the set of lenses you have defined in Snap Camera) within the RightBooth webcam item.
  • Snap Camera -1 – This action will show your previous favourite lens effect (from the set of lenses you have defined in Snap Camera) within the RightBooth webcam item. 

Note that you can choose to add Snap Camera lens actions on any screen in the event and this gives you a lot of design flexibility.
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Examples of some of the things you can do:
  • Allow users to select a Snap Camera lens before each RightBooth photo is captured.
  • Allow users to select a Snap Camera lens before each RightBooth video is recorded.
  • Allow users to change Snap Camera lenses while a RightBooth video is being recorded.
 
IMPORTANT RULES TO REMEMBER:
  1. Always start the Snap Camera app before you start the RightBooth app.
  2. Ensure that Snap Camera is not showing any lenses prior to playing your event.
  3. Do not use the Snap Camera app or the keyboard hotkeys to select lenses while your event is playing.
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