Nikon webcam utility with Facetime

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Nikon webcam utility with Facetime

On November 4th 2020, Nikon released their webcam utility. (The beta version has been around for a while but this is the GA release). This means that certain supported cameras can be used as the source for video conferencing applications such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Facebook Messenger or Skype.

I've tried it with my Nikon Z6 and it works very well.

However, it doesn't work with FaceTime - i.e. there's no way (apparently) to nominate the webcam utility as the [video] input source.

I feel that this is an issue with FaceTime rather than with Nikon's utility but I'd appreciate comments

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 11, 2020 12:02 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 12, 2020 5:58 AM in response to Jeff-Lutz

I've learned a little more...

Nikon's Webcam Utility and similar offerings from other camera manufacturers, presents a virtual camera to the operating system.

So it now becomes a question of which applications support virtual cameras in addition to physical ones.

What's disappointing is that 3rd party applications such as Zoom (on MacOS) do support virtual cameras but Apple's core applications do not.

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Answer 2

Nov 11, 2020 12:44 AM in response to KaptainKopter

*Amendment

The utility does not appear to work with Skype on MacOS

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Answer 3

Nov 12, 2020 5:49 AM in response to KaptainKopter

Yeah, I can get my D5500 to work with Google Meet and Go To Meeting, but not Facetime.

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Answer 4

Nov 16, 2020 6:26 PM in response to KaptainKopter

I had a feeling it was FaceTime that was an issue. I have a D500 and it works great with gotomeeting. I have found a couple of articles and one by apple insider that incorrectly states the Nikon Webcam Utility would work with FaceTime, which is clearly false. Very disappointing though. Hopefully, Apple will read these threads.

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Nikon webcam utility with Facetime

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