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How to Use Your Pocket 3 as a Webcam

13 Jul 2024

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Connect your DJI Osmo Pocket 3 to a computer via USB-C and choose webcam mode on the touchscreen. You get 1080p at 25 or 50 fps built in, or 4K through third-party software. Then select it as your camera in apps like Descript.

Questions this video answers

USB‑C cable.

A little green light when connected.

“file transfer” and “webcam” (the speaker notes the webcam option appears in yellow).

1080p at 25 frames per second and 1080p at 50 frames per second.

No — the speaker says 4K output as a webcam requires third‑party software.

Here's how to use your Osmo Pocket 3 as a webcam with your computer. Take a USB C cable that's plugged into your computer, plug it into your OSMO pocket. You'll get a little green light like that. As soon as you do, you can flip the screen. You'll see a file transfer option and a webcam option in yellow. Oh, and before I even had a chance to press it, it goes into webcam mode. And when you're in webcam mode, you'll see a preview of whatever the camera is seeing. And then it says in green letters, webcam. If you swipe up, you can change 1080p 25 frames per second or 1080p 50 frames per second. And you can in fact get this up to 4K. Use this as a 4K camera with a third party software, you can't do it natively. And then from there, inside of whatever software you're going to be recording with, whether that's Descript or something else, just select the Osmo Pocket 3 as your camera and you'll be off to the races. If you like this video, be sure to click on this one next.