Built-in laptop cameras produce soft, noisy video — fine for casual calls but damaging for customer-facing meetings, online training, or broadcast-quality recordings. A USB capture card lets you connect a proper camera to any computer and have it appear as a standard webcam in Zoom, Teams or Google Meet.
Magewell USB Capture cards are UVC-compliant (USB Video Class) — meaning no drivers are needed. Plug in, and it appears as a camera source in any software that accepts a webcam input. Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, OBS, vMix, Wirecast — all work immediately.
No driver installation required on Windows, macOS, Linux or ChromeOS.
Appears as a standard webcam. Select in Settings → Video → Camera.
Full 1080p camera source. Select under Device Settings → Camera.
Detected automatically as a webcam input. No setup needed.
Add as Video Capture Device source. Supports 4K with HDMI 4K Pro.
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Connect your camera to the Magewell USB Capture device and connect the device to your PC via USB 3.0. In Zoom, go to Settings → Video → Camera and select the Magewell USB Capture device from the dropdown. Your camera output will now appear as your Zoom video input. No drivers are needed on Mac; install the Magewell driver on Windows for best results.
Teams and Zoom only show devices that present as standard UVC cameras. Magewell USB Capture Gen 2 and Plus devices are UVC-compliant and should appear automatically. If not: 1) Ensure the device is connected to a USB 3.0 port. 2) On Windows, install the Magewell driver. 3) Close and reopen Teams/Zoom after connecting the device. 4) Check that no other application has exclusive control of the capture device.
Yes. Magewell USB Capture devices appear as standard UVC webcams to all video conferencing platforms including Google Meet, Webex, Skype, and Microsoft Teams. Connect your HDMI camera output to the USB Capture device and it appears as a camera in all applications. This enables professional-quality video in conferencing tools without any special integration or software.
Zoom supports up to 1080p HD video in group meetings (requires HD plan). Teams supports 1080p with newer HD calling plans. The Magewell USB Capture HDMI Gen 2 outputs up to 1080p60 to the application — more than sufficient for conferencing. The conferencing platform's own encoding will then compress this to its maximum supported quality. Use USB Capture HDMI Gen 2 or USB Capture HDMI Plus for conference use; 4K capture hardware is not needed for this application.
Yes. Magewell USB Capture devices appear as standard webcam sources in Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and other video conferencing platforms — no plugin or driver required. Select the Magewell device in the camera settings of your conferencing app.
Microsoft Teams caps camera input at 1080p, and some configurations default to 720p. Check your Teams camera settings and ensure the Magewell device is set to output 1080p. Teams may also be limiting resolution based on network conditions.
Yes. With NDI tools or virtual camera software (e.g. OBS Virtual Camera), you can route any Magewell-captured source into Teams as a virtual webcam, allowing you to share HDMI/SDI sources — cameras, laptops, presentation slides — directly into a Teams call.