# Integrating Third-Party Camera Filters
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You can integrate third-party camera filter SDKs with the IVS broadcast SDK by feeding the filter SDK’s output to a [custom image input source](broadcast-custom-image-sources.md). A custom image-input source allows an application to provide its own image input to the Broadcast SDK. A third-party filter provider’s SDK may manage the camera’s lifecycle to process images from the camera, apply a filter effect, and output it in a format that can be passed to a custom image source.

![Integrating third-party camera filter SDKs with the IVS broadcast SDK by feeding the filter SDK’s output to a custom image input source.](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/latest/RealTimeUserGuide/images/3P_Camera_Filters_Integrating.png)


Consult your third-party filter provider’s documentation for built-in methods to convert a camera frame, with the filter effect, applied to a format that can be passed to a [custom image-input source](broadcast-custom-image-sources.md). The process varies, depending on which version of the IVS broadcast SDK is used:
+ **Web** — The filter provider must be able to render its output to a canvas element. The [captureStream](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/captureStream) method can then be used to return a MediaStream of the canvas’s contents. The MediaStream can then be converted to an instance of a [LocalStageStream](https://aws.github.io/amazon-ivs-web-broadcast/docs/sdk-reference/classes/LocalStageStream) and published to a Stage.
+ **Android** — The filter provider’s SDK can either render a frame to an Android `Surface` provided by the IVS broadcast SDK or convert the frame to a bitmap. If using a bitmap, it can then be rendered to the underlying `Surface` provided by the custom image source, by unlocking and writing to a canvas.
+ **iOS** — A third-party filter provider’s SDK must provide a camera frame with a filter effect applied as a `CMSampleBuffer`. Refer to your third-party filter vendor SDK’s documentation for information on how to get a `CMSampleBuffer` as the final output after a camera image is processed.