Pingu96
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So you said this in February, but on the WAN show a couple of weeks ago you said about having issues with xsplit and that you needed to look into alternatives. Honestly, I don't think that xsplit is the issue, I think it's driver and update support for all of the input devices you're mashing together to get the WAN show to work. Windows constantly breaks stuff accidentally and it's just not reliable for broadcasting. Moving to a hardware solution like the BM Television Studio HD like @TechFanboy suggested is the most 'professional' way to do things as it's been created for an industry that does this regularly and can't have it fail on them. I do think that this will save you lots of time in the future. especially if you want to do more live streams like you did for the Apple Keynote. Maybe it's worth looking at while you are talking about investing time in learning OBS?
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WAN Show setup suggestion.
To @LinusTech and @Slick
So you're talking about switching out of explit to OBS because of compatibility with capture cards and whatnot but I'd like to show you an alternative that makes more sense for the kind of show that you run with lots of inputs from multiple sources.
Right now you're using explit as a software video switcher which is kinda okay and historically was a vastly cheaper way to do that kind of production than having a hardware switcher but recently Blackmagic has brought the price of a traditional broadcast hardware switcher down considerably and I think that moving the video source switching to a dedicated specialised device would be a more elegant solution - taking a lot of processing away from the CPU of your stream computer and relying less on USB devices with lots of drivers that are constantly getting driver updates and running into problems with windows mandatory updates and updates to your broadcasting software.
The way I'd suggest you run the setup is by having your BM Production camera, your laptops and whatever other sources you want to input go into a 'BlackMagic Television Studio HD' where you'd setup all of the scenes you want with lower thirds and picture in picture effects. Then run the SDI out of that hardware switcher into to your streaming device through a capture card that accepts SDI (BM do a bunch but I'm sure there are others). This way explit/OBS and your processor would only be responsible for taking that one video in, combining it with audio and encoding it to stream to twitch. You're not relying on janky software but a professional hardware solution that's a slightly cut down version of what they'd use on something like a live news television broadcast and it's actually pretty cheap at around $1000 (but you can find it a little cheaper if you shop around.)
Don't know if this would help or not, It's a different way of looking at the same problem.
Link to Blackmagic product page: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/atemtelevisionstudiohd -
I am the general purpose video guy at my local church, My bread and butter is video production/editing (things like weekly news and whatnot) however we've recently started doing video broadcasting of live video from cameras around the stage during worship, to do this we use my canon 5Dmk3 and 60D, and 2 GoPro's. we use a Roland v-40HD for our video mixer because it's the best product for this at the budget I was given. The downside to it is that we only have 4 inputs, one being taken up by the PC that runs the lyrics(on a background we chromakey out), notices, and videos, That leaves 3 inputs for 4 cameras. We get around this by using a cheap 3 in one out switch, the kind you'd use to add ports to a TV, but this is passive, meaning that my cameras aren't handshaking until I select the specific input that they are on. This causes lag while the camera registers there's and input, sometimes they don't handshake at all so I have to click the next input and then go back to try again. It's super frustrating. I have been looking for a while but I can't find a cheap switch that will constantly keep all the ports active so it doesn't have to handshake over and over. Am I being dumb and using the wrong keywords in my search? or does such a product not exist? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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so I just bought this POS (Point of sale that is... not the other thing... please don't ban me gods/forum admins) It's all mechanical with Cherry MX Blacks, 128 keys that all have clear covers over the keys that allow you to put in your own icons for the keys and the best part is that it's really easily hardware programmable so that you don't have to use lua or intercept to make the keyboard recognised as a second input device. I think that Taran should seriously consider getting a used one of these for his macro keyboard. picked mine up from ebay for £80, there are more expensive ones and there are less expensive ones, ones with a qwerty keyboard included and ones in a matrix layout (like mine) but the point is that all you have to do is use the normally pretty user friendly software once to assign macros to each key and the keyboard just remembers it. Then you only have to run autohotkey for your more advanced macros where mouse strokes are involved. It's pretty great. I thought i'd mention it because it's not that expensive but it makes the whole process a lot easier to manage... and i have a few more keys too.
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The affordable content creator's server build (Video Idea)
Hi Luke
I wanted to pitch this idea that I've got to you. See LMG tends to have two popular video subjects that never intersect, 'Affordable tech' (shows like scrapyard wars and nifty tech under £/$x) and 'Server stuff' (normally vlogs where you make a super expensive machine to aid with workflow or just a machine for crazy impractical tasks like 10 gamers one pc or whatever). I am calling you out on this. I think that you should use this knowledge you have acquired while setting up these infinitely complex and expensive machines to give the community (which tends to have far less resources than LMG) something that's actually useable in their world... on a shoestring budget.
There are always loads of shops on Ebay with names like 'Bargain hardwear' where you can pick up really cheap ex commercial rack mount servers. (we're talking £70 each) so it's really easy to get hold of this kind of equipment for a decent price, but there isn't any content on what to do with it.
I'm sure that there are lots of useful tasks that you could create tutorials around optimising this hardware to do, and maybe if you have more ideas you can make it a series, but what I suggest is a simple raid server that you can plug an sd card into (or other forms of portable storage), it automatically copies it and archives it in a folder with the date and time that it's been plugged in at and the server just sits on your local network ready for you to access this archive from other machines on your network. This would be brilliant for me because I'm a content creator. It's a pain in the ass to constantly back up my raw footage from my main machine 'just in case' and i'm sure there are so many others in my position. If this was available to me I'd simply have to plug my sd cards into this after a film or photo shoot and the data would be there for me to use by the time I got around to turning on my main machine to edit what i've shot. It'd save so much worry about losing important data and it would smooth out the workflow.
What do you think?
(Also, If you do create this video, please notify me beforehand so I can purchase the hardware before this video drives up the price of it all, Thanks
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Update.
You might not even need to figure out the scripting for it as I put out a feeler on the level1tech forums to see if anyone could help me with it a project like this and 'sgtawesomesauce' is willing to give me a hand to develop this on linux. I would post the link to the thread but I'm not sure if that's okay and I'm too lazy to check the user guidelines at 1:30am, But the thread is called 'Using Linux to archive content' if you're interested.
Just message me if you're interested in this and I'll keep you posted on the progress we make. We might also add in the possibility to transcode to cineform but we'll see, the hardware might suck a little too much for that.
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This projector looks awesome, It's hard to tell just how good it is without actually getting my hands on this myself but something like this would be perfect for using at the youth group that i volunteer at because it wouldn't be as easy for that annoying kid to come along and make shadow puppets while the other kids are having a really intense game of COD or Fifa on the screen (an issue that we have most nights with the long throw projector we currently use)
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I would love the keyboard because: I have had the same cheap membraine logitech keyboard since i was about 12 (i'm 19 now), it's missing keys, the WASD keys are worn out so you can't see the letters and to be honest i was completely fine with this but about a month ago my brother got an awesome mechanical keyboard, i can't recall what one, but it's good, and now I look at my keyboard and it's just not the same. It feels like i cheated a little, but in the bad way where i want to do it again, like my wife and I only ever did missionary and now I've had my eyes opened to completely new experiences... Please enable me to cheat again by giving me this keyboard. (This is just a metopher by the way, i'm just trying to play to your sense of humour, but the bit about me being jelouse of my brother is true and it sucks having to go back to my membraine keyboard after feeling the glorious click of mechancal switches under my fingertips.) Thanks for your time and consieration, All the best, Phil.
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okay, i feared that the consensus would be that way because i'm being lazy but fair enough. Would you recommend getting one of those everything you need boxes? or would it be easier/cheaper to buy everything myself? Thanks again
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Hey, So I'm going to be building my dream PC in a few months when I've saved up enough, It'll be a i7-5960x with 64GB of ram and a Titan X. I don't really like the reference cooler on the titan because i'd just like to cool it more efficiently in my already warm office however i don't want to create a custom water loop because i'll be using it for my work so i want it to be consistently reliable. Do you think the Kraken G10 would be a good solution? the website currently says it's not reliable but i don't know if that's because it's a new graphics card or because it genuinely won't fit? could someone help me clear this up or offer any other solutions? - Thanks a lot, i appreciate it.
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