live streaming with video mixer

[crox]

as above really!

 

We are looking to livestream a weekly event which will feature both someone speaking, and footage from a DVD.

 

A typical, low cost solution like a streamed webcam won't work obviously, so what are our options? There is some budget, but we will likely have someone with little video mixing experiencing (although very competent IT professional) operating it on the night. If it wasn't for the DVD, I think the Livestream Mevo would work ...

 

We do have Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle if that helps to build in, but I quite like the look of Roland V-1HD, but it isn't clear what camera inputs it would support?

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Shez]

vMix might do the job for you.

[J Pearce]

OBS might also work, I recall it has some basic switching built into it.

[henny]

Another vote for vmix it will do what you need and more

[nplatt]

I'm playing with a similar idea.

 

I have a Kramer switcher with a camera / DVD and PC attached, normally the output goes directly to a projector but I have put an active splitter on the Kramer output with one going to the projector and the other going to a capture card plugged into a PC running OBS.

 

OBS is set up to stream whatever the capture card sees so I can use the Kramer which already works well switching between inputs.

 

OBS could take different inputs and switch between them, just easier for me to add it on to the end of the chain and let the Kramer do the switching.

[Dave m]

I have been looking into something similar.Live lectures that are mainly PP plus camera, but maybe performance, currently done via multicam in post

Black magic television studio HD is £850 ( 8 input mixer) Black magic web presenter £450 ( 2 inputs out to USB as one webcam)

Black magic can be very fussy about inputs matching so various extra boxes may be needed to ensure they match

[J Pearce]

We have a setup for live streaming shows that works on a blackmagic web presenter, two cameras (one HDMI, one SDI), and OBS on a laptop.

 

Holding slides and any playout are handled within OBS, and camera switching is handled by the webpresenter.

 

Does the DVD playout live as well as to the stream?

[Matt Riley]

I know this isn't a hardware option, but I know some people that have spoken very highly of using software like https://www.xsplit.com for this. This will also support IP CCTV cameras and all sorts of other interesting inputs.

[VideoCol]

I've recently been looking into the same with a hardware mixer for a series of lectures at a local museum....the V1-HD will take 720p, 1080i and 1080p but I believe they all need to be the same resolution, you cannot mix resolutions across the inputs.

 

I needed the mixer to take a laptop input to grab powerpoint etc and good audio control and a built in monitor so I went for the VR4-HD instead, it was lots more dough than the V1-HD but I feel it was worth the extra and will definitely simplify the whole workflow and reduce the amount of boxes/cables I'm carrying.

 

For a single HDMI plus a media file (rip it from the dvd to a laptop hdd) OBS and a decent HDMI capture unit is ideal, the Magewell usb capture range is very good (up to 4K), the boxes appear to software as a webcam and need no drivers/apps so are also good for Skype, Facebook, etc.