Recording and Streaming Setup
In the day and age of COVID and social distancing remote seminars and workshops will become more common at our Makerspace. Here is some documentation of our quest to push some pixies out into the world!
Streaming and Recording Equipment
Workstation
To do proper video recording and streaming we plan on building a workstation that can handle the encoding, decoding and editing of video and audio. For funding we applied for a grand - stay tuned for updates!
Camera
TBD
Tor 4 Setup
Our BASF Tor 4 workshops were initially planned to host a discussion event alongside the workshop, however due to the Corona pandemic we had to move most of it to a digital event.
Streaming
The local video and audio recording is done with following equipment:
- Canon 7D (Magic Lantern firmware)
- cheap HDMI Capture card from Amazon
- wireless XLR mic
- wired XLR mic
- audio mixer
- various cables to hook everything up
- laptop to record and stream
The streaming is done via OBS with the 'Virtual Camera' Plugin, that allows the active scene in OBS to be outputted as a webcam interface and send to our Whererby room. As the Virtual Camera Plugin doesn't support audio passthrough, the microphone input is passed directly to Whereby in the browser.
Recording
We wanted to record the event at the same time as we streamed it, therefore additional recording setup needed to be done. Everything that is passed through OBS can also be recorded in the program without issues, which includes audio and video at the space. The Whereby room needed to be recorded separately using a screen recorder. To also capture the audio [ BlackHole] for MacOS was used to create virtual audio devices from the Whereby and local audio that can be passed into the screen recorder.
ToDo: Screenshot of device setup.
