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Professional Configuration – Multi-camera / Live Event

I want to:

Bring in Pro/consumer HDMI/SDI Cameras
Bring in Audio using a multichannel audio mixer
Create a 720p, a 360p webstream and a 720p recorded archive of my stream
Use a green screen, lower thirds, transitions and also apply a watermark

Stream Resolutions:

Stream 1:
Stream 2:
Local copy:
640x360@30fps (Flash, WM or QT)
1280x720@30fps (Flash, WM or QT)
1280x720@30fps (Flash, WM or QT)
 

Suggested Setup

2 x HDMI sources (Such as Camcorders)
1 x SDI camera source
1 hardware audio mixer


Cameras that we recommend

  • Canon XA10 (HDMI)
  • Canon XF100 (Has HDMI output as well as an HD-SDI model)
  • Sony PMW-EX1R (Has HDMI, HDV, and HD-SDI outputs)


HDMI/ SDI Capture Cards and other ways to bring in HD Video

(Click here for supported capture cards)

NOTE: Dell hardware does not support Blackmagic capture cards

  • Blackmagic Decklink Studio Extreme (for bringing in SDI and HDMI sources)
  • Teradek Wifi Cube (Can bring in HDMI or SDI sources depending on cube model)
  • Matrox Mullti-Ingest Card (Mac Only) 4 HD-SDI ingest card
  • LiveU video-over-cellular portable backback can bring in remote computer running Wirecast or remote camera source


Internet connection

High-Speed Business Internet (Estimated 50 Mbps uprate)


External Microphones

As many as you need mixed through a mixer with the audio being routed via "tape out" or other into the cameras or audio in on the computer. This allows you to use standard XLR mics and intregrate with professional audio set ups


Computer

We suggest a computer with the following minimum requirements:

CPU:
Graphics:
Resolution:
Memory:
Hard Drive:
8 core (2 Quad Core-intel Xeon Processors)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5 vram
1920x1080
6GB RAM
Enough storage for local archive
 
An example that fits this description would be a Mac Pro, however, a similarly equipped Windows Machine would also work