When live streaming we often run everything on a laptop using a software called OBS!
To put in a very simple way: We plug in a camera source; we plug in a audio source; we give OBS a special 'Stream Key' and then we're good to go!
The details of how we actually get those sources into out laptop often depends on:
What laptop you have?
How many cameras you're running?
what instruments you have/what your performance consists of?
what equipment you have available to you already?
Below are a few setup examples - have a look through them and have a think about what could work for you:
Setup 1:
This setup is really nice and compact however it does require a pretty powerful laptop!
The clever part of this setup, and the reason your laptop will need a little more processing power, is the internal audio routing. As you can see from the diagram:
your instruments will go directly into an audio interface/sound card;
you will then mix your audio inside of your prefered DAW (Logic, Ableton, etc)
finally you will send the mixed audio to OBS via a virtual interface which you can learn about over at 'Streaming 101: The Virtual Interface'!
Connecting a camera is really nice and simple, as long as you're using a camera with an HDMI output! You will need to get yourself a 'capture card' but those are pretty inexpensive.
*please note - if your laptop has an HDMI port you still need a capture card! HDMI inputs and outputs do different things. Your laptop almost certainly only has an HDMI output and to get video into your laptop we will need an input!
Setup 2:
Setup 3:
Multi Camera Setup:
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Thanks, Emma!
Nice!