Event Livestreaming

[silverD]

I too found Allen's guide helpful.
We use a speaker stand in conjunction with an extendable painters pole to get the GoPro elevated. The AVerMedia LGP C875 captures the GoPro video feed and we use the field audio. A basic composite capture card is used to get the FMS overlay. We are using OBS to stream.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Here is a guide to our cheap version of doing a webcast.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...h.3cwabzu1ols4

This is a bit outdated. We are probably moving to xSplit this year as well.

Originally Posted by silverD

I too found Allen's guide helpful.
We use a speaker stand in conjunction with an extendable painters pole to get the GoPro elevated. The AVerMedia LGP C875 captures the GoPro video feed and we use the field audio. A basic composite capture card is used to get the FMS overlay. We are using OBS to stream.

Thanks guys this has helped a bunch
I have a lot of the gopro stuff already and our other team captain has an elgato. Ill buy 2 easycaps one for the FMS and one for the D7000 (Its an older camera so it natively supports composite outs.

Ill make that little painters pole gopro stand also good idea. I already have that little pole clamp in fact its my bag (Forgot to take it out after my last vacation and its fun to fiddle with while in class.

Im still going to play around with OBS vs Xsplit. I have a license for Xsplit and OBS is free. I dont like that OBS doesnt have transitions but I think I can add that with a plugin.

Thanks again guys

[AllenGregoryIV]

One of the biggest problems with live streams is the audio.
If you broadcast the music to most hosts you will likely be taken down for copyright. If you are also in charge of the sound for the event this is pretty easy to fix by just sending the audio from the field and the MC/announcers to the stream on an FX out on your sound mixer or something similar to that.

We also just do full field live streams, for inside the event having someone experienced with a shoulder rig or steady cam would be great but my preference for the live stream is to keep it the full field view so you don't miss any of the action.

[silverD]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Ill make that little painters pole gopro stand also good idea.

Here is more info on the GoPro stand we made.
Parts: Stand and Pole.
We had to sand down the inside of the plastic top ring on the stand so that the pole would slide inside. We also removed the bottom cap of the pole and drilled a hole through the center and near the bottom of the outer pole so that we could put a bolt through both the stand and pole to prevent it from sliding down. In the pics below neither the stand or pole have been extended and it's about 8ft.
Let me know if you have questions,
Nate