Hello again everyone! I was one of many sound techs that were tasked with getting live streams set up for their church amidst COVID. I received lots of good advice from this forum when we were experiencing horrible sound issues and now we have crisp, clean, and beautiful audio from the changes that we made based on those suggestions.
So here's my next dilemma (that's a bit dramatic).
I am a camera/video noviceOur GearWe have two cameras at the moment and one input from our Powerpoint computer.
Both cameras can output 1080p via Mini-HDMI to HDMI. (I can get you the camera models if that helps, they are simple camcorders).
We use HDMI-USB converters to connect to our PC (Intel Core i7-10700 CPU @ 2.9GHz, Geforce 1650 - I think).
Our budget didn't allow for the top-of-the-line models so two of these are the "next best thing/budget" and another one is a "super budget" option that actually does better than the other two for whatever reason. (Note: I think this may be my problem but I have no idea).
Our live streaming software of choice is VMix.
Which has been setup in every way I can tell, to take inputs of 1080p and output in every way 1080p.
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Our IssueFrom Camera to VMixAs I said before, I believe everything is setup to input and output 1080p, but the input views clearly look sub-1080p. I have not figured out any option in the software to adjust it anymore. It is also quite grainy which can be helped by making sure there's more light (but we can only do so much).
From VMix to FacebookNow I know that Facebook, by default, caps live stream quality at 720p. I know we are not reaching that quality though when our stream is up even though it will say it is. (Potato quality some would say). Visit
https://www.saintmarkgr.org/live-streams-recordings/live-stream/ for samples of what I'm speaking about.
What are we doing wrong? What are the major issues we should inspect first? Any advice is helpful!
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All in all, this is not an urgent issue, but something we'd like to get to sooner than later. Right now, it looks GREAT on a phone screen, but size that up to a 65" TV like we've had some of our members do and that GREAT turns into "It'll do".
I will get a detailed list of exactly what our equipment is.
Thanks everyone!