Licht.Pfad announces a new TouchDesigner workshop for DJs, Musicians and Visual artists who want to stream AV content with brilliant visual quality using the power of TouchDesigner .
Program:
Part I - Hardware / Software setup
Learn more about Newtek's NDI tools and downloads. In Livestream Studio, navigate to the Inputs tab in the lower left corner. Select Add Input Remote. Any available NDI source will appear in the menu for you to select. Your NDI source will appear in the bottom of your Inputs list and in your multi-view along with all other inputs. NDI ® Tools More Devices. More Possibilities. NDI ® Tools is a free suite of applications designed to introduce you to the world of IP. NDI makes it possible to connect to any device, in any location, anywhere in the world – and transmit live video to wherever you are. My goal is to stream my music production sessions via OBS. I've been trying to use NDI to stream from my laptop while doing my work in Ableton on my desktop (2018 Mac Mini with 32gb RAM, 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7), but even when I'm letting my laptop handle the streaming, OBS completely. NDI is a brand of the Vizrt Group and a royalty-free technology that allows video and audio sources to be shared bi-directionally across a network, eliminating the need for costly direct connections, expensive cable runs, and infrastructure upgrades while turning every source into a destination instantly available anywhere on the network. 5 Free Creative Lower Third Themes to Make Your Live Stream Stand Out. By Cody Patterson May 4, 2020 16386 Views. Don’t let your live stream or IMAG lower thirds lag behind. Here are some of the best font and design combinations out there right now for lower thirds text. Left Aligned Gradient. Photo Credit: Veronic Wadas at Mercy City Church.
- NDI / SPOUT
- Using the DSLR Camera as a Source
- Using Smartphone as a Source
- Setting up hardware connections
- Latency
- Audio routing
Part II - OBS Studio:
- Streaming setup using OBS Studio
- Connection setup:
- Youtube
- Restream.io
- Layout
- Sound Setup
- Recording
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Part III - Setup the streaming system in TouchDesigner
- Connecting TouchDesigner to OBS
- Setting up cameras
- System architecture
- Color Correction
- Layout
- EFFECTS
- Control UI
- Controling TouchDesigner from Ableton
Over the years I've collected a few webcams, some quality and some not. If you're interested in creating the ultimate remote worker webcam setup on a budget, I've written a blog post on the topic.
However, now that we are a remote workers - my entire company has everyone working remotely until further notice - I've found that an extra webcam or two can really be helpful if I want to point a camera at something on my desk, or get a wider view, look at a whiteboard, etc.
Of course, you can always change video inputs in any application but there's that...pause...that...hang...that moment. You have to switch into your apps Device Settings, do the dropdown, switch, wait, and then you've changed the camera.
What if you could change cameras - scenes - like you were a movie director. But, you have minimal budget. What can you do for nothing or next to nothing? A lot.
What's the goal?
With minimal setup, you can feed all your webcams, your desktop itself, and really anything you can express as a 'scene' into a software video compositor and then output them as a virtual webcam.
Then you select and use that Virtual Webcam in your remote video conferencing tool of choice! The results are amazing.
Setup
First, get OBS and NDI Tools, specifically NDI Virtual Input.
- OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
- You have likely heard of this software package when you read about Twitch Streamers. Jeff Fritz uses this for his Live Streaming Setup. https://obsproject.com/
- NDI Tools and NDI Virtual Input.
- This is a software package that creates a virtual camera input.
- NDI Plug for OBS : obs-ndi - This allows the OBS software to send its output to NDI, the virtual camera.
- ALTERNATE:
- You can avoid using NDI Tools (which is an extra hop) and use OBS-VirtualCam as plugin instead. It will create a Virtual Camera locally and directly send 1080p video to a Virtual Cam called OBS-VirtualCam.
- OPTIONAL: Elgato Stream Deck and the Stream Deck Software
- They've got 6- and 15-key decks. The have full color LCD keys and you can make the icons look however you want. Ya, it's a portable hotkey button machine, but it's amazing. Note in the upper right corner of my Stream Deck I have three OBS buttons, one for each scene and the active one lights up. I've also made buttons to change my primary monitor's resolution. More on that in a future blog post. I've also got Elgato Stream Deck buttons to change my audio inputs an outputs as well, with a how-to.
- Don't want to buy a physical device? Use your phone as a Stream Deck with Stream Deck Mobile
- You could also buy Touch Portal for about $12 and use any old Android phone you have laying around as a remote control for this purpose!
- They've got 6- and 15-key decks. The have full color LCD keys and you can make the icons look however you want. Ya, it's a portable hotkey button machine, but it's amazing. Note in the upper right corner of my Stream Deck I have three OBS buttons, one for each scene and the active one lights up. I've also made buttons to change my primary monitor's resolution. More on that in a future blog post. I've also got Elgato Stream Deck buttons to change my audio inputs an outputs as well, with a how-to.
Install these three things and run OBS. When you run OBS after installing the NDI plugin, you'll need to go to Tools, NDI Output Settings and select Main Output. Leave OBS running.
Then run Virtual Input and right click on it in your tray (near the clock) and set it's output to your computer name | OBS. Mine is IRONHEART in the picture below. If you see None, you likely don't have OBS running.
Define your Scenes. Scenes are a collection of sources.
Add and name a scene, then add a Video Capture Device for your camera. I also like to set the Resolution manually.
I made one Fullscreen Scene per webcam, and one for my desktop that also includes my camera in PIP in the corner.
NOTE: If you're a teacher, perhaps you share just your lesson plans or browser window and yourself in video another way. You can be split screen, pip, or whatever makes you happy! Your scenes can be as complex as you'd like and include lesson plans, links, resources, and more!
To review:
- OBS is a compositor that feeds into
- NDI Virtual Input
- And Scenes can be changed dynamically (see animation at top of this post) by a Stream Deck, hotkey, or Stream Deck Mobile
- Select 'NewTek NDI Video' as your webcam in Teams or Skype or Zoom!
At this point you can change camera angles and select scenes when you're on a call! The transitions will be be instant and smooth for your viewers. This also works great for workshops and teachers teaching classes!
Thanks Jeff Fritz for your help with this! Do you have any OBS teams, dear reader?
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