I am working on a system for streaming and recording services for a church service. We have about $600 to spend for the pc (not including capture card). We currently have a single Canon Vixia HF M400 on a manfrotto tripod, and are currently happy with the quality of the recorded video. The goal is to allow for streaming video to the internet live (probably at 360p due to current internet speed), and to insert power points and lower thirds live for the stream, and to record to reduce editing time later.

I was thinking I would use a single BlackMagic Decklink mini recorder as an input for vmix. The powerpoint would come in over the screen capture from the presentation computer. I would like to be able to add more capture cards of the same type later, if we were to add more cameras. This is the pc that I have com up with:

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/computerman1597/saved/9BgZxr

Would this be powerful enough computer for single camera 720p capture and streaming, and would it physically be capable of handling more mini recorders later if we wanted to add mor cameras (possibly up to 3 without making other changes). I know that we would probably want to add a graphics card if we were to do a lot of cameras, and we would plan on doing that soon. We would like to get the mini recorder and graphics card next year under a new budget, but would like to get all of the pc built under what is left of this years budget.

Basically, would the computer above be able to hanle two to three mini recorder cards in the future?

Thanks.

I do plan on getting a dedicated graphics card in the near future, probably something like a GTX 650 in the near future. As far as the hard drive, I have an SSD for the OS, software, and any media I need to play on the vmix PC. The 160GB Hard drive will only be for recording, all recordings will be transfered for archival elsewhere.


I searched for the Motherboard, and found an old post saying that decklink cards work with the ASUS Motherboard I picked:

http://forums.vmix.com.au/default.aspx?g=posts&t=2740



According to the Newegg page the motherboard can run a single PCIe x16 or Dual x8 on the PCIe 3.0, plus a PCIe 2.0 at x4 (which i believe is enough for a decklink quad), and 4 x1. Theoretically this would be enough for a single high end graphics card plus a decklink quad and a totall of four decklink mini recorders or mini monitors. Of course, most of the rest of the computer would need to be beefed up, but its nice to know that the motherboard can at lest theoretically support it.

One more quick question is, if we wanted to show the program feed on a monitor elsewhere in the building, how well does just using an output from the graphics card fed to the monitor with vmix set to fullscreen on that monitor work?


Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132116&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

As far as graphics cards, what would you guys recommend?