Hi all, so after Volleyball and Darts we now did our first stream for table tennis.

It was Teams Cupfinals and we were asked to focus on men's final.

Here's the link to relplay in 720p.

www.rtl.lu/sport/997776.html

Will upload 1080p to our youtubechannel later.

BTW the language you here is Luxembourgish (Yes we have our own language ;) )

Marc
SPORTSTREAMING.LU

Salut Guillaume,

you are absolutely right. We had (rented) 3 PTZ Panasonic cameras all going into the panasonic switch. We added one camera of ours Sony Fx1000e (ro Hdmi-Sdi converter) also into the Switch. SDI out to Magewell caputure dongle(USB3).

1 operator was doing the switching and the replay using the akai mini.

Most of the grafics including scoreboard was handled by myself using UTC for vmix on a laptop.

As I was also commentator (Aufio going into behringer 1204USB) this was a nice challenge.

Fortunately I had an commentating expert next to me that took over the speech when I had to focus on the score and grafics :)

Oh, we used a canon camcorder through hdmi to magewell USB Dongle as instant replay camera.

So kn the end we were 2 operators handling 5 cameras ☺️, grafics and live commentary.

It was a great experience and we will develop further ideas of optimizing our workflow in the future.

À la prochaine

Marc

So you had 2 Magewell USB3 plugged into vMix? One for the Pana switcher PGM out + one for the replay cam... No problem with that ? I've had trouble trying to do that, one Magewell would freeze from time to time...

Yep nice setup for a 2 guys production! For future projects, maybe you can try 2 vMix with NDI in between (or a single one with 4/8 inputs), it gives a lot of confort and it's very reliable.

Bravo!

Guillaume

@ mburel1980

Essentially, I am curious to know more about your workflow, why you chose to use the Panasonic hardware switcher (as a traditionalist, I like the idea of hardware switcher), what issues you may have had with the set-up and where you think improvements could be made, both in terms of vMix's ease of use in that set-up, as well as features or options that would improve it's overall functionality in this type of production.
Undoubtedly, you lose some functionality of vMix in this set-up, but there is something to be said for having a hardware switcher and I am always curious how people manage such workflows.


Ice

@DWAM



I have a Bescor MP101. How do you control it over Ethernet?

Yes that's true. In fact there are more reasons:

1. Actually we have not enough capture devices to take advantage of the 3 PTZ cameras + 2 fixed (only own 3 capture dongles (2 HDMI, 1 SDI))
2. I doubt that our PC is able to manage up to 5 inputs + replay (I7 - 4790 3,6Ghz, 16GB DDR3 RAM, Gigabyte Grafics GT730 2 GB, 500 SSD + 1TB)
3. As mentioned before I tried to connect the panasonic cams to vmix to use the ptz function but it didn't work.

So now we have 1 operator doing the camera control AND the switching and 1 doing titles. If the PTZ function doesn't work with the borrowed panasonic cameras but want to do the switching in vmix we need one more operator :o)




I think we don't need the laptop for title control but could do it using the vmix pc as the director uses the pana switch and the akai mini.

In future we are planning 1. upgrade our grafics card 2. update vmix to pro edition and 3. buy a bm Decklink duo 2 to use more functionality of vmix but this means spending about 1000 EUR and so we have to be patient...

Hope this helps your curiosity ;o)

Best wishes

Marc

Salut Marc




Apart from the missing decent graphics card, I'm pretty sure you can have 5 cams + replay on this computer if you had a GTX.
I still use a second gen i7 with a GTX 960 for some productions with to 7 cams @1080. No problem.

I don't know the rental prices in Luxemburg, but I have always preferred to invest for my own equipments than to throw away hundreds/thousands euros into rentals.

Panasonic equipments can be tricky sometimes. It's too late now but I'm pretty sure there was a parameter to be changed in its setup menu for vMix access. Keep us posted, maybe I'll face the same issue with AW-HE40 when I can try it.

Bonne journée à toi