Computer for Streaming Baseball

[Wils0431]

Looking for a budget off the shelf computer. Will be used to stream baseball games to YouTube at 1080p 60fps. There are 4 Sony CX405 cameras around the ballpark providing a 1080p 60fps input via Hollyland wireless HDMI transmitters. I’d also like to record the each of the 4 inputs, but if this is too taxing on the computer, I can use an external recorder like a Atomos Ninja.

I’d like to play with Advanced Scene Switching to change cameras automatically, thus I need the 4 hdmi feeds to all come into OBS (otherwise I could use an external switcher like an ATEM).

For audio there is a field mic, and two announcer mics. These can go into a mixer before the computer or if possible the computer can do the mixing.

Looking for something off the shelf, ideally Amazon.

 

[AaronD]

Look for a (good!) gaming PC. Gaming specs and live-media specs are often very similar if not identical. Make sure the GPU can ENcode video; not all of them can.

You'll have to source your own capture card. No gaming rig comes with that. I like these:

ACASIS PCIe Capture Card

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For audio, do it outside of OBS, so that OBS can have exactly one audio source at all, and that's the final, finished soundtrack to pass through unchanged.

Get a good mixer that can also master it for broadcast, and not just add sources together and spit out their sum. You can do that with a digital console - I like Behringer's X32 and XR18 - or you can do it with an analog console AND an analog compressor that you plug into it.

However you do it, you want to have your final soundtrack right up next to full-scale without ever going over. And because this is live and you don't know what's coming, it's the compressor's job to tame whatever peaks there might be, so that you can put it there safely.

Bad settings for that compressor are of course audible and jarring, but good settings are practically transparent, while keeping things well-behaved. It doesn't really matter what compressor you use, as long as it has enough adjustment to give it some good settings. The channel/bus compressor on a digital console is usually enough, as is the now-classic Alesis 3630 analog compressor, or anything else that has similar settings.

Or you can do it in a DAW on the same machine as OBS. (Digital Audio Workstation) That's effectively a complete sound studio all in one app. But if you can afford to have a separate control surface like a physical console has, that's probably better. Although, there *are* control surfaces that can control a DAW, so that might also be an option.