Connecting OBS to Panasonic Digital AV Mixer

rlredmann

New Member
First of all: apologies if this is being posted incorrectly--I had a difficult time determining where I was supposed to ask this question. Moderators, please move it appropriately, if possible--or give me some advice as to where it belongs and how to get it there.

Now to the question:
Is it possible to connect a Panasonic digital AV mixer AG-HMX100 to OBS? Our church has 3 cameras mounted, running through a VADDIO precision camera controller and into a Panasonic video mixer--all of which feed (stupidly) into a DVD recorder. I've been streaming for a year with webcams into OBS, but would really like to be able to use the much higher quality cameras that can actually zoom, but no matter what I try, I cannot seem to figure out how to get the signal from the video mixer into OBS.

The congregation spent tens of thousands on this system a decade ago, but they never considered live streaming at the time. There is no money for a retrofit or new equipment; I am hoping that there is a way to connect these two pieces of equipment, and that I'm just not clever enough to have figured it out yet.

Running Windows 10, and the most recent update for OBS.

Really hoping for some help, if anyone has any to offer. Thank you.
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
What research have you done?
https://www.panasonic.com/in/business/broadcast/digital-av-switcher-and-mixer/ag-hmx100.html this unit?
The spec sheets only shows BNC (I'm guessing SDI) output. So how does the mixer output get to the DVD recorder?
First is figuring out if those old camera and the AG-HMX100 is in standard or high definition? and if SD (480p) will that suffice?
I'm guessing you'd want to take that SDI/BNC output, into a capture card, into OBS

Or, assuming one of the BNC outputs is used with the the DVD recorder, does that DVD recorder have a digital video monitoring option (DVI, HDMI, etc?) that you could use instead of the trying to come up with an SDI capture option [which may be easy, just not something I deal with our Panasonic NDI camera]. The downside of getting video after going thru the DVD recorder is an extra latency
 
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