Until the pandemic shut down most nursing home/senior center venues, I had been performing "sing-along" shows using a laptop (Windows 10) with the VLC mp4 player that output video to the venue's flat-screen TV and audio (mp4 and dynamic mic) to a portable (Kustom 50) speaker/amp/mixer. One hour shows, at least 20 songs....make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, pack up, say goodbye and drive to the next place and do it again.
Clients would like to have me resume these shows VIRTUALLY but I'm concerned that it would be very "klunky" to try to perform with just one computer that would run OBS, VLC player and mix the audio from the mp4's and a USB mic. When I'm doing a show "live", the VLC player starts and ends with a playlist and when I activate the hot-key to play, it starts/shows the lyrics/video on the full screen. When the song is finished, the display reverts to the playlist and I can ad-lib/control the start of the next song.
Does it make sense to think in terms of say using one computer to play the VLC videos....feed that audio and video to a second machine running OBS and add an HD external camcorder connected to the OBS machine to have the performer as a "picture in picture" and the performer's mic mixed via OBS?
In a super-cool environment, the OBS computer would be able to transition the performer's camera to full screen when the VLC player stops, but that may be asking for too much at this stage!
TIA to anyone with ideas/insights to share.
Dave
San Antonio, Texas
Clients would like to have me resume these shows VIRTUALLY but I'm concerned that it would be very "klunky" to try to perform with just one computer that would run OBS, VLC player and mix the audio from the mp4's and a USB mic. When I'm doing a show "live", the VLC player starts and ends with a playlist and when I activate the hot-key to play, it starts/shows the lyrics/video on the full screen. When the song is finished, the display reverts to the playlist and I can ad-lib/control the start of the next song.
Does it make sense to think in terms of say using one computer to play the VLC videos....feed that audio and video to a second machine running OBS and add an HD external camcorder connected to the OBS machine to have the performer as a "picture in picture" and the performer's mic mixed via OBS?
In a super-cool environment, the OBS computer would be able to transition the performer's camera to full screen when the VLC player stops, but that may be asking for too much at this stage!
TIA to anyone with ideas/insights to share.
Dave
San Antonio, Texas