Question / Help OBS and Streaming Sports (Questions regarding upgrading my setup)

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ProVideo1

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I start doing streaming last year for our organization and I put together the following setup -

Sony HXR-NX70U
El Gato Capture HD (original version)
OBS
SBE Scoreboard Plugin

Using a ASUS Laptop with Quad Core I7 8GB RAM

We are streaming our events on YouTube. Here is an example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbnqbY1DyLA

With the current setup our camera can capture 1080 but El Gato HD Capture is limited to 720.

I'm looking to upgrade our device and I'm wondering what the best option is to boost the quality of our streaming?

Our goals -

Basically we want to be able to stream in the highest quality possible (limited by our internet connection at the venue of course). If there's the ability to run 2 cameras through a card and a broadcasting software with smooth transistions (unlike the OBS 1-2 second delay when switching sources) and then run through OBS that would be awesome.

We can move to a tower PC and internal card if that is going to offer a boost in quality.

Eventually we may move to a Blackmagic ATEM TVS and run through mxlight for streaming so we can have multiple cameras, transitions, and commercials run during our streams.

I'm not sure if we should spend $300-$500 now to put together a great single camera HDMI type stream or if we should just make the jump up and spend $1000 on the Blackmagic switcher so we can add HD-SDI cameras, multiple cameras, etc.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have to say - the simple solution we started with has been awesome and worked quite well, we just are looking to improve our quality and clarity as well as add more cool broadcast type features.

Thank you!
 
If you have standalone audio, take a look at the Datapath Vision E2. Two 1080p@60fps inputs, but doesn't capture audio. Designed for multi-card use, with hardware jumpers to set response ordering, allowing up to I believe 16 individual 1080@60 inputs in one system (assuming you populate all 8 PCIe slots with them). Also has a native OBS plugin for lower capture overhead, and faster response.
If you're willing to go multi-card for each input, look into the SC512. Micomsoft sells a version as the SC-512N1-L/DVI for $330, Yuan sells one for $200 (same card). 1080p@60, embedded or supplementary audio via breakout cable. Feeds HDMI through a passive dvi->hdmi adapter. Also capable of RGB24 for full color, instead of cut sampling.

Blackmagic is a pretty strong name in broadcasting, but their gear is also notorious for being finicky, flaky, fragile, and temperamental. Their new flagship BMIP 4K is currently more or less a write-off until they fix a LOT of problems. It got kicked out the door in a severely half-baked state. I'm pretty sure they're one of those companies who are only still in the business because everyone knows the name, and not out of merit at this point. Kind of like Apple with the Adobe crowd.

Laptops are great for portability, but you run into problems like these... might look at the XCAPTURE-1, which is a USB 3.0 device capable of 1080@60. Avoid the Avermedia Extremecap U3, it has a bundle of problems.

Could also see about upgrading to the Elgato HD60, though it's still a USB 2.0 device and not advised (it has to pre-compress the video to fit over the USB 2.0 bus, leading to the 2 second capture delay, and lower video quality as a result). Says it does 1080@60, and would be a straight-across upgrade.
 
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