peligroraton
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Hi guys
I have a YouTube channel, it's doing OK now, over 80K subscribers
I teach electronic repair, I don't know if it is OK to mention my channel name here? Viewing a few of my videos would be relevant to my question.
I'll describe my current setup. I'm using OBS studio with several cameras, and do picture-in-picture in real time, then edit the video together with Davinci Resolve on another PC
I've just updated my recording PC using mostly second hand parts. It's now i7-7700K, 16Gb DDR4, RTX 2070 Super, Windows 10 64 bit on NVMe 500Gb, M2 250Gb as recording target drive, and a 4TB HDD. I have an additional PCIe 4 way USB3 card, along with the onboard 4x USB3 and 2x USB ports
Following is my recording system and I am looking for advice upgrading my cameras.
Mounted directly over my workbench I have a USB 1080p 30fps C Mount camera with 5mm-50mm manual zoom lens. This is also manual focus and aperture. - this is my main 'background' camera, it cost me about €70
On one of my monitors I have a USB 2K 30fps webcam, a cheap one from Ali Express, about € 22 and it is 'face cam' pointed directly towards me and usually displays in a small PiP window (though sometimes I expand it to full screen when recording an intro or outro to my videos.
I have another similar €20 USB 1080p 30fps webcam in a small desk tripod. This is 'instruments cam' and I position it to focus close-up on my multimeter or other test equipment as needed, it displays in a small PiP window below or to the left of 'face cam' when in use.
On my optical trinocular microscope I have another 1080p C Mount camera from Aliexpress. This one is 60 fps and has both HDMI and USB outputs, I'm currently using it on USB. This can display the view from my miscroscope in an inset PiP window but I often use it as the full screen background image, switching between bench cam and microscope cam when needed. It cost about €100 (just the camera not the microscope!!)
I also have a 60fps HDMI-USB capture card which i use to record the output of computers or graphics cards I am repairing, either PiP or full screen.
Lastly I have (but not using yet) two new Logitech Brio Ultra HD 4K webcams.
The setup works pretty well, I record and publish 4-5 videos a week. However I want to upgrade it as follows
I would like to go to at least 1080p 60fps as I often move PCBs quickly on the bench while working on them.
1440p would be a bonus, I'm not sure I need to go above that?
The main thing I want to do is to upgrade Bench Cam. I'm looking for at least 1080p 60 fps, similar or better optical zoom range than my C Mount 5mm-50mm but with auto focus. And auto optical zoom with a remote control would be ideal. The physical working distance of bench cam is about 90cm-100cm if that helps.
Upgrading it above 1080p would be nice, though not totally required, but I would still need 1080p 60fps to be selectable even if the camera supports higher resolution. This needs to either connect to my PC for live recording (and possibly live streaming) either by USB or HDMI, I could get a PCIe HDMI capture card if needed to use with bench cam, I have a few spare slots in the PC
The other problem I have is with video capture. I do quite a lot of retro PC repair, so I need to capture from VGA. Not gaming, just BIOS, Linux or Windows screen. And so far I have not got it working. I tried a couple of VGA-HDMI adapters to connect to my HDMI-USB capture device but it does not give a picture. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
Lastly I am thinking of upgrading face cam and instruments cam using the 2x Logitech Brio, but do I really need to run these at 60fps if they are mainly in small inset PiP windows? I think OBS can sort this out for me in software.
Oh for audio I use an Audio Technica Omni Directional Condensor mic suspended above the werkbench at head height, a DJ mixer and an Audio Compressor feeding into line in on the PC.
Sorry for the length of this post, I hope I gave enough detail to help with replies, but not so much to put readers to sleep
best regards.
I have a YouTube channel, it's doing OK now, over 80K subscribers
I teach electronic repair, I don't know if it is OK to mention my channel name here? Viewing a few of my videos would be relevant to my question.
I'll describe my current setup. I'm using OBS studio with several cameras, and do picture-in-picture in real time, then edit the video together with Davinci Resolve on another PC
I've just updated my recording PC using mostly second hand parts. It's now i7-7700K, 16Gb DDR4, RTX 2070 Super, Windows 10 64 bit on NVMe 500Gb, M2 250Gb as recording target drive, and a 4TB HDD. I have an additional PCIe 4 way USB3 card, along with the onboard 4x USB3 and 2x USB ports
Following is my recording system and I am looking for advice upgrading my cameras.
Mounted directly over my workbench I have a USB 1080p 30fps C Mount camera with 5mm-50mm manual zoom lens. This is also manual focus and aperture. - this is my main 'background' camera, it cost me about €70
On one of my monitors I have a USB 2K 30fps webcam, a cheap one from Ali Express, about € 22 and it is 'face cam' pointed directly towards me and usually displays in a small PiP window (though sometimes I expand it to full screen when recording an intro or outro to my videos.
I have another similar €20 USB 1080p 30fps webcam in a small desk tripod. This is 'instruments cam' and I position it to focus close-up on my multimeter or other test equipment as needed, it displays in a small PiP window below or to the left of 'face cam' when in use.
On my optical trinocular microscope I have another 1080p C Mount camera from Aliexpress. This one is 60 fps and has both HDMI and USB outputs, I'm currently using it on USB. This can display the view from my miscroscope in an inset PiP window but I often use it as the full screen background image, switching between bench cam and microscope cam when needed. It cost about €100 (just the camera not the microscope!!)
I also have a 60fps HDMI-USB capture card which i use to record the output of computers or graphics cards I am repairing, either PiP or full screen.
Lastly I have (but not using yet) two new Logitech Brio Ultra HD 4K webcams.
The setup works pretty well, I record and publish 4-5 videos a week. However I want to upgrade it as follows
I would like to go to at least 1080p 60fps as I often move PCBs quickly on the bench while working on them.
1440p would be a bonus, I'm not sure I need to go above that?
The main thing I want to do is to upgrade Bench Cam. I'm looking for at least 1080p 60 fps, similar or better optical zoom range than my C Mount 5mm-50mm but with auto focus. And auto optical zoom with a remote control would be ideal. The physical working distance of bench cam is about 90cm-100cm if that helps.
Upgrading it above 1080p would be nice, though not totally required, but I would still need 1080p 60fps to be selectable even if the camera supports higher resolution. This needs to either connect to my PC for live recording (and possibly live streaming) either by USB or HDMI, I could get a PCIe HDMI capture card if needed to use with bench cam, I have a few spare slots in the PC
The other problem I have is with video capture. I do quite a lot of retro PC repair, so I need to capture from VGA. Not gaming, just BIOS, Linux or Windows screen. And so far I have not got it working. I tried a couple of VGA-HDMI adapters to connect to my HDMI-USB capture device but it does not give a picture. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
Lastly I am thinking of upgrading face cam and instruments cam using the 2x Logitech Brio, but do I really need to run these at 60fps if they are mainly in small inset PiP windows? I think OBS can sort this out for me in software.
Oh for audio I use an Audio Technica Omni Directional Condensor mic suspended above the werkbench at head height, a DJ mixer and an Audio Compressor feeding into line in on the PC.
Sorry for the length of this post, I hope I gave enough detail to help with replies, but not so much to put readers to sleep
best regards.
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