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Switching the feed live with software

Switching the feed live with software

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Switching the feed live with software

- If purchasing a full-on switcher seems a bit out of your price range, there are many different software tools available that allow you to actually do switching and encoding on a laptop. Now, you will need some hardware, because computers don't have video input devices for the most part. Some sort of breakout box or device that will make it easy, and that's what I've done here. I actually have three video sources running into one laptop, and it's pretty amazing that we can pull this off. Now, in this case, I'm using devices from two different manufacturers to show you some of the different options that are out there. First up, this is the UltraStudio lineup from Black Magic, although lots of different manufacturers make these, and this is called a mini-recorder. On this side, it has an input. You could take either SDIN, and this is the HD/SDI option, so not 4K, but you can pull in a high definition video signal, and that signal can also have audio embedded on it, or you could bring…

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