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Hey everyone,
I'm really frustrated because I have been working on getting my switcher going at my church for a month and I know I'm close but have two main issues stopping me.
Here are the facts:
We are livestreaming our services to a second location. We use Live Stream.
The problem was when we showed a video in our main service it would not show in the streamed location unless we panned the camera up to the screen which is super cheezy and poor quality.
So we bought an ATEM TV Switcher, the basic $1,000 one.
I tried running In
Cannon camera hdmi > switcher
Imac - HDMI (for videos and propresenter) > switcher
Then out
Switcher > Monitor -
Switcher > to Live Stream
Problem #1 - Sound
When I ran the imac hdmi to switcher it would not play sound unless i switched the sound output on the imac to HDMI. But If I did that then the sound would not work for my videos on the projector because the sound used to go straight to the sound board from the computer.
So next I tried
Imac - HDMI > HDMI Splitter ---
---> projector
---> Switcher
The projector worked and I even used a thunderbolt - hdmi adapter to VGA which had an audio out. This helped the sound sort of. It did not pick up all channels but it was at least something.
This also led to problem 2 which was the switcher did not pick up the imac screen feed. I changed out HDMI cables and even tested the feed straight to a monitor and it worked but when hooked up to switcher as an input, it would not show up on my monitor. Before I used the splitter it worked but after using the hdmi splitter it would not come through.
Has anyone done this set up before. This seems like it should be so simple but Im not sure why I cant get it right.
Thanks for anyone taking the time to read this.
James
I'm really frustrated because I have been working on getting my switcher going at my church for a month and I know I'm close but have two main issues stopping me.
Here are the facts:
We are livestreaming our services to a second location. We use Live Stream.
The problem was when we showed a video in our main service it would not show in the streamed location unless we panned the camera up to the screen which is super cheezy and poor quality.
So we bought an ATEM TV Switcher, the basic $1,000 one.
I tried running In
Cannon camera hdmi > switcher
Imac - HDMI (for videos and propresenter) > switcher
Then out
Switcher > Monitor -
Switcher > to Live Stream
Problem #1 - Sound
When I ran the imac hdmi to switcher it would not play sound unless i switched the sound output on the imac to HDMI. But If I did that then the sound would not work for my videos on the projector because the sound used to go straight to the sound board from the computer.
So next I tried
Imac - HDMI > HDMI Splitter ---
---> projector
---> Switcher
The projector worked and I even used a thunderbolt - hdmi adapter to VGA which had an audio out. This helped the sound sort of. It did not pick up all channels but it was at least something.
This also led to problem 2 which was the switcher did not pick up the imac screen feed. I changed out HDMI cables and even tested the feed straight to a monitor and it worked but when hooked up to switcher as an input, it would not show up on my monitor. Before I used the splitter it worked but after using the hdmi splitter it would not come through.
Has anyone done this set up before. This seems like it should be so simple but Im not sure why I cant get it right.
Thanks for anyone taking the time to read this.
James