![]() ![]() The easier you can make the live streaming setup, the more likely you will create content. If your trainers do happen to be in a dark spot in your studios, I would consider mounting some lights in the ceiling where they will be streaming and running a cord to an outlet that you can simply turn on and off with a light switch. Remember, this is something you can invest in down the road, but doing it right out of the gate isn't your number one priority. I would invest in amazing sound quality far earlier than I would a dramatic lighting setup. But if you are trying to save money, the lighting might be the best place to start. If you want to go for a special look with dramatic lighting or stand out, by all means, GO FOR IT. Lighting for video absolutely, 100% matters - but if you are live streaming in one your fitness studios at the Y, chances are your lighting is pretty good to begin with. ![]() Do a test on these mics first to see if you're satisfied with the audio. But in my experience, when these mics feed into OBS, you begin to hear your voice sound like it's talking on a telephone. Some Y's say, "Why can't I just use my mic that I already use in the studio?" You can totally do that. You will hear a noticeable quality difference as soon as you go from a microphone on your camera to one of the wireless lavalier microphones listed above. That mic will count as one "audio input source" in your broadcasting software (Streamlabs OBS, Ecamm for Mac, VMix, etc.) The microphones listed above will all work as great options to provide your audience with crisp, clear audio from your presenter. You're going to want to get a mic for each person who is on screen. The audience will readily forgive a poor quality picture before they forgive poor quality sound, so it is your job to make that sound as pleasant-sounding as possible. Sound influences our perception of a video's quality perhaps even greater than the image quality itself. And if you happen to have more money than Jeff Bezos, feel free to buy the new Mac Pros with 28 Cores of power. The new Macbook Pros work wonderfully as well. Shop in the B&H Photo Used section and you can score some sweet deals on iMac setups. I use a 2017 iMac with an i7 processor, 32GB RAM, and a Radeon Pro 580 8 GB and live streaming works great. Minimum of 16GB of RAM, get a nice processor and opt for whatever higher-end graphics card Apple is offering at the time. I ask that you follow similar specs above as you build your Mac. You can TOTALLY still use a Mac for live streaming. But that is not the type of people we have at the YMCA. ![]() I listed ZERO Mac/Apple options above! Outrage! Trust me, as the lead Mac/Apple apologist for the YMCA Movement, it burns my soul to display nothing for those of us who solely use Macs. You really don't want to get cheap on these options and you'll future-proof yourself more by upgrading your computer beyond what is suggested above. You're going to have various applications running at the same time such as OBS, live chats, browsers, and overlays. I like to recommend NVidia RTX Graphics Cards for their superior hardware encoding performance, which you will need to capture raw video and audio data from your camera, convert that data into compressed files (called encoding), and then upload it to the Internet in real-time. ![]() Less than 16GB and you could run into performance issues. The minimum amount of RAM to use in live streaming that we suggest is 16GB. Your RAM is also important for streaming because there are so many simultaneous tasks being performed at once. What we are looking for in a computer is a great processor, which is essentially the energy center of your computer - it determines how much you can do and how quickly you can do it. ![]()
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