Guam Video Studio for Production & Live Streaming

Quality Low Budget Church Streaming

• Switcher: OBS Studio (free) with GStreamer plugin for RTSP sources (details here: Low Latency RTSP Source in OBS)
• Cameras: Sunba PTZ 20X Optical Zoom (405-D20X ECO Edition, under $200 here)
• Controller: LEFTEK ONVIF network based controller (under $200 here)
• Stream destination: Zoom / YouTube / Facebook (no recurring costs, besides Zoom subscription)

More details coming soon (work in progress as of 12/7/2020).

History

I have documented my work on the Collegedale Community Church Webcast over the years, but have also done some lower budget live steaming in Guam since moving to the island in 2010. Our initial workflows used Wirecast streaming to YouTube with a Canon XH A1 video camera connected to a computer via firewire, a Logitech webcam as the second source, and XLR audio from the sound board connected to the Canon camera.

Eventually we started experimenting with OBS, but it would not recognize our old Canon video camera via firewire. After doing some research we purchased an analog HD component dongle for the camera, an HDMI converter, and an HDMI capture card and never looked back at the firewire cables. We also added a newer Sony A6000 HDMI source, and used remote iPhone cameras connected to Google Hangouts On Air to live stream 5k/7k Fun Run events.

More recently I have gotten back into church streaming with a new low budget workflow outlined above.