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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is theoretically going to be my setup and final configuration and installation of this my godly screaming and capture system that I've been working on for quite a while now and in fact been working on all day today and I was hoping to be a little bit further along right now than I that I am but all that said I've got an event to go to tomorrow so I'm going to have to kind of cut it off here and share with you guys what I've gotten done so far so basically I started this off yesterday and I started off by taking my systems out in the garage my existing streaming system and pulling out my Blackmagic intensity Pro out of that reinstalling it adhere to populate the final PCI Express slot with that installed I'm pretty much like maxed out as far as what is connected to the system at the 69 50 X processor that's installed up on the top I have the gtx 980ti of course as well as the three capture cards the input card for the 4k the output for our card for the 4k and then of course the 1080 in and out card that is down at the bottom as three different ways that I was going to set up and catch the start I'm going to use this system the first is going to be just directly capturing 4k a high quality footage from my camera that I'm filming with right now my panasonic lumix G H and then taking that footage and somehow getting into a usable format so I can send it over to my editor jail so he can actually edit it the second thing that I wanted to do was set up OBS so that I can have multiple cameras coming in one of course via the 4k capture card another via the 1080 another via the razor ripsaw that I have right over here that's connected via a USB 3 and then I could add a fourth camera via a webcam option that I have as well that would allow me to stream in a way that I've done when I've done live streams before where I've done builds and allow me to have multiple camera setups that I can easily tap the keyboard to switch between in order to give myself a view of one thing or the other the final thing that I wanted to do and I'm probably not going to get there at least the way I wanted just this is again based on my testing us to use xsplit broadcaster to capture 4k from my camera and get that set up for our livestream awesome hardware that we do every Tuesday so I can start streaming that in 4k because I've got the capabilities I should go ahead and start streaming in 4k but that's not going to work I'm just completely guys you're out of front the 4k capture with the xsplit software just doesn't work in any way shape or form with these cards at least I'm sure there's ways to do it maybe I'll figure it out eventually but not today so I'm going to skip that one and I'll focus on the other G configurations I've got the setup out of my dining room one more time and that's mainly because it's super super hot here in California we're experiencing heatwave in the southwest but just to run over my configuration because I have it kind of duplicating what would be set up out in the garage my main camera is right here Panasonic Lumix G H v it can output in 4k via the HDMI 2.0 output that's got over there can actually 4/2 to 10-bit 4k which is pretty nice although as you may have seen in my original video that's very challenging to capture at least when it captures in raw and I've been dabbling with some options as far as compressing that video or getting it so that when it is captured it's actually a little bit more usable now the main camera plugs it up here in the input on the deck link may 4k and then you can see down here below I have the intensity Pro which does 1080 up to 1080 60 I've labeled again all the inputs and outputs on all those so I can tell which is which so first camera goes in here second camera will potentially go into 1080 slot and that would be my trusty gh4 so I can plug this in as a secondary camera and then if I really needed a third camera again I've got my razor ripsaw down here and this can do 1080 60 and it connects two USB 3.0 so it's external so that at least for now I can plug in with this third camera I have this is just a camcorder but it does HDMI 1080 out so I can set it up what I'll probably do really want to do is get my other gh4 repaired that the HDMI out on that so I can do all three really high quality cameras and that would be pretty nice if I wanted to add a fourth camera I do have the web option I probably would only do that in a very specific situation where I need to be able to cut over to a close-up of something but that is how I could have four cameras all connected up to the system at the same time and then I can use the software of course to switch between them if I want to finally for audio I have my h6 going right now of course I have a sound board over in the garage where I actually have things set up but it is USB connected so basically it's serving the same general purpose I also popped out a couple the the two 4 terabyte drives that I had in there because I've decided that I want to put in fresh drives I have a couple of those on order was hoping they'd arrive today by now but they haven't yet that's ok though I've still got the SSDs so those are perfectly fine for getting things up and running other than that I just got a couple monitors good to go the one on the left is 4k so I can actually view stuff in 4k so let's test out some of the configurations so you think with a nice capture computer I wouldn't just be pointing a camera at the screen no let's see if we can do better than that here's OBS I mean he's OBS to just capture the 4k monitor on the left and I'm gonna hit start recording and now maybe maybe we can cut to that at certain times so step one here was going to be to use Adobe Premiere and see if I could capture directly from that Adobe actually does have a capture function it's available here you can use it with a bunch of different devices there's a device control option that pops up and go to settings and you can tell it's I can even tell to use the Blackmagic capture option that's in here but I spent literally a couple hours going through pretty much every setting I could find with this looking at forums trying to track down any information that I could and basically I can't if you want to use a capture device to capture directly to Adobe Premiere Pro then you're probably gonna have to go with one of the more expensive like fully licensed and tested options or talk to Blackmagic because I couldn't figure it out maybe they can but that's okay I have other options so as you may have seen in the original testing video this is the Blackmagic Media Express software that comes with it and it has a log and capture function and as you can maybe see when I pop over here it is capturing yay I can actually see the image coming from my gh 5 and I can see me recording myself holding a camera which is kind of weird but that's okay for me to express I can pull up a menu that will allow me to choose the project video format and the capture format and this capture format is the thing that I was able to mess around with a little bit in order to get myself a well let's see a more ideal raw captured file I decided on avi 10-bit y UV was the option that I should go with basically because that's the same thing that's coming out of my camera and then from there I can choose which capture folder to go to and that kind of thing I'm using this in tandem with Adobe in order to capture to a watch folder and then I can use the Adobe Media encoder software which I'm loading up right now over here and that will allow me to well it watches the folder and any files that pop up in that folder it will automatically Rhian cut I can then have it rien code those over to this folder which I've made which is labeled Joe's share folder that would be from my editor and then once they pop into there they should automatically if I have BitTorrent sync setup rights start transferring over to him now there is an intermediary step that I haven't quite figured out yet and that is that when I'm capturing with the media Express software into the watch folder it actually doesn't immediately start to rain coded so I might need to actually set it to go into a folder and then have that copy somewhere else I think it has something to do with uh with premiere or with the media encoder trying to do an encode but the files locks because it's still being written to because it's being recorded at the time that's my assumption for what's what's causing that not to work but it's just a single step for the time being I can manually drop the files into the watch folder when needed and then Adobe Media encoder will Rhian code them and then they can pop into the shared folder and then again BitTorrent sync should immediately start transferring it over to my editor Joe which is pretty awesome now the media encoder I'm actually trying to copy those captured files into Sena form and Sena form is a QuickTime so basically in the export settings here once you choose QuickTime from the drop-down menu you can choose one of these GoPro Sena form options again I chose whyyou v10 bit because I'm not actually using a 12 bit source but with why you tended capturing at 4k there's actually five different quality settings you can choose from low medium high film scan and films can too so if a is preset for it's about 500 megabits per second if they use preset 3 it's 400 megabits per second and if I use preset 2 it's 330 megabits per second preset 1 brings it all the way down to 250 knots still pretty pretty high if you consider my gh 5 over there that captures 4k 10 bit files for 2 2 at 150 megabits per second so basically I think what I'm going to do is instead of capturing all of this stuff at 4k I'm actually going to transcode it down to 1080 with the higher quality setting that's what some of those and see what kind of bit rates I can get this is all based on - Media Group's testing and stuff that they've been doing actually for a good year - now but even with 1080 Sinha form it can actually be rendered at 4k with pretty much no impact on the quality so I'm gonna give some of those tests and we'll figure out which kind of works best and I'm definitely going to need a little bit more time to invest in that - to get things going things weren't complicated enough as it already was I have now plugged in 2 additional cameras so one important thing about capturing from cameras like this especially if you're going to do a livestream or something it's making sure they can be always on so I actually have AC adapters for all these going in that just like a battery adapter that plugs into one of these got them on eBay so jh5 has that going there and then a nice thin red mir hdmi cable which is going over to the back of the system where you showed you guys next up we have my gh4 which is now then plugged in again I'm not really worrying about what these are pointed at or anything like that I'm just getting stuff set up same AC adapter going for that one and then HDMI out going from that again back to the back of the system into the capture back there down here on the floor because they're in at a tripod is the other just this portable camcorder which also has an AC adapter so that's just plugged into the wall and then again HDMI edit that going up into the ripsaw and then that again USB 3 back into the computer so let's see if these will all play nice together just getting OBS set up with my capture devices and here's a nice thing drop down here lists both Blackmagic devices when I choose black magic device from the capture devices settings so I can see my intensity Pro see my deck length of mini recorder 4k and here it's just a matter of setting up for the exact same settings that I was using that the cameras up fitting which would be 20 160 24 we'll leave it at 8-bit y UV and hopefully that will work alright guys that's all for this video thank you so much for watching I know this one's a little off the cuff but I had to get this system up and running and into production since it's a production machine I'm going to be using probably on a daily basis thank you so much for watching this video though it thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and we'll see you next time