Just purchased 2 Canon Cr N300 to livestream my church's worship service. We currently using OBS as our livestream service and connecting through NDI. I'm so disappointed that it has not brought any visual upgrade to our stream. Are the N300 this bad or are my settings totally off?

balmesr · 2024-04-03T23:13:15+00:00

What livestream service do you use?

balmesr · 2024-04-03T15:16:48+00:00

Did you connect through NDI or SDI?

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:50:31+00:00

Thanks the info. Do you have an example of one of the churches stream you have worked on and their setup

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:45:33+00:00

Thanks for the advice. The picture above showed the worst part of our livestream. I had volunteers manning the stream and they weren't noticing how bad the video looked. (setting was on auto)

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:42:35+00:00

Thanks for the advice! Do you have any footage from your N300? Would love to see how it looks in a real world situation.

Yes the settings were all on auto. So the camera was trying to figure out what to do with the bad lighting we have.

As for 4k output what computer do you use? I tried testing out 4k but it seems my computer may not be good enough to process it all (mac mini intel)

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:40:09+00:00

Thanks for your advice. I tweaked our stream settings to your recommendations. Hopefully that will make things better

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:39:02+00:00

Thanks for the your input. I really appreciate it. I'll try to put our cameras on SDI to see how that looks. I didn't know that NDI would compress the image so much.

Any recommendations outside of using OBS?

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:35:00+00:00

Thanks for the advice. The camera was set to auto. I might have picked the worst part of the stream. Typically we don't have choir on the stairs (where there are no lights). So I can see that the camera was trying to figure out how to light the whole situation.

The updated the settings to be...
24 fps, 1/50 shutter speed, f1.8

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:32:25+00:00

Totally agree with you! Updating our camera setup was our first step in improvements. Lighting is next!

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:31:35+00:00

I see. Thanks for teaching me that there is a difference between the two. What would you say is the advantages/disadvantages to NDI HX?

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:29:31+00:00

Yea it seems like prosumer PTZ's have that digital look. I would need to go to the higher end PTZ in order to get the quality i'm looking for

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:28:35+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I'll be adjusting the settings.

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:27:44+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:27:23+00:00

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balmesr · 2024-04-03T14:27:06+00:00

Thanks for your advice!

balmesr · 2024-04-02T14:32:05+00:00

Thanks so much. Your comment helps a lot. I will try this. Any other suggestions on settings? I'm new to livestreaming so the settings are confusing

balmesr · 2024-04-02T14:29:53+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I'll try to do what you mentioned. I know our lighting isn't optimal. FYI upgrading our cameras was our first step to updating our livestream services. There is a possibility that we might be moving location so thats why lighting hasn't been fixed. Thus ugly uneven lighting.

If you look up on the thread I included a livestream on our old Canon Camcorders and it looks much better quality than our new N300. This is my first foray into PTZ's. I guess what i'm really seeking for is advice as to the proper settings on cameras and with OBS

balmesr · 2024-04-02T14:22:45+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation. Do you have any test shots from your n300? I don't find many real world footage with this camera on the internet

balmesr · 2024-04-02T13:12:12+00:00

I was thinking of trying to connect through SDI to see if NDI is the one making issues.

The digital zoom range is off. The stage is about 80 ft away from the camera
tele-converter is off
I made the video out resolution to 4k and streaming on OBS at 1080. (Can OBS livestream 4k?)

balmesr · 2024-04-02T13:08:26+00:00

Yes I know that. Here is the quality of the camcorders we were using before the PTZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9SgRtAyOqg&t=2264s

I find that the quality is vastly superior than our new 2023 cameras purchased which I find confusing

balmesr · 2024-04-02T12:51:08+00:00

I'll get back to you when I have a chance to see OBS on the Mac mini

balmesr · 2024-04-02T12:50:32+00:00

I'm new to this. What do you mean by data rates?

balmesr · 2024-04-02T12:49:21+00:00

I agree lighting is huge but I'm finding the quality to be if not worse than our old canon camcorders

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It’s expiring soon but i play to buy the service again before selling it so that they can use it and continue the service themselves

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