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Is anyone tapping video directly off the screens on a JJP machine? If so, what parts are you using to do this?
I’m thinking it might be cleaner to have a direct feed than a camera pointed at the backglass.
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I thought I’d speak a bit about the setup I use for http://twitch.tv/nspinball - I’ve gone through a few iterations and landed at a setup I am pretty happy with.
I started out with Jack Danger’s guide at http://www.deadflip.com/howtostreampinball with the “medium budget” setup.
After some modifications here is my modified version of that list:
* Two mic stands
* Two clamps
* Blue Snowball Mic
* One camera mic stand adapter
* One Logitech C920 (Facecam)
* One Logitech C922 (Playfield cam)
* One LED light
* One Avermedia Live Gamer Portable 2 for capturing HDMI from the backbox
The Blue Snowball goes on one mic stand.
The other uses the camera mic stand adapter to mount the LED light.
The cameras are clamped to the top of the backbox.
The Avermedia capture device fits nicely in the corner of my JJPOTC backbox, intercepting the HDMI to the backbox monitor. The USB cable peeks out easily behind the backglass. It really gives a beautiful feed from the LCD display.
I run the Blue Snowball in mode 3, screwed to the top of the mic stand. It sits to the left of the cabinet with the business end pointed at me, at around 4 ft high. This does a great job of capturing my speech as well as the game audio.
I pipe all of this into a Mac (late 2013 MacBook Pro) using Open Broadcast Studio.
The playfield cam is 720p@60fps and the face cam is 720p@30fps.
I’ve gone through several setups with mic stands hanging cameras over the playfield, in my face etc and this setup is by far my favorite.
Nothing is in my way, and the angles for everything are great. The one drawback is the playfield cam shakes with the shaker motor, but I think that adds to the sense of being there and is not a concern for me at this time.
982BBF61-CE4F-4532-848F-3D8B0FB8FCD5 (resized).jpegC02F7225-B144-4E66-9C89-F7CFB7D367C1 (resized).jpeg2E60AB1F-850C-4949-AD83-D408909807F6 (resized).jpegQuoted from ahanson:Which clamps did you use for this? I always thought attaching to the machine was frowned upon but after watching your videos I don't actually mind it and I've been looking for something to quickly move between machines on location and top clamps would be super nice.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MS1RL8/ref=as_li_tl
Frowned upon or no, it’s better for me as a player not having stuff hanging over the playfield.
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7 months later
Quoted from ahanson:Inspired by zaphX, I've been playing around with overhead rigs clamped to the backbox. I'm pretty close to one that's not too bad I think after a few prototypes. I just need to make a bracket for my RPi's and their batteries and this thing should be easily movable from machine to machine. I might need a slightly longer rail for the backglass camera and in theory you could just do a one camera thing with the 4K Pro and catch most of the backglass along with the playfield but I like the backglass camera. Could add a player camera too if desired I think near the backbox. Some pros are the shake is minimal after some big nudges/tilts and there's no need to reset the camera if you slide save since it just moves along with the machine.
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That’s a cool setup!
I actually migrated away from clamping due to shaker motor camera shake. I now run this setup on wheels with pinstadium xstream lights.
9EFD0235-9F39-46E9-9B7E-D44B11716ECB (resized).jpegQuoted from Chitownpinball:So I watched Jack's video on camera FPS, and I set all 3 of my cams to 30 FPS. My video still looks choppy...Im using Microsoft Lifecams...that may be my problem...but free is a bitch.
You want 60FPS for the playfield cam.
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Quoted from MisterM:What equipment is needed to stream wirelessly? Do you need a wireless hdmi transmitter for each camera? Would you then need a capture card for each camera? Is there a way to get a webcam to stream wirelessly? Looking to get a stream setup at a local arcade.
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