Live camera input

VST Live
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Hi All,
I know VST Live 2 doesn’t support live camera, but is anyone out there using it in a show with that feature being provided by a third party app?

I need to be able to mix a live camera pointed at the performer with the video tracks, at certain times, pre-programmed on the timeline/song.
If anyone is doing something like this and can point me to suitable solutions I’d be very grateful.
Currently I’m investigating Millumen software, but I don’t know yet whether it will do the job, synced with VSTL. It looks like I would need to run all the video, tracks and camera, from a different app in order to have video mixing facilities, but obviously this needs to run in sync with VSTL.

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Resolume Arena or PVP (MAC only) and feed them with TC from VSTLive and via MIDI#CC to change Arena’s columns.

BTW Dropped in the idea for camera-input back in VSTLive v1 time, but - as user - I also think that is still a bit too early.

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Ah thanks FK ! That’s great. Both very expensive but I think the Avenue version of Resolume will be sufficient, still a lot of money but it will have to be done to get the job done properly. Just downloaded the demo and will start to play with it over the coming weeks.
I’d be interested in how you’re using your VSTL and video. What kind of shows do you create? I’ve been a performer all my life, and written a couple of Musical Theatre works but this is the first time doing a complex multi-media project alone. I will perform solo with little or no tech support initially so everything has to work perfectly (never say perfectly!). Any advice will be more than welcome.
I’m going to add the FR too anyway as the way shows work these days it’s pretty fundamental to include a live feed of some sort. Might be asking a lot I agree,but even a basic one camera input would be a start.

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You have to look at the Iriun Webcam app. :slight_smile:

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As interface you can make use of OBS of needed.

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Not quite sure what you mean - I can already use OBS and have it automatically link my iPhone camera - I do it a lot for Insta vids etc.

The problem is integrating with VSTLive and the timeline etc. Also, OBS is not particularly stable, I wouldn’t feel comfortable relying on it for a live show tbh.

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I’m sorry, but OBS is absolutely a go LIVE with app. (It also has seamless API based StreamDeck integration).

What kind of camera are you going to “integrate” with VSTL’s picture? How your signal-flow/work-flow is built up? Mabe we can find a good solution for :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the feedback, not sure at this time how to incorporate camera, whether it’ll just be a Logitech Webcam thing or something better. In any event it needs to be easily integrated within VSTLive so I don’t know how to do that. In a perfect world VSTL would see video device and be able to switch on and off as required - this is very much a timeline driven project, not a song by song patch - video will run continuously - but maybe I’m expecting too much. All the other apps that I’ve seen are far too complex for a one man show. Let’s see what develops. I’m a few months away from launching anyway so I’ll keep my eye on things. Not a deal breaker if camera can’t be live, it would just be cool that’s all.

I know a lot of shows use live cameras now so I’m just a bit surprised that there isn’t an all in one solution (other than extremely complex things like Arena or the other one I tried that looked like a bowl of spaghetti on my screen…!)