I want to jump ship for some new tech that is better. PLEASE someone tell me that vMix streaming and program is stable, no crashing during live events with recording to disk, streaming, and switching in program.
You need to pay yearly! For every license you own to be able to upgrade them. You pay upfront for a license, then need to pay like 100 a year for support to get an upgrade to the new version without that year. So many layers of people that just take notes and pass it on. However, it is more expensive than the other options. As for Wirecast, there’s a lot of advanced, professional functions you can use. There are also watermarks on the free version for streams over 720p/30 fps. I am really annoyed with having to shell out constant money for new versions, tech support is really awful with getting back and solving things. XSplit is easy to use and customizable, however, it only works with Windows. Regarding Wirecast, I read all the comments and everything people said about them are true. It seems better now and finally it crashes significantly less now in general, it was a thing like 4 version ago. We didn't really trust the switching without crashing in older versions so we moved away from it. With wirecast all switching was done upstream for my corporate events from crews I hired and wirecast would only encode for me on primary and backup machines at the same time. In case a computer lights on fire or redundant internet goes down, I want to have ti already streaming and ready to rock. Ideally, you'd want to look at a video switcher. This will require, at the very least, a different app for your device or a computer that would do the encoding using OBS, Wirecast, vMix, etc.
I also have to figure out how to send a primary stream from one laptop with vMix and then also send a backup stream simultaneously from another laptop and vMix license for redundancy. First, you need a system that can switch between the camera and the worship software. The main PTZOptics camera was a 12X ZCam connected via SDI.
The student-run broadcast team used a Wirecast Gear video production system, which was connected to three PTZOptics cameras via SDI and seven gaming computers using NDI. The streamdeck and this just makes it so simple to do complex things, if the streaming to different platforms is solid I am sold. The event was live-streamed by a student-run team from New York City’s S.A.R High School and broadcast to Twitch. I highly recommend trying both Wirecast and OBS Studio to see which one is going to best for you. Wirecast is paid tool (starting from 495) however they do have a free trial.
I have been blown away by the features in vMix with streaming output included. You can do this for free using OBS Studio (see my guide here) or using the professional software Wirecast here. Can anyone speak to the stability of doing long live events with vMix? That is really what I want to know to solidify the deal of me buying a license. I just want more now and have been hardcore looking into vMix because of this. I have used Wirecast for about 12 years now with my company, I own 5 licenses and it has worked really well through the years.