Custom Livestreaming Studio Solution
This studio is in a Heritage Building, meaning we couldn't screw, bolt or stick anything to the walls or ceiling. So we built a room within a room.
The brief was simply to create a studio space for live streaming, video recording and podcasting. The things we needed to address were the fact that it needed to be built in a busy and noisy part of Sydney in a Heritage Building.
The first step is doing a site inspection. This costs $240 and is credited towards the final build.
Once we do the sight inspection, we can create a 3D Render of the studio showing the lighting and camera angles. This provides us with a good idea of the space and how it will look and feel once built. Once that has been finalised we get the builder involved and start setting dates and deadlines.
To address the Heritage Building we built a room within a room and used high-quality acoustic materials on the walls and ceiling to greatly reduce external sounds and remove echos and reverb from inside the studio itself.
Lighting
LightPro StudioLine BiColor Soflite
Lightpro 2000XL is a high-powered SMD LED panel, thanks to the SMD LEDs there is a better spread of light with a beam angle of 68°. The Lamp is dimmable and has a high CRI value of Ra 95. Colour temperature can be adjusted with the included control box from 3000K (warm light) to 5600K (daylight). The maximum power is 120 watt. The setting of the colour temperature is displayed on the LCD display.
Cameras
Minrray PTZ UV510A USB 3.0 /HDMI Series 2MP 20x Video Camera USB/HDMI
The UV510A Series 2MP 20x Video Conference Camera from Minrray features a 1/2.8" CMOS sensor and 5.5-110mm varifocal lens with 20x zoom to capture videos at a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080. It comes with HDMI, USB, Ethernet, and RS-232 connectivity. The camera uses a step drive motor mechanism and motor drive controller for smooth and noiseless PTZ operation. In addition, it supports H.264/H.265 video compression and AAC, MP3, and G.711A audio compression formats.
The addition of a USB input to this camera instantly makes it more versatile, allowing connection to all sorts of devices, from computers to Tablets and even Smartphones! while it can be powered from the USB alone, it is recommended to power from DC as the picture quality does suffer when powered by USB only.
Audio
Sennheiser Wireless Lavalier / Lapel EW112PG4-B Kit G4
A broadcast quality sound solution. Providing the highest flexibility for your video sound and field recording applications. A robust wireless microphone system that offers the excellent sound quality, simple mounting and ease of use. Rugged all-in-one wireless system with high flexibility for broadcast quality sound, including the clip-on microphone ME 2-II (Omni-directional) or ME 4 (cardioid) for excellent speech intelligibility and daily on-location use.
Live Mixing
Affordable live switcher with 4 standards converted HDMI inputs, USB webcam out, audio mixer with EQ and dynamics, 2D DVE, transitions, green screen chroma key, 20 stills for titles and much more! ATEM Mini Pro also includes recording to USB disks in H.264 format, a built-in hardware streaming engine for YouTube Live, Facebook, Twitch and more, plus multiview to see all cameras on a single monitor. Plus with the ATEM Mini Pro ISO model you also get the recording of 5 streams including all input as clean feeds for editing, plus a DaVinci project file for fast edit turnaround and Blackmagic RAW file relinking for finishing in Ultra HD.
Backgrounds
LightPro 4 Hook Motorized Background System with wireless remote controller
The new Expan system now provides a convenient and simple way to operate and adjust your studio backgrounds, using remote-controlled motors that suspend, raise and lower up to 4 canvas or paper backgrounds at a time.