That brings us to the actual solution you need-a video switcher. If you have no other choice, you might think, "Hey, it's not that bad," but you don't want your tech efforts to be measured on the "how bad is it" scale, but the "how good is it" one.Īdditionally, you're looking at a very limited system. Want to change how the transition itself looks? Sorry, you're out of luck. Want to layer video sources on top of one another? It can't do that either. Want to send out multiple video outputs to different locations? Nope. Need to scale different sources so your display doesn't switch resolution between sources? I can't do that either. Second, and more importantly, each time you select a new video source, there will be a visual (and often auditory) glitch. The actual switching might cause the displays to show video that's completely useless for 10 frames to 5 seconds or so. When a church first decides that they want to use more than one video source in its live stream, it could be tempting to just go to the local electronics big box store and buy a video selector. These devices are very inexpensive and are designed to expand the number of video (and sometimes audio) ports a display can use without the trouble of switching cables.Īt home, you might use an HDMI selector to switch between video sources like a cable box, an AppleTV, and a BluRay player. At its most basic, that sounds like what a video switcher does, but there are a few gotchas to such a simple system.įirst, they're designed to be switched only a few times a day. So, they're not the most robust pieces of hardware.
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