1F only has digital zoom.
Ok, Thanks for the reply 
Is that something that will affect streaming if i use it for the playfield?
Depends. Given a FullHD rotated 90 degrees CCW only need about 1080x608 pixels you can crop quite a bit of the frame without zooming. However, given how much Sony brags about the wide angle of the ZV’s I’m not sure how that math out in the end.
OTOH, Panasonic is trying to get rid of their HC-V785K stock this cyber week, $428 is the lowest I’ve seen (B&H). 20X optical zoom that let’s you do a lot of dumb stuff.
It helps a lot if you have sunlight glare, less if you deal with reflections and man made light, but it does some (requires rotating the polarization filter). Also, some displays are troublesome with polarized filters (have you ever walked into an airport with polarized sunglasses and looked at the vertical arrival/departure screens? Same thing, YMMV), TNA being the worst of the bunch. Sterns are fine.
If you can control shutter speed on your camera, set it to 1/60. I can’t remember seeing flicker on any of my cameras with 1/60 shutter speed.
Good call on the 1/60 setting. I forgot to mention that. This will help as well with insert lamp sweeping issues.
A couple of my machines flicker at 1/60, but are fine at 1/50.
Earlier this year, I mentioned that Twitch was going to support multiple client-side encodes, allowing you to do transcodes locally without relying on Twitch RNG doing it for you. OBS has added support with this over the past few versions, and I finally had a chance to try it out, and it seemed to work great. You can find it in the OBS settings under Stream->Multitrack Video:
I tried it with the “Auto” settings, which will gauge your hardware and network quality to estimate how many streams to upload, and at what bitrate. I was a little skeptical of how well this would work, but it seemed to work pretty good in my case, with my upload rate being ~9000Kbps according to OBS, and the highest quality encode being 1080p60 at ~5500Kbps, which is about what I had set manually in the Output settings, along with a 720p and 360p stream.
Worth a try for those of you with beefy rigs and a stable network connection.
edit: Here’s the details of the stream from Twitch Inspector:
My one complaint is that the settings are kind of opaque at the moment – who knows how many streams and what bitrates OBS and Twitch decide to use. I’d rather be able to explicitly configure things, and I could see this being annoying if you really had settings dialed in for a single encode vs. using Enhanced Broadcasting.
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Cries in MacBook Pro and Comcast.
Thanks for doing the legwork here though. The transcoding done by Twitch looks absolute ape shit and giving streamers the option to provide their own feeds is a nice gesture.
For multiple encoding check the age of your video card and if it does more than one stream - historically consumer cards had only one pipeline available (driver limit) and pro cards had 3-6. My P2000 has three which is plenty and keeps the CPU free. Nvidia has apparently unlimited this recently on newer consumer cards but I can’t verify that. (this is for hardware NVENC encoding)
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For those running accusoons and want to power them all with one brick, I just bought one of these. Seems to keep them all on even with the barrel to usb c power cords. Just thought I’d share.
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These are excellent! I have two. They’re great to charge batteries as well. Recharges my swap bank in less than two hours. Powers nearly everything on my broadcast station and save a ton space.
These fit perfect on them to lie flat on a powerstrip FYI: Amazon.com: TENINYU 2 Prong Right Angle Plug Adapter,AC Power Plug Adapter USA IEC 60320-C7 Receptacle to NEMA 1-15P : Tools & Home Improvement
I also have this short appliance cord for the other one to save space: Amazon.com: Short 2 Prong Power Cord, Goalfish 1FT/0.3M Power Cable 7A 125V TV Power Cord 18AWG Power Cable Replacement for Sony PS5, PS4, PS3, Game Console, Speaker, Monitor, HDTV, 4K TV, Printer, DV Camera : Electronics
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What’s everyone recommendation for long clamp/rod for player cam to be at least a foot away from the main rig?
I have tried a few, included recently the FOMITO 11" Articulating Magic Arm which i did not find very stable/sturdy.
Get a wider lens. I have an 11" SmallRig arm on my tournament rig. It works great, even in landscape mode. If that’s not an option, just attach a foot or so of 8020 on a pivot joint.
that’s a good point, i use a NEEWER Wide Angle Lens for my ZV1 commentator cam though my player cam is a ZV-1F so i’ll have to look for another one to try it out-
These are my go to. Sturdy and and plenty long.
interesting, are those strong enough to support a ZV1F while being horizontal?
Yep. I use these for player and score on my rig. My rig is 80/20 material. I use a different style clamp for the playfield camera. My player camera is vertical and score is horizontal. Sony zv cameras are really light too, but these clamps are the sturdiest goosenecks I’ve seen. And still allow for easy adjustment. I say snag one and see if you like it. They are cheap enough.
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I learned another lesson the hard way this weekend. I was getting some serious dropped frames and OBS was telling me my dropped frames were fine, so I knew it had to be a transmitter receiver problem.
Long story short, when turning on your gear, make sure one RX/TX pair makes a solid handshake before turning on the next RX/TX pair.
I had turned on all the TXs when standing by the rig, then I went to the computer and turned on all the RXs. Don’t be like me.
Accusoon? I’ve never had an issue doing this with those. Monoprice definitely.
With the accusoons, I think this issue is avoided because of the different signal groups.
Also not sure why that would cause dropped frames. I thought that was only cause by poor internet connection?
Yep with Accsoon, which I though was strange too. Perhaps “dropped frames” was incorrect vernacular, but the image was “jumping” and clearly having some kind of connection issue.
I was able to reproduce the problem last night. It went away after I turned on each RX/TX pair independently.
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