tl;dr - It's easier because I've always chosen to run SQL Server VMs, so it was easier for me to switch than you might expect - but if you're a Microsoft IT pro, I don't recommend switching.
Now for the long version.
Ever wonder what it takes to do this stuff behind the scenes? I'll show you.
If you're thinking about getting started with live streaming or training videos, don't be intimidated by this setup. There's a lot of gear involved, but it's because I've been doing this for years, and I've accumulated a lot of gear that works well for me. You can start with much less gear!
I've been teaching online from home for years, and you'd probably think my office would keep growing and growing - but actually, my setup has gotten a lot smaller since the last time I blogged about it. I don't really need space in order to work, and I kinda wanna incentivize myself to get out of the office when my work is done.
Erika and I moved to Iceland for a while. For those of you who don't follow my personal blog, here's why we moved, and how we got here with a teleworker visa. You can spy on our adventures via my Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. We're working half the time while we live here, and sightseeing the…
In my recent post about how I use OBS for training classes & webcasts, I mentioned that to keep things lively, you wanna have a variety of scenes that you can switch between to keep the viewer engaged. Imagine a TV show or sporting event that only used one camera angle and screen layout for 30-60 minutes on end: you'd be bored out of your gourd, and you'd tune out.
I've written a lot about the hardware & gear I use for streaming, and now let's talk about the software side. There are a few thousand words in here. Don't think that you have to tackle all of this just to get started streaming, dear reader. I've been working on my streaming setup for months…
For the next year or two, we're going to be learning and sharing online rather than in-person. I wanna look and sound as good as my budget (and my face) will allow, so in this post, I'm going to lay out a starter ($220), good ($1,500), and great ($3,000) online video/audio setups and show you what each level looks & sounds like.
When I last blogged about my home office setup in December, I'd just invested in a new massive beast of a desktop: a Mac Pro with a 16 cores, 96GB RAM, and a AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32GB.
Now it's time to put that horsepower to work.
I run a lot of online training classes, and some of you who do webcasts from home might be interested to see how all this works. I did pretty well this year, so I upgraded my home office setup to sneak some expenses in on my taxes. Here's what I'm running at the moment: Desktop:…
I'm constantly looking for ways to raise my game, so I made some investments this month to take my video class audio & video to the next level.
I'm now doing green screen effects on the recordings. I picked up an Elgato retractable green screen that mounts to the wall so that I can pull it down when I'm doing a training class, and roll it back up when I'm doing normal client work:
