I’m currently thinking about recording some videos of me making music, mainly at home, but rarely also outside. Always with a stationary cam though.
I already have a professional audio recording setup btw.
What’s currently keeping me from doing it, is all the manual steps that I’d have to go through when recording a video.
(E.g. Remove battery from charger, insert battery into camera, wipe SD card on PC, insert SD card into cam, start cam, select resolution etc, turn on lights, hit record on the cam, do my thing, hit stop record on the cam, turn cam off, remove battery and insert into charger, remove SD card and insert into PC, copy files off of SD card, reduce file size to something sane that I can share with other people on youtube or whatsapp etc, import video file into editing program, add my audio, sync audio and video, cut if necessary, save mp4 or something)
I don’t have the patience for all this stuff. Ideally I want to press a button and then my cam and mic automatically turn on and start recording directly into an mp4 file on my Linux PC.
I have a capture card and I’m pretty good at Bash scripting. So my naiive idea would be to write a script that
- turns on the smart outlet for the cam, mic and lights
- starts obs to capture my mic and cam input from the capture card to which the cam is connected via HDMI
- writes the obs stream into a file
- reduces bitrate or whatever using ffmpeg
(When recording outside, I’d obviously have to do most of this manually and with SD cards instead of a capture card. But that’s okay because 99% of the time I’ll be inside.)
I was looking to invest around €300-€350 into a used camera (maybe a DSLR with clean HDMI output or something like that). (Open for suggestions or other recommendations)
And then maybe another €100 into some lights and a tripod for the cam.
My question: Is that even possible without a webcam? And if so which camera(s) would make sense for me and why?
Note: I don’t want to install proprietary software/apps for this.
Also: I am a complete camera noob. Last time I looked through a DSLR cam menu I didn’t understand what 99% of the stuff is.