Switcher: Live Streaming App

Everything about this software is great. The preset graphics look awesome and clean. The ability to connect up to 9 cameras is an impressive feature. I also enjoy the simplicity of the software. It is very easy to use and manage. We use it for baseball and software livestreams and the scoreboard is great. Easy to use and looks amazing, one of my favorite features. Overall the software was very well made and I will continue to use it. The only issue I have with Switcher Studio is there is no audio mixer. Coming from Sling Studio I have become accustomed to using an audio mixer. Being able to select the audio from any camera and mute the other cameras is a necessity in my opinion. With Switcher Studio all you can do mute the whole production or Have all the cameras audio on. You can’t adjust the volumes on specific cameras either which is a bummer. If you can look past this then everything else about this software is great. I hope this is addressed in the future and can provide a solution.

I started a little podcast out of my little store, in my little town. It was just about things going on around the area. It’s called Around Pickens if you want to check it out. About 6 month into it, I added a web cam and started doing FB live along with recording the audio. A friend started cohosting with me to add some friendly banter, then we started looking at adding an additional camera. WE found Switcher! That was September of last year. Since then, we have added $2k/month in local advertising revenue, but the best part is how many people started asking us how to do what we were doing.... fast forward to May, even during the COVID-19 stuff, we signed a lease for a 3 room studio, and now have 14 other shows that are renting space and equipment from us to create their own shows..... When we max out the rental space, we’ll be making over $500k, that’s not counting all of the live streaming events we do! All thanks to this one little app.

Just used the trial version to use 5 feeds to stream high quality video of our school’s Xmas music concert to Facebook. I was extremely impressed. I’m suspicious that those who report connectivity issues or unreliable connections are working with inadequately provisioned WiFi environment/AP. Your going to need a good Access Point that isn’t bogged down with other devices for this to work well. But we had zero connectivity issues and great results with 5 feeds on a Ubiquiti HD Access point dedicated to the task. The software was intuitive and powerful. I loved the pre-made animation and graphic templates. They were easy and looked great. Some more capability in terms of custom design here would be a nice feature to add in the future. Only other thing I’d really like to see added is the ability to connect an HDMI or other camera source via a hardware partnership. Also the ability to add an RTSP source would be really nice. Overall really impressed with this. I suspect we’ll be buying a subscription at the end of our trial.