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What's your isolation project? Mine is producing television.

A long, long time ago, I earned a BA in Journalism, with an emphasis in television production.  Before I could find a job in broadcasting, I started selling computers; a seductive business I am still in. About 2003 I bought two consumer video cameras and Adobe Premiere, a professional grade video editing application. . I was astonished at what I could do on my PC. I shot videos of my son's plays, productions done at the local Senior Continuing Care facility, a documentary  for my church, and even a few weddings. The cameras are now 17 years old. I cannot trust them to get through an event, so I no longer use them. For these last few weeks, I've been exploring the ability to do live television productions from your home. A lot of us are working from home, and using Zoom and other video conferencing systems.  What I'm looking about goes beyond.  I found a a free, open source program call Open Broadcast Studio (OBS).  It doesn't refer to itself this way, but for